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Alejandro Alvarez

@aletakesphotos.bsky.social

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Photographer and digital storyteller roaming the streets of Washington, DC. Drawn to politics and world events. As seen on the other site at aletweetsnews and Instagram at aletakesphotos.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Jul 18

More scenes from the “Good Trouble” march, en route from DC’s Franklin Park to the African American history museum.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hundreds turned out on a very muggy evening here in Washington to protest the Trump administration while honoring the legacy of the late John Lewis, who passed away five years ago to the day.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Jul 11

A growing crowd has gathered outside the State Department this evening to show support for employees affected by today’s mass layoffs. Hugs and applause greet departing staff as they leave the building for the final time.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Jun 14

Downtown Bethesda, Maryland, packed with people who’ve turned out to the #NoKings protest here — one of the nearest to DC.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Jun 12

Fences within fences within fences within fe—

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Jun 12

National Mall. The fences are back. Lots of them.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Apr 5

From the highest vantage point I could find.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Apr 5

Enormous turnout for the flagship Hands Off rally in DC. Tons of people packing into the National Mall this afternoon against Trump and Musk.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Apr 4

One obvious sign there’s a big protest on the horizon: Reinforced fencing is going up around the White House again.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 25

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 19

White House vibes.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 13

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers —

“You are fighting for yourselves. You are fighting for the proposition that in America, we have an obligation to our children to help create the foundation stones, to help create the ladder of opportunity so that they can soar.”

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 13

Student activists with the Sunrise Movement, teachers, and union leaders rallied in support of public schools at the Department of Education tonight after this week’s mass layoffs.

A chant: “Fully fund our schools now!”

A sign: “Robbing our children to pay off billionaires.”

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 10

At BLM Plaza, now covered in piles of broken-up asphalt: “Trump can’t erase us.”

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 10

DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza is being pulled apart. Crews started work to dismantle it today, almost five years after this space served as a rallying point for the Floyd protests.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 10

i’m gonna redo this, that was honestly
poor wording. it’s being pulled apart. not sure what it’ll look like next but it’ll be radically altered.

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 8

The unfurling. Three steps at a time.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 8

Big is an understatement. This thing is mindblowingly huge. Needs hundreds of people to hold it. Apparently it’s traveled the world and been all across Ukraine. Today, it’s in DC.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 8

Supporters of Ukraine just unfurled the world’s biggest 🇺🇦 flag on the White House ellipse calling for the U.S. not to abandon the country in its efforts to resist the Russian attack.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 8

Another look around and a snapshot of the signs around me. Including: “Hey Trump, I found your transgender mice” but it’s a scene from Pinky and the Brain.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 8

Rep. Jamie Raskin gets a big welcome. We’re in his district. Says this is the 11th rally he’s been to lately.

“My question for you is this: Are you going to lie down and let the know nothings, and the autocrats, and the kleptocrats, and the plutocrats, and the theocrats roll all over you?”

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 8

At the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda this morning. Packed with people protesting the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to the federal science workforce and research grants. “Save our science, save NIH,” they chant.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 7

See all those people at the Lincoln Memorial? That’s the Stand Up for Science rally, from my view at the base of the Washington Monument.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 5

Near the White House, at Black Lives Matter Plaza. Protesters held a vigil for democracy around the time Trump’s address to Congress began.

“For all of those out there somehow still shocked by what is happening right now, Maya Angelou told us when someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Mar 5

I always look out for one sign that captures the vibe of a street demo perfectly, and I think I’ve just found it here.

Zelenskyy — man w/o a suit
Trump — suit w/o a man

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