From Walmart to D.C. rights, college activists have taken on District issues, but many aren’t city residents and are not personally touched by the battle they’re fighting. The latest example was a Friday protest for D.C. rights organized by D.C. Vote’s chief student organizer Corryn Freeman. The group of about 70 protesters who descended on Capitol Hill to express outrage against federal oversight of the District was a mix of college students and longtime D.C. rights activists.
Freeman coordinated the group as they spread along a city block. She told The Washington Examiner that she started planning the protest more than three weeks before D.C. Mayor Vince Gray was arrested in a similar Capitol Hill protest on April 11. Freeman is a Howard University senior. She grew up in Columbia and is still a Maryland resident.
