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News :: Gender and Sexuality : Miscellaneous
Kate Bornstein wants you to stay alive! Listen to RVA IMC's lecture audio!
09 Mar 2007
Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright and performance artist whose latest book is "Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives To Suicide For Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws."
Ze gave a talk entitled "Dangerous Dreams and Damned Desires" at VCU on 3/1/07.
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Peace & War
Acclaimed War Casualties Exhibit Comes to Richmond
07 Mar 2007
Boots and Shoes Represent
Virginians and Iraqis Lost in the Iraq War
An exhibit symbolizing U.S. servicemen and women and Iraqi civilians killed in the Iraq War will be on display on March 20th and 21st at the Virginia Commonwealth University Student Commons Plaza and on March 24th at the Wal-Mart parking lot on Sheila Lane off Forest Hill Avenue. “Eyes Wide Open Virginia: The Human Cost of the Iraq War? focuses specifically on the costs of war to the Commonwealth. It is being presented as a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20-21
10am to 6pm
@VCU Student Commons Plaza
Corner of Floyd st. and Cherry st.
Saturday, March 24
10am to 6pm
@Wal-Mart on Forest Hill
2501 Sheila Lane
Virginians and Iraqis Lost in the Iraq War
An exhibit symbolizing U.S. servicemen and women and Iraqi civilians killed in the Iraq War will be on display on March 20th and 21st at the Virginia Commonwealth University Student Commons Plaza and on March 24th at the Wal-Mart parking lot on Sheila Lane off Forest Hill Avenue. “Eyes Wide Open Virginia: The Human Cost of the Iraq War? focuses specifically on the costs of war to the Commonwealth. It is being presented as a commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20-21
10am to 6pm
@VCU Student Commons Plaza
Corner of Floyd st. and Cherry st.
Saturday, March 24
10am to 6pm
@Wal-Mart on Forest Hill
2501 Sheila Lane
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News :: Gender and Sexuality
Free EC Day at Planned Parenthood means putting prevention first - March 21
05 Mar 2007
The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood will offer Free Emergency Contraception to the Richmond community on March 21 in honor of national Back Up Your Birth Control month.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Prisons : Race & Ethnicity
Urgent Action Needed: Help Rashid at Red Onion Prison
05 Mar 2007
Kevin "Rashid" Johnson, a prisoner at Red Onion State Prison in VA and prominent Black Panther leader is being abused regularly and is having his life threatened. Your help is needed to let them know we are all watching.
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Review :: Crime & Police : Education : Labor & Class : Race & Ethnicity
Rethinking Privatization: Henry Giroux's the'Terror of Neo Liberalism'
14 Feb 2007
When people talk about privatization, they’re usually referring to governments selling off state assets (ostensibly) to the highest bidder. But in his cultural studies based take on neo-liberalism, The Terror of Neo-Liberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy, Henry Giroux takes an entirely different tack. For him, privatization is the process of transforming social problems into individual problems.
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News :: Prisons
VAPrisonJustice: Without Words
14 Feb 2007
Prisoners in VA's largest "correctional center" stage a one day meal boycott to demand dignity and to challenge the privatization of food services.
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News :: Children : Education : Indymedia
Montessori Program Offers Hope to Urban Youth
12 Feb 2007
A new Montessori program is helping to transform the lives of preschool children in the urban village of Greater Fulton Hill.
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News :: Elections & Legislation
Personal Care Assistants Unite for Improvements
08 Feb 2007
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Personal Care Assistants announced a new Professional Association made up of caregivers to the General Assembly on Wednesday. Caregivers from across the state joined the people they care for, seniors and people with disabilities, to speak to their state representatives on Wednesday, February 7th. Care givers work hard every day to help their consumers live independently at home, but they are faced with many challenges.
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News :: Protest Activity
Protestors Greet Bush at Kingsmill
07 Feb 2007
Peaceful but determined protestors meet heavy security when Bush comes to Kingsmill on the James to woo House Democrats.
It was noon on Feb. 3. Police stood between the demonstrators and the U.S. Presidential motorcade soon to exit from a private, mid-morning meeting between Bush and Democrats from the House of Representatives, whom demonstrators vowed to hold to their election-day mandate to defuse the war in Iraq.
"A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.? — Mark Twain
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News :: Labor & Class
VA Senate votes to increase state Minimum Wage!
07 Feb 2007
Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, along with Virginia Organizing Project and many other groups, are working to increase Virginia's minimum wage - and having success! The VA Senate voted to increase - now moves to House.
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News :: Elections & Legislation
Marcha para los Derechos de Inmigrantes / March for Immigrant Rights
04 Feb 2007
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The Journey for Immigrant Justice kicked off on Friday, including a loud and enthusiastic march on Saturday from Monroe Park to the state capitol. Mexican Sin Fronteras (Mexicans without Borders), the Virginia Justice Center, the Defenders and Virginia Anti-War Network were among the groups coordinating these four days of events.
Over 50 bills are before the state legislature and more than 40 of those bills are deemed anti-immigrant by the Journey for Immigrant Justice. These forty bills before the General Assembly deny in state tuition to immigrants, make it a misdemeanor to be undocumented, require nonprofits to check legal status for anyone they service, and allow local police much more authority in regulating immigration. |
El Viaje de Justicia para Inmigrantes empezó viernes, incluyendo una marcha de alto volumen y entusiasmo el sábado desde el Parque Monroe hasta el Capital del Estado. Los grupos coordinando las actividades de estos cuatro días eran Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, El Centro de Justicia de Virginia, los Defensores, y la Red en Contra la Guerra.
Hay más que 50 legislaciones antes del congreso y más que 40 de estos son anta-inmigrante según el Viaje para Justicia para Inmigrantes. Estos 40 legislaciones antes de la Asamblea General niegan acceso a la universidades estatales, cambian el no tener papeles a un crimen de misdemeanor, fuerzan los nonprofit a fijar los documentos de todos antes que les dan servicios, y ofrece mas autoridad para la policía a cuestión de la inmigración. |
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News :: Labor & Class
Living Wage movement alive and well in RVA!
01 Feb 2007
While the Federal government stalls on increasing the minimum wage, local efforts work to increase wages for Richmond City contract workers and workers accross the state!
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