Attacks against Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado and Columbia University's Joseph Massad (pictured) are only the most recent in a series of well-funded attempts to wreak havoc upon one university department and professor after another.

Monday, April 25th, the Tranny Roadshow will bring a multimedia extravaganza celebrating the lives of trans people to the Nanci Raygun at 6pm.

Celebrating their own unique twist on performance art, the Tranny Roadshow begins a national tour this month. The show is the first of its kind: the entire cast is transgender. TR performances include dance, film, comedy, hip-hop, poetry, rock music, and more. The show is accompanied by a visual art display, with pieces ranging from photography to comic books. You don't want to miss this show!!!! Locals pro noun pro will be opening the show. $6 at the door open to all ages!!!

"With the proposed amendments agencies and businesses will only have to consider those properties listed on the national register. The majority of properties on the national register were financed by the wealthy and those providing political favors. It is mostly comprised of mansions, high style buildings, and plantations. Especially in our state of Virginia to be deemed significant the property will have to be linked to the elite founding fathers of our country. In other words the wealthy white populations that have ruled are the only histories which will be saved. The Section 106 process forced business and agencies to look beyond this overwhelmingly white history and consult to the local population as to what is significant. This encouraged minority, ethnic, and the poor communities’ rights. Businesses have been complaining about this policy ever since it’s introduction in 1906."

A rally demanding the immediate return of all coalition forces from Iraq will begin at 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 24 in the Sunken Garden at the College of William and Mary.

Billed as the Troops Home Now! Rally and widely expected to be the largest anti-war demonstration on the Peninsula since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the rally will feature prominent speakers from several anti-war organizations, including Larry Syverson of Richmond, a member of Military Families Speak Out.

"If you really want to know all the ways our government, police, and private spy-geeks can monitor your life, dig in...."

This is the first review in a new project for this site. Other reviews in the works include Betsy Leondar-Wright, Class Matters (to be reviewed by Annette Walker of UE Local 160); David Solnit, Globalize Liberation (to be reviewed by Farhang Rouhani of Mary Washington University); and Martha A. Ackelsberg, "Free Women Of Spain: Anarchism And The Struggle For The Emancipation Of Women" (also to be reviewed by Sue Frankel-Streit)

Clean Power Now! No New Nuclear Reactors! Let Us Together Speak Truth to Power! Please come join these important Earth Day events. Your presence, even at just one event, can help these events be a success. These reactors will be built unless we take action. In honor of Earth Day, please give one day to help this campaign WIN!

Thursday, April 21
11:30 a.m. - “Come Clean, Dominion!�?
Rally and Press Conference
Dominion Headquarters
7th and Cary Street, Downtown Richmond

Dominion is fleecing Virginia consumers through its excess profits that came as part of “deregulation�? of electric utilities and by receiving taxpayer money to finance its new nuclear reactors.

It’s time to tell Dominion to “Come Clean!�? No more excessive profits and no more dirty energy! We will be assembling at 11:30 (putting up banners and signs) The press is invited at 12:00 noon. This event is being coordinated by The Sierra Club (along with PACE and Public Citizen).

Friday, April 22
8:30 a.m. - Protest at Dominion Shareholders’ Meeting

Sunday, April 24
2:00–4:00 p.m. - Reception and Talk at the Opening of the Chernobyl Photo Exhibit

Gabriela Bulisova, the photographer, and her husband, Kevin Kamps, from the Nuclear Information Resource Service, will be speaking about the exhibit and what we must do to prevent a similar catastrophe from happening again. The gallery will be open to the public Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. April 24th through May 6th.

Tuesday, April 26
(The anniversary of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl)
7:00 p.m. - Film: “Chernobyl Heart�?

This is a very powerful film that has been shown at the U.N. and which has won an Oscar for its portrayal of the effects of the disaster on local residents. The film will be shown at the Sierra Club Headquarters, 6 North 6th Street, Suite 102, in Richmond (Downtown between Franklin and Main Streets).

Make the Richmond Independent Media Center everything you want it to be. Richmond Indymedia runs on people power – that means you! Awesome things are happening with our IMC, meaning that right now we need you more than ever. We’ve got a new space, a new site, a new design on the way, tons of breaking news every day, and ambitious goals we’re striving towards. And almost all of it hinges on you.

You need not be a computer geek to volunteer. Indymedia relies on all sorts of talents, none of which require long nights in front of a computer screen.

On April 11th at 9 am, five students chained themselves together inside the office of Richard Hurley, Mary Washington University’s Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. They came to demand a living wage for University employees, and refused to leave for over two hours, until Mr. Hurley agreed to negotiate with them....

By 11:30, Aaron Samsel, student negiotator for the UMW Living Wage Campaign, and Hurley had reached an agreement on the establishment of a committee. Samsel was allowed to meet alone with the protestors in Hurley’s office. The activists discussed and agreed to the proposal, unlocked and left the office victorious, “lock-down equipment�? in hand.... Read the full story!

RALLY TODAY AT NOON ON THE STEPS OF OCCUPIED GEORGE WASHINGTON HALL... RALLY EVERYDAY AT NOON TILL IT'S OVER!

Students from the living wage campaign at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg have occupied the office of Richard Hurley, Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. They have locked themselves down in sitting positions and have declared they will not leave until the college establishes a $10/hr campus wide minimum wage indexed to the cost of living. "We will remain here indefinitely and as long as it takes," declared one student
demonstrator.

When Cintas Corp. decided to sponsor Virginia Tech's "Big Event", a community service day for students, they didn't expect to be met by local activists and labor groups using the opportunity to protest Cintas's miserable labor and environmental record. Excerpts from the weekend's actions:

"(Friday) April 8, 2005: Twenty-two activists held a hastily organized rally in downtown Blacksburg to raise awareness of Cintas' anti-equality/anti-worker/anti-environment practices.... Our activities have succeeded in creating a minor controversy around Cintas's involvement in the Big Event...."

"Saturday (April 9, 2005). Five of us met at the university armed with anti-Cintas leaflets that the Teamsters had shipped to us overnight. As we moved through the crowds of students and handed out flyers we told them that although we fully supported the Big Event, we felt they should know that their sponsor is currently being sued by the EEOC for discrimination.... [A]s representatives of Cintas' management were gathering to distribute Big Event t-shirts with the company's logo, it was time to change tactics. We started approaching the Cintas employees, preferably within earshot of the Tech students, with questions such as, 'Can you please tell me more about the EEOC lawsuit against Cintas which cites discrimination against women' or 'Can you comment on the sweatshops that Cintas operates in Honduras?'"

Monday, April 11, at an event at the VCU commons, a speaker will talk to an audience, about the ways in which "god's" love has turned him from a homosexual into a straight person. This ridiculous event must be squashed with numerous people in oposition to this unfounded and harmful idea that homosexuality is a behavioral problem and not a state of being.

Blacksburg, VA April 5, 2005 -- Local groups are protesting Cintas Corporation, a notoriously anti-labor and anti-environment company, that is sponsoring the annual community service day, the Big Event, at Virginia Tech. The rally will take place in front of the Blacksburg Post Office on Main Street on Friday, April 8, 2005 from 5:30-6:30 pm.

Cintas has been repeatedly fined for breaking worker safety laws, is facing NLRB charges for dozens of violations of workers' organizing rights and is being sued for race and sex discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed papers in federal court supporting a class-action discrimination lawsuit against Cintas. The company consistently pays its employees below the living wage, even in violation of living wage laws, where they exist. "Cintas workers could very well find themselves among those who need the help of the Big Event and its community service projects," says Margaret Breslau, owner of the Blacksburg store Homebody, and one of the rally organizers.