The Winter/Spring 2025 edition of The Virginia Defender was published March 26, 2025. Click here for a full PDF.
Articles in this issue:
The Rise & Fall of Donald J. Trump
Regional & National News
Community News
Denied access to their mail, RRHA residents fight back – & win!
Mutual aid organizations provide food & financial assistance
Exhibit: Virginia & the Vietnam War
Our Working Lives
Youngkin vetoes public worker bargaining bill
Trump/Musk administration moves to gut federal workforce
NLRB sides with fired Mom’s Siam workers
NLRB immobilized by Trump administration
Starbucks workers strike in largest walkout to date
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden staff unionize!
No Hay Fronteras en la Lucha de los Obreros
Trump, Youngkin & ICE: Hands off our immigrant communities!
Trump, Youngkin E ICE: ¡Manos fuera de nuestras comuninades!
Va. company accused of abuse operates migrant detention camp in Guantanamo
Reclaiming Our Sacred Ground
Shockoe Project progressing on multiple fronts
Designing a memorial for the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground
Why is the Shockoe Institute on the ground floor & not the upper floor of the Main Street Station?
Shockoe Institute: Construction begins, artistic director is hired
Art 180 & Defenders to beautify abandoned building at the African Burial Ground
New memorial to be installed at Trail of Enslaved Africans
International & Antiwar News
Despite challenges, Palestine support continues to grow in Va.
Art as Resistance: Solidarity with Palestine
International solidarity with Cuba
Editorial
In Our Opinion: And then they came…
Letters to the Editor
‘So saddened by seeing others so beat down.’
Op-Eds
From life in prison to commutation
The people united will never be divided
Cops, Courts & Prisons
At Red Onion: The struggle continues
A message to our incarcerated sisters & brothers regarding legal help
Look out VADOC, here comes UPROAR
Spotlight on Virginia’s Conscious Prisoners
SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Virginia’s Prisons
Rally at State Capitol demands: SHUT DOWN RED ONION!
Messages from 3 of the men who burned themselves at Red Onion
Red Onion prisoners continue to set themselves on fire in desperate response to ongoing abuses
More letters from Red Onion
Categories: Uncategorized
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