Cathy’s Camp is a tent city created in 2019 by homeless people in Richmond. The city wants to close it. In this interview, camp volunteers Bridget Whitaker Williams and Rhonda Sneed explain how the city, working with nonprofits, has been moving people from the camp to a hotel that they say is infested with bedbugs.
“No more murdered & missing Indigenous women! Support the Wet’suwet’en struggle!”
RICHMOND, VA, Feb. 29 — “Today is the day! Bring your hand drums, bring your songs, grab your red shawls, put on your jingle dress, bring a sign and bundle up. We will see you at 1500 E. Main St. at 1 pm as we march to bring awareness to our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and show support for our Wet’suwet’en relatives!”
RICHMONDERS SAY ‘NO’ TO NAVY HILL PROJECT
Braving chilly weather, scores of people gathered this evening on the steps of Richmond City Hall to show their opposition to the so-called Navy Hill project, a massive downtown development scheme headed by Dominion Energy Chairman, President and CEO Thomas F. Farrell II.
ANTI-RACISTS TARGET UDC’s 125th ANNIVERSARY
Nearly 40 anti-racist activists – Black, Latinx, Asian and white – gathered today in Richmond for a demonstration outside the national headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Their lead banner boldly proclaimed the reason for the protest: “UDC: Celebrating 125 Years of Racist Lies!”
Family & friends demand freedom for Jermaine Doss
Nearly 50 people gathered in downtown Norfolk this Saturday for a press conference supporting Norfolk native Jermaine Doss, who has served nearly 20 years on a murder-for-hire charge on nothing but the now-recanted word of the confessed murderer.
Trump speaks, (some) Democrats boycott & the people protest
President Donald J. Trump spoke today in Jamestown at Virginia’s official event marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the House of Burgesses. The colonial-era institution later morphed into the present-day Virginia General Assembly, giving rise to the claim that the state’s legislature is the Western Hemisphere’s oldest continuing representative body. Bullcrap.
The Venezuela embassy struggle in photos
The struggle to defend the Embassy of Venezuela from supporters of the U.S.-backed coup has been one of the most dynamic antiwar actions in recent years. Showing up or supporting it in some way has been a litmus test for any organization that says it stands for Justice.
The Virginia Defender 