The Virginia Defender’s endorsements for the presidential and Richmond local elections taking place on November 3, 2020.
WHY WE’RE NOT ENDORSING BIDEN-HARRIS
Why aren’t we endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? Simply put, because we can’t divide up our solidarity between people who live within this country and those who live outside it.
THE DEMOCRATS & REPUBLICANS ARE BOTH FAILING THE WORKING CLASS: WE NEED HELP NOW!
Poor and working people in Virginia are in a crisis. No, we’re in many crises.
IN OUR OPINION: IT’S PAST TIME TO FREE JERMAINE DOSS!
Jermaine Doss has a parole hearing scheduled for Aug. 25, his first since he was sent to prison back in 2000 for a crime he did not commit. The irony is that, after 20 years of fighting his conviction in the courts, it may finally be another judicial injustice that opens his cell door to freedom.
AN OPEN LETTER TO GUN RIGHTS SUPPORTERS
The Virginia Defender circulated this Open Letter laying out our view of the issues. Someone posted it on the internal blog of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, the group that had called for the mobilization. We reprint it again here in hopes that it will reach more of the people for whom it was intended.
IN OUR OPINION: CATHY’S CAMP
On the one hand, we have RVA: young, hip, vibrant, artsy and doing pretty well for itself. On the other, we have Richmond, where one out of every five people is poor, where misery swirls around people’s ankles like a flooded campground and which, for the most part, is invisible.
CONNECT THE DOTS: I CAN STILL SEE
An opinion piece from Queen Nzinga.
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