Things are not going well, to put it mildly. Take a break, then get back to it.
THE MANY FACES OF MENTAL HEALTH BEHIND THE WIRE
An essay on mental health by Shaka Shakur.
OUR ENDORSEMENTS – AND NON-ENDORSEMENTS
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.
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