It was a packed house Feb. 9 for a film showing of “Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine” at the Masjid Bilal in Richmond’s East End.
SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE
ON RELATIONS BETWEEN IRAN & THE UNITED STATES
Western media outlets sell a very particular narrative to the American people about Iran, and I’m sure that there are many people in the United States who truly believe that Iran is the rogue nation that it is painted to be.
The U.S. foreign policies behind today’s immigrant ‘crisis’
The past few years have seen a sharp increase in the number of people from Central America trying to immigrate to the United States. President Trump and other bigots call it an “invasion” and have enacted barbaric measures to try and terrify people from trying to cross the border. So why do they come?
THE OTHER UKRAINE STORY
A different kind of story Ukraine– including a coup, a referendum, at least 42 murders carried out by neo-Nazis which remain uninvestigated, and a Council of Mothers who are finally making progress toward justice.
TRUMP TIGHTENS U.S. BLOCKADE OF CUBA
The U.S. Treasury has announced new regulations governing licensed travel to Cuba from the U.S.
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF ODESSA
In a major breakthrough for the people of Odessa, Ukraine, a United Nations human rights monitoring mission has criticized the Ukrainian government for its failure to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the fascist-led massacre of scores of people on May 2, 2014, at the city’s House of Trade Unions.
RICHMOND FORUM HITS NATO, U.S. ROLE IN VENEZUELA & UKRAINE, DOMESTIC ISSUES
A thoroughly multiracial and multigenerational crowd turned out Feb. 23 for a Defenders forum covering a wide range of issues, all tied together by the understanding that what the U.S. government does in other countries directly and indirectly affects us here at home.
The Virginia Defender 