The storefront at 6 East Nine Mile Road in eastern Henrico’s Highland Springs neighborhood used to house a church ministry. Now it’s many things: a thrift shop, moving company, for a while a furniture renovator.
But most importantly, it’s a community where formerly incarcerated people can find a place to rebuild their lives.
In a free speech case that has attracted national media attention, the longtime activists known as the Uhuru 3 were acquitted Sept. 12 in Tampa, Fla., of acting as agents of a foreign government, but found guilty of conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents.
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Once again, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to condemn the U.S. blockade of Cuba, first imposed in 1960 after the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
“When two elephants fight, it is the grass that is trampled.” This East African proverb is an apt description of what is happening in the Republic of Sudan.
Richmond has been seeing a sharp escalation on the part of law enforcement in respect to pro-Palestinian activities. Not that harsh police tactics are new: Recall this past April’s violent breakup of a peaceful Gaza solidarity encampment at Virginia Commonwealth University by campus, city and state police.
Despite organizing in an increasingly hostile and repressive environment, pro-Palestinian activism across the Commonwealth is strong, growing and adapting to ever-changing obstacles imposed by the state.
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