Statement from the Steering Committee of the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, regarding the September 8, 2021 removal of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue.
Late Summer 2021 Issue
The Late Summer 2021 issue of the Virginia Defender was published on August 31, 2021. Click here to find a full PDF.
Bridges of Love (Puentes de Amor) in Richmond: a Conversation on Cuba
Please join us Monday, July 19, 6:30 p.m. at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church to meet with Carlos Lazo and the rest of the Bridges of Love team as they stop in Richmond on their way from Miami to Washington, D.C. to lobby against the U.S. economic embargo and travel ban against Cuba.
Statement by The Virginia Defenders on the Ongoing Attacks Against the Palestinian People by the Israeli Government
Yet another Palestinian town in East Jerusalem, Silwan, is under threat of ethnic cleansing through systemic dispossession by Israel.
UPDATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS: JUNE 3, 2021
The Updates & Announcements sent out to email subscribers on June 3rd. Information about ongoing matters, news items, and upcoming events. Plus: our endorsements and non-endorsements for the June 8th Democratic primary, and an editorial on Memorial Day.
MASSIVE RICHMOND PROTEST DECLARES: ‘WE STAND WITH PALESTINE!’
In the largest antiwar protest this city has seen in nearly 20 years, more than 1,500 people turned out May 19 to defiantly declare, “We Stand with Palestine!”
Defenders’ Statement on the Current Crisis in Occupied Palestine
On April 22, mobs of Israeli settlers gathered in Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine, chanting “Death to Arabs!” and brutalized Palestinains in the Bab Al-Aboud and Bab Al-Sahira neighborhoods.
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