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WORKERS’ POWER SHAKES UP RICHMOND’S DIVERSITY THRIFT

By The Virginia Defender on February 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

In November 2021, workers at Richmond’s Diversity Thrift used-goods store went on strike. After a whirlwind nine-day campaign, they won higher wages, staffing changes, and new store policies regarding sexual harassment.

NEWPORT NEWS SHIPYARD UNION TO VOTE ON NEW CONTRACT PROPOSAL

By The Virginia Defender on February 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

After voting down an earlier contract agreement late last year, members of United Steelworkers Local 8888 will be voting soon on a new deal with their employer, Newport News Shipbuilding. And this time the proposed contract may meet a key union demand: recognizing shipyard workers as “essential.”

PRISONERS, EX-PRISONERS & ADVOCATES SPEAK OUT FOR PRISON JUSTICE

By The Virginia Defender on February 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Despite threatening weather forecasts, cold temperatures and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 90 people still turned out Jan. 22 for the 5th Annual Virginia Prison Justice Rally.

THE MANY FACES OF MENTAL HEALTH BEHIND THE WIRE

By The Virginia Defender on February 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

An essay on mental health by Shaka Shakur.

BOOK REVIEW: THE LIFE & LEGACY OF ENSLAVED VIRGINIAN EMILY WINFREE

By The Virginia Defender on February 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The book that Jan Meck and Virginia Refo have written is the first study of the life of Emily Winfree, a Virginia-born African woman who lived from 1834 to 1865 enslaved in Petersburg and Chesterfield Country and, after Emancipation, in Manchester until her death in 1919.

UNITED BLACK BIRTH COLLECTIVE GROWING ‘SLOWLY AND WITH INTENTION’

By The Virginia Defender on February 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

In January 2020, Weluna Finley and a group of like-minded Black mothers, birth workers, mental health professionals and healers founded the United Black Birth Collective.

NEWS U CAN USE: WINTER 2022

By The Virginia Defender on February 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The Winter 2022 edition of News U Can Use includes information about free at-home COVID tests and an online map tool to monitor sewage overflow into the James River.

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