The Winter issue of
THE VIRGINIA DEFENDER
is at the printer, & we’ll be picking up 15,000 copies Monday morning!
But you can read it online now at: www.DefendersFJE.blogspot.com
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
COMMUNITY NEWS:
Cathy’s Camp Exposes Richmond’s Housing Crisis
Behind the Master Plan to remove the Poor from Richmond
Creighton Court Update
OUR WORKING LIVES:
Safeway Workers Announce March 5 Strike Vote
NO HAY FRONTERAS EN LA LUCHA DE LOS OBREROS (IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY NEWS)
Trump’s DHS to Send ‘SWAT’ Teams to Sanctuary Cities
COPS, COURTS & PRISONS
Prisoner-Led Network Presses Fight for Prison Justice
General Assembly Tackles Prison Reform, but Much Left To Do
Free Jermaine Doss!
RECLAIM OUR SACRED GROUND
Hundreds Attend Shockoe Bottom Symposium, but Stoney Still Refuses to endorse Memorial Park
Reconciliation Statue Damage Ignored by Both City & State
Study: Big Economic Benefits from Memorial Park
New Yorker Magazine Spotlights Shockoe Bottom Struggle
INTERNATIONAL & ANTIWAR NEWS
On Relations Between Iran & the United States
Solidarity with Palestine
Threat of War on Iran Sparks Protests, New Coalitions Across Virginia
At an Iranian Celebration of its Revolution
EDITORIAL & OP-EDS:
Cathy’s Camp
An Open Letter to Gun Rights Supporters
Virginia is the Wild, WIld West for Predatory Lending
& More!
PLUS BREAKING NEWS:
A march today in Richmond led by indigenous women targeted the epidemic of Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women and showed support for an anti-pipeline indigenous struggle in Western Canada. Defender online coverage features an interview with Sara Arrigo, a leader of the Richmond Indigenous Society. Read it on our Facebook page HERE.
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