Peter Gelderloos critiques nonviolent activism in his harsh but potentially useful new book.

Part I: Life and Liberty “Face The Truth�? Tour

Sometime around 5am, September 28th, someone…somewhere decided to start their day with a little bit of misogyny…actually that’s a lie. Someone woke up and decided to start their day with a LOT of misogyny....

Part II: RRFP hosts Abortion Speak Out

On Saturday, October 2nd, Richmond’s abortion fund collective, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project hosted an abortion speak out in the VCU student commons. All genders were invited to share their personal experiences of having an abortion or share a story of someone they knew having an abortion....

Part III: Emergency Die-In Takes Place At Grove and Boulevard

A day after RRFP made progressive strides to discuss the necessity of reproductive freedom, one of Richmond’s women’s clinics that provides abortions came under attack on National Life Chain Day....

Part IV: Die-In Direct Actions planned for mid-October

October is Abortion Access Month and RRFP members have got some great plans up their sleeves. Stay tuned to this website for breaking news!

Demonstrators from the Virginia Anti-War Network held a vigil in suburban Richmond, Virginia October 17 to "protest the arrival of Vice President Dick Cheney and demonstrate our dissatisfaction with his key role in embroiling us in an illegal and immoral war in the Middle East," said VAWN organizer Garrie Rouse.

Pakistan has just suffered its most horrific earthquake in nearly a century. At the time of writing the estimated number of dead and injured is 40,000 & 70,000, respectively. There is a high likelihood that these numbers will increase as more and more villages, towns, and buildings are discovered to have been razed to the ground. Stories of several schools with young children being wiped out by the sheer power of the earthquake make all of us following the situation tremble at the unthinkable thought.

In "Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists" (New Society Publishers, 2005) Betsy Leondar-Wright attempts to make sense of class diversity in movements for change.

The Richmond Defenders for Freedom, Justice, and Equality held their 3rd Annual Commemoration of Gabriel's Rebellion and Sacred Ground on October 8-9, 2005.

Last year, the Defenders unveiled the only public memorial in Richmond to the slave organizer/insurrectionist Gabriel at 15th and Broad streets. The events are in part a commemoration of the 205th anniversary of the execution of Gabriel in Shockoe Bottom after his plan of a slave rebellion was discovered. Gabriel is celebrated for his intense desire for freedom, his broad and inclusive sense of justice, and his great skill in organizing hundreds to fight for liberation. He was 24 years old when executed by Virginia in 1800.

The events this year focused on Sacred Ground and the campaign to stop the proposed stadium construction in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom. Shockoe Bottom was once an east coast epicenter for the slave trade. Rivaled only by New Orleans and Natchez, Miss., Shockoe Bottom played a central role in with buying and selling of Africans into slavery for generations. There is a proposal to build a baseball stadium and “Market Village�? in this area. The Defenders and others are fighting to turn the same area into a public remembrance of the function Shockoe Bottom played in the slavery system.

Real world stories of on the job resistance to exploitation, forecasting a labor movement where every worker is an organizer.

The rainy weather was no aid in increasing the participation and recognition of Fredericksburg critical mass, however, since its beginning, these rides have had a low level of involvement, regardless of weather. As such, we are currently thinking up some new advertising tactics to invite more cyclists to participate in the rides--including pretty hardcore flyer distributing and themed rides.

A citizens’ group and concerned parents of the children at Marsh Fork Elementary School in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia expressed disappointment in Governor Joe Manchin’s decision to drop his investigation of health concerns at the school. The school has gained attention over the summer as residents protested Massey Energy’s coal operations next door.

This past Friday, GMU student Tariq Khan, also a Pakistani-American Student and former Air Force Service, was brutalized, arrested, and taken to the Fairfax County jail for passing out anti-military-recruitment flyers on George Mason University campus.

Just a reminder of Fredericksburg's critical mass solidarity bike rides (5:30PM, every first Friday of the month)--RAIN OR SHINE!

A new group has sprung up in Virginia's capital. Richmond Re-Cycles is a local communinty-oriented bicycles shop located at 2611 W. Cary St. in Richmond,Va. Our mission is to provide low cost bicycles to the community, while teaching people bicycles maintenance, bicycle riding and bicycle safety.