Amy Goodman came to the NARO theater in Norfolk, VA on Friday, September 31st, 2005.

The Hampton Roads Independent Media Coalition is pleased to announce that Amy Goodman, internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the nationally broadcast daily radio/TV news hour Democracy Now!, brings the Un-Embed the Media! tour to Norfolk VA on September 30, 2005. Additionally, HRIMC is presenting the workshop “Independent Media: A Primer�?, following Ms. Goodman’s appearance on Sat. Oct 1 at 1PM.

Constructed and linked locally and globally, a “new radicalism�? is flourishing in opposition to neoliberal capitalist imperialism, and yet few Americans are aware of its critical reach.

My trip to Washington DC to join a tremendous number of my countrymen in a demonstration against the war in Iraq on Saturday, September 24th, 2005.

The Washington Post, Reuters, and ABC News are carrying a story that first appeared on the Washington Post website in which three soldiers allege abuse of detainees in Afganistan and Iraq. Coming on the eve of a mass mobilization of anti-war demonstrators that will bring bus and car-loads from Richmond, Fredericksburg, Norfolk, and other Virginia localities to Washington, the revelations underscore what is wrong with this war and why the US is losing in Iraq.

Two Richmonders are preparing to cover this Saturday's Anti-War Mobilization for the Richmond Independent Media Center website. We want to encourage everyone to consider telling their own story of these vital events. Call our hotline number with your own updates: 804.687.8790.

Together, our tales can weave a web of resistance, joy, sorrow, and determination. Please consider adding your voice to the chorus of grassroots media activists working to democratize our media.

If you know of an action or event in DC on Saturday that you would like to see covered we can be reached any time at 804.687.8790. If you end up where the action is, give us a call!!

"...we are for a movement that really brings together the interest of the Iraqi people and of the American people, and in particular the soldiers. And that really can be summed up in a slogan, one in which we have to say, BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW. And that that slogan brings together, in the best and clearest sentiment, the unanimity of interest that Iraqi people and that people in the United States have."

Almost 75 people gathered Monday night for the Bring the Troops Home Now Tour’s Town Hall Meeting at Asbury United Methodist Church.

As people who have served in Iraq or relatives of them, every member of the tour told highly personal, often emotional stories of their own or their family’s first-hand experience with the war on Iraq. The message every speaker conveyed was that our troops should come home now, and that all of us who oppose the war on Iraq have a duty to speak out – starting this Saturday, September 24th in Washington D.C.

Charlie Anderson, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, summed this message up as the final speaker of the evening when he said “If we miss out on the 24th, we’ll miss our appointment with history.�?

VCU student initiates a discussion of that aftermath of hurricane Katrina and the net result for poor people. Keep the dialogue going and post a comment ...

Recently I had the chance to read Jim Wallis, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (San Francisco: Harper, 2005). This book was in part a response to the re-election of G.W. Bush, and in part a response to the overwhelming sense for religious life to be highlighted and return to public life, specifically the public life of those on the Left.

It's a privlege to be working on behalf of Veterans For Peace and to be embedded with the southern leg of the Bring Them Home Now Tour. In the spirit of IndyMedia - I will provide updates as possible over the coming 10 days from the road and stops from Atlanta north to Richmond! [Tom Palumbo lives in Norfolk... which is "local" to us! -ed.]

Alfie Kohn's radical parenting book, Unconditional Parenting, challenges traditional parenting methods.