On the scene account of the Zapatista red alert:


Three days after my farewell from San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) issued a red alert for the region where I had just spent a month and a half. The EZLN put their autonomous communities on alert and evacuated them to live clandestinely in the protection of the Laconda jungle highlands. They called it a "precautionary defense measure" and effectively took themselves out of danger from a government intent on wiping out their resistance.

Through its spokesman, Subcomandante Marcos, the EZLN issued four communiques in a matter of four days to explain to the world their actions, their reasons and their assurances....

Archaeological Survey Planned for Lumpkin's Jail Site

Shockoe Bottom, the historic valley where Richmond began, soon will be home to an important archaeological project expected to uncover valuable clues about Richmond's past.

Late this summer, The City of Richmond, in partnership with The Richmond Slave Trail Commission, The Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR), and the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods (A.C.O.R.N), will sponsor an archaeological survey of the site that was once Lumpkin's Jail, the largest and best-known slave pen and boarding house for slave traders in antebellum Richmond. After the Civil War, Lumpkin's Jail became a school for newly freed blacks-the forerunner of the institution known today as Virginia Union University. To be undertaken on City-owned land in Shockoe Bottom, the archaeological survey is intended to determine the presence or absence of intact cultural remains associated with Lumpkin's Jail and whether further archaeological study is warranted.

On July 8th as the rulers of the eight most powerful nations meet in Scotland to decide our fates, communities around the world will take to the streets to fight back against the fossil fuels industry’s devastation of our Earth and its people.

A bag of burned Qur'ans was found left at the local Islamic Center in Blacksburg, VA. To counter this hate, and show your support for diversity and equality...

Several animal rights activists have been subpoenaed to appear before a San Francisco grand Jury on June 22 and July 23...

Norfolk Catholic Worker Presents
"Haunted by God"
a one-woman play about Catholic social activist Dorothy Day
Monday, June 13 at 7 p.m.
Virginia Beach

Dorothy Day co-founded the Catholic Social Worker movement in 1933 and is known as the “mother of the peace movement�? in the United Stares and has influenced generations of writers, thinkers and activists including Daniel Barrigan and Michael Harrington. Lisa Wagner performs the play that she co-authored with Paul Amandes and Robert McClory. This acclaimed production has toured throughout the United States, Europe and Africa.

MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON THE ROOT CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

EAST COAST CONVERGENCE AGAINST MASSEY COAL AND MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL

July 8th Monroe Park--Richmond, VA

On July 8th as the rulers of the eight most powerful nations meet in Scotland to decide our fates, communities around the world will take to the streets to fight back against the fossil fuels industry’s devastation of our Earth and its people. No longer can we stand by as our air is polluted, our water poisoned, our mountains destroyed, and our communities terrorized by these careless corporate thugs. On this day, in conjunction with Venezuelan communities fighting coal mines in their country, the people of Appalachia and folks from all across the east coast will descend on Richmond, VA to confront one of the most ruthless coal companies in the US, Massey Energy Co, who has been systematically destroying the mountains and people of Southern Appalachia through a form of mining called mountaintop removal (MTR).

As part of the effort to protect Appalachian communities from the destructive and often careless actions of coal extraction companies engaging in Mountain Top Removal, local residents were joined by Mountain Justice Summer participants yesterday at a (RICHMOND BASED) Massey Energy facility in Coal River Valley, West Virginia where the children of Marsh Fork Elementary School are threatened by the company's irresponsible mining practices.

Over 100 activists gathered in South WV to kick off Mountain Justice Summer, reinvigorating the movement to stop Mountain Top Removal

The Yorktown Rally for Social Justice will be a family-friendly, non-confrontational, peaceful, educational, and entertaining gathering as a community-based response in opposition to a hate rally of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), a neo-nazi organization (and their guests from the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and other hate groups) that will be occurring about a mile away within the park on that same afternoon.

May 24, 2005 - While Massey Energy stockholders met at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, parents, grandparents, and other residents of Coal River Valley, West Virginia...

Book review of Martha Ackelsberg's "Free Women of Spain, Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women" from AK Press, 2005. Originally published by Indiana University Press, 1991.