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August 18, 2023
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Turning the embers into a bonfire
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Upcoming Activist Events:
August 18 - September 1, 2023
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August 19 - 10 am, Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day remembrance, Central Place on Downtown Mall, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, info [email protected]
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August 21 - Staunton Organizing meeting
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August 26 - 9 am, Public Work Day, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, and landscape restoration. Ivy Creek, for info [email protected]
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August 28 - Staunton Organizing meeting
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August 31 - 5 pm, meeting, C3, Firefly
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For complete descriptions of these events, visit
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Executive Committee of the Sierra Club Piedmont Group is looking for new people with new ideas. For more information contact John at [email protected].
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From Virginia Organizing:
If you have lost your civil rights in Virginia, we can help you apply to get them restored. On Facebook, fill out this simple form, and someone from Virginia Organizing will contact you. Please share with anyone you know who might need to get their rights restored.
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Virginia Organizing will be encouraging nonpartisan restoration of voting rights and civic engagement this summer here in town. Please notify them if you're interested in joining them for canvassing or tabling. This will occur through late October. For more information, please contact Brian Johns [email protected] Or call VO at 434 984 4655 ext 227.
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Remember - Democracy is not a spectator sport.
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Jemaine Cannon was killed, aka executed, by the state of Oklahoma on July 20. A group responded by staging a vigil in Charlottesville outside the Albemarle County office building.
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Oklahoma resumed its paused schedule of grisly executions with the state-sanctioned killing of Jemaine. Next in line is Anthony Sanchez, with a date of September 20.
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Forty people gathered outside of Sojourners UCC on June 20 to serve as “Witnesses for Justice following the vandalism at Sojourners”. The group was composed of Sojourners congregants, members of the Charlottesville Clergy Collective and other activists.
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On Tuesday, June 20, messages of hate were spray-painted on the Sojourners United Church of Christ. A window was broken and banners were removed.
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The call to action for the demonstration were disseminated by the Sojourners congregation, Charlottesville Clergy Collective and Activists’ Watch.
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What happened?
On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington, one of the largest marches in US history, occurred in Washington.
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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
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