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The Activists' Watch
March 4, 2022
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Turning the embers into a bonfire
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Upcoming Activist Events: March 4 - 17
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March 6 CCPJ Board meeting
March 7 Sierra Club, work crew
March 7 Staunton Organizing meeting
March 8 NOW meeting
March 9 NOW demonstration
March 10 NOW demonstration
March 10 Citizen's Climate Lab meeting
March 10 DSA meeting
March 10 Wild Virginia training
March 14 NAACP meeting
March 14 Staunton Organizing meeting
March 17 Charlottesville 350 meeting
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What happened?
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March 7, 1965 Six hundred marchers assembled in Selma on Sunday, March 7, and led by John Lewis and other SNCC and SCLC activists, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River en route to Montgomery. On March 21, the final successful march began with federal protection, and on August 6, 1965, the federal Voting Rights Act was passed.
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Today's Quote
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“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."
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From Richard:
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We were overwhelmed with the support of the activist community to the announcement that Activists’ Guide was closing, due to our finances. Within hours, 16 emails arrived from readers expressing their upset. Within days, unsolicited donations arrived which have allowed us to resume operations. Each of us can stand very proud with what we have accomplished.
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All of the Activists Guide publications, including Activists Watch, are distributed at no charge to the reader. But, our need for financial support will continue. In the next months, we will be adding additional features. In our April 1 issue, we will introduce our Advisory Board which is composed of experts in their fields from around the US. But we will continue to need your support. Give what you can. It all helps.
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I keep thinking of the Carpenters, as I hum their unforgettable song “We’ve Only Just Begun,”
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The Activists' Guide is a website designed to facilitate communication between activist organizations and individuals. It is affiliated with the Facebook group Cville Stands Together and the Facebook page The Activists' Guide. It emphasizes its birthplace, Charlottesville, but its readership is worldwide.
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