A flashpoint of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and militarism—the US-Mexico border is the center of an international debate about undocumented people in the US. What the debate does nothing to address, however, is why so many people are fleeing their lands to come to the US.

Throughout this week at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA there will be a progressive education workshop series in which invited speakers and students will lead discussions and workshops on a variety of issues ranging from gender and sexuality, feminist direct action, globalization, anarchism and alternative forms of education, etc. The specific topics/dates/times are listed below.

One Richmond resident's experience at the Millions More March in Washington DC:

Three buses were waiting for passengers at the K-Mart on Midlothian Turnpike in south Richmond. Parents, children, old and young folks were anxious to board.

Our group was among the first to arrive in DC. As the hours passed, more and more people began to arrive. The speakers were many in number, Tavis Smiley, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and others. Emotions were building in anticipation of the main speaker, Minister Louis Farrakhan. The message of the speakers was filled with new ideas as to what can we do for ourselves to make our communities better.

on october 20, around 12 individuals gathered to raise awareness about the lack of access to abortions and other reproductive health issues in downtown Richmond

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.