AFL-CIO to Biden: ‘Stop the raid on the postal pension fund!’ – The Virginia Defender
Editor’s note: On Feb. 16, The Virginia Defender received the following email from Team AFL-CIO, pertaining to the postal pension fund.| The Virginia Defender
Editor’s note: On Feb. 16, The Virginia Defender received the following email from Team AFL-CIO, pertaining to the postal pension fund.| The Virginia Defender
Posts about Community News written by The Virginia Defender| The Virginia Defender
The July 22, 2025 edition of the Updates and Announcements newsletter.| The Virginia Defender
An analysis of the political phenomena of Trumpism, and a proposal for how to fight back.| The Virginia Defender
Upon his inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump and his administration immediately began extensive, widespread cuts to the federal workforce.| The Virginia Defender
House Bill 2764 and its equivalent Senate Bill 917 made it through the General Assembly and to the governor’s desk. On March 24, Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed them.| The Virginia Defender
On display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture from Nov. 23, 2024, to July 6, 2025: “This exhibit examines, through personal objects and oral histories, what Virginia’s soldiers, policy makers, families, activists, and Vietnamese migrants carried both physically and emotionally during the war and its aftermath.”| The Virginia Defender
Our tribute to Farid Alan Schintzius.| The Virginia Defender
A profile of several mutual aid organizations around the city.| The Virginia Defender
Stonewall Place is one of eight public housing sites operated by the Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority “for qualified low-income elderly and disabled Richmonders.” And for most of Dece…| The Virginia Defender
Posts about Palestine written by The Virginia Defender| The Virginia Defender
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7 posts published by The Virginia Defender during November 2024| The Virginia Defender
The Updates and Announcements newsletter for June 19, 2025. The newsletter contains information about an urgent protest the morning of Friday, June 20, against the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.| The Virginia Defender
Editor’s Note: In our 20 years of publishing, The Virginia Defender has never once been asked to correct a fact or a quote. We’re very proud of that record. But since other publications publish cor…| The Virginia Defender
The Winter/Spring 2025 edition of The Virginia Defender was published March 26, 2025.| The Virginia Defender
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Select one of the below issues to view it as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The file will open in a new tab of your web browser and give you the option to download it. New issues are upload…| The Virginia Defender
Posts about Our Working Lives written by The Virginia Defender| The Virginia Defender
The Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality strongly condemn the many executive orders issued by the Trump administration that aim to intimidate, criminalize and threaten the livelih…| The Virginia Defender
Despite the great risks to life and limb and the fierce repression promoted by both major political parties, millions of people are still trying to enter the United States, in search of a better li…| The Virginia Defender
The Updates & Announcements newsletter for January 13, 2025.| The Virginia Defender
The Updates & Announcements newsletter for January 1, 2025. This newsletter contains the announcement of the January 8th Rally to Shut Down Red Onion and Wallens Ridge.| The Virginia Defender
Updates and announcements for December 10, 2024. These primarily relate to the crisis at Red Onion Supermax.| The Virginia Defender
A letter from Shaka Shakur, incarcerated at Buckingham Correctional Center, regarding his case.| The Virginia Defender
The storefront at 6 East Nine Mile Road in eastern Henrico’s Highland Springs neighborhood used to house a church ministry. Now it’s many things: a thrift shop, moving company, for a while a furnit…| The Virginia Defender
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Please join us on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2-4:30pm at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church (1720 Mechanicsville Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23223) for the first public expression of concern about the ongoi…| The Virginia Defender
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In May 2023, an inmate at Red Onion Super-Max set himself on fire in order to be transferred out of the institution where he feared for his life. At least two more men have taken the same desperate…| The Virginia Defender
The Autumn 2024 edition of The Virginia Defender was published November 6, 2024. Click here for a full PDF.| The Virginia Defender
Established in 2005 as The Richmond Defender, The Virginia Defender is a free community newspaper, published quarterly for the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality. Print distribu…| The Virginia Defender
The September 23, 2024 issue of the Updates and Announcements newsletter.| The Virginia Defender
The Southern Workers Assembly, founded in 2012 and based in North Carolina, is a social justice organization fighting to organize unorganized workers across the South.| The Virginia Defender
Earlier this evening, a group of about 60 people met in Monroe Park to rally against the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, which is headquartered right in downtown Richmond. VIAB is a business promot…| The Virginia Defender
The trial of the Uhuru 3 has ended in a split verdict.| The Virginia Defender
On Sept. 11, 1973, the CIA orchestrated the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende, a Marxist. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger oversaw the military coup on behalf of the U.S.-…| The Virginia Defender
Despite the threat of a thunderstorm, about 60 people turned out today for a profoundly moving event marking the 224th anniversary of Gabriel’s Rebellion. The gathering was held at Spring Park in H…| The Virginia Defender
TAMPA, FL, Sept. 4 — The trial of the Uhuru 3 opened this morning at U.S. District Court in downtown Tampa,| The Virginia Defender
These stories broke between runs of the paper.| The Virginia Defender
The May 17, 2024 edition of the Updates & Announcements newsletter.| The Virginia Defender
Late last Friday afternoon, May 10, student and faculty advocates for Virginia’ Commonwealth University’s Racial Literacy initiative were heartbroken when the VCU Board of Visitors voted 10-5 to op…| The Virginia Defender
A poem by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson.| The Virginia Defender
Today was the big commencement for graduating VCU students. But as the commencement speaker, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, began his address, hundreds of students stood up and silently walked o…| The Virginia Defender
The May 6, 2024 issue of the Updates and Announcements newsletter.| The Virginia Defender
At about 8:30 this evening, Virginia Commonwealth University put out an alert that a “violent protest” was taking place on the campus of the state’s largest public university.| The Virginia Defender
