
Veterans for Peace forming Charlottesville chapter
Veterans For Peace is proud to announce that Central Virginia will soon be home to a new chapter

Veterans For Peace is proud to announce that Central Virginia will soon be home to a new chapter

On Jan. 26th, Fort Knox Recording artists See-I will bring their unique brand of reggae – injected with heavy doses of funk, soul, dub and rock – to the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville alongside Yellow Dubmarine. See-I is hot on the heels of a successful Fall Tour as well as their recently released See-I Remixed…

Occupy Charlottesville is still alive and well and focusing on continuing to build community while highlighting among other issues the great level of income disparity in this country, according to a press release shared today with AugustaFreePress.com. According to the release, the Nov. 30 action that resulted in several members being arrested for trespassing in…

I am writing again to declare my support for all occupations including Occupy Charlottesville. All over the country, the work is just beginning to address what is unjust both morally and economically. Here in Charlottesville, the plight of the homeless has been brought into our visual collective consciousness more so than it has in the…

Secrecy, personal vendettas and radicalization are at the root of problems being experienced by the Occupy Charlottesville movement, which a founding member feels is on the brink of splitting apart at the seams. “It feels like chopping off a limb. The people there … I thought they were pretty good people. But I realize that…

Occupy Charlottesville has taken a turn for the worse, with more radical sub-elements censoring moderate members and ideologically purging others. Evan Knappenberger, who signed for the group’s first permit, was the first member to speak to city council, and helped to negotiate the group’s stay with police before campers began spending the night in Lee…

The Occupy Wall Street movement that has brought international attention to issues of income inequality and the redistribution of weatlh to the superwealthy has spawned sister movements in Staunton and Charlottesville. A newly-formed Occupy Staunton/Unify Main Street group is coordinating a rally on Thursday to support Communication Workers of America Local 2204 and its efforts…

The Commonwealth Transportation Board today allocated funding for construction of the Route 29 Charlottesville Western Bypass in Albemarle County. The CTB amended its Six-Year Improvement Program to provide $197 million for construction of the Western Bypass and an additional $33 million to widen Route 29 to six lanes from the South Fork Rivanna River north…

On Wednesday, July 20th, the Commonwealth Transportation Board will be asked to sign-off on an expedited and controversial initiative of Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton. “We believe Secretary Connaughton has taken an overly aggressive stance on long-controversial transportation projects, and in doing so, is making major spending decisions without adequate analysis, public input or…

Lawyers for the ACLU of Virginia today filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court challenging a City of Charlottesville ordinance that unconstitutionally restricts begging on the city’s Downtown Mall. Passed in August 2010, the ordinance prohibits the soliciting of persons sitting in outdoor cafes or within 50 feet of the two streets that cross the…
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