Category: Activism
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Hugged & Shoved: hugging protester says she was roughed up by city police
At Saturday’s Klan Rally Protest, Charlottesville resident Heather Rose Ratesic Dorsey, who was there to protest the Klan, gave one of the state troopers guarding an entrance way for the Klan a hug (see photo left). “I have always been taught to respect everyone and I am sure that they needed more than a hug…
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Up to Pasture: local artist has vision to turn Landmark into vertical farm
Turning the abandoned and blighted Landmark Hotel into a vertical urban garden may sound like a fanciful, farfetched idea, but at least local artist Russell Richards has an idea. The same can’t be said for the City or the hotel’s various owners, who have offered only empty promises. “I suspect the Landmark is never going…
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Knock at the door: Protesters accuse C-Ville Weekly of “inflaming racial tensions”
A crowd of protesters gathered in front of the offices of Cville Weekly today, outraged by a December 29 story the local paper ran that, according to one protest organizer, “threw gasoline on the fire of racial tension in our community.” Indeed, the story, titled, “Knockout: Victims of brutal Downtown Mall assault want arrests, and…
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Long time coming for Lee Park Pride Festival
Interesting quote from Amy Sarah Marshall, president of the Charlottesville Pride Community Network in a Newsplex story: “I think it’s been the mode to kind of go with the flow, keep things on the down low. People are still afraid to hold hands on the downtown mall,” the groups president, Amy Sarah Marshall, said. “People…
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Protest in front of Bank of America
Could be the reason Bank of America hired a security guard to stand outside the building not long ago. As the Hook reports, members of a group called Blue Ridge Council for Conscious Action gathered outside the bank today to join other folks protesting the bank’s practices at the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting in Charlotte,…
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