VIRGINIA POLITICS

Reid the Room! The Republican Split on John Reid

by Goad Gatsby | QUEER RVA, VIRGINIA POLITICS

What a difference a week makes! On Tuesday morning April 22, Youngkin aide Matthew Moran wrote on X, the everything app, about the Virginia Republican Party fielding the most diverse ticket in their history. Moran was referring to Winsome Sears, Jason...

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Liberation Through Education: Richmond’s Little Radical Library

At Marcus-David Peters Circle this summer, a small library popped up during protests to educate the public about liberating the working class, queer people, and people of color. Now located in Chimborazo Park, its organizers continue engaging the community with...

Get Up Offa That Thing

On Saturday, a crowd cheered as the “At Ready” Confederate statue was removed from its place of prominence at the Albemarle County Courthouse near Charlottesville. The August 2017 events in Charlottesville were the catalyst for the removal of Confederate monuments...

The ICE Agents Who Look Like Local Police

In Prince William County, ICE agents that are visually indistinguishable from local police have been arresting undocumented immigrants. For activists and local elected officials, this comes across as an unjust abuse of power. Standing on a NoVA sidewalk in his Lady...

Virginians Debate Whether COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Mandatory

At such a time that a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, should Virginians be required to get it? The state's health commissioner thinks so; some General Assembly members disagree. Though the federal government is asking states to prepare for the possibility of a...

House, Senate Committees Advance Bills For Expungement of Criminal Records

Bills sponsored by state Senator Creigh Deeds and Delegate Charniele Herring hope to make expungements of criminal records easier to attain for those who have been convicted of crimes in the past, not just those who are acquitted. Virginia House and Senate committees...

Op-Ed: The Militarization of the Border, Criminalization of Migration, and Policing of Poverty

For Madison Sweitzer and Ben Blevins of the Highland Support Project, buildup of militarized border protections, overpolicing of poor and minority populations, and massive wealth inequality all have a common root: the US's colonialist settler-state mentality. The...

Chaos at GWARbar

Fueled by a dubious flyer and a lack of information, an incident at GWARbar last month resulted in multiple arrests, as well as conflicting reports of what actually occurred. RVA Mag attempts to get to the bottom of this. The night of Thursday, August 20, tensions in...

“Creative Protests” At Marcus-David Peters Circle Combine Music, Art, and Resistance

Organized by RVA26, monthly "Creative Protests" at Marcus-David Peters Circle have given creative voice to a community hungry for positive change, even as the space remains the focus for civil disobedience in Richmond. It’s a place where you can play a pick up game of...

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