Roe v. Wade Day

Today is Roe v. Wade Day, the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case which ruled that a person’s right to privacy includes the right to an abortion, up until the point of fetal viability (legally, 24 weeks). Any attempt to restrict access to abortion before 24 weeks, such as the 20-week ban currently going before the Virginia General Assembly (HB 1473), is unconstitutional. 

This is extremely significant; before legal abortion was available, people who needed the procedure obtained it any way they could, often from people with limited or nonexistent medical training. These backalley procedures frequently resulted in death by infection or hemorrhage. Read more here.

The Fight for $15 Day of Disruption is Today!

Columbus monument splashed with red paint for Thanksgiving

The semi-annual Thanksgiving defacement of the Columbus statue near Byrd Park appears to have gone down in the early hours of November 24th, right on schedule. 

Richmond, Virginia 2016. Photo credit to Antifascists of the Seven Hills (ASH). 

"Make America White Again" posters appearing around VCU's Monroe Park campus

They're advertisements for an alt-right neo-Nazi blog titled "the Right Stuff". This one was photographed on Laurel Street, near VCU's Johnson Hall, last week. 

A spray bottle of solvent and a putty knife will remove even wheat-pasted posters. 

McDonald's can afford to pay a living wage; they just don't want to!

From the Fight for $15: “We NEED living wages and they CAN afford it.”

McDonald’s workers generate that $20 billion in profit; how is it fair that they don’t even make enough to eat while some shareholder, who didn’t lift a finger, gets to reap the reward?