March 2012
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JUSTICE FOR THE RICHMOND 31?
I just returned from Richmond’s Oliver Hill court building, where they had the initial hearing for the 31 Virginians arrested on the steps of the State Capitol recently. They were arrested during a peaceful rally to oppose the ludicrous legislation that is being forced on us by the GOP “majority”. They are all charged with “trespass” and “unlawful assembly” after they sat on the Capitol steps...
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ALEC PROTEST TOMORROW IN DC
PROTEST “KILL AT WILL” LAWS THAT ARE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE AND PROTECTING VIGILANTES
Thursday, 3/29 at 12 PM
Outside ALEC Headquarters
1100 Vermont Ave. NW WASHINGTON, DC
Join the National Urban League, NAACP, Color of Change, Moveon.org, AFL-CIO, SEIU, ProgressNow, Center for Media and Democracy/ALECexposed.org, Presente,Public Campaign,CommonCause, People For the American...
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VA General Assembly off in fantasy land!
HOUSE BILL NO. 666
Offered January 11, 2012
Prefiled December 21, 2011
A BILL to amend and reenact § 555-69.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the juggling of live elephants in public parks.
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Patron—A.N. Other
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General...
Contrast in Response
Picture the scene, a cold January day in Richmond, Virginia and a group of about 120 people are gathered for a solemn vigil on the grounds of the Capital building, to commemorate the lives of the more than 800 Virginians killed by gunfire in the previous year. The group listens in complete silence as one of the speakers, a mother whose child was shot dead in his own bed by a stray bullet passing...
Draft Resolution on Gun Personhood
WHEREAS, Corporations are to be considered as persons, as referenced by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United decision, though not specifically mentioned in the Constitution of the United States of America, or the Bill of Rights, and
WHEREAS, upon initial division of a human egg cell, after it has been fertilized by a sperm, the resulting cell bundle is to be considered as a person, despite...
