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Virginia Public Workers Make Headway On Bargaining Rights

April 14, 2026 Lee Abbott, Labor Notes. , , , ,
After a years-long campaign by unions, Virginia’s General Assembly passed legislation to extend collective bargaining rights to nearly half a million state, county, and municipal government employees. Union recognition has been denied Virginia’s public employees since 1946 when the state legislature passed a joint resolution against public sector bargaining to defeat a Black hospital workers’ organizing drive at the University of Virginia. A 1977 state Supreme Court ruling affirmed the ban, which was later codified by legislation in 1993.

ICE Targets Virginia And The People Respond

February 26, 2026 The Virginia Defender, Popular Resistance. , , ,
It looks like ICE, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, has targeted Virginia for a Minnesota-style operation. That makes sense, since with a Democratic governor, a majority-”minority” capital city and a Richmond mayor who is not only a Democrat but also an immigrant, we fit the profile of states Trump has in his sights. It’s not like ICE hasn’t already been here. Arrests and deportations took place under Presidents Obama and Biden. But there’s been a sharp upsurge - more than 6,600 people - arrested by ICE in Virginia since Trump took office again in 2025. That puts us in sixth place for states targeted by ICE.

Virginia Orders Termination Of ICE Agreements With Law Enforcement

February 6, 2026 Clare Gehlich, Portside. , , ,
Spanberger, who is a former federal law enforcement officer, issued Executive Order 12, which is about “principles and policies that have long served as the north star for Virginia law enforcement” — an early step to ensure Virginia law enforcement is not a tool for ICE, amid multiple instances of possible sightings. The executive order directs Virginia law enforcement agencies to review all policies, training and practices to confirm alignment with these standards. In addition to the executive order, Spanberger also directed Virginia’s state law enforcement agencies and divisions — Virginia State Police, Virginia Department of Corrections, Virginia Conservation Police and Virginia Marine Police — to terminate all existing 287(g) agreements with ICE.

SEIU Renews Drive To Unionize Home Health Care Workers In Virginia

February 1, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , ,
Richmond, Virginia - In what would be a major advance for organized labor in Virginia, Service Employees Local 512 is renewing its campaign to have the state be the official “employer” of thousands of home health care workers in the state to unionize. But to do that, they must first get HB1263/SB378 through the state legislature. It would repeal the state’s Jim Crow-era ban on collective bargaining for state public workers, create a Virginia Home Care Authority to be their employer of record, and create a state Public Employee Relations Board to oversee the whole process—including follow-up union recognition elections.

The Disgraceful History Of Erasing Black Cemeteries In The US

January 13, 2026 Chip Colwell, Next City. , , ,
The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia, established in 1816, sits amid highways and surface roads. Above the expanse of unmarked graves loom a deserted auto shop, a power substation, a massive billboard. The bare ground of the cemetery is strewn with weeds. In contrast, across the way sits Shockoe Hill Cemetery. Established in 1822, it remains a peaceful cemetery with grass, large trees and bright marble headstones. This cemetery was created for white Christians.

Washington, DC Protesters Demand No Cooperation With ICE

October 31, 2025 Kristen Bonner, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday evening, October 17, a group of activists disrupted Mayor Muriel Bowser at a speaking event in which she sought to control the narrative regarding her coordination with the Trump administration and federal immigration authorities. Families Not Feds, a campaign led by Colectivo Familias Migrantes DC, called the direct action to hold Bowser accountable for conceding to Trump and stop ICE kidnapping operations. DC Against the Trump Agenda (DCATA), Metro DSA, and the Sunrise movement DC supported the action.

As Trump Escalates ICE Raids, Local Community Defense Networks Grow

October 18, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , ,
The Trump administration has pledged to continue ramping up the controversial operations to detain and deport immigrants. Yet, as his threats intensify, the movement in defense of immigrant rights is rapidly growing and taking shape from the grassroots. In Chicago, people are standing up to federal agents armed and ready to deploy tear gas and pepper spray. Army veterans in Portland are urging federal troops to disobey Trump’s orders, and in Colorado, residents are rejecting the conversion of several private prisons into ICE detention centers.

Activists Protest Outside US Home Of GHF ‘Aid Group’ Chief

July 26, 2025 The New Arab. , , ,
Activists in the US gathered outside the Virginia home of John Acree, the director of the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), to denounce the organisation’s actions amid Israel's forced starvation of Gaza. More than 1,000 Palestinians seeking aid have been killed at the GHF's distribution sites since the group began operations in May. Contractors and Israeli forces at the sites have opened deadly fire at civilians, used tear gas, as well as artillery and mortar rounds. The protest comes as 123 Palestinians have died due to starvation and malnutrition-related reasons as Israel continues to block emergency aid into the enclave.

From Farms To Data Centers: The Gas Industry’s Newest Sales Pitch

April 21, 2025 Edward Donnelly, DeSmog. , , ,
“In all my days here, this is the biggest black eye that Pittsylvania County has experienced,” says Amanda Sink Wydner, leader of the local opposition to plans for a massive new power plant and data center complex in Chatham, a small town in southern Virginia. On April 15, the county government will vote on whether to rezone hundreds acres of farmland to heavy industrial use, which would allow Balico LLC, a natural gas power developer, to proceed with the project. As planned, it would have the biggest power demand of any data center complex in the world, according to rankings from Data Center Magazine.

Tesla Boycott Actions Keep Going And Going Six Weeks On

March 25, 2025 John Zangas, DC Media Group. , , ,
Arlington, VA — At about 12:30 on Saturday afternoon about 20 arrived early and circled up nearby the Arlington Tesla dealership to discuss safety and security of the ongoing weekend boycott rally which was to begin at 2 pm. The main organizers of Third Act of Virginia asked participants to agree with a thumbs up of a short list of positive behaviors that would keep the boycott action inclusive, safe, and non-confrontational towards Tesla customers. They discussed deescalation as a method of diffusing tensions during conflict. Third Act of Virginia is a grassroots organization dedicated for those 60 years and older, or in the “Third Act” of their lives and wanting to give time and resources back to their communities.

Locals Hit Elon Musk Tesla Car Dealers Again

February 23, 2025 John Zangas, DC  Media Group. , , , , , , ,
Local grassroots organizers stepped up actions on Saturday for the second weekend outside Elon Musk’s Tesla electric vehicle dealerships in hopes of spurring a boycott against the company. At least four dealerships were targeted in the region as fury rose against the mega-billionaire and world’s richest man. The protests were part of a national effort by many grassroots groups. Local dealerships of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia (DC-MD-VA) at Georgetown, Washington DC; Rockville, Maryland; Tysons Corner and Arlington, Virginia were among those sites of the weekend protests.

Virginia House Unanimously Passes Defend The Guard Act

February 5, 2025 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. , , ,
On Tuesday, the Virginia House of Delegates passed the Defend the Guard Act, legislation that would prohibit the deployment of the state’s National Guard to combat zones without a declaration of war from Congress, as required by the Constitution. The bill passed unanimously in a vote of 99-0, and it now heads to the Virginia Senate. “HB2193 Defend the Guard Act passes the Virginia House of Delegates 99-0. On to the Virginia Senate,” Delegate Nick Freitas, a retired Green Beret who sponsored the bill, wrote on X. “Thank you all and God speed!”

Crisis And Cover-Up At Red Onion Super-Max

November 27, 2024 Phil Wilayto, Black Agenda Report. , ,
Just how bad are things at Virginia’s Red Onion supermax prison? On May 24, 2023, DeAndre Gordon deliberately started a fire in his cell that caused a third-degree burn on his leg. Gordon, who is Black, said he had been badly beaten by guards at the prison and feared for his life. “I didn’t know any other way that I could get out of their custody besides to set myself on fire,” Gordon told a reporter with Radio IQ. “Because they don’t have a burn center in Southwest Virginia, I knew that I would be going to Richmond.” According to the American Burn Association, Virginia has just three facilities capable of dealing with severe burns.

Richmond’s Black Leaders Dreamed Of Creating An Agrihood

October 6, 2024 Barry Greene, Jr, Next City. , , , , ,
When Richmond, Virginia-based nonprofit Girls for a Change was offered a eight-acre parcel of land from a local benefactor, CEO Angela Patton knew the Black youth development organization could do something special for the neighborhood. “We were sitting on this property for a while trying to just figure out what would it be,” says Patton, who has lived in Richmond’s Bensley suburb for nearly two decades. “Would it be a summer camp for girls? Would it be a community center for the community? Would it be a women’s wellness center?” In 2021, Patton announced their plan to turn the vacant land into the Bensley Agrihood, a permanently affordable housing development featuring 10 affordable homes, four tiny homes, a wellness center and a 1.5-acre working community farm that would serve as an amenity for the neighborhood.

Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize In Wake Of Hurricane Helene

October 4, 2024 It's Going Down, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , , , , , , , , ,
A Category 4 storm, Hurricane Helene, one of the largest storms to hit the Gulf Coast in a century, collided into the Big Bend area of Northern Florida on Thursday, before moving into neighboring states of Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and the Carolinas. According to media reports, upwards of 60 people have already been confirmed dead, although the death toll is expected to rise as many municipalities have yet to release official numbers as cell phone service and internet remains down and millions are currently without power. Extreme flooding has been reported in Atlanta, GA and Asheville, NC, as whole communities are left stranded and lacking proper shelter and access to clean drinking water.
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