The Fact and Fiction of Abortion Rights in Virginia

Even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion will still be legal in Virginia. However, equally true, Virginia is one vote away from banning abortion.

By Mary Bauer

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Fostering Inclusive Schools for All Hanover Students

A Joint Open Letter to Hanover County School Board and Board of Supervisors

Fostering inclusive schools for all Hanover County students," with a bookshelf in the background and  stuffed animals to the right and left of the newspapers.

Why Virginia needs second chances

Virginia touts one of the lowest recidivism rates in the country, meaning that once people are released from prison, they generally don’t return. Yet there is no meaningful way to give people a second chance, even when it’s in the community’s best interest for someone like me to go home.

A quote from Courtney's blog post on light green paper with the text "People can and do change. I am not an anomaly, many people who are incarcerated have done the work and earned that second chance."

ACLU-VA Files Lawsuit Against Hanover County School Board For Failure to Protect Transgender Students

"These students are compelled to attend a school in a school system that refuses to protect them, and each weekday morning, our plaintiffs say goodbye to their kids while fearing for their safety. No parent should be forced into that position."

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Statement on Unite the Right Rally Verdict

Today in Sines v Kessler, the civil case against the organizers of the Unite the Right event in August, 2017 in Charlottesville, a jury reached a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, finding that white nationalists conspired to travel to Charlottesville, Virginia with the express purpose of inciting violence.

By Mary Bauer

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ACLU of Virginia held forum for Hanover transgender community night after school board vote

This piece by Holly Prestidge was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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Protect every kid means protecting trans & nonbinary students

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Virginia is one vote away from being Texas

One of my favorite posters from recent womens’ rights marches is the one that reads: “I can’t believe I still have to protest this [stuff].” (Of course, the sign used a different word than “stuff.”) But the point is correct: The right to make fundamental decisions about one’s reproductive health was recognized as a constitutional right in Roe v. Wade in 1973, almost 50 years ago. And yet, abortion rights are in greater peril now than they have been at any time in the last 48 years. I can’t believe we still have to protest this stuff. But we do. And we have to do more than that.  We have to organize and vote.

By Mary Bauer

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Do police and prisons keep us safe?

Let’s talk about what public safety means.

By Phuong Tran

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