[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Pro-Voice Inspired Benefit? April 4th

Thu Feb 27 18:14:27 UTC 2014

Dear all,

I have a team for the RRFP called, "Woke Up Like This". We are looking to have a" Pro-Voice" inspired dinner and discussion at The Brick on April 4th at 7pm to 9pm. We will be asking for a $5 donation for RRFP.

The discussion will be a safe place for folks to share stories and experiences about their reproductive health. Topics such as abortion, birth-control, birth, adoption, lack of access of care, etc. are all encouraged to be shared. 

We will be providing a delicious vegetarian comfort food themed dinner.

Please let Mara or I know if this date works for using The Brick.

Thanks,
Emily 

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From: incoherentnickle at gmail.com
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:24:25 -0500
Subject: [FlyingBrickAnnouncements] All Out this Monday! Bodies needed at	City Council!

>From friends in Collective X:

This was sent to me this morning. Figured I would send to people who might find it
helpful or interesting. It's a really good platform to send to your own council
members (you can find them on the website). There are many more reasons that the
stadium should not be built so feel free to add change whatever you like. Mostly,
this is to inform you that this Monday is a scheduled to be this biggest day at city
council and therefore bodies are needed. An intimidating show of opposition is very
effective. City council starts at 6pm but many will be gathering out front for
broader visibility at 5pm. Im not on FB so this is a personal a outreach. Please
spread this however you see fit. A stadium in Shockoe would be a an extremely costly
travesty and it would change out entire city. Everyone has got to get involved to
stop the privatization and selling off of our city. Thank you! 

> Hey folks,
>  
> I thought I would share what I wrote to my city councilor this morning as it might
help you all in outreach for city council next week. I have also used it to make a
personal plea to friends of mine who are generally sympathetic, but less informed,
to come to City Council on the 24th. Feel free to copy and paste the outline
>  
> Dr. Newbille,
> 
>  
> 
> I am a resident of Church Hill and one of your district residents. I would like
you to know that I am STRONGLY opposed to the stadium being built in Shockoe
Bottom. Briefly, here are the many reasons I think this is a bad plan for
Richmond:
> 
>  
> 
> 1). It is a travesty to build a sports stadium on the genocidal grounds where so
many lives and families were destroyed. When I think of the sheer number of
auction houses, jails, and slave markets so densely located in such a small
neighborhood, I can't help but think of the corresponding number of families that
were physically and brutally torn from one another at this site. This is where
mothers last held their babies, where lovers last saw their partners, where cruel
abuses of the body took place, and where lives were forever lost. Now I know that
the Mayor's plan allows for a heritage site, but the Mayor's refusal to
acknowledge that bulk of the slave industry that took place directly under the
footprint of his plan leads me to believe that he is no real intentions of doing
justice to this site, but has merely attached the heritage site as a shoddy last
minute attempt to sway citizens.
> 
>  
> 
> 2). The baseball stadium is all wrong for a congested downtown area! Its not even
a baseball stadium, its a MINOR league baseball stadium. This poses many problems:
> 
>           A). Its seasonal, meaning many of the jobs that may be attached to it
will be seasonal, low paying, short-term jobs. Even restaurants in the
area will have trouble retaining staff with such drastic changes to
their business depending on the month.
> 
>          B). We have no guarantee that the Squirrels will stay at the stadium.
They can leave at any time. Then what?
> 
>          C). Even if they don't leave immediately, the lifespan of a stadium is at
most 50 yrs. What's going to come of the hulking wad of concrete left
behind? A stadium cannot be converted into a school, a museum, or housing
when its use as the home of baseball comes to an end.
> 
>          D). Its minor league baseball, who really wants that in the city? Don't
get me wrong, the games are fun and all, but if Richmond is trying to
become a destination and a world class, or at least nationally
appreciated city, we can't be selling ourselves short with minor league
baseball.
> 
>          E). It's not going to be a big boom to the downtown area. What did the
Redskin's training camp do for area businesses? Absolutely nothing. The
only people who made any money were people who could sell parking spaces
or cheap souvenirs. Food services within the park were national
outfitters, no local Richmond opportunities. Folks who came in to watch
practices did not dine at local restaurants afterwards. I know this
because my sales at a nearby restaurant took a dive that month. Other
restaurants reported similar problems to Style Weekly.
> 
>  
> 
> 3). The Mayor is attempting to claim that the new attached supermarket will make
food more accessible in a food desert. It won't. You and I both know the layout of
the East End. There is already a supermarket in Shockoe Bottom. This will make a
supermarket only slightly closer to the true food deserts surrounding Mosby and
Creighton.
> 
>  
> 
> 4). Beyond construction, any jobs produced by this deal will be minimum waged and
precarious. The East End needs and deserves more that that.
> 
>  
> 
> 5). Mayor Jones is on a quest to privatize and over-develop many public spaces and
private spaces that require more thoughtful and careful planning. Within the last
few months, we have seen Venture Richmond and Mayor Jones propose total changes to
Shockoe Bottom, the redevelopment of Creighton Court that will displace hundreds
as the East End gentrifies overnight, the privatization of Tredegar, Brown's
Island, and Monroe Park, the redeveloping of the Boulevard and of Hull St in
Southside. Lets slow things down and think things through before Mayor Jones
wastes precious taxpayer money making a handful of Richmonder's very rich and
happy.
> 
>  
> 
> Richmond is a beautiful, vibrant city, but its character is being sold off in a
behind-the-scene deals. Surely we can find a better way to move Richmond forward,
to celebrate the soul of this city and recognize its demons; a way to meet the
needs of its impoverish residents without selling out for a part-time $7.25hr job.
> 
>  
> 
> Finally, please do not think that the sheer volume of pro-stadium signs in Church
Hill is a true representation of Church Hill's opinion. The opposition just does
not have the financial means to pay for signs and people to go door to door to
canvas.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> 
-- 
with love & rage,

Nathan

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