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

Fri Feb 28 19:47:46 UTC 2014

Sounds rad! Go for it

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> On Feb 27, 2014, at 1:14 PM, "Emily K. Westerholm" <yohmar01 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 
> 
> 
> 
> From: flyingbrickvolunteers-request at lists.aktivix.org
> Subject: Flyingbrickvolunteers Digest, Vol 512, Issue 1
> To: flyingbrickvolunteers at lists.aktivix.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:02:55 +0000
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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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