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October 2017 Branch meeting
On Monday, October 9, 2017 at the Jefferson School City Center, 233 4th Street NW, Charlottesville, in the Mary Williams Center on the first floor adjacent to the Vinegar Hill Cafe, the Albemarle-Charlottesville Branch of the NAACP meet. Before the business meeting, we discussed Racial and ethnic disparities in health status, lead by Dr. M. Norman Oliver, researcher, teacher, and clinician.
THE PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND FRACKED GAS
OCT28
VA People's Tribunal on Environmental Justice and Fracked Gas
Public
· Hosted by VA People’s Tribunal on Human Rights, Environmental Justice and Fracked Gas
Details
**JOIN US IN PERSON OR VIA LIVE STREAM**
On October 28, 2017 in Charlottesville’s City Space,
citizens will hold a people’s tribunal to present and
document the perspectives of impacted people along the proposed routes of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)
and Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).
Both routes target rural, poor, African American, Native American, andAppalachian communities from West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina to bear disproportionate burdens of toxic polluting fracked natural gas infrastructure.
A people’s tribunal creates a public forum to present evidence for and information about issues critical to a just and civil society, especially when local, state, and federal governments are not responsive to public concerns. Ours is based on the UN Convention on Racism and Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on the Human Rights Impacts of Fracking, which call on member nations to:
“Undertake independent and effective investigation into all cases of environmentally polluting activities and their impacts on the rights of affected communities; bring those responsible to account; and ensure that victims have access to appropriate remedies."
Make a tax-deductible donation to:
Checks to: Highlanders for Responsible Development – ABRA
P.O. Box 685 Monterey, VA 24465
memo: VA People’s Tribunal
Donate online: https://
To volunteer or register to attend this event, follow link: https://goo.gl/forms/
Sign up to give testimony:
https://docs.google.com/
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2017 FREEDOM FUND BANQUET
BANQUET THEME The Oak Tree TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN SOLDIER
VIRGINIA BANKS CARRINGTON HUMANITARIAN 2017 AWARD RECIPIENT 2017 BANQUET KEYNOTE SPEAKER
FEI & NAACP SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT JMRL AND NAACP SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS OF THIS YEARS BANQUET!
2017 VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL FORUM at VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY
The event was held on Thursday, September 7.
2017_Virginia_Gubernatorial_Forum_at_Virginia_Union_University
The Forum was a tremendous and historic event!
It was a packed house!
VUU officials were very happy, supported by many top leadership groups, organizations, pastors, businesses and individuals from all across Virginia.
Media from all TV, print, radio and social media were present.
Coverage has begun and will continue to have a positive impact.
The organizing officials have formed a solid foundation on which to build for years and years to come!
VETERAN AND COMMUNITY JOB FAIR INFORMATION
Derrick Johnson – Selected as Interim CEO of NAACP
Derrick Johnson has been named interim president and CEO of the national NAACP.
Derrick Johnson, vice chairman of the NAACP national board of directors and president of the Mississippi NAACP, talked Tuesday about the organization's upcoming listening tour
The executive committee of the board of directors unanimously selected Johnson, who currently serves as vice chairman of the board during the Association’s 108th annual convention in Baltimore, Maryland.
In a statement released by the NAACP, Johnson called it "an honor and a privilege" to head the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
“There’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and we won’t waste any time getting to it," he said. "We are facing unprecedented threats to our democracy and we will not be sidelined while our rights are being eroded every day. We remain steadfast and immovable, and stand ready on the front lines of the fight for justice.”
The 108th NAACP Annual National Convention
This years National Convention is being held in Baltimore, Maryland in the Baltimore Convention Center from July 22 through July 26.
The purpose of the Convention is to establish policies and programs of action for the ensuing year. Our branch of the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP is being represented!
Message from our branch president
As the nation’s oldest and most revered civil rights organization, 108 years to be exact, the NAACP recognizes, appreciates and supports the 1st amendment rights of all persons whether or not we agree with particular forms of expression. We will remain vigilant and true to our mission: to ensure the political, social, economic and educational equality of rights of all persons, and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
Janette B. Martin, President
Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP