"Justice on Trial"
Minister Chad Cooper & Wife Alisha are producers.
The play features local Minister Reverend Xavier V. Jackson.
Minister Cooper and Mrs. Cooper will be present at our November meeting to discuss the play.
OUR MEETING WILL BE HELD IN THE BURLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL CAFETERIA
Note the change of location!
901 ROSE HILL DRIVE, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. 22903.
MEETING TIME- 7 P.M.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
It’s been a big week for voting rights in Georgia!
Thanks to the hard work of the NAACP Georgia State Conference, a judge issued a consent order prohibiting the state from cutting off voter registration more than 30 days before any federal election.
This victory follows an earlier lawsuit in which the Georgia Sate Conference sued to correct a state law that required Georgians to register three months prior a federal runoff election in order to vote – a clear violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
Georgia isn’t the only place where we’re making progress though: the NAACP has won back rights for voters in Louisiana and Texas and has filed further lawsuits in states like Indiana.
We’re fighting in the courts because we know that we’ll never stop hate and achieve equality if we don't vote.
We believe that Americans deserve a just, inclusive democracy.
Are you with us?
With gratitude,
Derrick
NAACP
President and CEO
It is my honor to write to you as your newly elected President and CEO.
In the face of a brutal and near-daily national assault on civil rights and progressive issues, the NAACP has recognized the immediate need for a leader to guide the organization during its strategic re-envisioning process.
The NAACP has a long legacy of activism and civil rights leadership, but I am committed to retooling and refreshing the Association to best confront 21-century challenges. As president, I seek to shepherd the Association into a period of growth and strength: building our field, our funds, and our force as a champion of civic engagement. I will use every tactic in our playbook to ensure that African Americans can achieve equality in the United States.
Looking forward,
Derrick
NAACP
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.
OCT28
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:
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Greetings!
On behalf of the Albemarle- Charlottesville NAACP officers and members, we are pleased to have you join us for our annual Freedom Fund Banquet. We hope that your evening is pleasant and enjoyable.
January 2017 saw a changing of the guard for the Albemarle-Charlottesville Branch of the NAACP. After twelve years of dedicated service to the organization, Dr. M. Rick Turner made the decision to resign from his position as president of the local branch. We thank him for his twelve years of service and we will continue to build on the progress made during his tenure – while encouraging a productive vision for the future of the branch.
For over a century the NAACP has been one of the nation’s leading champions of civil rights and social justice; working tirelessly to achieve economic equity, with a commitment to attain equality and justice for all. Dr. King once said,” the arc of the moral universe is long but, it bends towards justice.” Justice, a word that has continued to surface in daily conversations, is being enacted by various vocal means of protests throughout the nation. Just this year members of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Community braced themselves while preparing for visits from members of the Ku Klux Klan and – the organizers of the Unite the Right Rally resulted in a tragic ending involving the loss of life. The Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP countered the Klan rally with a successful peaceful protest rally based on the theme, “Steadfast and Immovable”. Various other community activities were planned to provide alternative choices in lieu of attending the rallies.
The NAACP stands at a pivotal time in history! We find ourselves in a period of unrest as a nation. We seem to be engaged in a struggle to protect the gains that we as a people have made during the last fifty years, especially the right to vote. The NAACP stands ready to challenge efforts to roll back and eliminate policies and programs intended to extend the social safety net to all. Many people in our community and across America would be affected by this injustice. Therefore, the tireless work of the NAACP remains relevant today. As the oldest civil rights organization in the world, we would want to be a significant part of the solution as we remain dedicated and committed to the mission of the organization: to ensure the Political, Educational, Social and Economic Equality of Rights of All Persons and to Eliminate Racial Hatred and Racial Discrimination. We remain steadfast in our resolve and immovable from our objective.
Yours in the Struggle,
Janette Boyd Martin, President
Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP
BANQUET THEME The Oak Tree TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN SOLDIER
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THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS OF THIS YEARS BANQUET!
