Race Capitol

We will be talking about Mutual Aid during COVID with Yaya Ogaldez of Mutual Aid Diaster Relief RVA, Kelly Henriquez of Masks for Essential Retail RVA, Yanet Amado - Student Organizer (UndocuRams + beyond) and soon-to-be VCU graduate, and Haydi Torres of Movimiento Cosecha.

Thanks so much to our guests. We would also like to acknowledge the organizers of Movimiento Cosecha, and organizers and community members everywhere, who have lost their lives to COVID-19.

Check out more content from Black activists on the ground bringing you racial narratives from the former Capitol of the Confederacy on www.racecapitol.com.

Check out local coverage in #RVA https://vpm.org/news/articles/13510/organizers-say-covid-19-demands-solidarity-not-charity

Resources from today's episode:

Definition of mutual aid: http://bigdoorbrigade.com/what-is-mutual-aid/

https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/about/

History of mutual aid: https://hsp.org/history-online/exhibits/richard-allen-apostle-of-freedom/the-free-african-society & https://philadelphiapartisan.com/2017/12/21/to-serve-the-people-contribution-to-a-defense-of-mutual-aid-revolutionary-culture-and-survival-pending-revolution/

Information about Richmond Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: https://www.instagram.com/mad_rva/

Check out these Orgs:

Movimiento Cosecha: https://www.lahuelga.com/

UndocuRAMs: https://www.facebook.com/undocurams/

New Virginia Majority: https://www.newvirginiamajority.org/

National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC): https://nakasec.org/

CASA: https://wearecasa.org/who-we-are/

This week we hear ab the Virginia efforts lead across our advocacy systems to protect our most vulnerable.⁣

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Race Capitol discusses depopulation of public health vs the resistance to decareration of the public safety officials. ⁣

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We talk to Virginia actors committed to progress in our system and justice for all. ⁣

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This week we hear from VA 57th House District, Dr. Sally Hudson , Kim Rolla from Legal Aid Justice Center as well as Rebecca Keel from Southerns On New Ground and Valerie Slater with Rise For Youth ✊🏾⁣

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-Hear ab the 4/22 Governor’s amendment⁣

-Commonwealth Attorney authority ⁣

-Gov Northam’s power he’s not using ⁣

-The #rva car rally & talks with CA McEachin ⁣

-The youth whose lives are at risk at Bon Air Juvenile correctional facility. ⁣

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Thank you to everyone putting in people-first work to protect us all.

Race Capitol latest #420 episode featuring Hope Wiseman, Ashna Khanna of ACLU VA, Rep. Jewell Jones about what’s happening in Michigan and nationally, and our very own Chelsea Higgs Wise of Marijuana Justice. Get LIT with our #420 episode and one of our new hosts - the amazing Naomi Isaac!

we catch up on federal stimulus dollars with Preston Page with the Monarch Group , RVA municipal COVID advocacy with Dr. Kristin Reed of Richmond For All and wrap up the episode with the president of Fairfax County NAACP . Sean Perryman talks about the Fairfax County sheriff's deputy, with a history of involvement in fatal incidents, who has been charged with sexually assaulting an inmate in his custody.⁣ ⁣

Fairfax City Police say Patrick D. McPartlin, 45, of Warrenton was arrested and charged with object sexual penetration.⁣

Race Capitol continues with #womenshistorymonth by featuring the most stylish Richmonder of 2018 Ms. Mecca Williams AKA MeccaPresents... ⁣⁣⁣

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We speak with her about what she’s been up to since gracing the cover of Richmond Magazine with a behind the scenes conversation about:⁣⁣⁣

“Black History Month Style Editorial” ⁣⁣⁣

Location: Richmond Black Business⁣⁣⁣

Photography by: @courtneyj804 ⁣⁣⁣

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Mecca Williams utilizes her voice to amplify many black businesses and vendors of today and the past here in Richmond, Virginia.

VA 2020 Legislative Wrap-Up: The Virginia General Assembly session just wrapped up on March 12, 2020! Catch up on the latest legislative updates with Mallory Noe Payne from Radio IQ and Roberto Roldan of VPM on today’s episode. Co-hosts for the day are Jase Hatcher from Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy and Race Capitol's newest team member, Kalia Harris, who also reps VA Student Power Network.

On March 1, 2020 Bree Newsome Bass and Zyahna Bryant were featured on a panel in Charlottesville at the Jefferson School of African American Heritage titled: Racial History and Black Feminism. Listen to the highlights of the panel as we dive back in time to re-live the brave moment of Newsome Bass removing the confederate flag in 2015 PLUS Virginia's own, Zy Bryant is celebrated as her portrait is added to an exhibition. Thank you to both as they work to remove confederate symbols, and congrats to VA for passing a bill for localities to control the future of their war memorials. #MonumentalJustice

Chelsea Higgs Wise sits with Ai-Jen Poo and Alicia Garza of the National Domestic Workers' Alliance to chat about their Black Women Vote rally last November. Then Alexsis Rodgers, the Care In Action VA State Director that leaders the non profit working under the National Domestic Workers' Alliance in the commonwealth updates listeners on legislation, the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.

Listeners are invited to be a fly on the wall as myself and two Black femme VA organizers talk candidly (cuz they didn’t know i was recording😂) with me. Thank you to Richmond For All co-founder Jasmine Leeward and Director of Brown Virginia Jewel Jordan for your work and for giving me permission to air our private conversation.⁣

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After a year of 1619 promises for reconciliation from the top officials in Virginia, the work of these racial justice champions has not let up.⁣

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In 2020, on Martin Luther King day, the Northam administration chose to protect white militia organizing rather than groups run by BIPOC who planned to use this holiday as a celebration and for a day of action.⁣

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The racist systems continue to be protected under the Northam administration and this isn’t what reconciliation looks like. ⁣

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The Virginia Democrats also haven’t shifted in ⁣tactics to silence racist narratives even after reflecting on 400 years of the history of our Commonwealth. On February 15th DPVA invited Mike Bloomberg as the keynote for their Blue Commonwealth Gala. ⁣

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This episode is a debrief with two champions of social justice and two of my best friends as they recount January 20th and how that inspired February 15th disruption that gained over 3 million views on social media. ⁣

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Big thanks to the End of the Line: pipelinepodcast for helping to produce this episode! It was amazing working with u! Check them out and catch up on why anti-pipeline advocates were calling Northam’s administration racist way before a yearbook picture. Congrats to all on winning the latest court case against Dominion! ⁣

Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar talks about the life and legacy of Ona Judge, a once enslaved woman who escaped the grips of George and Martha Washington. Dr. Dunbar is the author of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, which was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglas Book Award. More on Dr. Dunbar's work is available at https://ericaarmstrongdunbar.com/work