No Stadium in Shockoe Bottom! Defend Richmond's African History!

An Urgent Appeal to all people of good will to help prevent plans to put a baseball stadium in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom, one of the most important historical sites for people of African descent in all of North America.

Friday, September 18, 2015

#SaveShockoe


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"Why We Say No Stadium!"

Following are some of the organizations and individuals who have spoken out against building a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom. To access their statements, please click on their names.


Randall Robinson, Best-selling Author & Anti-Apartheid Activist

Saladin Muhammad, Founding Member of Black Workers for Justice

Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project

Randolph Bell, Richmonder & Former U.S. Ambassador

Waite Rawls, Director of the Museum of the Confederacy

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

Richmond Peace Education Center

Sierra Club Fall of the James

International hacker group "Anonymous"

African Ancestral Chamber


TAKE ACTION NOW!

CLICK HERE to sign the ONLINE PETITION OPPOSING A BASEBALL STADIUM IN SHOCKOE BOTTOM. Each time someone signs, a notice is sent to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones and the nine members of Richmond City Council. As of April 7, we were up to 2,804 online signatures, plus 2,120 on hard copy petitions, for A TOTAL OF 4,924 NAMES. Please add yours now and SHARE THIS PETITION with your friends. For a hard copy you can take around yourself, contact the Defenders at 804-644-5834 or DefendersFJE@hotmail.com or download a copy from this site:

CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD and PRINT the petition to collect signatures on your own. Return completed forms to Shakoor's Merchandise, 319 N. 2nd St., Richmond VA 23219.

CLICK HERE to go to the Facebook Event Page TELL THE MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL: NO to a SHOCKOE STADIUM, YES to a HISTORIC DISTRICT! to keep pressure up on the Mayor's office and City Council: https://www.facebook.com/events/182659445269602/


* Contact your City Council representatives and tell them you won't stand for a stadium in Shockoe Bottom. The pro-business group Venture Richmond has hired a public relations firm to try and build support on council. They have the money, but we have the numbers. Express yourself! For contact information, see:

http://www.richmondgov.com/CityCouncil/contacts.aspx


* Bring your friends to the City Council meetings and district hearings. Bring signs - and speak out!


* Make a sign and put it in your car window and a front window in your house. Write a song. Draw a picture. Make council see the writing on the walls. Be creative. Be your own leader.


* Stadium opponents have been lobbying every member of City Council, and we do not believe the mayor has the seven out of nine votes necessary to pass the land-related ordinances necessary to put a stadium in the Bottom - but we won't know for sure till council votes. Until then, more pressure is needed.


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Ana Edwards - Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project

Phil Wilayto - Editor, The Virginia Defender newspaper


The artwork on the home page is from a painting by Defender Ana Edwards titled "Portrait of Gabriel," the great slave rebellion leader who was executed on Oct. 10, 1800, at the Town Gallows in Shockoe Bottom. The City of Richmond incorporated the portrait into the historical marker placed at the community-reclaimed African Burial Ground.

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