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  34. <title>After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police&#8217; to clear an encampment</title>
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  45. <p>UVA President Ryan and Police Chief Longo are streaming a 'town hall' to explain why the operation to clear the encampment got so large.</p>
  46. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/">After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police&#8217; to clear an encampment</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  49. <p>The organizers of an encampment in support of Palestine at the University of Virginia knew that pitching tents could trigger action against their protest. University officials made that clear when they first gathered Tuesday afternoon.</p>
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  53. <p>What they and the faculty members who were helping them communicate with police and administrators did not anticipate was the force with which that action would come. Instead of citations and facilities management taking down the tents, they were met with a multi-agency, coordinated police action with officers wearing riot gear and military-grade equipment.</p>
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  57. <p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see how this level of state police violence was justified when, in other universities like Berkley, Rutgers, Northwestern, they basically allowed the protesters to peacefully protest and there was no police-instigated violence,&#8221; said Walter Heinecke, a professor in the School of Education, who was liaising for the students during the protest. &#8220;Somewhere, they had to make a choice. And they made the wrong choice.&#8221;</p>
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  61. <p>Gov. Glenn<a href="https://virginiamercury.com/2024/04/29/youngkin-says-no-encampments-on-virginia-campuses-supports-peaceful-protests/"> Youngkin said that the commonwealth will permit protests</a> as long as they do not intimidate Jewish students or become encampments. And UVA officials said they would allow this particular demonstration so long as the protesters didn&#8217;t attach signs to objects or trees, or put up tents.</p>
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  65. <p>But Friday evening, the student protesters stopped following the rules. Neither Charlottesville Tomorrow nor Cavalier Daily were able to speak directly with any of the student protesters to learn why they decided to pitch tents.</p>
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  69. <p>Throughout the five-day demonstration, the group declined to speak with media or police directly. But three UVA faculty who were liaising between the student protestors, administrators and police, told Charlottesville Tomorrow that the protesters pitched tents because they were unhappy with the university’s response to its demands — and simply because Friday evening it started to rain.</p>
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  74. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">Read more about the demands of the protests and politics that surrounded it</h3>
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  81. <p>Later that evening, UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo arrived. He told faculty members who were present at the encampment to correspond with administration and law enforcement that the students had to take the tents down, according to student journalists from the Cavalier Daily who observed the conversation. He also instructed students to stop using a megaphone.</p>
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  85. <p>Longo issued several ultimatums Friday evening, which members of the encampment ignored. He told faculty liaisons on multiple occasions that if the protestors did not remove their own tents, the university&#8217;s facilities management team would do so, and that resistance to those efforts could lead to arrest. After more than an hour of correspondence with faculty liaisons and representatives from Student Affairs, Longo left for the evening.</p>
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  89. <p>&#8220;Demonstrators refused to comply and continued violating University policies,&#8221; UVA said in a news release detailing the events leading up to the arrival of State Troopers. &#8220;However, given continued peaceful behavior and the presence of young children at the demonstration site, and due to heavy rain Friday night, officials allowed the tents to remain in place overnight.&#8221;</p>
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  93. <p>But the next morning it was a different story.</p>
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  97. <p>Longo returned at about 8 a.m. and delivered the same ultimatum via megaphone to the encampment — if tents were not disassembled in 15 minutes, facilities management would come in and do so.&nbsp;</p>
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  101. <p>Heinecke communicated with Longo as a faculty liaison multiple times Friday afternoon and evening. From the times tents went up at the encampment Friday until state police arrived Saturday, Heinecke said, Longo gave him no reason to think that things would escalate so drastically.</p>
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  110. <p><em>Charlottesville Tomorrow collaborated with the Cavalier Daily to report this story. The student journalists of the independent, nonprofit news organization at the University of Virginia have been reporting on the protests and got first-hand accounts of many of the facts you read here.</em></p>
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  125. <p>&#8220;He [Longo] said repeatedly that if they took the tents down, they could stay, and then he took us through the steps if they didn&#8217;t take the tents down,&#8221; said Heinecke.</p>
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  129. <p>None of those steps including bringing in state police in riot gear or calling out as large and as militarized police presence as ultimately appeared. Longo simply said that UVA Police would issue a warning. If the protestors remained, police would issue no a trespassing order and citations. Protestors who signed the citations would be allowed leave. Those who refused to sign would be subject to arrest.</p>
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  133. <p>During this time, there was confusion among protesters and faculty members about whether pitching camp tents actually violated UVA policy. They found an environmental health and safety document posted to the university&#8217;s website that specifically exempted recreational tents from its list of prohibited structures. Sometime Saturday morning, that document was quietly edited to remove that line.</p>
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  137. <p>&#8220;I saw him [Longo] by the Rotunda briefly and showed him the tent policy someone sent me that said small tents were ok,&#8221; Heinecke said. &#8220;He looked at it and didn&#8217;t respond to me, saying he thought there was some other policy. I showed him a picture of two tents over by the volleyball courts that were up that morning.&#8221;</p>
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  141. <p>Neither Longo nor the <a href="https://fusion.vsp.virginia.gov/">Virginia State Fusion Center</a>, which was part of the team of police coordinating a response to the protest, responded to requests for comment. The Fusion Center is a joint effort between local, state and federal agencies tasked with responding to criminal or terrorist activity, according to its website.</p>
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  145. <p>Several UVA Police arrived at the scene around 11:30 a.m. and formed a perimeter around the encampment. Another ultimatum was delivered by an officer, by which point a crowd of onlookers, supporters and a group holding a flag of Israel and largely supporting the police action began to form.</p>
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  149. <p>The tipping point came shortly before noon when UVA Police officers tried to get to a tent to&nbsp; disassemble it. Around 10 protesters locked arms and attempted to block the officers from reaching the tents, according to reporters from the Cavalier Daily who were at the scene. At some point during the altercation, police said one of the protesters attempted to assault an officer. The incident was <a href="https://twitter.com/cavalierdaily/status/1786798947400405259?s=46">caught on video by a Cavalier Daily reporter</a>, though it is impossible to see exactly what happened from the angle it was recorded. But the protester was detained — and a standoff between protestors and police ensued.</p>
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  153. <p>&#8220;It seemed like there was a brief presence of local police — I guess Charlottesville and Albemarle police — and they started creating a perimeter around the encampment area,&#8221; said Heinecke, the faculty liaison. &#8220;A university police officer read a statement off of his phone to the protestors that they were trespassing and they had to leave. I never saw them issue any paper citation or a no trespassing order.&#8221;</p>
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  157. <p>And then, a process with multiple police agencies creating perimeters began. Corinne Geller, Virginia State Police&#8217;s public relations director, <a href="https://www.vpm.org/news/2024-05-05/university-of-virginia-gaza-protest-state-police-arrests-grounds">told VPM that UVA Police requested their presence</a>.</p>
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  161. <p>University alerts went out just after noon, via text message and on the classroom alert systems where many students were taking final exams: &#8220;UVA Emergency Alert: police activity in the area of the Rotunda/Chapel. Avoid the area.&#8221;</p>
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  165. <p>On social media, students and groups began asking more people to come support the encampment, while the group that supported clearing the encampment also grew.</p>
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  169. <p>By that time, the faculty members who were there to keep the peace between protesters and police were scrambling to find out what had gone wrong, said Laura Goldblatt, a professor of English who is part of the group Faculty for Justice in Palestine.</p>
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  173. <p>Neither President Jim Ryan nor Provost Ian Baucom were around, Goldblatt said. But Brie Gertler, vice provost for academic affairs and Christa Davis Acampora, dean of the college of arts and science, were.</p>
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  177. <p>&#8220;Both were unable to get in touch with the president or provost and did not know who had called in the [state] police,&#8221; Goldblatt told Charlottesville Tomorrow Saturday afternoon. &#8220;Both were horrified by what was happening. Acampora was calling frantically to have University Ave. shut down as police pushed people into oncoming traffic, and get medical aid to injured students.&#8221;</p>
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  181. <p>Neither Gertler nor Acampora responded immediately to Charlottesville Tomorrow&#8217;s request for comment.</p>
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  185. <p>Within about an hour, the local police backed away and Virginia State Police troopers moved in.</p>
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  189. <p>Heinecke, the education professor, emailed the provost, Baucom, when he saw the state police with a one-line note: &#8220;State police?&#8221; He then wrote to Ryan to ask him to help de-escalate. Neither replied.</p>
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  193. <p>When state police arrived, Goldblatt estimated there were about 30 protesters in the encampment itself. The police from various agencies, local and state, outnumbered them by a large amount. Cavalier Daily reporters observed more than 10 people run past the police’s perimeter to join the protesters in the encampment.</p>
  194.  
  195.  
  196.  
  197. <p>Police issued a final ultimatum at around 2:30 p.m. — this warning told protestors to clear the encampment or be arrested for unlawful assembly. The university declared the encampment an unlawful assembly at 2:44 p.m. Shortly afterward, Virginia State Police in riot gear advanced on the encampment, using chemical irritants and detaining several protestors.&nbsp;</p>
  198.  
  199.  
  200.  
  201. <p>Folks running the encampment, faculty and others who amassed to witness the police action, put out messages on social media asking for students to come and support them as the state troopers moved in.</p>
  202.  
  203.  
  204.  
  205. <p>By 2:50 p.m. state police in riot gear were arriving on UVA shuttles, snaking there way from McCormick Road through the alleys around the Lawn, up to the Rotunda and the grassy area near the Chapel.</p>
  206.  
  207.  
  208.  
  209. <p>UVA facilities vehicles, medical vehicles, Charlottesville and Albemarle police and sheriffs were blocking every entrance in and out the main area where encampment was staged.</p>
  210.  
  211.  
  212.  
  213. <p>A water station on McCormick was ready, and officers walked by carrying canisters of pepper spray. The crowd chanted “shame on you” as the officers moved toward the encampment.</p>
  214.  
  215.  
  216.  
  217. <figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex">
  218. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" data-id="105466" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="A line of police officers with plastic shields, helmets and protective masks flanks trees on a grassy lawn. A woman approaches the line, and another officer without protective gear interjects." class="wp-image-105466" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5297-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure>
  219.  
  220.  
  221.  
  222. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" data-id="105465" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="A group of people link arms and face off against officers in riot gear in a line." class="wp-image-105465" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5294-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure>
  223. <figcaption class="blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption">Charlottesville Police officers formed the perimeter at a protest on UVA&#8217;s campus on May 4, 2024. The protest was broken up by a joint operation between UVA Police, Charlottesville and Albemarle County police, Albemarle County sheriffs and Virginia State Police. Virginia State Police wore riot gear. Angilee Shah/Charlottesville Tomorrow</figcaption></figure>
  224.  
  225.  
  226.  
  227. <p>Onlookers who stayed behind the police line had worried looks on their faces as the chants intensified. Almost everyone had their cameras up to film or be ready to take photos.</p>
  228.  
  229.  
  230.  
  231. <p>The area began to smell like pepper spray. A few people were ushered out of the crowd, eyes blurry and faces dazed, to be treated at the water station on McCormick and on the ledge of the Chapel itself.&nbsp;</p>
  232.  
  233.  
  234.  
  235. <figure class="wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  236. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What the fuck is this kind of thing doing on my campus, being wielded against my students <a href="https://t.co/W1L90uNjpA">pic.twitter.com/W1L90uNjpA</a></p>&mdash; Levi Vonk (@VonkLevi) <a href="https://twitter.com/VonkLevi/status/1786835775734046871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
  237. </div></figure>
  238.  
  239.  
  240.  
  241. <p>Some protesters who emerged from the crowd had bloody scratches on their hands and knuckles. The volunteers tried to flush their eyes.</p>
  242.  
  243.  
  244.  
  245. <p>Onlookers said the officers used pepper spray first and then went in behind to arrest protesters. Levi Vonk, a professor in UVA Global Studies, said he was next to the students as they were being pepper sprayed. He recounted seeing a scared and startled colleague who uses a cane shoved by an officer, while another officer pointed a weapon in his face. A person trying to help protect the professor who uses a cane was arrested and charged with assaulting an officer.</p>
  246.  
  247.  
  248.  
  249. <p>Geeta Patel, a professor in Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, identified herself as that colleague and later that night spoke in front of the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail where the arrested person was being held without bail.</p>
  250.  
  251.  
  252.  
  253. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  254. <iframe title="Geeta Patel, UVA Professor Speaks out About Individual Being Held without Bond" width="780" height="439" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XWusgb2i-DY?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  255. </div></figure>
  256.  
  257.  
  258.  
  259. <p>By 2:57 p.m. the last of the protesters seemed to be cleared from the camp, some visibly shaking as they were carried away by police, their hands zip tied behind their backs.</p>
  260.  
  261.  
  262.  
  263. <p>Charlottesville police department officers secured the edges of the growing protest around the encampment, especially as the group got pushed by police further toward University Ave. At the same time, a group with an Israeli flag formed on the side of the Chapel, chanting in support of the police action and taunting the protestors who were going in and out of the crowd.</p>
  264.  
  265.  
  266.  
  267. <p>State police in riot gear and county officers in green fatigues had the most direct contact with the people they cleared from the encampment, and made up most of the line of police that pushed back the protesters who had gathered around them.</p>
  268.  
  269.  
  270.  
  271. <p>The crowd chanted at them: “Where were you in &#8217;17?” referring to the 2017 Unite the Right rally that was just steps away from where the encampment was set up.</p>
  272.  
  273.  
  274.  
  275. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="An officer in heavy gear stands on a grassy hill in front of a Jeffersonian brick building, with a small crowd a few feet away." class="wp-image-105467" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?resize=706%2C530&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_5300-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">By 3:30 p.m. on May 4, the joint force that broke up a pro-Palestine encampment and protest at the University of Virginia began moving people all the way to University Ave., essentially pushing everyone off of campus from the steps of the Rotunda all the way to the Chapel. Protestors, journalists, onlookers, students who were walking by after finals — everyone was pushed back. <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Angilee Shah/Charlottesville Tomorrow</span></figcaption></figure>
  276.  
  277.  
  278.  
  279. <p>After 3 p.m., a line of protesters with arms linked formed a line outside of what was left of the encampment — broken umbrellas and tents, water bottles and supplies.</p>
  280.  
  281.  
  282.  
  283. <p>Law enforcement officers in greater numbers lined up and created a wall around the encampment area, keeping protestors and journalists at a distance from officers as much as they could.</p>
  284.  
  285.  
  286.  
  287. <p>After 10 minutes of the standoff, the crowd began to chant, “Our campus our space.” At 3:20 p.m. the chant changed to “Israel, Israel, how many kids have you killed today?”</p>
  288.  
  289.  
  290.  
  291. <p>By 3:30 p.m. the joint force began moving people all the way to University Ave., essentially pushing everyone off of campus from the steps of the Rotunda all the way to the Chapel. Protestors, journalists, onlookers, students who were walking by after finals — everyone was pushed back. Once in a while, people in the crowd would start running because of pepper spray or police action, as the group got pushed further and further back.</p>
  292.  
  293.  
  294.  
  295. <p>Many students on campus were also taking finals on Saturday — the semester ends at the end of the week — and getting texted UVA safety alerts, and hearing buzzes from classroom alert systems.</p>
  296.  
  297.  
  298.  
  299. <p>Vonk says he never heard a declaration that the assembly was unlawful — it was very loud near the front line of protesters and police.</p>
  300.  
  301.  
  302.  
  303. <p>After 4 p.m. protesters with zip tied hands were held in Poe Alley, on the edges of the lawn. Charlottesville and state police held them until vans took them to the jail.</p>
  304.  
  305.  
  306. <div class="wp-block-image">
  307. <figure class="alignleft size-large"><img decoding="async" width="768" height="1024" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1" alt="Police officer lead a person in a t-shirt, hands tied behind his back, dow a stairwell, while others look on." class="wp-image-105464" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=900%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 900w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=450%2C600&amp;ssl=1 450w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=300%2C400&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=150%2C200&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=400%2C533&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?resize=706%2C941&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original.jpeg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/544C74DC-58B5-44AD-9E80-AC35C712C74Cremotebd1bef5c4475df93c88023be85b4c0c63b31fef4-1-original-768x1024.jpeg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">A University of Virginia statement Saturday said there were 25 arrests in a multi-agency police action against a pro-Palestine protest encampment. <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Courtesy of Adrienne Dent</span></figcaption></figure></div>
  308.  
  309.  
  310. <p>As the last of the protesters were pushed off the lawn, the rain began to come down. By the evening, the encampment and the protestors were no longer on campus.</p>
  311.  
  312.  
  313.  
  314. <p>Responses from faculty, students, staff and community members have poured forth in the days since. Later on Saturday, <a href="https://studentaffairs.virginia.edu/communications/2024/message-president-ryan">Ryan issued a statement </a>that the university encourages free expression, but that it also has rules that &#8220;must be applied consistently without regard to the content of expression, whether the protest is peaceful, or whether we agree or disagree with the cause. The neutral and even-handed enforcement of these rules is the only way to ensure that all members of this community have an equal opportunity to participate in the life of the University. We also have a duty to ensure the physical safety of our community.&#8221;</p>
  315.  
  316.  
  317.  
  318. <p>The Arab Student Organization issued a statement that said the police action was &#8220;unjustified violence&#8221; and said Ryan&#8217;s statement was a &#8220;misrepresentation of events.&#8221; Nine other student groups have <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6mS15cul1_/">signed onto a letter with similar concerns</a>. The <a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/05/onibudo-and-sawaya-police-not-students-were-agents-of-chaos">Cavalier Daily&#8217;s editors published an opinion piece</a>, separate from their news reporting, that said it was the police that escalated the situation, not the protesters. They wrote, &#8220;the University had weeks to learn from failed responses elsewhere and was still unable to come up with a solution that was proportional to the reality before them.&#8221;</p>
  319.  
  320.  
  321.  
  322. <p>&#8220;There are many faculty that are upset with what President Ryan decided to do,&#8221; said Heinecke, the professor in the School of Education. &#8220;Faculty are writing to him, objecting about the decision he made. What we saw on Saturday didn&#8217;t have to happen and it was atrocious. It put our students in harm&#8217;s way.&#8221;</p>
  323.  
  324.  
  325.  
  326. <p>As of late afternoon Monday, 240 faculty members signed on to an open letter written by three professors in the History Department. The letter circulated through different departments over about 24 hours. It urges the university to help assure charges against students, faculty and staff are dropped and calls on Ryan to explain why university leaders made the decisions they did.</p>
  327.  
  328.  
  329.  
  330. <p>&#8220;We are dissatisfied with the explanations we have received so far of the circumstances that led to this shameful outcome,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;While President Ryan has said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police,&#8217; we want to know how the decision to call upon this assistance was reached and by what authorities. We want to know why President Ryan and Provost Baucom were not on the scene and did not respond to the faculty who were.&#8221;</p>
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  341. <p>Before the end of the day on Monday, Ryan might do just that. The university announced that he and UVA Police Chief Longo are hosting a &#8220;digital town hall&#8221; on Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. &#8220;to provide an update and answer questions about Saturday’s protest near the UVA Chapel that led police to declare an unlawful assembly and arrest demonstrators who didn’t leave.&#8221;</p>
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  345. <p>The town hall about how the protest was handled will be <a href="https://www.virginia.edu/live">live streamed</a>. To ask a question, participants will have to <a href="https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YNM83kLzTKyHpgNmRwM0lQ#/registration">register ahead of time</a>.</p>
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  351. <p><em>Jessie Higgins contributed to this report.</em></p>
  352. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-days-of-peaceful-student-protest-uva-president-said-it-became-necessary-to-rely-on-assistance-from-the-virginia-state-police-to-clear-an-encampment/">After days of peaceful student protest, UVA president said &#8216;it became necessary to rely on assistance from the Virginia State Police&#8217; to clear an encampment</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  359. <title>A dayslong pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds shows no sign of stopping</title>
  360. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/</link>
  362. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Manto]]></dc:creator>
  363. <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 13:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
  364. <category><![CDATA[Government and public institutions]]></category>
  365. <category><![CDATA[Health and safety]]></category>
  366. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/?p=105324</guid>
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  368. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Dozens of people gather in the shade of a large tree. Attached to the tree is a sign that reads, &quot;up up with liberation, down down with occupation.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1046&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1335&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  369. <p>The protesters will be allowed to stay, so long as university policies are followed: No structures, no holes in the ground, and no attaching signs to objects or trees.</p>
  370. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/">A dayslong pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds shows no sign of stopping</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
  371. ]]></description>
  372. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Dozens of people gather in the shade of a large tree. Attached to the tree is a sign that reads, &quot;up up with liberation, down down with occupation.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1046&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1335&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_015-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  373. <p>A protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the University of Virginia is approaching its third consecutive day, with no sign of stopping.</p>
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  377. <p>UVA students will be allowed to continue on-campus demonstrations protesting U.S. involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israeli military forces and Hamas militants in Gaza as long as no university policies are broken, said David Hawkins-Jacinto, executive director of strategic communications at the UVA Division of Student Affairs.</p>
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  381. <p>The day&#8217;s long protest was one of two that began this week. A separate protest organized by UVA Apartheid Divest Coalition, brough more than a hundred students and Charlottesville community members&nbsp; on and around the UVA Lawn on Wednesday to protest U.S. involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israeli military forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. These students joined others nationwide in calling for their schools to divest from companies affiliated with Israeli military forces or the state of Israel in an attempt to pressure the U.S. and Israeli governments into reducing military action in Gaza. The date of the demonstration at UVA, May 1, was chosen to coincide with the anniversary of <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/may-days-student-activism-rocked-uvas-grounds-50-years-ago">UVA’s 1970 ‘May Day’ demonstrations protesting the Vietnam war</a>.&nbsp;</p>
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  399. <p>Nearly 35,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have been killed in the conflict since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.</p>
  400.  
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  402.  
  403. <p>While the demonstration on the Lawn ended as scheduled at 5 p.m. Wednesday, dozens of students not affiliated with any particular student group have been continuously occupying a nearby outdoor space next to the UVA Chapel since Tuesday evening.</p>
  404.  
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  406.  
  407. <p>A number of demonstrators at both locations declined when asked if they would like to comment on why they chose to participate in the protests. A <a href="https://twitter.com/anahitajafary_/status/1785717976273973564">flyer</a> listing protest safety tips appeared to be widely distributed amongst the demonstrators, and included &#8220;do not talk to the press&#8221; alongside &#8220;hydrate, use sun protection, don’t go hungry.&#8221;</p>
  408.  
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  410.  
  411. <p>&#8220;A lot of people have been wanting to come out and show solidarity and support to the Palestinian people,&#8221; said one demonstrator who asked to remain anonymous because he was worried that his involvement in the demonstrations would jeopardize his ongoing bid for U.S. citizenship. &#8220;At the end of the day, the investments that UVA has are, in a way, our responsibility as well. We as students see it as something tangible that we can influence. So for us, it’s about creating a culture and a community at UVA that shows administration that students&#8217; voices matter in this regard.&#8221;</p>
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  414.  
  415. <p>The demonstrations on Wednesday were peaceful. At times demonstrators chanted and held signs, but there were also quieter periods during which most protesters sought shade under the trees dotting UVA’s grounds. An event featuring a jazz ensemble was concurrently taking place on the other end of the Lawn, and occasionally it was possible to hear the music from where the protesters were gathered beneath the UVA Rotunda. In the early afternoon a group of about 20 students gathered to face in the direction of Mecca and pray; other protesters formed a circle around the praying students.</p>
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  420. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about war protests at UVA</h3>
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  424.  
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  427. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy for anyone on either side. There is a lived Jewish experience that has faced discrimination. But at the same time, I don&#8217;t think that justifies what&#8217;s going on in Gaza right now,&#8221; said Kaia Salem, a third-year student observing the protests. &#8220;The reality is that the Israeli government does not treat Palestinians well.&#8221;</p>
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  431. <p>The ongoing, overnight protest will be allowed to remain as long as UVA policies are not broken, Hawkins-Jacinto said. That would set a &#8220;bad precedent&#8221; for the next student protest to take place on UVA’s grounds, he added. These policies include not erecting any structures or creating holes in the ground, or attaching signs or other objects to trees.</p>
  432.  
  433.  
  434.  
  435. <p>&#8220;Freedom of expression is part of the student experience,&#8221; Hawkins-Jacinto said. &#8220;This has been an exemplary protest.&#8221;</p>
  436.  
  437.  
  438.  
  439. <p>Around 2 p.m., a conversation took place between a group of demonstrators, UVA Police Chief Tim Longo, UVA Vice President Kenyon R. Bonner, and other UVA administrators. Hawkins-Jacinto said that the goal of the conversation was to discuss, among other issues, a sign that demonstrators had attached to a &#8220;two-hundred year old tree.&#8221;</p>
  440.  
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  442.  
  443. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="520" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014.jpg?resize=780%2C520&#038;ssl=1" alt="Dozens of people gather in the shade of a large tree, many have chairs and coolers. On the tree truck is a sign that reads: &quot;up up with liberation, down down with occupation.&quot;" class="wp-image-105337" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1046&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1335&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KoriPrice_20240501_014-1024x683.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">UVA Police and officials quickly told protesters to remove a sign that read, &#8220;up up with liberation, down down with occupation,&#8221; from the truck of a &#8220;200 year old tree.&#8221; Not attaching signs to trees, buildings or other objects is one of the policies student protesters must follow to be allowed to remain in the continuous demonstration. Kori Price/Charlottesville Tomorrow</figcaption></figure>
  444.  
  445.  
  446.  
  447. <p>Hawkins-Jacinto emphasized that the university hoped to maintain as minimal a police presence as necessary.</p>
  448.  
  449.  
  450.  
  451. <p>Hawkins-Jacinto said that the university had coordinated its response to the demonstrations with the UVA Police, Albemarle County Police, and the <a href="https://fusion.vsp.virginia.gov/">Virginia State Fusion Center</a>. The center&#8217;s website states that it is &#8220;a collaborative effort of state and federal agencies working in conjunction with local partners to share resources, expertise, and/or information to better identify, detect, prevent, and respond to terrorist and criminal activity utilizing an all crimes/all hazards approach.&#8221;&nbsp;</p>
  452.  
  453.  
  454.  
  455. <p>About a dozen students took part in a counterprotest early Wednesday afternoon in another UVA outdoor space across the street from the pro-Palestinian demonstration. Some students at the counterprotest wore Israeli and American flags as capes.</p>
  456.  
  457.  
  458.  
  459. <p>Ahava Freeman, a counterprotester and fourth year undergraduate with personal connections to people in Israel, said that while she has always felt safe as a Jewish student at UVA, she has been frustrated by the tendency of what she calls &#8220;Instagram activism&#8221; to over-simplify the ongoing conflict.</p>
  460.  
  461.  
  462.  
  463. <p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of people only start caring once it became popular to start caring about the movement on either side,&#8221; said Freeman. &#8220;No matter what you believe, what side you&#8217;re on, saying that the conflict is simple is, in my opinion, just wrong, and is not a good way of looking at the world because there&#8217;s no such thing as a simple conflict.&#8221;</p>
  464.  
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  466.  
  467. <p>An <a href="https://www.instagram.com/uvaencampmentforgaza/">Instagram account</a> that appeared to be associated with the continuous protest listed a number of demands in a Thursday news release, including for UVA Investment Management Company to disclose all investments, for the university to divest from &#8220;all weapons manufacturers aiding in the genocide of Palestinians,&#8221; for UVA to &#8220;end all financial and academic ties with Israeli institutions,&#8221; and to assure students engaging in protest that they will not face disciplinary action. The release requested a response from UVA administration by noon on Friday, May 3.&nbsp;</p>
  468.  
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  470.  
  471. <p>An end time for that continuous demonstration has not been publicly announced.</p>
  472. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-dayslong-pro-palestine-protest-on-uva-grounds-shows-no-sign-of-stopping/">A dayslong pro-Palestine protest on UVA Grounds shows no sign of stopping</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  479. <title>Here&#8217;s what Charlottesville Tomorrow achieved and learned last year — and what we&#8217;re looking forward to next year</title>
  480. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/heres-what-charlottesville-tomorrow-achieved-and-learned-last-year-and-what-were-looking-forward-to-next-year/</link>
  482. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michaux Hood]]></dc:creator>
  483. <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 20:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
  484. <category><![CDATA[From the newsroom]]></category>
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  488. <p>Our 2023 Impact Report celebrates our readers, subscribers and donors who make our work possible.</p>
  489. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/heres-what-charlottesville-tomorrow-achieved-and-learned-last-year-and-what-were-looking-forward-to-next-year/">Here&#8217;s what Charlottesville Tomorrow achieved and learned last year — and what we&#8217;re looking forward to next year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  492. <p>Since 2005, Charlottesville Tomorrow has been building trust and redefining what local news can be. In the last five years, from 2019 through 2023, Charlottesville Tomorrow has seen growth in revenue and reach, and in community involvement and support.<br><br>Today, we are sharing our 2023 Impact Report, which celebrates our readers, subscribers and donors who make our work possible. We share our audience and loyalty numbers along with qualitative feedback on our local public service journalism.</p>
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  496. <p>For instance, one reader quoted in our report let us know that they value Charlottesville Tomorrow because we are the “most in-depth and serious news source.” Another reader says we provide &#8220;interesting content that utilizes diversity, equity and inclusion in its approach to community news coverage.”</p>
  497.  
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  500. <p>In our 2023 Impact Report, we’re not only sharing the story in numbers — revenue and audience growth are important, but they are what helps us meet our ultimate goal: community impact. High quality, free-to-read and inclusive journalism, after all, is one way that we help our communities be stronger. In 2023, for example, our ongoing Changing Charlottesville series helped increase understanding of, and voters throughout central Virginia got better informed by using our expanded 2023 Voter Guide. With our partners in Charlottesville Inclusive Media, we are also widening and strengthening our news ecosystem.<strong><br></strong><strong><br></strong>While we reflect on last year, we&#8217;re also looking forward to next year. 2025 will mark our 20th anniversary as a local news organization supported by the communities we serve, and we hope you&#8217;ll celebrate with us.</p>
  501.  
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  504. <p>Our 2023 Impact Report includes goals for our 20th year and beyond. Your support allows us to continue to cover important issues in our area with greater investment in our editorial production and distribution, as we build Charlottesville Tomorrow into a local news institution that connects our readers to each other and to the issues that affect our lives.</p>
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  530. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/heres-what-charlottesville-tomorrow-achieved-and-learned-last-year-and-what-were-looking-forward-to-next-year/">Here&#8217;s what Charlottesville Tomorrow achieved and learned last year — and what we&#8217;re looking forward to next year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  537. <title>They lived through the 2017 white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville — and say comparisons to pro-Palestinian campus protests are unfair</title>
  538. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/they-lived-through-the-2017-white-supremacist-rallies-in-charlottesville-and-say-comparisons-to-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-are-unfair/</link>
  540. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Manto]]></dc:creator>
  541. <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 15:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
  542. <category><![CDATA[Government and public institutions]]></category>
  543. <category><![CDATA[Health and safety]]></category>
  544. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/?p=105295</guid>
  545.  
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  547. <p>Trump’s claims are ‘political theater,’ says Rabbi Tom Gutherz of Congregation Beth Israel.</p>
  548. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/they-lived-through-the-2017-white-supremacist-rallies-in-charlottesville-and-say-comparisons-to-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-are-unfair/">They lived through the 2017 white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville — and say comparisons to pro-Palestinian campus protests are unfair</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  551. <p>Rabbi Tom Gutherz of Congregation Beth Israel, Charlottesville’s only synagogue, says it’s &#8220;political theater&#8221; to compare the campus protests against U.S. involvement in the war in Gaza to the white supremacist rallies that took place in Charlottesville in August 2017 — which is what<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-campus-protests.html"> former president Donald Trump did last week</a>.</p>
  552.  
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  554.  
  555. <p>On April 24, after a day in a felony criminal trial in Manhattan, Trump criticized President Joe Biden’s handling of college protests by comparing them to the violent events in 2017, including the car attack by a neo-Nazi on counter-protesters that killed Heather Heyer and critically injured others.&nbsp;</p>
  556.  
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  558.  
  559. <p>&#8220;We’re having protests all over, he’s talking about Charlottesville. Charlottesville was a little peanut, and it was nothing compared, and the hate wasn’t the kind of hate you have here,&#8221; Trump said.</p>
  560.  
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  562.  
  563. <p>But Gutherz, who <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/in-charlottesvilles-summer-of-hate-a-chinese-american-pastor-found-his-place-in-the-struggle-for-civil-rights/">marched with counterprotesters in 2017</a> and at one point <a href="https://forward.com/news/477718/tom-gutherz-beth-israel-sines-kessler-charlottesville/">exited the synagogue through a side door</a> with his congregants when white supremacists rallied in front of the building, says that the comparison Trump made is wrong. Making such a comparison ignores the fact that there is no &#8220;particular Jewish perspective&#8221; on the conflict in Gaza, he said, and supporting the Palestinian cause is not inherently antisemitic.</p>
  564.  
  565.  
  566.  
  567. <p>Israel is the only Jewish nation-state. The land that Israel occupies was once inhabited by an Arab population who call the area Palestine and who were displaced when the state of Israel was formed in 1948. Since then, Palestinians and their advocates have called for the reversal of that displacement.&nbsp;</p>
  568.  
  569.  
  570.  
  571. <p>&#8220;I would not say that people in the congregation, for the most part, are anti-Palestine,&#8221; said Gutherz.</p>
  572.  
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  574.  
  575. <p>Health officials in Palestine and Israel say <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-29-2024-d9b215f4aa1a745cdada48112d0fe4b8">nearly 35,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis</a> have been killed since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that instigated the current conflict in Gaza.</p>
  576.  
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  579. <div class="wp-block-cover alignleft is-light" style="padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-90 has-background-dim" style="background-color:#e6f4f4"></span><img decoding="async" width="780" height="780" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-83861" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1" data-object-fit="cover" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1568%2C1568&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=706%2C706&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow">
  580. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about the 2017 summer of hate</h3>
  581.  
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  583. </div></div>
  584.  
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  587. <p>Others who were involved in the 2017 counterprotests in Charlottesville agreed that Trump’s comments were specious — provocative, but ultimately false. Caroline Bray, who graduated from the University of Virginia in 2018 and now lives in Richmond, said by email to Charlottesville Tomorrow that the same personal &#8220;moral understanding of right and wrong&#8221; that compelled her to protest against white supremacists in 2017 now drives her involvement in the movement for Palestinian liberation.&nbsp;</p>
  588.  
  589.  
  590.  
  591. <p>&#8220;In August 2017, I stood up against white supremacists who were bearing torches and screaming &#8216;Jews will not replace us.&#8217; As they surrounded us, I thought I might be killed. I stood&nbsp; my ground because I knew that I was standing on the right side of history,&#8221; Bray said. &#8220;It is the same current of white supremacy that appeared in Charlottesville in 2017 that is causing this genocide in Gaza. To stand with Palestine is to stand on the right side of history.&#8221;</p>
  592.  
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  594.  
  595. <p>Some Jewish Charlottesville residents feel similarly. At an April 27 &#8220;Show Up for Palestine&#8221; rally on the Charlottesville downtown mall, one attendee, Anna, said participating in the protests was important to her because she is Jewish. She said that the comparison between the 2017 Unite the Right rally and the current protests was a red herring meant to distract not only from the &#8220;relentless bombing and famine in Gaza,&#8221; but also from the fact that there are legitimate sources of antisemitism in the U.S. Anna asked to be identified by first name only because she is concerned about &#8220;antisemitic backlash from Zionists.&#8221;</p>
  596.  
  597.  
  598.  
  599. <p>&#8220;There&#8217;s lots of white nationalists who are vehemently antisemitic who will march in places like Charlottesville. To me, that&#8217;s the real issue where we should be focusing our concern about antisemitism, instead of on groups of college students who are advocating for the end to an apartheid regime,&#8221; said Anna. &#8220;There are a lot of Jews out there like myself who have seen what&#8217;s going on on the ground in Palestine, and have really reevaluated a lot of what we were taught as children about what the state of Israel is supposed to be for.&#8221;</p>
  600.  
  601.  
  602.  
  603. <p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want an occupation and a genocide being done in our name,&#8221; Anna said.</p>
  604.  
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  607. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  608. <p>There&#8217;s a difference between domestic terrorism and civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the backbone of our nation.</p>
  609. <cite>—Quinn Plummer, junior at Renaissance School</cite></blockquote>
  610.  
  611.  
  612.  
  613. <p>The white supremacist rallies of 2017 were formative childhood experiences for participants in an April 27 Teen Summit hosted by UVA’s Youth-Nex program. Some teens said that their social media feeds are dominated by campus protests.</p>
  614.  
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  616.  
  617. <p>&#8220;Aug. 12, 2017 was a very traumatic day for many people, and the fact that peaceful protests are being compared to that is really disturbing,&#8221; said Emi, a senior at Tandem Friends School who did not give her last name. &#8220;We have the right to speak up for what we believe in, and we&#8217;re not harming anyone by doing that. Comparing it to a hate group that was here to harm people is really unacceptable.&#8221;</p>
  618.  
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  621. <p>Quinn Plummer, a junior at Renaissance School, agreed.</p>
  622.  
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  624.  
  625. <p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a difference between domestic terrorism and civil disobedience,&#8221; Plummer said. &#8220;Civil disobedience is the backbone of our nation. That&#8217;s what our country was founded on. 2017 was an influential moment for this town, and I think it did represent a lot of truth in the bigotry that this town was still experiencing at that time. But I think now we have the chance to go and represent ourselves and say what we believe now.&#8221;</p>
  626.  
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  628.  
  629. <p>Rabbi Gutherz says the Unite the Right rally was a &#8220;wake-up call&#8221; for many Charlottesville residents that antisemitism was embedded in the white nationalist movement. When those violent rallies happened in 2017, also known as the &#8220;summer of hate,&#8221; he felt the support and solidarity of the Charlottesville community. Now, some in the Jewish community in Charlottesville are feeling &#8220;sadness, and a sense of feeling misunderstood about our commitments and our feelings about Israel,&#8221; Gutherz said.</p>
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  633. <div class="wp-block-cover alignleft is-light" style="padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-90 has-background-dim" style="background-color:#e6f4f4"></span><img decoding="async" width="780" height="780" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-83861" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1" data-object-fit="cover" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1568%2C1568&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=706%2C706&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow">
  634. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about war protests in Charlottesville</h3>
  635.  
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  637. </div></div>
  638.  
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  641. <p>While Gutherz believes that it’s both possible and necessary to thoughtfully critique the Israeli military’s campaign in Gaza, he is worried that protests against Israeli military actions in Gaza could lead to a rise in antisemitism in the U.S. He worries that the activism has created a &#8220;long process of a kind of a demonization and hatred of Israel and Zionism and of things that the Jewish community understands in a different way.&#8221;</p>
  642.  
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  644.  
  645. <p>&#8220;The conversation sometimes takes the position that there is only one powerful [group] or one party to this conflict that is unilaterally responsible for the way that things have turned out, or for the way that things are going on even today,&#8221; Gutherz said. &#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of blame to go around.&#8221;</p>
  646.  
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  649. <p>Trump’s comments were not the first time the rise in college campus protests against U.S. involvement in the conflict have been met with accusations of antisemitism and comparisons to the 2017 Unite the Right rally. In October 2023, Virginia Attorney General Jason <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMiyaresVA/status/1711895859271508186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1711895859271508186%7Ctwgr%5Edb90c0bc299cd3a51d460f91c02e7244877200aa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wtkr.com%2Fnews%2Fwilliam-mary-students-respond-to-israel-hamas-conflict">Miyares wrote on the social media platform X</a> that &#8220;Charlottesville witnessed firsthand the darkness and evil of antisemitism in 2017,&#8221; and that comments made by the UVA group Students for Justice in Palestine threatened to reintroduce similar hateful rhetoric.</p>
  650.  
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  653. <p>Miyares’ concern was echoed by James Bacon, executive director of a UVA alumni organization, the Jefferson Council, in a <a href="https://thejeffersoncouncil.com/miyares-calls-for-moral-clarity-regarding-pro-hamas-demonstrators/">November 2023 blog post</a>. In April 2024, the Jefferson Council published an anonymous letter that alleged antisemitism on campus, including physical violence and verbal assaults. The only people named in the letter for creating a hostile environment were a student who was involved in organizing a series of Israeli and Palestinian films and the two professors who moderated the post-film discussions. Both professors named in the letter are Jewish. One of the professors <a href="https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/education/uva-students-faculty-named-in-blacklist-accused-of-antisemitism-without-evidence/article_7ec6ba28-01d6-11ef-a0c3-b795f4c706ae.html#tracking-source=mp-homepage">told the Daily Progress</a> that the film series was meant to show balanced perspectives on the conflict.&nbsp;</p>
  654.  
  655.  
  656.  
  657. <p>In an email to Charlottesville Tomorrow, Bacon said the Jefferson Council removed the letter and eventually the entire post from its website when they were alerted that one of the 37 alleged instances of antisemitism described in the document was inaccurate. Bacon said he never saw the films in the series.</p>
  658.  
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  660.  
  661. <p>&#8220;However, I would observe that the other 35 incidents described in the list suggest that UVA does have an antisemitism problem,&#8221; Bacon wrote in his email. He did not respond to a question about what he thought of Trump’s comments.</p>
  662.  
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  664.  
  665. <p>Gutherz said that he was invited to the screenings at UVA and that he feels it’s appropriate for universities to foster conversations that consider multiple points of view.</p>
  666.  
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  669. <p>Other centers of Jewish community in Charlottesville, including the Brody Jewish Center at UVA and P’nai Yisrael Chavurah, did not respond to Charlottesville Tomorrow’s inquiries in time for publishing.&nbsp;</p>
  670.  
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  672.  
  673. <p>Some in Charlottesville say discussions like those held at the film series could help lead to Palestinian liberation, and are not meant to foster ill will toward Jewish people.&nbsp;</p>
  674.  
  675.  
  676.  
  677. <p>“It&#8217;s my duty as a Muslim to speak out about injustice, and what I see going on right now is just pure genocide,” said Munier Ahmad Nazeer, a long-time Charlottesville resident, at the Teen Summit on Saturday.&nbsp;</p>
  678.  
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  680.  
  681. <p>Nazeer, who is Black and Muslim, said the 2017 white nationalist rally hit &#8220;close to home&#8221; for him. While he feels for the people of Israel, calling them his &#8220;Jewish brothers and sisters,&#8221; he wears keffiyeh as a show of his support for the Palestinian people.</p>
  682.  
  683.  
  684.  
  685. <p>&#8220;I understand by wearing this I am putting myself in the line of fire, so to speak,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Hopefully not.&#8221;</p>
  686.  
  687.  
  688.  
  689. <p>More demonstrations calling for Palestinian liberation are planned at UVA this week.</p>
  690.  
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  693. <p>On Sunday, Virginia Gov. Glenn <a href="https://virginiamercury.com/2024/04/29/youngkin-says-no-encampments-on-virginia-campuses-supports-peaceful-protests/">Youngkin said that the commonwealth will permit protests</a> as long as they do not intimidate Jewish students or become encampments.</p>
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  697. <p>The UVA Apartheid Divest Coalition <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6PgqeCOdIs/">announced a day-long rally on the UVA Lawn at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1</a>, and <a href="https://www.29news.com/2024/04/30/uva-liberated-zone-gaza-up-now-pro-palestine-protest-begins-university-grounds/">an encampment was formed</a> near the UVA chapel on the afternoon of April 30.</p>
  698. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/they-lived-through-the-2017-white-supremacist-rallies-in-charlottesville-and-say-comparisons-to-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-are-unfair/">They lived through the 2017 white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville — and say comparisons to pro-Palestinian campus protests are unfair</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  705. <title>After years of debate, Charlottesville chooses a new sign to commemorate Court Square slave trade</title>
  706. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-years-of-debate-charlottesville-chooses-a-new-sign-to-commemorate-court-square-slave-trade/</link>
  708. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin O'Hare]]></dc:creator>
  709. <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
  710. <category><![CDATA[Government and public institutions]]></category>
  711. <category><![CDATA[Short & Important]]></category>
  712. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/?p=105174</guid>
  713.  
  714. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="800" height="533" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A brick street with lamp posts and brick buildings." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?resize=750%2C500&amp;ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=400 400w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  715. <p>"Enslaved Charlottesville residents Fountain Hughes and Maria Perkins recalled Court Day sales as dreaded occasions that separated Black families," the marker will read.</p>
  716. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-years-of-debate-charlottesville-chooses-a-new-sign-to-commemorate-court-square-slave-trade/">After years of debate, Charlottesville chooses a new sign to commemorate Court Square slave trade</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  718. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="800" height="533" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A brick street with lamp posts and brick buildings." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?resize=750%2C500&amp;ssl=1 750w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20170720_-_Court_Square.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=400 400w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  719. <p>Last month, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources <a href="https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/press-release-posts/8-new-state-historical-highway-markers-approved-march-2024/">approved a plaque</a> to acknowledge the more than 100-year period during which enslaved people were bought and sold in Charlottesville&#8217;s Court Square.</p>
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  723. <p>The marker will read:</p>
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  727. <p><em>Sales</em><em> of Enslaved People in Court Square</em></p>
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  731. <p>Between 1762 and 1865, auctioneers sold enslaved men, women, and children at various locations in Court Square: outside taverns, at the Jefferson Hotel, at the &#8220;Number Nothing&#8221; building, in front of the Albemarle Co. Courthouse (where sales were then recorded), and, according to tradition, from a tree stump. Auctioned at Eagle Hotel in Jan. 1829 were 33 enslaved individuals from the Monticello estate of Thomas Jefferson. Enslaved Charlottesville residents Fountain Hughes and Maria Perkins recalled Court Day sales as dreaded occasions that separated Black families. Such sales were commonplace in Virginia, which was the main source of laborers sent to the Deep South via the domestic slave trade.</p>
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  735. <figure class="alignleft size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="Logo reads &quot;Short &amp; Important&quot;" class="wp-image-97013" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div>
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  738. <p>The city is planning on an early fall installation and unveiling, said Jeff Werner, historic preservation and design planner for the city. Werner worked with the city&#8217;s Historic Resources Committee on the application to the state. It will take Sewah Studios, a foundry located in Marietta, Ohio, a few months to create the marker.</p>
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  742. <p>The marker will be placed at the south end of Court Square Park, above the low brick wall that runs along East Jefferson Street, near the lawn in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse.&nbsp;</p>
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  746. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an appropriate location because enslaved people were sold throughout Court Square, including near the buildings at McKee Block, which is now Court Square Park,&#8221; Werner said. McKee Block is also known as McKee&#8217;s Row and McKee Row.</p>
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  750. <p>The new marker won&#8217;t be far from another, <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/historical-marker-unveiled-for-lynching-victim-john-henry-james/">installed in 2019</a>, that teaches about <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/lynching-victim-john-henry-james-receives-one-little-drop-of-justice-125-years-after-his-death/">the lynching of John Henry James</a> by an angry white mob.&nbsp;</p>
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  754. <p>Placing the new marker will mark a significant step in the city’s efforts to recognize this chapter of its history, but it won’t be the first. For decades, community members — some with direct ancestral ties to those bought and sold in Court Square — have been commemorating this history. At times, they&#8217;ve had help from the city, while other times they’ve organized independently with flowers, plaques and <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/photo-essay-slave-auction-block-vigil/">community gatherings</a>.</p>
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  758. <p>Werner hopes it won&#8217;t be the last step, either.&nbsp;</p>
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  762. <p>&#8220;The committee does not want this marker to be seen as a substitute or placeholder for something more meaningful that might be developed through working with the descendant community,&#8221; he told Charlottesville Tomorrow in January.</p>
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  766. <p class="has-light-gray-background-color has-background"><em>While we can’t cover every story that’s important to you, we do our best to be responsive to your needs. We use tips from readers to choose which stories to cover, to incorporate information into broader reports or to help us decide how to grow Charlottesville Tomorrow. <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/contact/ask-a-question-or-suggest-a-story/" data-type="page" data-id="84378">Here’s where you can tell us what you think we should be covering.</a></em></p>
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  771. <h3 class="wp-block-heading has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here-choose-stories-directly-related-or-from-the-same-category">More about Charlottesville&#8217;s Court Square</h3>
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  779. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/after-years-of-debate-charlottesville-chooses-a-new-sign-to-commemorate-court-square-slave-trade/">After years of debate, Charlottesville chooses a new sign to commemorate Court Square slave trade</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  786. <title>Charlottesville Tomorrow creates two new positions to help our newsroom grow and innovate</title>
  787. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-creates-two-new-positions-to-help-our-newsroom-grow-and-innovate/</link>
  789. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlottesville Tomorrow]]></dc:creator>
  790. <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
  791. <category><![CDATA[From the newsroom]]></category>
  792. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/?p=105157</guid>
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  794. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Portraits of two people stylized, with purple and orange backgrounds and text that reads &quot;Ashley Harper&quot; and &quot;Aliyah Cotton.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  795. <p>Aliyah Cotton and Ashley Harper join the team as People and Culture Officer and Product and Technology Officer.</p>
  796. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-creates-two-new-positions-to-help-our-newsroom-grow-and-innovate/">Charlottesville Tomorrow creates two new positions to help our newsroom grow and innovate</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  798. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Portraits of two people stylized, with purple and orange backgrounds and text that reads &quot;Ashley Harper&quot; and &quot;Aliyah Cotton.&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AliyahAsh-Collage.png?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  799. <p>To better meet the needs of the communities we serve, Charlottesville Tomorrow has filled two new positions on our team. Aliyah Cotton, People and Culture Officer, and Ashley Harper, Product and Technology Officer, will give our nonprofit news organization the capacity to grow and innovate.</p>
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  803. <p>Charlottesville Tomorrow welcomed Cotton as the People and Culture Officer in October 2023. Cotton brings a varied professional background and a strong passion for fostering connections. She fills this newly created role at Charlottesville Tomorrow to help create a positive work environment, promote equity, help nurture talent, and support the overall well-being of the team. Cotton also helps our volunteer board do its best work, and is a crucial team member in our partnerships in Charlottesville Inclusive Media.</p>
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  807. <p>Raised in Reston, Virginia, Cotton views Charlottesville as her second home. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2019, and went on to earn a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Boston University.</p>
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  811. <p>&#8220;The detail and intention that goes into writing and understanding poetry have prepared me to make an impact at Charlottesville Tomorrow, where creating a supportive and empathetic atmosphere is essential,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As the news industry shifts, creating healthy newsrooms is essential to having good local news and, ultimately, stronger and more informed communities.&#8221;</p>
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  815. <p>Cotton&#8217;s literary expertise and commitment to engagement were recently recognized when she was named a 2024 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by the Adroit Journal.</p>
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  819. <p>&#8220;We are thrilled to have Aliyah on our team and bring her unique perspective and talents to our organization,&#8221; said Angilee Shah, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Charlottesville Tomorrow. &#8220;Her passion for community and her way of understanding people — not to mention her skills in managing operations — are helping our organization grow in a way that is healthy and sustainable.&#8221;</p>
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  823. <p>Among Cotton&#8217;s many early successes was helping us to bring Harper to our team as the first-ever Product and Technology Officer. Harper joined Charlottesville Tomorrow at the beginning of April, after spending almost two years working with the organization as a contractor through her company. With tremendous experience in product development and a passion for leveraging technology for social impact, Harper brings a wealth of expertise to her role in advancing the organization&#8217;s mission of promoting informed public engagement and community building.</p>
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  827. <p>As the product and technology officer at Charlottesville Tomorrow, Harper&#8217;s primary responsibility is to help more people access news and information through our website, emails and new products. Her strategic vision, commitment to transparency, and dedication to enhancing civic participation align seamlessly with our organization&#8217;s values and mission. Ashley has already played a key role in <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-has-a-new-look-and-its-more-than-a-pretty-shade-of-purple/">Charlottesville Tomorrow’s website relaunch</a>, and in designing new products, such as our interactive Voter Guide.</p>
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  831. <p>Harper moved cross country to be with us — all the way from California.</p>
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  835. <p>&#8220;I was drawn to Charlottesville Tomorrow because of its commitment to providing accurate and in-depth reporting on local issues that matter to the community. As someone who is passionate about access to information, I wanted to be a part of an organization that empowers communities with the facts they need to make decisions,&#8221; Harper said. &#8220;I knew that Charlottesville Tomorrow was the perfect place to do this kind of work.&#8221;</p>
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  839. <p>&#8220;When we had the opportunity to bring someone as talented as Ashley to our community, we were thrilled. In today&#8217;s news ecosystem, we have to keep investing in making sure what we do is accessible to our many diverse communities. As Charlottesville Tomorrow grows, Ashley will play a key role in how we innovate and build up the ways we serve this region,&#8221; said Shah.</p>
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  843. <p>As Charlottesville Tomorrow continues to build, keep track of <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/job-opportunities/">future openings on the team here</a>, and by <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter-sign-up/">subscribing to our newsletter here</a>.</p>
  844. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-tomorrow-creates-two-new-positions-to-help-our-newsroom-grow-and-innovate/">Charlottesville Tomorrow creates two new positions to help our newsroom grow and innovate</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  851. <title>A seasonal shelter in Charlottesville is serving more people than ever — which presents challenges now that it&#8217;s closed</title>
  852. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-seasonal-shelter-in-charlottesville-is-serving-more-people-than-ever-which-presents-challenges-now-that-its-closed/</link>
  854. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin O'Hare]]></dc:creator>
  855. <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
  856. <category><![CDATA[Government and public institutions]]></category>
  857. <category><![CDATA[Our neighborhoods]]></category>
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  860. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person holding a duffel bag in a gym that has folding chairs and cots on the ground, with a basketball board on the wall and light streaming in." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  861. <p>The City is working on a longer term plan, but shelter staff say they see more immediate need than ever.</p>
  862. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-seasonal-shelter-in-charlottesville-is-serving-more-people-than-ever-which-presents-challenges-now-that-its-closed/">A seasonal shelter in Charlottesville is serving more people than ever — which presents challenges now that it&#8217;s closed</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  864. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person holding a duffel bag in a gym that has folding chairs and cots on the ground, with a basketball board on the wall and light streaming in." decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_008-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  865. <p>Robert already had a plan for what he’d do when the shelter closed.</p>
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  869. <p>On Saturday, April 13, he’d wake up on a sleeping pad on the Trinity Presbyterian rec room floor. He’d pack his bag, head out the door and into a van that brought him from the church on Fontaine Avenue to the Downtown Charlottesville area.</p>
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  873. <p>Between working shifts at a local diner and welding classes at Piedmont Virginia Community College, he’d need to find a place to hang up his rope hammock and get some shuteye.</p>
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  877. <p>&#8220;Gotta find somewhere safe to set it up,&#8221; he said. When it rains, he’ll pop a tarp over the hammock to stay dry.</p>
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  881. <p>Robert, who did not want his last name published because he doesn’t want his homelessness to interfere with possible job or housing prospects, is one of dozens of people who is without a place to sleep now that the People And Congregations Engaged in Ministry (PACEM) roaming overnight congregate shelter is closed until the fall.</p>
  882.  
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  885. <p>PACEM’s shelter is seasonal so this happens every year. It opens each fall, when the weather gets cold, and closes every spring when it warms up. But that doesn’t make it any easier for shelter guests, who are left with few options for safe overnight shelter all summer.</p>
  886.  
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  888.  
  889. <p>And while homelessness has been at the forefront of many conversations throughout the city since a tent encampment came and went at Market Street Park, nothing has really changed for the folks who experience it — except that more people need more help.</p>
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  893. <div class="wp-block-cover alignleft is-light" style="padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-90 has-background-dim" style="background-color:#e6f4f4"></span><img decoding="async" width="780" height="780" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-83861" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1" data-object-fit="cover" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=1568%2C1568&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=706%2C706&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LandTexture.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow">
  894. <h3 class="wp-block-heading related-stories-callout has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here">More about housing insecurity in Charlottesville</h3>
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  900.  
  901. <p>PACEM opened its shelter on Oct. 21, 2023, a week earlier than planned, in order to help shelter the dozens of people who had been camping in Market Street Park since mid-September.</p>
  902.  
  903.  
  904.  
  905. <p>Many of the folks who came to the park <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter/who-are-the-people-camped-at-market-street-park-what-is-the-citys-plan/">told Charlottesville Tomorrow</a> that they had previously been sleeping in mostly hidden places all over the city and Albemarle County — in sheds, under porches and bridges, in the woods, next to rivers. Some left what they said were bad housing situations, for the park.</p>
  906.  
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  908.  
  909. <p>Charlottesville City Manager Sam <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-announces-it-will-bring-back-a-curfew-to-market-street-park/">Sanders reinstated the park’s curfew on Oct. 21</a>. The city said that it cleared the campers from the park without incident, and that some of those folks went to PACEM’s seasonal shelter.</p>
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  913. <p>PACEM’s shelter is a roaming, overnight, congregate shelter. The shelter location moves every week or two, and guests can stay overnight and enjoy a hot meal. It’s a low-barrier shelter, which means people who are not eligible for other shelters either because of criminal histories or substance use, can stay there.</p>
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  915.  
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  917. <p>This past shelter season was PACEM’s 20th year, and it was an unprecedented one. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, PACEM had space for 70 people total — usually 50 men and 20 women. But it reduced that capacity to about 50 (35 men, 15 women) in 2020 to try to minimize the risk of guests spreading and catching the virus. In the congregate shelter model, everyone stays on a cot or a sleeping pad in one room.</p>
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  920.  
  921. <p>“It was a lot better to not try to pack people in. It improved the ability for folks to come in, feel comfortable, and go to sleep,” said PACEM’s interim executive director Liz Yohn.</p>
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  924.  
  925. <p>And yet, PACEM served more guests than ever this season.</p>
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  929. <p>Previously the record was 250 people served in a single winter shelter season. This year, PACEM served 252 by February, with six weeks still to go. Yohn estimates they served more than 260 by the time the season ended.</p>
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  932.  
  933. <p>More guests than ever, despite a reduced capacity. How did that work?</p>
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  936.  
  937. <p>“It was really hard,” said Yohn.</p>
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  941. <p>Many nights, PACEM was asking its host church if they felt comfortable with more people staying there. If the host said yes, then PACEM staff would usually run to its storage unit to pick up extra sleeping pads and blankets. If more people couldn’t fit, PACEM staff had to figure out, on the spot, how to get folks places to stay for the night.</p>
  942.  
  943.  
  944.  
  945. <p>Staff asked for guests to go to the Salvation Army’s warm room, which can fit an additional eight men and eight women. If no one volunteered, staff would choose (carefully) who would go. They also asked people if they had a friend or family member they could stay with overnight, so that they could squeeze one more person into the shelter. PACEM was also able to shelter some guests into hotel rooms with the last dregs of pandemic relief funding from the Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless.</p>
  946.  
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  949. <p>Sometimes, guests volunteered to go to the warm room before being asked, or willingly gave up their cot for someone they thought needed it more.&nbsp;</p>
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  953. <p>“Our guests were absolutely amazing,” said Yohn. “They really saw what we were trying to do.”</p>
  954.  
  955.  
  956.  
  957. <p>This year, the men and women’s shelters were at separate sites, and the men’s shelter was regularly over capacity, said Yohn. From December to February, the men’s shelter was at least 20% over capacity most nights.</p>
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  961. <p>Additionally, PACEM hasn’t seen the dip in attendance that it usually sees by this time in the season.</p>
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  965. <p>Yohn isn’t sure why that is.</p>
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  969. <p>“That’s another question for us: What’s going on? Is it that our folks are either not able to, or not motivated to, find their long-term solution? What are we missing, that we’re not seeing more folks leave on their own?” she asked.</p>
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  973. <p>She has a few ideas, based on what she’s seen: Inflation, skyrocketing housing costs, more people competing for the same few housing vouchers and subsidies. Figuring out whether there’s something more PACEM, or another community organization, could do, is work for the summer, said Yohn.</p>
  974.  
  975.  
  976.  
  977. <p>Still, Yohn estimates that PACEM helped more than 20 people move into permanent housing this season.</p>
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  981. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
  982. <p>Homelessness is always a very complex, complicated issue. And we’re just doing what we can, now, to serve the immediate need. We’re only one organization and we are doing our part. But our community is very richly resourced.</p>
  983. <cite>—Liz Yohn, interim executive director of PACEM</cite></blockquote>
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  987. <p>On top of serving more clients than ever, the organization ran up against a few other unforeseen challenges.</p>
  988.  
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  990.  
  991. <p>One is that Phaedrus Acgtblu, a private landlord who frequently worked with PACEM to get guests off the streets and into housing, <a href="https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/charlottesville-real-estate-investor-phaedrus-acgtblu-dead-in-apparent-homicide/article_06e7cea2-961f-11ee-bb91-5f133afcf2e8.html">died in an apparent homicide</a> in December. Acgtblu, who was also known as Kent Schwager, gave many PACEM guests a chance when other landlords did not, said Yohn. Yohn doesn’t know what will happen to Acgtblu’s properties, or his tenants, going forward.&nbsp;</p>
  992.  
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  994.  
  995. <p>Another challenge was the dissolution of pandemic assistance programs, like expanded Medicaid — more than 150,000 Virginians have already lost medical coverage, according to <a href="https://virginiamercury.com/2023/10/17/halfway-through-unwinding-15-of-virginia-medicaid-enrollees-have-lost-coverage/">this October report in the Virginia Mercury</a>. That’s particularly concerning because anecdotally, the people PACEM served this season were generally older and had more acute physical and mental health needs than in past seasons, said Yohn.</p>
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  999. <p>Additionally, PACEM saw more people from out of town.</p>
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  1003. <p>One of those people, Austin, who did not want his last name to be published because of the stigmas associated with homelessness, just moved from PACEM’s shelter into the Salvation Army. He moved to town a couple months ago with a friend, but when that friendship dissolved, he was left without a place to live here and he couldn’t go back to New York, where he lived previously — he wouldn’t say why. He’s applying for food stamps so that he can eat while looking for jobs.</p>
  1004.  
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  1007. <p>“My first check is going straight to an apartment,” he said. “I don’t care if it’s just me and my duffel bag. I just need something to get me going.”</p>
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  1011. <p>“I know [it’s] a complicated thing to observe,” said Yohn about people coming in from out of town. “We do our best to serve those folks. But we also have very valid questions about how to be good stewards of our local resources. So, how do we address that?”</p>
  1012.  
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  1014.  
  1015. <p>She’s not entirely sure, but she knows it’s a question that PACEM can’t answer alone.</p>
  1016.  
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  1018.  
  1019. <p>“Homelessness is always a very complex, complicated issue,” she said. “And we’re just doing what we can, now, to serve the immediate need. We’re only one organization and we are doing our part. But our community is very richly resourced.”</p>
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  1023. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="505" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp.jpg?resize=780%2C505&#038;ssl=1" alt="A woman with a backpack walks down a path in a park next to several dome tents." class="wp-image-101498" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C994&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1326&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C777&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1015&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C259&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C457&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Market-Street-Park-camp-1024x663.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The morning of Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, roughly a dozen tents were set up in Market Street Park. While many people were moved into seasonal shelters, come April, those shelters are closing. <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Erin O&#039;Hare/Charlottesville Tomorrow</span></figcaption></figure>
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  1027. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="404" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM.png?resize=780%2C404&#038;ssl=1" alt="A screenshot of a plan with many words, titled &quot;Homeless Intervention Strategy&quot;" class="wp-image-101545" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM.png?resize=1024%2C531&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM.png?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM.png?resize=768%2C398&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM.png?resize=400%2C207&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM.png?resize=706%2C366&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM.png?w=1150&amp;ssl=1 1150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-1.55.13-PM-1024x531.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">City Manager Sam Sander’s presented a plan for homelessness at the Oct. 2, 2023 City Council meeting. He showed this slide. <span class="image-credit"><span class="credit-label-wrapper">Credit:</span> Screenshot/Charlottesville City Council</span></figcaption></figure>
  1028.  
  1029.  
  1030.  
  1031. <p>Back in the fall, when tents peppered Market Street Park, City Manager Sam Sanders presented a “homeless intervention strategy.” During an<a href="https://boxcast.tv/channel/aleu4lbzxfhtewxk3e7d?b=q4ufresrozrfh5bs5l7s"> Oct. 2 City Council meeting</a>, he said the city would take a multi-pronged approach to addressing homelessness throughout the city, but that its main focus would be figuring out whether, and where, the city could open a permanent overnight low-barrier shelter.</p>
  1032.  
  1033.  
  1034.  
  1035. <p>(The shelter Sanders said he envisioned was very similar to <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesville-had-and-lost-a-shelter-that-social-workers-say-could-have-helped-hundreds-of-unhoused-people-off-the-streets/">the one PACEM ran at Premier Circle from spring 2021 through June 2023</a>, in addition to its seasonal overnight congregate shelter.)</p>
  1036.  
  1037.  
  1038.  
  1039. <p>In January, <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/city-council-will-vote-monday-on-purchasing-land-in-belmont-for-possible-homeless-shelter-affordable-housing-development/">Sanders asked City Council to purchase two properties on the corner of Avon St. and Levy Ave</a>., that could maybe be used in the future for a shelter or for supportive housing — if a study showed that’s what the community needed.</p>
  1040.  
  1041.  
  1042.  
  1043. <p>“There is no plan at this time for the Avon/Levy site,” Sanders told Charlottesville Tomorrow earlier this month.</p>
  1044.  
  1045.  
  1046.  
  1047. <p>As for the homeless intervention plan Sanders announced six months ago, the process is ongoing.</p>
  1048.  
  1049.  
  1050.  
  1051. <p>“We have not stopped looking at it,” he said then. “We do consider it a priority that we will be spending, I would say, a great deal of time on.”</p>
  1052.  
  1053.  
  1054.  
  1055. <p>The city hasn’t made any concrete moves yet, as staff are still having internal conversations, as well as talks with homeless services providers such as the Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless and the Salvation Army, about possibilities, Sanders said. They haven’t yet talked at length with PACEM.</p>
  1056.  
  1057.  
  1058.  
  1059. <p>But now, with PACEM’s overnight shelter closed for the season, guests are left with few options for the next six months.</p>
  1060.  
  1061.  
  1062.  
  1063. <div class="wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-not-stacked-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex">
  1064. <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:33.33%"><div class="wp-block-image">
  1065. <figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img decoding="async" width="408" height="287" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Take-Action.png?resize=408%2C287&#038;ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-98388" style="width:175px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Take-Action.png?w=408&amp;ssl=1 408w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Take-Action.png?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Take-Action.png?resize=400%2C281&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Take-Action.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div></div>
  1066.  
  1067.  
  1068.  
  1069. <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:66.66%">
  1070. <p>Here are some local shelter resources.</p>
  1071.  
  1072.  
  1073.  
  1074. <p>Homeless information line: Call 434-207-2328<br>Salvation Army: Call 434-295-4058, or visit 207 Ridge St. in Charlottesville<br>PACEM: Call 434-465-2800<br>The Haven: Call 434-973-1234, ext. 100, or visit 112 W. Market St.</p>
  1075.  
  1076.  
  1077.  
  1078. <p>The Street Sheet, which has information on everything from temporary housing assistance to meals to case management, is another helpful resource. It&#8217;s available in <a href="http://pacemshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Street-Sheet-Edition-28.pdf">English </a>(from March 2024) and <a href="http://pacemshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Spanish-Street-Sheet-Edition-27.pdf">Spanish</a> (from Jan. 2024).</p>
  1079. </div>
  1080. </div>
  1081.  
  1082.  
  1083.  
  1084. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="520" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011.jpg?resize=780%2C520&#038;ssl=1" alt="A man in a graphic t-shirt and baseball cap stands on grass in front of a building, holding his cap in the sun." class="wp-image-105129" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?resize=706%2C471&amp;ssl=1 706w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KoriPrice_20240407_011-1024x683.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Robert is among those looking for places to sleep now that the PACEM seasonal shelter is closed. “I’m just trying to stay out of trouble,” he said. “You get on a list, and hopefully you make it.” Kori Price/Charlottesville Tomorrow</figcaption></figure>
  1085.  
  1086.  
  1087.  
  1088. <p>There’s the Salvation Army, a fixed site, year-round shelter on Ridge Street. But that’s not an option for all of PACEM’s guests because it does not take people who are using drugs or alcohol.</p>
  1089.  
  1090.  
  1091.  
  1092. <p>There’s the <a href="https://www.shelterforhelpinemergency.org/">Shelter for Help in Emergency (SHE) Shelter</a>, which is specifically for local folks experiencing domestic violence. There are almost no resources for families with children, said Yohn. That’s not a group PACEM really serves, in large part because it does serve sex offenders and people convicted of violent felonies. Sometimes local agencies like Families in Crisis and the city’s Department of Human Services can help out with ad hoc, temporary housing placements.</p>
  1093.  
  1094.  
  1095.  
  1096. <p>On the hottest summer days, people can go stay in the cooling centers hosted by the city and the county. Hot days can be dangerous, just like cold days — especially for people struggling with substance abuse, said Yohn.</p>
  1097.  
  1098.  
  1099.  
  1100. <p>And then there’s The Haven, which offers daytime shelter services like meals, showers, laundry, case management, and an address where people can receive mail. The Haven is open year-round.</p>
  1101.  
  1102.  
  1103.  
  1104. <p>Even without the seasonal shelter, PACEM said their case managers will keep working with people who are in the complicated process of getting disability benefits or finding an apartment.</p>
  1105.  
  1106.  
  1107.  
  1108. <p>And thank goodness, said Robert, who would much rather sleep under a roof than a tarp. He’s hoping to get some assistance with housing very soon.</p>
  1109.  
  1110.  
  1111.  
  1112. <p>“I’m just trying to stay out of trouble,” he said. “You get on a list, and hopefully you make it.”</p>
  1113. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-seasonal-shelter-in-charlottesville-is-serving-more-people-than-ever-which-presents-challenges-now-that-its-closed/">A seasonal shelter in Charlottesville is serving more people than ever — which presents challenges now that it&#8217;s closed</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1120. <title>Albemarle County Public Schools passes collective bargaining resolution</title>
  1121. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/albemarle-county-public-schools-passes-collective-bargaining-resolution/</link>
  1123. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamica Jean-Charles]]></dc:creator>
  1124. <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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  1128.  
  1129. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="768" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Logo reads &quot;Short &amp; Important&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  1130. <p>Dozens of Albemarle employees and supporters showed up at Thursday's School Board meeting in support of collective bargaining.</p>
  1131. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/albemarle-county-public-schools-passes-collective-bargaining-resolution/">Albemarle County Public Schools passes collective bargaining resolution</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1133. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="768" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Logo reads &quot;Short &amp; Important&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  1134. <p>After two years of campaigning, the Albemarle County School Board passed a collective bargaining resolution.&nbsp;</p>
  1135.  
  1136.  
  1137.  
  1138. <p>In a unanimous vote, the county School Board voted to engage in collective bargaining with the Albemarle Education Association. The two parties will negotiate items — such as benefits and wages — for all workers within the school system, but only after the union completes an election.</p>
  1139.  
  1140.  
  1141. <div class="wp-block-image">
  1142. <figure class="alignleft size-large"><img decoding="async" width="780" height="585" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1" alt="Logo reads &quot;Short &amp; Important&quot;" class="wp-image-97013" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-1024x768.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w" sizes="(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></figure></div>
  1143.  
  1144.  
  1145. <p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited that the Board and the AEA could come to this point and that we&#8217;re finally here after a really long time,&#8221; Allison Spillman, at-large board member for Albemarle Schools, said <a href="https://youtu.be/24u6CxmlDqA?si=LTl_PJSOMB1bk6Kb&amp;t=3094">at Thursday&#8217;s meeting</a>.&nbsp;</p>
  1146.  
  1147.  
  1148.  
  1149. <p>The AEA started its push for collective bargaining in October 2021. The road to resolution has been a bumpy one for the union. The School Board voted against AEA&#8217;s first stab at a resolution in August 2022. Albemarle schools attempted to redirect school workers into engaging by creating an Employee Voice and Action Committee. The district said the committee would <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/albemarle-county-forced-to-reconsider-allowing-school-workers-to-collective-bargain-after-more-than-100-people-descend-on-meeting/">allow employees to discuss their concerns with no formal bargaining power.</a> But the union powered on.&nbsp;</p>
  1150.  
  1151.  
  1152.  
  1153. <p>In September, AEA suspended talks with Albemarle schools. The union walked out in protest to the conditions the school division imposed, which Vernon Liechti, former AEA president, said were &#8220;not collective bargaining.&#8221;</p>
  1154.  
  1155.  
  1156.  
  1157. <p>The two parties began talking again in October after having a &#8220;productive discussion,&#8221; <a href="https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/education/albemarle-county-teachers-win-collective-bargaining-rights/article_5f0f130e-f8f0-11ee-aabf-53fe27bc4833.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share">the school division told the Daily Progress</a>. It&#8217;s unclear what that discussion entailed. Charlottesville Tomorrow asked McIntire, but she said she didn&#8217;t know because she was &#8220;not a part of the negotiations team at that time.&#8221; Because of that, the Board and AEA were able to work on a resolution that worked for both of them.</p>
  1158.  
  1159.  
  1160.  
  1161. <p>The vote this week simply allows the AEA to represent county school employees. Negotiations have yet to begin.</p>
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  1164.  
  1165. <p>Before that can happen, AEA has to meet several criteria. The group must collect activation cards from at least 50% of eligible ACPS employees — everyone not including central office administration workers — to qualify for an election to be the bargaining agent for ACPS employees. If the group achieves that, it will hold an election that will be counted by a neutral third party group. If the AEA wins at least 33% of the employee votes, then the union can proceed with negotiations as the bargaining agent for ACPS workers.&nbsp;</p>
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  1169. <p>Despite next steps, Albemarle school employees who&#8217;ve supported collective bargaining since the beginning are breathing a sigh of relief.</p>
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  1172.  
  1173. <p>&#8220;Collective bargaining means that employees in every area of our schools — in classrooms, cafeterias, buses, offices and more —- will now have a real voice when it comes to our paid benefits and working conditions,&#8221; Tim Klobuchar, teacher at Monticello High School, said <a href="https://youtu.be/24u6CxmlDqA?si=gIgVRuAKIDAw7qhl">at Thursday&#8217;s meeting</a>. &#8220;That will make a huge difference for us, in terms of tangible benefits as well as overall morale.&#8221;</p>
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  1177. <p class="has-light-gray-background-color has-background"><em>While we can’t cover every story that’s important to you, we do our best to be responsive to your needs. We use tips from readers to choose which stories to cover, to incorporate information into broader reports or to help us decide how to grow Charlottesville Tomorrow. <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/contact/ask-a-question-or-suggest-a-story/" data-type="page" data-id="84378">Here’s where you can tell us what you think we should be covering.</a></em></p>
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  1182. <h3 class="wp-block-heading has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here-choose-stories-directly-related-or-from-the-same-category">More about collective bargaining efforts at Albemarle schools</h3>
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  1190. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/albemarle-county-public-schools-passes-collective-bargaining-resolution/">Albemarle County Public Schools passes collective bargaining resolution</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1197. <title>Loaded gun found at Cherry Avenue Boys &#038; Girls Club, student in custody</title>
  1198. <link>https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/loaded-gun-found-at-cherry-avenue-boys-girls-club-student-in-custody/</link>
  1200. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamica Jean-Charles]]></dc:creator>
  1201. <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  1207. <description><![CDATA[<figure><img width="1024" height="768" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Logo reads &quot;Short &amp; Important&quot;" decoding="async" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cvilletomorrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Briefs_LeadImage-storylist-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" /></figure>
  1208. <p>Police responded to a report of a gun at New Pathways Academy, an alternative learning program for seventh and eighth graders, Monday afternoon.</p>
  1209. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/loaded-gun-found-at-cherry-avenue-boys-girls-club-student-in-custody/">Loaded gun found at Cherry Avenue Boys &amp; Girls Club, student in custody</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1212. <p>A Charlottesville City School student is now in custody after staff at Cherry Avenue Boys &amp; Girls Club found a gun near their bag, according to a news alert from City Schools.&nbsp;</p>
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  1215.  
  1216. <p>At 1:30 p.m. Monday, police arrived at New Pathways Academy, located at the Boys and Girls Club, the district said.</p>
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  1223. <p>Charlottesville Tomorrow reached out to the Charlottesville Police Department for further information but did not get a response in time for publication.</p>
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  1225.  
  1226.  
  1227. <p>Charlottesville Police rushed to the Cherry Avenue Boys &amp; Girls Club after getting a call from a City Schools staff member at the center reporting a gun at the school, said Amanda Korman, spokesperson for City Schools. Police found a loaded gun next to a sleeping New Pathways student and arrested the student right after, according to the release. Staff and students were able to exit the room right after police arrived, Korman said.</p>
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  1230.  
  1231. <p>City Schools will not share any additional details on who the student is, said Korman.</p>
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  1234.  
  1235. <p>New Pathways Academy is an alternative education program. It is <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/a-new-charlottesville-school-gives-some-teens-a-different-way-to-learn-at-night/">one of a few at City Schools that serve students in need of additional support</a>, according to the news release. The school teaches seventh and eighth grade students. Currently, three students, including the one in custody, are enrolled in the program, according to the news release.</p>
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  1239. <p>Buford Middle School, located right next to Boys &amp; Girls Club, went into &#8220;indoor instruction&#8221;&nbsp; — meaning that students continue with their typical routines but must stay inside, said Korman — until 1:49 p.m. The Cherry Avenue youth community center canceled programs for the remainder of the day, according to the news release.&nbsp;</p>
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  1242.  
  1243. <p>City Schools alerted Buford staff and families of the incident at 2:15 p.m.</p>
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  1247. <p class="has-light-gray-background-color has-background"><em>While we can’t cover every story that’s important to you, we do our best to be responsive to your needs. We use tips from readers to choose which stories to cover, to incorporate information into broader reports or to help us decide how to grow Charlottesville Tomorrow. <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/contact/ask-a-question-or-suggest-a-story/" data-type="page" data-id="84378">Here’s where you can tell us what you think we should be covering.</a></em></p>
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  1252. <h3 class="wp-block-heading has-large-font-size" id="h-write-a-specific-related-stories-callout-here-choose-stories-directly-related-or-from-the-same-category">More about Charlottesville City Schools</h3>
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  1260. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/loaded-gun-found-at-cherry-avenue-boys-girls-club-student-in-custody/">Loaded gun found at Cherry Avenue Boys &amp; Girls Club, student in custody</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1276. <p>Three local news organizations will talk about how we meet the needs of communities at a panel in the Tom Tom Festival on Friday, April 19.</p>
  1277. <p>The post <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/join-a-conversation-about-the-future-of-local-journalism-in-central-virginia/">Join a conversation about the future of local journalism in central Virginia</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.cvilletomorrow.org">Charlottesville Tomorrow</a>.</p>
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  1280. <p>What is the future of local journalism?</p>
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  1284. <p>A diverse and vibrant local news ecosystem is a critical element of a healthy democratic culture, keeping people informed and engaged with their communities and institutions. Join a panel of journalists working in the Charlottesville area as they discuss the current state of local journalism and possible solutions to reinvigorate the industry and ensure that the needs of local communities are being met.</p>
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  1288. <p>On Friday, April 19, Charlottesville Tomorrow CEO and Editor-in-Chief Angilee Shah will join local colleagues Courteney Stuart, host of WINA&#8217;s Charlottesville Right Now, and Richard DiCicco, editor of C-VILLE Weekly, in a conversation about how we get news — and how news is produced — in our region. The panel, moderated by Dr. Allison Wright, executive editor and publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review, is part of the 12th Annual Tom Tom Festival. It is co-sponsored by the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia and C-VILLE Weekly.</p>
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  1292. <p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so important for diverse communities to join this conversation, to be part of how we move forward in keeping each other informed,&#8221; said Shah. &#8220;I&#8217;m so inspired by our community and board that is helping Charlottesville Tomorrow grow. The Charlottesville area has a tremendous opportunity to lead the way in reimagining local news, so this conversation is timely and important.&#8221;</p>
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  1303. <p>The one-hour panel is at 1:15 p.m. in the CODE Building at 240 W Main St., in Charlottesville. To attend the session, you can <a href="https://www.tomtomfoundation.org/post/society-justice-track-at-the-together-conference">purchase a pass for the Friday, April 19 events about &#8220;Society and Justice.&#8221;</a> The tickets have a&#8221;pay what you can&#8221; option and walk-up registrations are welcome.</p>
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  1309. <p>Other topics in Friday&#8217;s Society and Justice track of the Tom Tom Festival include criminal justice reform, art and culture, financial access and empowerment, and education.</p>
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