#Commonwealth of Virginia

[chenaultthevirginian]

“Only surviving gravestone from the burying ground at New Castle, Eighteenth Century tobacco port on the Pamunkey River near this place. Removed from eroding riverbank during the 1940s by Haddon Christopher Alexander.” The stone is in the cemetery at Immanuel Episcopal Church, in Old Church (Hanover County), Virginia.

[lostinsidelostoutside]

This is disgusting. These students don't know what they are doing and exactly what they are standing for .

It's all a trend . They want to be part of it not caring just how Evil the trend is .

So sad and delusional 😞.

They are so lost !!!!

[spell-bloom]

DON’T FORGET ABOUT VCU

Richmond police assaulted peaceful students at VCU on Monday April 29th, 2024. The students were granted permission by the university to protest. The protest officially started at 5PM EST outside of the Cabell Library, but several students started as early as 8 AM. They called it the Palestine Liberation Zone. Hundreds of VCU students attended.

The protesters' list of demands from VCU. They were not going to leave until the University acquiesced.

At 8:30 PM EST, Richmond police arrived at the protest in full riot gear. The pallets you see were brought in by the students to protect the tents, and themselves, from police. The University called in the police.

At 9PM, the police were armed with riot shields and formed a wall against the students. Students used pallets, signs, and themselves to press back against officers. Some flung empty water bottles against them. One of the officers used pepper spray against the students. You can see several students in the windows in the library.

Another officer pepper spraying students and setting off a tear gas canister.

RPD are claiming that they did not use tear gas.

The police retreated and the students heckle and cheer in victory.

By 9:12 PM, the students were locked inside the library by police for their safety and to prevent any chemicals from entering the building. Here is a video from a student's POV inside of the Cabell Library.

A student being arrested.

Sanitation workers take away tents and anything that was left behind. Laptops, books and other school materials were thrown away in a dumpster or were destroyed. Several students say that officers were snacking on the food that was left behind.

Past midnight, the organizers told the students to go home. The students in the library were officially let go after 4 hours of being stuck there. 13 arrests were made.

This is the University's response:

Is VCU providing safety to students in the form of riot police, pepper spray and tear gas? Almost all of the protesters were students of VCU, with maybe a handful of non-students joining in, according to a student who attends there. If the campus did not want disruption, they should not have given the green light to students protesting peacefully against genocide.

Here are several videos of the students being 'violent'

Sources: linked on twitter and a friend who attends VCU If any students or witnesses want to give more information, please feel free to comment or contact so I can update the post.

[eopederson]

Famous physicians, above entrance door to old Medical College of Virginia Hospital, Richmond, 2015.

[gardening-guy]

near the vcu student commons & academic learning commons / richmond, va 📸🌸🏙️

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Student discovers 3D printable ink that 'everyone was looking for,' says physics professor

Finding a 3D printable ink that conducts electricity, yet is strong, flexible and stretchable, has been a goal of materials scientists around the world since 3D printing began, says Daeha Joung, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University's College of Humanities and Sciences.

So last year, when Andy Shar came into his lab eager to look for the solution, Joung was apprehensive but gave Shar a chance. And he is grateful he did.

"I was trying to find that ink myself," Joung said. "But somehow, Andy discovered the recipe."

The discovery has opened up new opportunities for Shar, now a sophomore majoring in biology in the College of Humanities and Sciences and minoring in religious studies in the School of World Studies. He has been working with Joung and his research team through the VCU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

Read more.

[themassespress]

Dispatches From a Lost Commune: The VCU Liberated Zone

By Comrade Jeb | RMC DMV Smashed hands, burning skin, and a wall of riot shields eager to suck in any isolated militant they could get their bloody hands on. VCUPD, RPD, and Youngkin’s gun thugs the Virginia State Pigs rioted at a peaceful protest of ~100 students, faculty, and community members against the genocidal occupation of Palestine. They brutalized us, but we gave no easy victories. We…

[coochiequeens]

Absolutely disgusting. The school administrators that allowed this to happen should be fired and replaced by people who care about the safety of all students not just in using allowing trans students to run amok so thay can look inclusive

LEESBURG, Va. - A controversial decision in Loudoun County has led to the release of a former student convicted of sexually assaulting two girls at separate schools. 

The decision, handed down by Judge Pamela Brooks on Wednesday, has sparked some community concern.

Hunter Heckel, who was found guilty of sexually assaulting girls at two different high schools in Loudoun County, was ordered to be released from a residential treatment facility. Judge Brooks stated that Heckel is now in compliance with all requirements under his sentence, which included supervised probation.

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LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — 7News has confirmed through Loudoun County and federal officials that 15-year-old Hunter Heckel shown in 2022 on the National Sex Offender Public Website is the 15-year-old who was convicted of sexually assaulting two students in 2021 at two different high schools in Loudoun County, including one in a bathroom.

Heckel is now 18 years old.

Heckel was listed on the public website for a brief time. The website has a partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice. Heckel's name was removed after a judge ruled his name would not be part of any sexual offender list.

7News just learned Heckel was released from a lockdown residential treatment center last November and allowed to go home.

Scott Smiths' daughter was one of Heckel's victims and Smith said not one Loudoun County official, including at the time Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorney Buta Biberaj's Office, warned the victims Heckle was back on the street.

Biberaj was defeated in the last election.

"We were quite outraged when we heard it through the grapevine and had to do our own investigation to find out if this was true. In fact, it was. And then some fear went through our family...," said Smith. "Now what? But we put this behind us and we are moving forward and here we are today."

On Wednesday, a Loudoun County judge held a compliance hearing which Heckler wasn't required to attend. She confirmed he had met all his residential treatment and lifted his supervised probation.

7News reached out to former Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney Buta Biberaj for comment, but she did not respond.

Loudoun County officials tell 7News that no state law prohibits Loudoun County officials from warning victims that their attackers are being set free.

[bikerlovertexas]

[gamma-xi-delta]

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is facing backlash after it allowed university branding to be used on a local beer. This comes after the university had to pay nearly $1 million to the family of a student who died in 2021 after a fraternity hazing incident. Last year, freshman Adam Oakes died due to hazing at a VCU fraternity. In February 2021, Oakes had received a bid to the Delta Chi fraternity and was told to drink a large bottle of whiskey. The freshman was found dead the next morning.

[bumblebeeappletree]

'It’s up to our generation to … make this impact' — Young people across the U.S. are taking matters into their own hands to hold legislators accountable for actions they say contribute to a worsening climate crisis.

Climate change has been a looming threat for decades, and despite efforts to address the problem, there is still a lot of work to be done. Young people across the country are taking matters into their own hands and fighting to hold legislators accountable.

In February of 2022, 13 Virginia residents, ranging in age from 10 to 19, sued their state in a case called Layla H. v. Commonwealth of Virginia. The residents argue that by providing permits for fossil fuel infrastructure historically and through the present day, the state has violated their constitutional rights and put their health at risk.

On September 16, the case was dismissed by Richmond Circuit Court Judge Clarence N. Jenkins. The plaintiffs plan to appeal the decision. Their attorney is concerned about the precedent the judge's ruling will have on other lawsuits holding government policy accountable.

Claudia Sachs was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuits. She feels it would be unsafe for her to bring children into the world in the future because they might experience the worst potential effects of the climate crisis. Though many of the plaintiffs in the case are too young to vote, they are finding other ways to help make the world a better, more livable place for future generations.

For more environmental issues and U.S. politics, subscribe to @NowThis News and @NowThis Earth

#ClimateChange #Activism #Leadership #Politics #News #NowThis

[bourbontrend]

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[gardening-guy]

institute for contemporary art at vcu - w broad st // richmond, va 📷

alright so i know i took these cool photos of this building but i lowkey think that the institute is such an eyesore?? the architecture is just so brutalist compared to the rest of richmond, and is just a huge symbolic pillar of gentrification since jackson ward is like,,, right there, yk?

photo taken by me with a sony dslr a-100, 20-60 mm lens. aperture of f/8 with a shutter speed of 1/60.

[markherri]

Lets be friend

Every human has a positive role to play in your life only if you let them do that

I will try my best to give out the best if you let me in.....

[themassespress]

VCU Implements New Counter-Insurgency Measures

By Comrade Jeb RICHMOND, VA – The nationwide counter-insurgency campaign against the student movement has arrived in Richmond with the start of the school year, as VCU and the University of Richmond, alongside at least 8 other schools in Virginia, implemented new rules around masking, public assembly, and the right to protest, according to the Virginia Student Power Network (@vastudentpower on…