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ACTION FOR CVILLE RESIDENTS: email SchoolBoard@charlottesvilleschools.org & council@charlottesville.gov
Tell them you oppose the City paying a significant amount for police in schools while school support staff earn $20K-$30K LESS per year than a living wage. *Prioritize paying a living wage*

Union work is hard and frustrating a lot of days, but we had two big wins today including the reduction of police officers from 4 to 2 and the reversal of a classist work day policy. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

If you cannot show up in person, here is the zoom registration link: charlottesvilleschools.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is labor day and pronounced deegahluhweestaneydee heegaysuhnah eegah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

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Gabriel's Conspiracy (1800) - Encyclopedia Virginia Background   Slave Uprising in Saint-Domingue During the 1790s many white Virginians believed that living conditions for enslaved people had improved since the (1775–1783). Governor said as much in hi...

Rn 225 years ago, an enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel was planning a revolt against the "merchant class" of VA. He recruited through central VA & tidewater, even as far west as Cville. At night they fashioned old farm implements into swords & pikes after long working days being forcibly enslaved.

Digging up some stuff on local wildfires today & remembered theres a childs account of a large wildfire on Old Rag Mountain in the Columbia Speech Lab recordings from the early 1930s. Virginia really does have some remarkable accents, esp in the rural communities near the Chesapeake/mountain areas.

If you are a teacher K-12 and have a wish list for supplies for the school year for your classroom, please tag me so I can amplify your list. We used to do this on the old site and people usually responded very well.

Our friends at The Haven have put out a request for supplies.

Please take a minute to see what they need and consider supporting The Haven and our neighbors experiencing homelessness.

mailchi.mp/thehaven/sto...

Happy Contract Day to CCS licensed staff! Cheers to a significant raise, protected planning time, a guaranteed lunch break, and limits on work outside of contract hours among other things! #Unionstrong

1/ Over the past several days, my better half and I have been talking about what a new UVA could mean for Charlottesville, the city that raised us and that we know so well.

If you’re looking to learn more about Charlottesville political history, @rankedchoiceva.org has a series of posts on block voting, ranked choice voting, the pros and cons of wards, and fair representation www.rankedchoiceva.org/news/from-wa...

I think this is an effort to either reallocate resources to folks in need and/or fund raise through selling donated stuff. I can send you a group link, would that be helpful?

Are you connected with the Mutual Aid Market? They are hosting a community yard sale later in the month and are looking for stuff

PAYNE: U.Va.’s acquisition of the FEI directly harms the children of Charlottesville  The Department of Education rescinded its award to CCS and gave the FEI property to the University instead.

“The University’s intentional actions have directly harmed students in Charlottesville’s public schools. It is time for the University to enter into substantive conversations with City Hall and CCS to mitigate the damage done by the University.”

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

They call them amusement parks because in olden times people amused themselves by waiting in a line all day.

CEA Response to FEI Property The recent news that the Department of Education has reversed its decision to grant the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) to the Charlottesville City Schools is devastating. It is not a coincidence th...

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CEA response to FEI being given to UVA.

UVA steals from Cville children

Filling Out Your Ballot | Charlottesville City Council Charlottesville will use ranked choice voting to nominate candidates for City Council on June 17, 2025. Learn about filling out your ranked choice ballot.

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Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Wagner Davis said UVA is actively working to have some sort of collaboration with the space, regardless of who the propery “I think we have been incredibly good neighbors and Jim [Ryan] leading the charge in terms of the win-wins we have found in working with the city and the county on a vast multitude of issues,” UVA’s Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Wagner Davis said.

If UVA gets FEI instead of CCS, it’ll be the equivalent of taking tens of millions of dollars from the city.

Imagining looking at a camera with a straight face and saying that’s the sort of thing an “incredibly good neighbor” would do.

It’s gaslighting, pure and simple.

ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.

ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

FEI BOV Letter Final Dear Rector Hardie, Vice-Rector Brown, and Board of Visitors, As Charlottesville City Schools has now submitted a bid for the Federal Executive Institute property, we urge you to vote against the Ap...

We sent at letter to the UVA Board of Visitors asking them to withdraw their attempt to obtain the Federal Executive Institute and instead support the Charlottesville City Schools bid for the property.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UVa, Charlottesville competing for Trump-shuttered Federal Executive Institute Two Charlottesville educational institutions — Charlottesville City Schools and the University of Virginia — are now bidding for the Federal Executive Institute shuttered by Trump.

UVA is finding new ways to be a bad neighbor and community partner. This time they’re attempting to prevent the city schools from having a preschool center and new central offices.

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Oh look! 👀 The UVA BOV has a phone line and a direct email address so that members of the public can contact them before their Tuesday meeting 👇🏾

The Fellowship of the Ring in (a fantasy version of) Bronze Age getups.

Here it is, the Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring.

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I've seen crack dealers less sketchy than the dude in the pink shirt and his pal with the mask claiming to be Feds. This was in Charlottesville, Va today. Respect to the woman who tried to intercede. #ice

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