David Quillen: "Some of your Buckingham County readers might have seen people at the various country stores collecting signatures for a petition that is circulating in the county.In response to the threat of industrial gold mining coming into Buckingham County, a...
2021 Our year in review
Weekly Silent Vigil for BIPOC We are proud of our accomplishments this year. As we reflect on 2021, much gratitude arises for the many people who have supported us in our endeavors. We: Wrote a Community Bill of Rights with Buckingham neighbors impacted by a potential...
PRESS RELEASE: There’s gold in Virginia, but it won’t make you rich.
. Haile, South Carolina industrial gold mine For Immediate Release Contact: Chad Oba, chado108@icloud.com, 434-806-6332Heidi Dhivya Berthoud, heidi@vacommunityrights.org,...
Metallic Mining and Freedom from Toxic Trespass
There's gold in Virginia, but it won't make us rich! Virginia Community Rights Network (VACRN) has teamed up with the Friends of Buckingham (FoB) to jointly propose to the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors, passage into law a Community Bill of Rights called...
Cville article on ACP defeat, VACRN response
In response to a well written article in the Cville Weekly, Heidi Dhivya Berthoud wrote a letter to the editor, published in the August 12-18 edition. No link was available, thus the text is copied here: Erika Howsare wrote a great article [“Hallelujah, What’s...
Anti-ACP activists launch Virginia Community Rights Network
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The Virginia Community Rights Network was launched by a group of residents of Buckingham County who worked to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in order to help strengthen the power of localities. The group was launched to...