Casandra Monroe, Chair of our Housing Committee, requests your participation in the National Housing week event which runs from July 22 – July 29th. The week will focus on affordable housing and actions you can take to help preserve it. Click here to read the appeal and instructions on how to join the effort.
The following message is issued from the Chairperson of the Political Action Committee concerning the effort to save the Carver Road community:Friends,
Thanks you. Your calls and letters have helped. But we need to keep the pressure on. The Prince William NAACP Political Action Committee requests your help by contacting the Prince William County Board of Supervisor members (PWCBOS) and urge the Supervisors to support the Carver Road residents and not allow Dominion Energy to run their power lines through Carver Road. Send your letter now! Click HERE to send your email.. Then join us on Tuesday, 18July!
Send the Prince William County Board of Supervisors an email urging them to support the Carver Road residents and the Alliance to Save Carver Road. Click HERE to send your email..
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Background:
The State Corporate Commission (SCC) has given Dominion Energy authority to run power lines through Carver Road in the Gainesville area to service Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos, the $80 billion dollar man. Click HERE to send your email.
There were two proposed routes for these power lines when discussions started in 2014: 1- Hybrid I-66 (along I-66 ) where the lines would be underground, 2- Railroad Route ( Haymarket ) then at the end of last year they decided to add 3- The Carver Route (Carver Road/Old Carolina Rd). Click HERE to send your email.
The majority of the residents who live on Carver Road are the descendants of freed slaves. These properties have been passed down through generations. They Do NOT want these power lines in the Carver Road area. The power lines would affect homes, buildings, schools, churches. Yes, it would even affect the 140 year old black church, Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church.
The most suitable route that would not disturb homes would be the Hybrid I-66 Route. Click HERE to send your email.
Black neighborhoods are often targeted for eminent domain land grabs, as in the 1960 and 70’s when Black neighborhoods were ravished. Thousands of Blacks were left devastated by court orders demanding they move out of their ancestral homes.
American citizens expect to be able to keep the land and homes that they have built for themselves and their families. They deserve the security that what they have worked so hard for during their life time, will not be stolen at a whim.
There is too much history at stake to destroy the family homes on Carver Rd. These homes have been passed down through generations for the over 150 years. Click HERE to send your email.
Talking Points
!!!TAKE ACTION!!! Click HERE to send your email.
We will hold a press conference and speak to the PW Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, 18JULY at 1:30pm Please Join Us!!
McCoart Building
1 County Complex Ct
Woodbridge, VA 22192
For more information see these articles
The Carver Route: Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics
As Data Centers Bloom, a Century-Old African American Enclave is Threatened (Washington Post)
[NOTE: The SCC announced Friday, 14July, that it will reconsider its decision to allow the route of a set of Dominion Energy power lines to cut through land near Haymarket. Read here.
Thanks & Regards……….?
Regards,
EJ Scott
Our unit president was forwarded a message by Mr. David Cuff, president of Historic Prince William, concerning a Genealogical Conference being held on September 15 – 16, 2017 at the Chesterfield County Public Library . The theme of the conference is: “Virginia: Where African American Genealogy and History Began”.
Click here to read the series of messages which contains all important details so that you may ‘save the dates’ in case you wish to participate.
This item will be further discussed and a decision made as to whether/how the unit will participate.
EJ Scott, the Unit’s 1st Vice President and Chairperson of the Political Action Committee issued this urgent appeal to community members and friends:
CALL TO ACTION – CARVER ROAD
Urge the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to rescind their egregious decision to allow Dominion to run power lines through the generationally African American owned neighborhood on Carver Road. There were three route options, but the SCC chose destroying an historic African American neighborhood. Send an email by clicking HERE.
For more information on the injustice that has been perpetrated against the descendents of these freed slaves and the land they own, read these articles:
Washington Post Article
Prince Williams Times Article
The ACTION we need you to take:
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SCC Commissioners
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EMAIL: Commissioners@scc.virginia.gov
PHONE: 804-371-9608
Physical Address:
Tyler Building
1300 E. Main St.
Richmond, Virginia 23219
**Sample Letter & Background Below**
Dear Chairman Judith Williams Jagdmann
Commissioner Mark C. Christie
Commissioner James C. Dimitri
On April 6, the State Corporation Commission (SCC) authorized Dominion Energy Virginia to construct a new 230-kilovolt electric transmission line and a new substation in Prince William County and the town of Haymarket that will follow the Carver Road route.
THE RESIDENTS ARE DESCENDANTS OF FREED SLAVES WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING THERE FOR OVER FIVE GENERATIONS AND DO NOT WANT THESE POWERLINES GOING THROUGH THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. THESE POWER LINES WILL REQUIRE THE STATE TO TAKE AFRICAN AMERICAN OWNED LAND AND WILL DESTORY HOMES, THREATEN SCHOOLS, BUSINESSES AND EVEN THE HISTORIC MT. PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH FOUNDED IN 1877. THEY TOOK OUR HOMES AND LAND BACK IN THE 1960’s USING EMINENT DOMAIN LAWS WHICH LED TO THE DISRUPTION AND DISPLACEMENT OF THOUSANDS OF AFRICIAN AMERICAN FAMILIES. NOT AGAIN!!!
We have a collective responsibility to honor the past, safeguard those who have descended from freed slaves, protect property that has been in the family for generations and is now being trampled upon by corporate greed. Who are we as a civilization if we allow our history to be destroyed because of misplaced “progress”. This is not progress, but of greed.
WE REQUEST THAT YOU RESCIND YOU ORDER TO USE THE CARVER ROAD ROUTE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA TRANSMISSION LINE.
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TAKE ACTION NOW:
Send your email NOW!!
Thanks for your support.
