Click here for a printable flyer fully describing the 2018 Lobby Day in Richmond Virginia. If you would like to travel with our 1st Vice President to Richmond on January 16, contact EJ Scott to discuss travel arrangements.
The October 6th candidate forum held at Hampton Middle School and jointly sponsored by PWNAACP, The League of Women Voters and the Committee of 100 was covered by the Inside NOVA news organization.
The session opened with prayer, the pledge of allegiance and introductory remarks from representatives from the three sponsoring organizations.
The forum was moderated by Dr. Steven Farnsworth, Political Science Professor at the University of Mary Washington.
Click here to view the inside NOVA article describing the event.
The Prince William NAACP, the League of Women Voters of the Prince William Area, and the Prince William Committee of 100 in association with Area 15 NAACP Chapters, are collaborating to present a free candidate forum featuring candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates in select northern Virginia House Districts. The forum will be held on Friday, October 6 at George M. Hampton Middle School at 7pm. The public is invited to register online and attend.
Click here to view a press release containing full details and how you can participate.
Click here to access a printable flyer to share with family and friends.
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
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.
The Chair of our Political Action Committee provided the following message concerning a forum which will be held in lieu of the usual General Membership Meeting on March 21, 2017:
Friends,
Please join the Prince William Unit of the NAACP for a candidate Forum featuring candidates for Clerk of the Court on 21 March at 7:00pm. This forum is for a special election set for 18 April. Yes, a little over one month away. We have invited all candidates to participate.
Clerk of the Court Candidate Forum
First AME Church
10313 S. Grant Ave.
Manassas, VA 20110
If you have questions you would like the candidates to answer, please submit them by responding to this email with your questions.
The NAACP Forum will focus on the criminal justice and economic challenges the African American community faces in Prince William County, Manassas City and Manassas Park and how the office of the Clerk of the Court can support our community.
Check out the Prince William NAACP Game Changers below:
NAACP 21st Century Game Changers
Thank you for working us into your schedule. If you have questions or concerns, please call me at 703.368.4541. We look forward to seeing you there.
Thanks & Regards……….?
Regards,
EJ Scott
PWNAACP Vice President
Chair, Political Action Committee
703.368.4541
PWNAACP.org
The PWNAACP Vice President and chair of the Political Action Committee advised that there are vacancies on various boards and commissions in Virginia. Any citizen can sign up to be considered for these positions. You are urged to consider applying for a State or local Board or Commission. Click here for more information on what is available and how you may apply.
The organizers of the 2017 Virginia State Conference NAACP and the PWNAACP Chapter annual General Assembly Lobby Day in Richmond on January 17 expressed appreciation for those who participated!
The accompanying image is of some of the folk who attended the 4:00PM Press Conference following the event. More than half of the attendees had left before this image was taken.
A related item is the Bus Trip scheduled to depart on February 17 for the NAACP National Board of Directors Meeting in New York City. We will have a bus leaving from Northern Virginia if we get enough riders. Please call 703.368.4541 for further information and/or to indicate your interest. Click here for a flyer with further description of the trip. (Note that two copies of the information is contained on each flyer so it can be cut in two and passed to two interested persons).
Parties wanting to tear down two historic homes owned by former slave George Lomax, located on Liberty St in Manassas Virginia will appear before the Architectural Review Board this evening, 13 DEC at 7:30pm. If you can join us in the meeting, please come. Hope to see you there at City of Manassas City Hall, 9027 Center St., 2nd Floor conference Room Manassas, VA 20110.
On May 17, 2016, EJ Scott, Chairperson of our Political Action/ Public Policy & Legislation Committee shared information she received by email stating that President Obama is extending overtime pay to millions more Americas. Click here to read the content of that message.
