Race Capitol

06/08/2022

Wishing our co-host a HAPPY MF BIRTHDAY !! Kalia brings her Public Health/ COVID WATCH & mutual aid to our Race Capitol home as well as all her love for community.

Show her some love today and wish her a happy bday in the comments and send her some coins if ya can! $realwizkalia

23/05/2022

🎈 HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOMI 🎈today we are celebrating our co-host, , on their solar return. Please join us in wishing Nomi a happy, happy birthday!

For their special day, Nomi is asking the community to support a Black mother in need of money to secure safe & stable housing by the end of june; the goal is $1500

cashapp: $nomiisaac

This mama engages in prison organizing and recently has been experiencing some targeted violence and had to relocate. this is the THIRD time they’ll be relocating so it’d be nice if they could make more than their goal so they can be comfortable for once while they try to find new employment.

01/04/2022

We want to thank you for your continued support of our Black independent media platform. Thanks to the support of our listeners, we have entered our 3rd year together as co-hosts of Race Capitol, which is in its 4th year of existence - with over 100 episodes featuring voices + narratives from various struggles against white supremacy in so-called Richmond and beyond. We have been voted as Richmond’s best podcast two years in a row by our community. We’ve embarked on the journey of becoming movement journalists and making our platform a space for truth-telling, exploring our realities and co-creating a liberated future.

As we entered into 2022, we decided to take this year to invest in our own healing, shared knowledge & growth, and skills as movement journalists and community members. We are taking a break from production of episodes for at least a few months. During that time, we will continue to work on the Race Capitol platform, as well as the various other projects we are engaged in.

We are excited about this break as it will give us time to dream up the next chapter of Race Capitol together and devote more time to other efforts/roles we’re engaged in. During our break from production, we invite you to continue supporting us by:
● contributing to our Patreon
● subscribing and listening to our episodes
● engaging in your community + building strong relationships

Our show will still air Wednesdays at 10am on WRIR 97.3 FM and you can stream Race Capitol on all podcast platforms.

09/02/2022

NEW EPISODE ALERT: This week on Race Capitol, we are kicking off the year with our very first COVID WATCH episode - all about community care in Richmond. We will dive into some local mutual aid efforts that have been addressing the lack of PPE in the RVA area with Lauren Garcia ( ) , a current pHD student at the University of Virginia and VCU alum and Natalie del Castillo ( ) of River City Harm Redux ( )

Be sure to subscribe to our Black independent media platform everywhere that you listen to podcasts

30/01/2022

From Race Capitol Co-Host Nomi: *please share!*

Update: she has been found!

“if anyone in has seen or heard from my sibling, please let me know. ebony didn’t return home yesterday and no one has heard from her. its unlike her not to call or to leave her dog home alone. would have been driving an older champagne audi with a pink steering wheel cover.”

14/01/2022

Richmond utility workers, firefighters, police officers, librarians and other city employees could soon join teachers in having the right to collectively negotiate labor contracts.

08/01/2022

WE ARE ALMOST AT OUR GOAL AND ITS ’s MF BIRTHDAY!

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It’s my birthdayyyyyyy! And we are SO CLOSE TO 5k!!!! Please please continue to share boost like save comment. Only a few hundred away and we can purchase the last thousand masks. THANK YOU!

“Solidarity is not an act of charity but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.” -Samora Machel

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04/01/2022

WE ARE STILL RAISING FUNDS TO ARM OUR COMMUNITY WITH MASKS + PPE 🚨 so far, thanks to our community, we have enough for 625 kits. Read ’s update below 👇🏾

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We’ve purchased materials for 625 MASK KITS!! Since this graphic was made we raised an additional $726.16, making the TOTAL RAISED $3387 with more coming in!

Today I saw this interesting, terrifying graphic on Twitter from a doctor. Certified respirator masks with a seal and extra filtration protect us from COVID significantly better than cloth and surgical masks. It takes 27 minutes for a dose of covid to transmit between two people wearing cloth masks - which means running errands, taking public transit, and being at work can infect you in less than half an hour - but 25 hours between two people wearing non-fit-tested n95s. We are providing a lower cost, *exponentially* safer, reusable alternative!

Many of you DMed to say you didn’t know kn95s could be reused! Using a paper bag at room temperature, you can mark each bag and each mask with a number, wear it for the day, carefully remove it by the straps and store it in its bag. 4 days later your mask will be safe to use. If you only have one mask, you can disinfect it in the oven at 170 degrees for 45 minutes. Experts recommend putting it into a paper bag, then an oven safe bag. Make sure to sanitize hands before and after and only remove by the ear loops! These masks last until they are soiled or the straps loosen/break. It’s economical and it saves lives! Swipe for visual instructions >>>

Thank you for helping us do this. Please continue to share, like, comment, save these posts. A wonderful birthday present to me 🎁 ❤️

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03/01/2022

The effort to arm everyone w supplies continues! $1540 has been raised since yesterday but aiming for $5000!

Repost from : Since yesterday we pooled $1540 to provide ourselves with the PPE our government has not. I cannot thank you enough.

I see a lot of people misappropriating the concept of mutual aid. It’s not charity and it’s very political. We are taught that power is individual, whether it’s a single president or congressman, or the fake idea that we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Individualism defines the American identity. It’s a way to distract us from the fact that we are exploited, and also that we are quite literally in this together. One person wearing a high quality mask can stop the spread to hundreds of people. When we understand ourselves as a collective we don’t need someone to come save us. We save each other, in small ways, every day. Your $4, $25, $300 affects countless lives, and when you’re hurting we’ll reciprocate. That’s what community is.

My birthday is 1/8 and I’ll be posting about this every day til then, with a personal goal of $5,000. There are folks involved who want to sustain this momentum and provide larger support for this. I’m very proud and honored to have lived in such a beautiful community.

Keep sharing and sending so we can reach as many people as possible. Cash app $loclotilde
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02/01/2022

Join us to wish a HBD by ORGANIZING PPE for our local folks! SHARE!

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Venmo: @ lcg108 last four: 3256

Repost from Lauren: IT’S MY SECOND MF PANDEMIC BIRTHDAY! And it’s a big one. And we are stuck inside again except most of us have to work and lots of us are getting sick. No one is helping us!!! So let’s help each other. Just like last year with the fridge - send me birthday dollars and I’ll buy enough PPE to hand out to at least a few hundred Richmonders. A kit with a 4 kn95s, hand sanis, instructions for reuse will cost about $4. Depending on how much we can collect, we can add tests, thermometers, oximeters. Cash app $loclotilde venmo last four digits 3256

Thanks to and + my OG VCU crew for starting these convos. And to for showing me last year that this sort of thing can be done. SHARE WIDELY

31/12/2021

TOP TEN OF 2021 ✨ we just dropped a playlist of our biggest hits from this year. Drop a comment with your favorite track 👇🏾

🔥 ‘Til We Don’t Live in a Police State (part 1 + 2)
🔥 No Cops! No Colonies! No Casinos!
🔥 Re**er Revolution 3: No New Crimes
🔥Surveillance State: Policing Public Housing in RVA
🔥 2021: Fascist Insurrections, COVID-19, Evictions, and Riding While Black
🔥 What’s the 411? VA Leg Updates
🔥 Reclamation East End: Resisting the Recreation Plantation
🔥 Great White Hope: Richmond Gentrification
🔥 Fire to the Prisons I

Thank you to all of our guests for coming on to the show this year, to our listeners and patreons who sustain us.

Support our independent Black media platform by becoming a monthly sustainer on Patreon, subscribing to our show on ALL podcast platforms, and sharing it.

Happy New Year 🎊 here’s to another year of joy and resistance together.

In solidarity,
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08/12/2021

For our last episode of 2021: We are talking about mutual aid with Yaya Ogaldez ( ) of and Sarandon Elliot ( .e ) of

Our conversation explores the work of building life affirming institutions in so-called Charlottesville and here at home in the fallen capitol of the confederacy. We kick it off with our last Race Capitol reframe of 2021.

Airing at 10am on FM & streaming on all platforms; link in bio!

P.S. stay tuned for some more goodies before the year is out!

24/11/2021

This week on Race Capitol, we are in dialogue with Lisa Woolfork, Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Christina Rivera of Congregate Cville, a Unitarian Universalist minister, as they reflect on the recent four year anniversary of A11 and A12 and the impact of the Sines v. Kessler trial on members of the Charlottesville community.

Tune in this week as we center the People’s narratives from the ground in so-called Charlottesville. Thank you to our guests for joining this week!

Give to the A11 A12 Survivors Support Fund: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/a11a12support

16/11/2021

Happy birthday to our founder and co-host ✨ sends Chelsea some birthday love by sending some coins to her venmo or cashapp and by commenting below 👇🏾

09/11/2021

Share & show up today at 5p at Diversity Richmond to support the thrift store workers demand protection at this very important space in

08/11/2021

Updated statement from Workers of Diversity Richmond:

11/8/2021, 2:30 pm EST
Diversity Richmond Board is
Delaying our Meeting until
Tomorrow.

On Saturday Nov. 6, 2021, the Board President (after hearing
our grievances of sexual harassment and employee safety) affirmed that the Executive Committee would hear our grievances today (Monday 11/8/21) because there was already a
regularly scheduled meeting that was to take place. We agreed
that if we could not get an earlier, virtual meeting then we
would default to that time. However. we stressed that we wanted an earlier audience with the Board. Today, the executive committee asked us to choose a time to meet later this week, during a time that "works for all", in lieu
of meeting today as agreed.
We see this as an intentional delay to our movement, as it was
already affirmed to a group of 10+ people on Saturday (in-
person) that we'd meet today.
We are unsure if they are still planning to meet privately tonight. But we are still showing up tonight around 5:30pm- 5:45pm, to show the organization that the eyes of the community are watching them and await an ethical solution.
We ask that the community show up
tonight AND tomorrow around
5:30pm
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Second slide:

11/8/2021, 2:30 pm EST
Our Response to the Executive
Board request to delay today's
meeting:

"This is certainly not ideal, given the gravity of the situation (i.e.- sexual harassment and employee safety). We were told that the executive committee meeting was already scheduled (and therefore already a convenient time for all). That was something you affirmed to a group of us on Saturday.

This is not our preference and we do not agree to the schedule change, but obviously we cannot force people to show up physically. If you really think it's a good idea to move the meeting (and continue to run the store short-staffed), and do not plan to show up tonight (as previously scheduled) then I can let the community know.

If you give us no option to meet today, then we are forced to meet tomorrow at 6pm instead."
Their response: "We will plan to
meet at 6pm" [Tuesday 11/9/21|

08/11/2021

Race Capitol asks that we stand together in solidarity with Diversity Richmond Thrift Store workers.

Yesterday they held a protest & released their demands.

TODAY they ask for support from 5:45-6:45 (off property for safety) as the board walks in for their emergency board meeting. Showing up will show the board that the community is watching and standing behind the people holding down the space for ALL US!

Share this post and show up today at 5:45 at diversity! 1407 Sherwood Ave.

13/10/2021

This week on Race capitol, we are talking about the casino; exploring the legacy of wealth extraction, colonialism, and big shiny developments here in Richmond. We speak with community advocate and musician Allan-Charles Chipman and local artist Shon. After we speak with our guests, all three hosts will provide some deeper analysis on the upcoming casino referendum in Richmond.

What are your thoughts on the Casino? Sound off in the comments below.

12/10/2021

RVA: send us screenshots, photos and links of casino one propaganda that displays their “promises” for Richmond. Please put them in this thread or DM us directly. RT!

Time sensitive request.

06/10/2021

FTTPII UPDATE: Following the recording of Fire to the Prisons II episode, it was brought to our attention that Marquis Bey had previously demonstrated a pattern of abusive behavior. Race Capitol has decided to remove Marquis’ interview from FTTPII in order to hold the tension between rejecting disposability of Black trans people while prioritizing survivors of sexual harm. We understand that those involved have completed a formal accountability process facilitated by transformative justice practitioners hired by AK Press. Read AK Press’ statement by clicking the link in our bio.

Race Capitol believes in our inherent value. We are against disposability culture which we understand to be a practice exercised by those within a privileged class or social position that sees poor, Black, Fat, Trans, non-men, Disabled, and other historically oppressed people as expendable. The practice of disposability culture causes those impacted to suffer the loss of social, political, and economic support. Considering Marquis' position as an academic, published author, and respected professional, Race Capitol believes that, at this time, removing Marquis' interview will not have any significant impact on their material conditions.

We are birthing that world together where accountability is a daily practice.

Race Capitol remains dedicated to creating a platform for those who have been violenced by the System--including by those who hold power within it. We have reached out to Marquis informing them of the concerns and look to those most impacted by Marquis’ abuse to inform further action. We are not in contact with survivors at the time of this statement. Survivors interested in contacting us can reach us at [email protected].

29/09/2021

SCROLL TO SUPPORT OUR GUESTS 🖤 ‼️

NEW EPISODE TODAY! WRIR 97.3 fm Richmond Independent Radio

The liberation of colonized people necessitates the abolition of policing and prisons. Emancipation calls on us to not simply build a better world, in which less people are oppressed--but rather to build a world where the conditions for oppression become an impossibility:

—one which affirms the lives of all people;
—one that is divorced from the institutions of ableism, racism, and homophobia;
—one that disallows the possibility for transmisogyny, that makes deportations obsolete;
—one that not only changes, but has the infrastructure to be transformative;
—where there are no borders, binaries, or limitations.

Abolition requires our solutions to be imaginative and boundless. And abolitionism as both a movement and a project has continued to do just that since the colonization of the Amerikas. This makes abolition more than one final project, rather--in the words of professor Marquis Bey--a constant state of becoming ✨

This week on Race Capitol we meditate 💭 on Blackness, captivity, and freedom through exploring three schools of abolitionism: gender abolition, non-profit (or NPIC) abolitionism, and state abolitionism. First, we hear from professor, theorist, + author of the upcoming book, “Black Trans Feminism,” Marquis Bey (they/them/any) about the ways in which gender radicality and Black Trans Feminism provide possibilities for total liberation.

Next we speak with (they/he/love), about how the freedom of oppressed people + marginalized genders necessitates the abolition of the non-profit industrial complex, as well as their recent resignation from the Abolitionist Teaching Network after surviving repeated organizational harm. Omi is raising funds to support their living conditions and therapy after resigning from the Abolitionist Teaching Network due to organizational harm. You can support them by visiting the link in our bio. Please donate + share!

Finally we hear from New Afrikan Prison Solidarity Organizer, (she/they) where they talk briefly about how the movement calls on us to develop the infrastructure for autonomous, sustainable community support.

16/09/2021

09/09/2021

More violent policing and increased surveillance in Richmond’s public housing neighborhoods. We talk to community organizers Yohance Whitaker and Omari Kadaffi Guevara this week on our show about this incident and the legacy + current situation.
bit.ly/NO-RPD-LPRS

P.S. this officer has not a single mask on! But we keep giving millions in COVID funding to the pigs while Black people are evicted during a pandemic.

Abolish the police. Land back. Liberation now.

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While Richmond's public housing authority puts out press releases bragging about a "family friendly" barment policy this is what it looks like in practice. RRHA's Public Safety Director aka Crime Czar calls his cop buddy on a Black father for a noncriminal situation. The father was visiting his child's home. The Public Safety Director is a former ATF agent with extensive ties to local and state law enforcement. His position was created by the former CEO who left before staying a full year. His arrival has brought heavy surveillance to residents with cameras and license plate readers. Both cops escalate this situation until a reason is created to bar the father from the property. The RRHA barment policy is so vague that any cop in the state of Virginia can bar anyone for practically anything without a crime being committed. (See 3 posts ago for context) Years ago RRHA fought a trespassing case all the way to the US Supreme Court all because a father was bringing diapers to their child in this same property. Thats the lengths that RRHA and RPD will go through to disrupt the Black family.
This is Richmond. But hey at least monuments came down right?

08/09/2021

Our statement on today’s monument removal at .
The PEOPLE are what make Richmond monumental. Rather than change the material conditions of Black people’s lives, politicians continue to give more money to the police. We are committed to the long struggle for liberation.

Read our full statement here: bit.ly/BYE-BYE-LEE