At our first 2018 session we determined on the following priorities for the year:
 
Economic Equality
Environmental Justice
Racial Justice
Strategic Non-violence
Opposition to War
 
When you work on one of these issues you are in solidarity with the others.  We understand how they intersect, and we are acting on several of them already.  For a second year CCPJ is collaborating with the Virginia Festival of the Book to address economic inequality.  Every Thursday we hold a vigil outside the Federal Building in opposition to war.  Recently we testified to legislative committees in Richmond in  support of measures authorizing municipalities to set up weapons-free safety zones for events like the mayhem that took place in Charlottesville on August 11^th and 12^th, 2017.
 
In support of this last issue, where strategic non-violence and racial justice converge, we’re now asking for your help and advice as a CCPJ supporter.  We want to encourage dialogue among local groups in opposition to violent, white-supremacist agitation in this area.  In order to share ideas, discuss principles, and eliminate duplication of effort, we ask everyone who gets this e-mail to review the following list of organizations that we believe are making plans to deter violence if and when white supremacists rally next in Charlottesville.  Please let us know which organizations are doing so, and help us add other organizations that the list omits.  Also let us know if you are part of group planning and would be willing to meet with CCPJ and others for dialogue in the months ahead. 
 
Please reply to Chip Tucker: chiptuck@gmail.com.  We will get in touch with you to set up a meeting.  The next CCPJ general meeting will take place on March 4^th, 4:00 PM, at the Friends Meeting House, 1104 Forest St., Charlottesville. 
 
Here’s the list we have assembled thus far:
 
Black Lives Matter  
Black Student Alliance (UVA)
Charlottesville Area Bulletin Board for Activism and Political Action
Charlottesville Clergy Collective 
Charlottesville Coalition for Gun Violence Prevention 
Charlottesville Friends Meeting
Charlottesville Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
Charlottesville Tomorrow   
Heartful Action  
Indivisible  
Living Wage Campaign (UVA) 
NAACP  
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) 
Solidarity Cville  
Together Cville
Virginia Organizing 
Unity Cville  

These issues are powerfully inter-related.  At our next meeting we will draw out areas of overlap among them, and consider specific actions for CCPJ to take, especially in partnership with activist groups nearby.  That steering meeting is called, as usual, for 4 pm on the first Sunday of the month at the Friends Meetinghouse.  See the panel to the left of this message for details, and come join us!