Radical Students' Union at UMW

09/23/2021

Please join us at the spirit rock Friday evening, as we come together in support of survivors. We uphold the belief that the marginalized people in our community are our first priority, and for accountability to happen, testimony is often a first step.

Because of the current climate, we will not be welcoming administrators or faculty at this vigil, while we consider the negligence this community is facing at their hands.

Be sure to bring a mask and keep social distancing in mind depending on turn-out.
Everyone deserves to feel safe here. None of us are free until all of us are free.

02/18/2021

A PSA!
The public comment session is today (Thursday) at 3 PM!
http://www.umw.edu/bov/public-comments/

12/14/2020

12/10/2020

CW: Police violence, violence against children
This is the same behavior that right-wing Fredericksburg residents falsely accuse anti-racist protesters of perpetrating. Only this violence isn't fabricated and was committed by the very public agents they think are meant to protect us.

A Black mother who was attacked by a horde of Philadelphia police officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia Young was driving an SUV with her 2-year-old son and teenage nephew on October 27 as the city was engulfed in protest over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. earlie...

11/06/2020

11/04/2020

If you believe we live in a democracy, you can't also think it ends on election day.

10/25/2020

Tomorrow! Bring your friends!

Register: bit.ly/GothicMarxism

[ID: A promotional poster featuring a glowing pumpkin carved with the face of Karl Marx. The poster reads:
Radical Students' Union at UMW presents
Gothic Marxism One Oh One:
Necrocapitalism, horror, and the politics of plague.
Quote. "Capital comes into the world dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." Unquote. Das Kapital, Volume One.
Meeting is on Monday, October 26, 6 PM on Zoom.
Registration link is bit.ly/GothicMarx ]

10/13/2020

10/13/2020

Reminder that the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg and Stafford is built on the ancestral land of the Patawomeck Tribe.