September-October 2014
Annual Auction Offers Exciting Outdoor Adventures
The RPEC Auction is coming
soon, on November 8, at the Crown
Plaza Hotel downtown so if you have
not yet gotten your tickets, get them
now. We've sold out the last few
years and this year will probably be a
sold-out event as well, given our collection of treasures up for bid. Tickets can be bought on www.rpec.org
for $45 each, or a table of eight for
$360.
Besides literally hundreds of
treasures that you can take home
with you that night, here's a peek at
some of the more unique items that
can be yours for a winning bid.
Once again this year, Ralph
White is offering to lead a guided
tour of Belle Isle or the Slave Trail.
River guide Ralph White, up for bid.
Ralph was the head of the James
River park system for decades and
knows it perhaps better than any
living person. Experience the beauty of Belle Isle or the darkest chapter of Richmond's history as no one
else can present it.
RPEC Urges Repeal of War on Terror Law
By Rob Gabriele
On August 13 six RPEC members
met with Senator Tim Kaine's regional director to urge the Senator to
sponsor legislation to repeal the 2001
Authorization for the Use of Military
Force (AUMF). This is a deceptively simple piece of legislation passed
by Congress shortly after Sept 11,
2001, that empowers the president to
use U.S. military force against anyone associated with the 9/11 attacks.
The visit to Kaine’s office was
part of a multi-pronged education
and advocacy effort that RPEC is
developing to address the militarization of American policy and society.
The law opposed by RPEC does not
list specific targets but includes
both states and non-state actors. It
has no sunset provision, no end
date, and does not specify or limit
the kinds of force that can be used.
Whatever the merits may have
been for such an authorization
shortly after 9/11, it has become the
legal justification for the “global
war on terror” that has so undermined the civil liberties, constitutional rights, and foundational values of our country since 2001.
Presidents Bush and Obama have
used the AUMF to justify over 30
military interventions, uncounted
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Richmond is a city of neighborhoods, each of which is uniquely
interesting and beautiful. And one of
the best is the Museum District.
Here's one for you suburbanites.
Come experience one of the city's
coolest neighborhoods with a night
at a B&B in the Museum District.
Have dinner in one of the many restaurants in the neighborhood, take a
walk up and down tree-lined streets
of turn-of-the-century row houses,
admire gardens both glorious and
simple, stroll Carytown, and of
course, enjoy the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts, and The Virginia Historical Society. A vacation that
doesn't involve I-95 or an airport!
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RPS Teachers Trained
For Conflict Resolution
Nonviolent conflict resolution
training has long been a cornerstone
of the Richmond Peace Education
Center’s programs. But here’s something you might not know: RPEC
trainers have introduced conflict resolution techniques to about a thousand
Richmond Public School teachers!
For each of the past five years,
approximately 200 newly-hired RPS
educators have participated in a full
afternoon workshop led by RPEC
trainers, as part of their introductory
week. For many, our participatory,
experiential session is one of the
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RPECnews
Reflection
RPECnews
is a publication of the
Richmond Peace Education Center
3500 Patterson Avenue
Richmond, VA 23221
Phone: (804) 232-1002
E-mail: [email protected]
RPEC Web Page:
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RPEC Staff
Executive Director: Adria Scharf
Asst. to the Director:
Paul Fleisher
Conflict Resolution Coordinator:
Santa Sorenson
Office Staff: Beth Holt
2014 Board of Directors
Bunny Chidester
Gordon Davies (Treasurer)
Rob Gabriele
Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez
Renee Hill
Jennifer Lewis
Lucretia McCulley (Secretary)
Valaryee Mitchell
Josi Riederer (Youth Representative)
Charol Shakeshaft (Vice Chair)
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
Michael Stone
Newsletter Committee
Editor: Charles Robideau
[email protected]
Jimmie Cloutier
John Gallini
Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez
Grant Rissler
Adria Scharf
Opinions and announcements
in RPECnews are those of the
individual writers and are not
necessarily endorsed by RPEC.
RPECnews is published 6 times per
year and has a circulation of
approximately 1,800. We welcome
article and calendar submissions.
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Adria Scharf
RPEC Executive Director
Lessons We (Should Have) Learned
In September, as we mark the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks, the United States stands poised to embark on yet another long
war. The President’s proposed campaign of bombardment in Iraq and
Syria aims to confront the group that calls itself the “Islamic State.”
That group needless to say is brutal. It needs to be stopped. However,
another war — or a re-start of our so recently concluded war in Iraq
— is not the answer.
It’s crucially important to pause to reflect on the lessons we’ve
learned from our foreign policy choices over the past 13 years. Four
lessons we (should have) learned:

U.S. military power is far more limited in its capacity to bring
about change in other countries than our leaders claim.

Bombardments fuel resistance and rage. They inevitably kill
large numbers of civilians including children. . .fueling opposition to our presence and fueling violent resistance.

Wars don’t go as planned. President Bush’s promised short
and affordable foray into Iraq became a $3 trillion disaster that
left that country in utter disarray. That war created the conditions for the current crisis.

Our service men and women and their families pay a terrible
and disproportionate price for our foreign policies.
I fear it’s a slippery slope to boots back on the ground. Voices of
peace and voices of skepticism have been proven correct again and
again when it’s come to our military interventions in the Middle East
over the past 13 years.
Listen to those voices today who are asking tough questions. And ask
some tough questions yourself.
Our Mission
The Richmond Peace Education Center is working to build a more
peaceful and just community in the Richmond, Virginia area. Since
its founding in 1980, the center has been a leading voice for nonviolence and social justice, offering programs on conflict resolution and
violence prevention, racial justice, and global issues. RPEC needs
your involvement. Contact the office to plug in: [email protected] or
232-1002. Together, we can build a more peaceful and just community and world.
RPECnews
RPEC happenings
New Teens Join RYPP Leadership Team
On the weekend of September 2728, about 30 young people from
throughout the Richmond region participated in our annual Richmond
Youth Peace Project conflict resolution workshop. This year’s participants came from Richmond, along
with the counties of Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, King George, Goochland and Brunswick. Once again, as
in previous years, we received substantially more applications from participants than we were able to accommodate — a strong indication of the
motivation for local young people to
learn nonviolent conflict resolution
skills.
These teens spent 15 hours experiencing activities and exercises from
the Peace Center’s conflict resolution
curriculum. The final portion gave
participants the opportunity to practice their own leadership skills, as
small teams led others in the group
through one of the exercises in their
training manuals, and then received
feedback on their performance.
All participants who completed
the two-day workshop are now eligible to lead RPEC workshops for
other young people at schools, community centers, houses of worship
and other youth-serving organizations — under the guidance and
mentorship of one of our experienced adult lead trainers.
We want our new trainers to
share their new-found skills. So if
you know any groups that might be
interested in hosting a CR program
for their youth, please contact Santa
Sorenson at the Peace Center.
RPS Faculty Trained in Conflict Resolution
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ing them to practical strategies they
can put to use in their classrooms
and their personal lives. As one of
this year’s participants said in their
post-workshop evaluations, “the exercises and role-playing will set the
foundation for dealing with real-life
situations.” Another respondent
told us, “I gained insight into more
ways to manage my students’ behavior, and how I deal with it.”
RPEC’s new teacher workshops
typically start with the circle of participants introducing themselves to
one another. They then practice
RPEC Facilitators Earn Top Grades From Teachers
Feedback from training:
“I can better acknowledge how
students are feeling and what they
need.”
“[I learned] to identify my anger triggers and how to de-escalate
more effectively.”
“The group shared many ways
of handling conflict in life and in
the classroom. Everyone felt comfortable sharing ideas and opinions.”
“Made me think about how I
handle conflict.”
“The listening strategies were
very helpful and I will use them.
“We were able to put ourselves
in other people’s shoes and see issues from a different viewpoint.”
Busy Facilitators lead
Many New Workshops
In recent weeks RPEC facilitators
have completed conflict resolution
workshops with Camp Diva,
Northside Family YMCA, William
Byrd Community House, Peter Paul
Development Center and Youth Ministry Entertainment Camp.
Besides 200 Richmond Public
Schools teachers we have completed
a workshop series with Iraqi exchange students, and begun a series at
Pathways of Petersburg.
Upcoming workshops will be with
Martin Luther King Middle School,
Armstrong Leadership Program,
Church Hill Activities and Tutoring,
Higher Achievement at Henderson
Middle School, Nehemiah House of
Prayer and the Salvation Army Boys
and Girls Club.
active listening techniques they can
use with both students and other adults
— including listening not just to the
facts of a personal story, but also to the
underlying feelings, values and needs
that the speaker is expressing.
“There’s more to listening than just
hearing what a person said,” another
teacher told us.
Later in the session, they discuss
methods of defusing anger both in
themselves and their students. As one
participant told us, “High schoolers
need regular instruction and modeling
of conflict resolution.” And another
said, “[the workshop] reminded me of
things to look for and do when problems and conflicts arise in class.”
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U.S Militarism
Kaine Offers New Law on Military Action
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On September 17, a month after
RPEC members visited his office,
Senator Tim Kaine introduced a bill
titled Authorization for Use of Military Force against the Islamic State
in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The
bill would repeal the 2002 authorization of military force in Iraq and
would authorize “the President, as
part of a multinational coalition. . .to
use all necessary and appropriate
drone strikes, including against
American citizens, the Guantanamo
indefinite detention camp, military
tribunals, and warrantless wiretapping of both foreigners and American
citizens. Repeal of the AUMF would
begin to undermine the legal justification for the alarming militarization
of U.S. foreign and domestic policy
during these last 13 years.
force to participate in a campaign of
airstrikes in Iraq, and if the President
deems necessary, in Syria, to degrade
and defeat ISIL.”
On September 23, after President
Obama authorized airstrikes in Syria,
Kaine protested that the strikes represented an improper reliance on the
2002 authorization of attacks in Iraq.
“The President shouldn't be doing
this without Congress,” Kaine said.
RPEC’s Alternatives to Milatarism Project
Today, 13 years after the 9/11 attacks, America is a different country
where fear is nurtured as a means to
keep the citizenry compliant, warping
what has made America a land of
promise for many of the people of the
world.
• There has been a global “war on
terror” that has no deadline, no exit
strategy, no clearly defined enemy,
and that has led to serial and seemingly unending wars in the Middle
East. . .each war creating the enemy
for the next war (e.g. ISIS).
• The president has a “kill list”
that includes American citizens.
These persons can be killed by drones
whenever and wherever they are
found with no recourse to civil, constitutional, or legal rights.
• The civil liberties and privacy
rights of American citizens have been
trampled through warrantless wiretapping, other eavesdropping, no fly
lists, detention without trial
• Local police forces throughout
the land have been transformed into
military forces the likes of which one
would expect to see in a Third World
dictatorship with the expected tragic
results.
• Most of our discretionary national budget year after year is devoted to militarization at a time of deep
economic distress and crumbling infrastructure so that meeting human
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needs and investing in our country's
and people's future is sacrificed.
RPEC’s Response
We at RPEC believe that these
activities have actually made us less
safe, less free, and poorer. If we
continue on our current course we
will inflict deep damage on our democracy, our economy, and our values as a country, while bequeathing
our children a society less safe, less
healthy and less prosperous.
To combat this trajectory RPEC
announces the launch of our Alternatives to Militarism Project.
Through this multi-year project
we will try to wake our fellow citizens from their often unwitting compliance to the increasing militarization of our society, especially at the
local and state levels. We will partner with other movements, including
racial and economic justice groups,
environmental groups, and civil liberties groups.
A few of the campaign’s components include:
• Public education on the “War
on Terror”: Though President
Obama no longer uses these words,
our country is still waging the
“war”. In the year and a half leading to the 15th anniversary of 9/11
we will hold public forums to deepen public understanding of what has
happened since launching this “war”,
and encourage knowledgeable citizen
action to stop unending war and to
restore our cherished civil and constitutional liberties.
• Cost of War to Virginia Project:
We will raise awareness of the costs of
endless war to Virginia and to Richmond, emphasizing the enormity of
our country's military spending and
the tradeoffs between war spending
and local needs, and we will introduce
the idea of and advocate for conversion from a wartime to a peacetime
economy in Virginia.
• We will partner with national as
well as state and local organizations to
educate and advocate for an end to the
militarization of US foreign and domestic policy, cuts in war spending,
and the addressing of human needs
and “nation building” here at home.
We can't kill everyone who hates
the United States. And we can't destroy our way of life to protect it. To
defend, protect, and promote our
American way of life, we must be an
informed citizenry conscious of our
inalienable civil and constitutional
rights, who hold our government accountable, and who demand that our
national treasure.....human, financial,
intellectual, and spiritual.....be used to
make our country the best it can be;
not to create Fortess America.
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RPEC Auction
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Here's a stunner: one week at a
beautiful Adirondack Mountains
“camp” on a private lake. One of
the things everyone has to do in this
life is to experience the astonishing
beauty of America's largest park.
Check it out on a map. The Adirondack Park is bigger than Rhode Island! This rustic 4 BR/1 Bath cabin with outdoor shower, screened
porch, canoe, guide boat, and boathouse offers a vacation that most
can only dream of.
Want to jump-start your garden
next Spring? You can, with five
flats of flowers of your choice,
grown from seed for you by The
Cutting Garden. You choose
what you want, annuals or perennials, and they will grow them for
you and deliver them in May 2015
for planting in your garden.
And of course, the RPEC Auction wouldn't be complete without
the beach. This year we have two
beach getaways on offer. One is a
perennial favorite in Duck, NC, and
the other a new offer at Ocean
Beach, VA, near Sandbridge.
Can you see the possibilities here
for bringing some relaxation, enrichment, and beauty into your and your
Stained-glass work by Dave Depp, one of
many beautiful art works to be auctioned.
friends' lives, as well as contributing
to RPEC's programs through our
biggest fundraiser of the year?
And these are just a few of the
items on offer. We also have our
usual array of dinners from culinary
cultures across the globe, a chance
for private conversation with some
Richmond Notables, services from
home and garden, to tax preparation,
and of course the hundreds of treasures you can discover while nosing
through the silent auction with one
of your complimentary cocktails
in hand.
Being RPEC's biggest event, the
Auction is the only time in the year
that so many RPEC members and
friends are together in such a festive
way. That alone is worth the price of
admission! So bring your Christmas
shopping list, see old friends, meet
new friends, support RPEC, and just
possibly go home with a unique gift
for family, friends, or yourself.
See you November 8 at the
Crown Plaza Hotel.
— Rob Gabriele
The screened porch of this cabin in
Adirondack National Park offers a
panoramic view of this private lake,
which you could explore by boat or
canoe on a week’s vacation — if you
called out a winning bid at RPEC’s
auction on November 8.
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Walmart Invades VCU’s ‘Hell Block’
By Jimmy Cloutier
Once nicknamed “Hell Block,”
the 900 block of Grace Street in the
Fan has changed over the past 15-20
years, oftentimes paralleling the
growth and development of nearby
Virginia Commonwealth University.
The porny Lee Art Theater is now
The Grace Street Theater, where the
VCU Cinema program hosts its Cinematheque, a weekly series of independent, foreign, and Art House
films. The Red Light Inn, a strip
joint, is now a restaurant. Little-bylittle Grace Street has undergone a
metamorphosis, little resembling
what it once was.
But some argue that continued, on
-going gentrification comes at a cost
to local businesses not systemic of
the conditions once epidemic in the
area. Take Sally Bell’s Kitchen, for
example, a 90-year old business and
local favorite known for its homemade cup cakes, deviled eggs, and
country ham sandwiches — a far cry
from a strip joint. VCU purchased
the property of Sally Bell’s Kitchen
in a deal finalized on August 7 that
allows its owner to operate out of
708 West Grace for only the next
three years. Afterward, Sally Bell’s
Kitchen will have to lease from VCU
on a yearly basis until plans to drop a
student housing high rise on the
property finally fall into place.
This behavior — the snatching up
of local property to be developed by
interest groups like corporate chains
looking to expand their consumer
base or, in this case, VCU itself — is
becoming commonplace. Over the
past three years, VCU introduced
three chains — IHOP, Raising
Cain’s, and Croutons — to the corner
of Grace Street that Sally Bell’s
Kitchen shares with Chipotle, Panera
Bread, and Noodle & Company.
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Walmart’s new residence, at 912 West Grace
Street, elbows aside older, smaller buildings.
Other local eateries — Mama’s
Kitchen, Panda Garden, Harrison
Street Cafe, Strange Matter, The
Village Café — stand to lose a lot of
customers as more big money chains
and brand-names, spurred by VCU’s
development or invited by the VCU
Department of Business Services,
drop in.
And that’s just Grace Street.
VCU’s section of Broad Street, with
its many neon signs advertising
Qdoba and Subway and other brand
names, already resembles Short
Pump’s section of Broad Street. The
latest brand-name to join Grace
Street: Walmart.
“Walmart on Campus” is a pilot
program that brings the megaretailer into college campuses — so
far at Georgia Tech, the University
of Arkansas, Arizona State University, and the University of Missouri.
VCU has invited Walmart to set up
shop — albeit a tiny one at 4,100
square feet (the typical SuperCenter
is 182,000 square feet) — on the
ground-floor of a seven-story class-
room-and-office building under construction at 912 West Grace Street.
This VCU-Walmart partnership
has sparked outcry from some in the
student body. VCU student Kelly
Allen started a Change.org petition to
block the move.
“How can VCU overlook the
egregious business practices of
Walmart,” Allen said, “and welcome
them with open arms on campus?”
Citing the mega-retailer’s track record of running local, independent
businesses into the ground, she continued: “Diane Reynolds seems to be
touting Walmart’s low prices as a
badge of honor when we all know
low prices come at a tremendous cost
to the surrounding community.”
Diane Reynolds is Assistant Vice
President for Business Services at
VCU. She sees it differently. “This is
part of VCU's retail plan to attract a
variety of businesses to make the
area around our campus vibrant for
the benefit of VCU students as well
as the city of Richmond,” she said.
But is there a point at which continued development undoes itself?
The essayist John Bresland defines
gentrification as general improvement of an area “but in such a way
that everything worthwhile about it
[that area] is destroyed.” Without
discrediting the good VCU has done
in the Fan — an area of Richmond
cops used to call a “battle zone”— is
it safe to say, as Allen and those behind her insinuate, that continued
general improvement is, if at the cost
of what makes the local Richmond
scene unique and worthwhile, no longer helpful but damaging to the surrounding community?
“Yes, VCU has helped out the
community in many ways,” Allen
said, “but it’s becoming sort of a runaway train.”
Jimmy Cloutier is a VCU graduate,
writer, photographer, and member of
the RPEC Newsletter Committee.
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Scalawag
A White Southerner’s Journey
through Segregation to Human Rights Activism
Book Review by Wendy Bauers Northup
You can’t get out of your moment of history unless you
get outside your comfort zone. Ed Peeples definitely got
out of his comfort zone and into a new moment of history.
And we are all the better for it.
The first thing to learn about this book is what a scalawag is: 1. a disreputable person, a rascal, a good-fornothing, a shirker, a scamp; 2. (U.S. History) a native
white southerner who collaborated with the occupying
forces during Reconstruction. Now, Ed just turned eighty,
but he wasn’t alive during Reconstruction. However, he
considers himself a scalawag: he was someone who
“betrayed” his history and his family’s heritage and took
up civil rights in a serious and effective way. This autobiography traces his often-painful journey to do just that.
For many of us who regard ourselves as activists in
Richmond, our debt to Ed has always
been acknowledged. But many of us did
not know his story; and this book is a
revelation and an inspiration. To quote
Nancy MacLean in the Introduction to
his book: “This is the story of a lifetime
of human rights activism outside the
spotlight. For the half-century since he
was a college student, Ed Peeples has
been trying to make a difference in the
world. But unlike the social movement
leaders seen on the evening news and
featured in weighty biographies, his have
been efforts of the kind that ordinary
mortals can manage, squeezed in between classes and deadlines, improvised
on the job, and juggled with parenting
and work obligations.” Ed has made a
tremendous difference in Richmond and in the world at
large, and now he has shared the journey with all of us.
Ed grew up in South Richmond in a working class
white neighborhood and learned early the privilege of
whiteness and the terror that privilege can bring to people
of color. He came from a long line of segregationists and
learned early on that, while his family might not have
money, he did have the power that being white brought
with it. But, after moving to Florida in his sophomore year
of high school, he also learned what it means to experience discrimination. He was by then the child of a single
mother who was a hairdresser, and that seemed to be all
the officials at the school needed to know to place him in
the non-college bound “hierarchy” of the school.
He wore hand-me-downs, was placed on a technical
track, and was deemed invisible by the teachers and other staff. But he still had the superiority of being “white”
and, even though it caused him some discomfort even
then, he joined other misfit boys in hassling lone, vulnerable people of color.
But Ed’s mother never gave up on him, and she convinced the Richmond Professional Institute (later to become VCU) to take him as a student. His first foray at
college didn’t take, and he joined the Navy, where for
the first time he experienced the pain that discrimination
could cause another, and stood up for a fellow serviceman who was wrongfully accused of misconduct. Eventually he found his way back to RPI and found a whole
new attitude toward studying and doing well in school.
And he found his life’s cause – the struggle for social
justice. You will need to read this book to see the rest of
this incredible journey.
However, Ed traces his long career at the college that
became VCU and his various roles
there. He gives us a glimpse of the experiences he had that shaped his beliefs
and his actions. He tells of the pain of
being alienated from his family because
of his convictions and actions. He
shares the incredible people who influenced him and with whom he worked
over the years. Ed gives each of us hope
that our actions, however small they
may seem, really can make a difference
and change the course of history.
Ed shares his role in Prince Edward
County while its schools were closed
during the time of Massive Resistance;
in integrating the nursing school at
MCV; in issuing studies that documented the ills of racism; and his role in
fighting with others for human rights for each person.
James H. Hershman says in the Afterword to the
book: “Those struggling for social justice in the twentyfirst century will find inspiration in Peeples’ life. In the
years ahead, we will need more ‘scalawags’ among us.”
Note: Ed Peeples has generously agreed to donate a
copy of Scalawag, along with a personal chat to be offered for auction at the RPEC auction and dinner on
November 8. Ed is a natural-born storyteller and a
treasure trove of Richmond history. The lucky bidder
who wins this item will be in for a treat.
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Forum to Examine
Social Health Factors
David Williams, professor of
Public Health and African and African American Studies at Harvard
University, will lead a forum on
Tuesday, October 7, 12 noon to 2
p.m. at 300 E. Franklin Street.
Dr. Williams is one of the world's
most cited social science researchers
and was a key advisor to the PBS
film series, “Unnatural Causes: Is
inequality Making Us Sick?”
At the forum Dr. Williams will
address the social determinants of
health and will engage a panel from
the Richmond health community.
The event is the first in a new
series of Community Trustbuilding
Forums sponsored by Hope in the
Cities, with RPEC as a partner organization.
The forum is free and open to the
public. Registration is required at
www.us.iofc.org/.
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tions they can take with them to
their new school.
This year’s session, carefully
organized by RPEC’s Conflict Resolution Coordinator Santa Sorenson,
used seventeen facilitators from the
Peace Center’s conflict resolution
training team. Among those workshop leaders were three young
adults who originally started as
RYPP teen trainers.
We are especially grateful to Dr.
Darlene Currie, director of Staff Development, for offering RPEC the
opportunity to share our nonviolent
conflict resolution strategies with
adults who touch the lives of Richmond’s children every day.
In coming years, we would be
pleased to offer this program to other
local schools and school systems.
Classroom conflicts are inevitable;
how teachers and students address
them can make all the difference.
— Paul Fleisher
‘Generation Dream’ Auditions Begin Oct. 20
Auditions will begin October 20
for performers in “Generation Dream
2015,” the Richmond Youth Peace
Project’s annual commemoration of
the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Auditions for musicians, singers,
dancers, actors and spoken-word artists will be held at the RYPP Oct. 20
meeting. For information and to
schedule an audition, contact
[email protected].
Shows will be Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.at
the downtown Richmond Public Library, and Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. at the
Henrico Theater in Highland
Springs. A third show may be
scheduled as well.