by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 24, 2019 | Events
You are invited to join Friends of Buckingham and the Union Hill community, along with allies across Virginia and to support communities leading the fight to protect our health, environment, and future against reckless corporate polluters for a special event and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 4, 2019 | Events
Attorney Kai Memmer, a volunteer for the Southwest Virginia Chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild, will train attendees to become Legal Observers. Legal Observers are needed immediately in the Elliston VA area and other areas along the Mountain Valley Pipeline...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 27, 2019 | Events
What will you do? Protection #1, “Get Up & Go” is one of 7 each week. Lots you can do from where you are in Protections 2-7. link to share: 7 Protections July 26-August 4 1. GET UP AND GO! A few (of many) good places to show up this week. Sunday, July 28:...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 17, 2019 | Climate Change, Events
Join us for an exploration of the reality of the impacts, solutions and what’s possible for us to do. Swami Dayananda & Mindy are trained Climate Reality Leaders, part of a group of thousands of volunteers in countries around the globe who have been personally...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Politics of energy
Friends of Buckingham extends a warm and grateful thank you to Reverend Barber, Al Gore and Karenna Gore for accepting our ernest and urgent invitation to come to Union HIll, to draw and amplify ever widening attention to the injustices forced on the Union Hill...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events
Former vice president Al Gore and the Rev. William Barber II, left, talk with local resident Ella Rose in front of her home in Union Hill, Va. (Steve Helber/AP) BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — The little front porch seemed like a pulpit as the Rev. William Barber II outlined...