Drop by Ting Pavilion on Saturday September 21 between 1-10pm for Cville Sabroso 2024, the local Latino community’s 12th annual heritage festival celebrating the richness and vibrant diversity of Latin American culture. There’ll be nine hours of live music and lively dance performances, food, artisan crafts, and interactive activities for kids that will immerse you in the warmth and hospitality of Latino communities. It’s one of the biggest family-friendly events in Charlottesville, and your presence will help support Sin Barreras (“Without Barriers”), the Charlottesville/Waynesboro nonprofit that advocates for immigrants (mostly Latino) and organizes the festival. We will have a booth there too! Tickets (kids under 12 are free) are available here. For Sabroso 2024 details and pictures visit the Cville Sabroso Facebook event page, or for background information visit the Sin Barreras Cville Sabroso website page.
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The Big News: Vice President Kamala Harris will be the Democratic Presidential Candidate!!
Now that President Biden will not seek reelection, the Cville Dems are ready to get behind our new nominees for President and Vice President (latter announcement coming soon), Senator Kaine, Congressional candidate Gloria Witt, and all the other Democratic candidates.
We want to say a huge thank you to President Biden. He has been one of the most successful and consequential presidents in United States history and we owe him an incredible debt of gratitude. We are a better country for having him as our 46th president!
We need to come together to to win the November elections… the Cville Dems will be working hard to make this happen, please join us!
— Josh Throneburg & Nancy Damon, Cville Dems co-chairs
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Project 2025 Analysis by Heather Cox Richardson
Project 2025 is the Republican blueprint for national change – and disruption – if the Trump ticket wins. Historian Heather Cox Richardson, who writes a very popular Substack column, “Letters from an American”, recently commented on Youtubeon the purpose of Project 2025, VP Candidate JD Vance’s ability to focus (as Trump is incapable of) and implement the project, and many troubling aspects of the project.
For example, Richardson states that while Republicans oppose a national abortion ban, Project 2025 supports a national fetal personhood bill, and she says,”The second a sperm meets an egg, that fertilized egg, before implantation by the way, has all the rights of a full-grown human being.” She stresses what could happen: such a law could rule out abortion, IVF, several types of contraception, and it raises questions in some states where it is already happening about the consequences if someone miscarries and whose fault is the miscarriage. Congress would have absolute power to pass such a bill into law under the 14th Amendment and supersede any state’s rights, she says.
Richardson also noted that today’s Republicans want to impose widespread federal-employee firings and other restrictions and rights violations favored in Project 2025 and in the extremist, far-right platform approved by the Republican Party. They believe “not everybody is created equal, and that some people are better than others, and they have the right and maybe even the duty to rule the rest of us.”
Watch the entire YouTube video for some good insights and talking points on the un-American, undemocratic Project 2025.
Note: you can subscribe to Richardson’s Substack column to get her insightful thoughts; it has a free level and paid level.
Hung Cao at the Republican National Convention Trash Talks Senator Tim Kaine
Cao said at last weeks Republican convention:
“I’m running against Hillary’s running mate, Senator Tim Kaine. He is a weak man in a dangerous world…..Kaine is a career politician with millions to show for it. I’ve been a warrior with scars to prove it.” (per Youtube video)
The Kaine Campaign notes that Cao:
1. Is a democracy denier who has not only peddled conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, he’s pledged to release and even compensate convicted January 6th insurrectionists.
2. Opposes women’s reproductive rights, supporting legislation that would drastically and cruelly limit abortion access all across the country (and even compares abortion to the Holocaust).
3. Refuses to accept the reality of the climate crisis, saying he doesn’t think climate change is real and even called the entire concept a “boogeyman.
Trump VP Pick, JD Vance, is a Threat to the US
From Axios: 
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) called [Sen. JD Vance’s] selection as Trump’s VP on the ticket “alarming” and a “direct threat to American values and rights,” citing Vance’s anti-abortion positions.
[Vance] won election to the Senate in 2022, and has distinguished himself as a staunch opponent of funding for Ukraine and a rare GOP advocate for organized labor, as well as one of Trump’s most loyal allies.
The Biden campaign was quick to go after Vance for saying the 2020 election “had a lot of problems” and that, had he been vice president in 2021, he would have told states to send multiple elector slates.
