Danny Avula wants to hear from YOU! 🫵 Join us this friday for a virtual phone zap to let Danny Avula know what Richmonders really think about ALPRs and Flock! PSSST! You're also free to call him anytime you like at (804) 646-7970. #noalprs #blockflock #deflock #dsarichmond

Join us for the sixth district school board debate this Thursday, September 17th, 7pm @ Ann Hardy Community Center, 1000 Pollock St, Richmond, VA 23222. Due to limited seating, we ask that members arrive early! (The audience will not be permitted to applaud while the candidates are speaking)

Join us for a community clean-up this Saturday at Battery Park in #RVA! 10am to 12pm! Trash bags and gloves provided. Meet at the intersection of the terrace and Overbook Road by the basketball courts.

Join us Monday 9/14 to remind city council that Richmond needs an end to mass surveillance. We'll meet at the 9th Street Entrance at 5:30pm before entering city hall together. Where: 900 E Broad, Richmond, 9th St Entrance. When: 09/14/26 @ 5:30p. #dsarichmond #blockflock #noalprs

Support LGBG Workers! You can join the picket line (daily from 9am-5pm) and/or donate to the strike fund: www.gofundme.com/f/strike-fun... Funds are urgently needed!

Join us for this screening along with a talkback by documentarian Arun Vickram. Hosted by our friends @studiotwothree.bsky.social

Come learn about the Block Flock campaign's next steps and how you can help! Thursday, July 9th 6:30pm at the East End Library. @justicefwdva.bsky.social

🧵 (1/10) Richmond’s mayor and city council continue to ignore community members’ objections to the city’s Flock contract.

Ashland residents! Community meeting this evening at 6:30 regarding yet another data center wanting to set up nearby, Randolph-Macon College Copley Science Center. #RVA

Our billboard is up on Mayo Bridge! Tell the mayor to Get the Flock Off My Block: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

🧵 (1/10) RVA admin manufacturing consent for mass surveillance. Thanks to @richmond.com reporting, we have a timeline of the planning for their pro-Flock campaign. Stand with us against Flock and tell Avula to drop Flock here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... @mediajustice.bsky.social

Huge scoop from @richmond.com showing how RPD and @dannyavula.bsky.social schemed to "saturate the public narrative" (i.e, do propaganda) about Flock after @richmonddsa.bsky.social activists began organizing against use of the controversial surveillance system.

Tell Council we want Flock out of Richmond. Anyone can give comment, but if you want to just support, come hold a sign!

If I hadn't already obtained RPD's Flock contracts separately (either via my FOIAs, or shared w/ me by @richmonddsa.bsky.social via its FOIAs), that spreadsheet would have been virtually useless. As it was, I spent hours cross-referencing the various documents to validate the data for this report:

RPD has spent $1 million on Flock. With those contracts up for renewal, anti-surveillance activists call for cancellation while Mayor, Council demur

The Mayor wrote that he “continues to be both supportive of RPD's use of Flock as a tool to solve crimes and also continues to take the privacy and auditing seriously.”

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URGENT UPDATE ON BUDGET HEARING: Public comment needed. No registration required for public comment in the “legislation on the agenda comment” portion of Monday’s City Council meeting at 6PM. Come speak in opposition to funding for FLOCK ALPRs (Annual Budget - ORD 2026.063 & RPS Budget - 2026.064)!

It's budget season in Richmond City! Please come support the Block Flock campaign and other Richmond coalition partners, THIS MONDAY, in demanding the end of surveillance & to increase funding for RPS schools, Gilpin housing & other social programs! Priority is given to those who call in advance.

Join us Sunday at @studiotwothree.bsky.social for 'Flock's Foundation: The Long History of Surveillance in the US Settler Colonial Project.' In person with Spanish translation and virtual! Register here: actionnetwork.org/events/polit...

Join comrades across Richmond at our first Potluck of the year March 8th, 2-5pm @studiotwothree! We’ll exchange food and exchange knowledge with a short presentation of Block Flock in RVA! 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 FAMILY FRIENDLY 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Link to RSVP will be in our bio!

Join the Block Flock coalition March 15th for a political education event diving into the dark history of Surveillance in United States. 🗓️ March 15th ⏰ 12:00-3:00pm 📍 Studio Two Three, 109 W. 15th St.

See you Monday outside city hall for the Block Flock rally! Wear red 💃

The official Get The Flock Out! concert poster has been masterfully crafted by Brent McCormick (brentmccormick.com/). Snag one of these as a raffle prize at the show! Shows on Tuesday, Feb 17th. Doors at 7–$10 suggested donation.

Join us on February 7th at Fairfield Library for our annual Chapter Convention!

INBOX: @richmonddsa.bsky.social is putting on a "GET THE FLOCK OUT" benefit show in a couple weeks to raise awareness for the city's upcoming contract renewals for ICE's favorite ALPR vendor. The chapter has been organizing to pressure RVA's mayor and council to cancel those pricey Flock agreements.

Join us on Feb 17th for this benefit show raising funds for the Block Flock RVA campaign! Richmond is better without mass surveillance. ALPRs track everyone without making anyone safer. RVA’s contract ends in 2026. Join our campaign to Block Flock! Learn more at linktr.ee/RDSA_Migrant....

I'm at Richmond Public Library's main branch, where a capacity crowd organized by @richmonddsa.bsky.social has assembled to hear @rpogge.bsky.social of @justicefwdva.bsky.social and other community members speak about the dangers of Flock Safety and other ALPRs.

After a presentation by @justicefwdva.bsky.social Steven Keener on how he and other researchers have mapped Hampton Roads Flock locations, @richmonddsa.bsky.social organizers are now discussing how and where RPD is using Flock in the city, using @maprva.org mapping for visual:

Join Sunrise and @richmonddsa.bsky.social Eco-Socialist Working Group for a trash clean up at Gillies Creek Park on Saturday, October 4th from 9 to 11am! Trash bags and gloves provided. #RVA

Join us August 30th at noon at Forest Hill Park Shelter #2 for a Labor Day Social! Meet your fellow DSA members and eat some good food! This is a potluck style event so bring something delicious to share!

If you are in the Richmond area and want to support us raising money to help our members Do Socialism please come out to Get Tight Lounge tonite! Also you can donate here: givebutter.com/RDSA-2025-Na...

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Join us next Saturday for a social and fundraiser! We’ll be at Get Tight raffling off some great handmade art, books, and more!