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1/ THREAD Pleased to announce the Monuments Working Group website, a division of the Public Humanities Lab in the @IHGC @UVA. Find a link to our website, below, and follow the thread for descriptions of various pages in the website and their functions. monumentsworkinggroup.com
2/ PUBLIC INPUT Called "Make your mark," this page is geared to those who want to make a change in the monumental and memorial landscape of #Charlottesville and/or #RVA. Click the "your input" button to produce a simple survey (a more extensive version in the works for 2019). 
3/ PROJECTS This page is a catalog of past, current, and future projects of the group. Scroll to find buttons to "Direct our historical research" by suggesting an intervention or "Help build the [Richmond] syllabus" with a source/ bit of media/ URL on the history of the city.
4/ JOIN THE GROUP Your opportunity to get involved! The working group is open to undergrads, grads, and community members. Share your email, tell us about your interests, and let us know how we can help. #TruthfulHistoryHeals
5/ ABOUT US Our mission statement. We are devoted to activism, social justice, and ending the racism on display in our cities' most honored public spaces.
6/ AT THE 10K A summary of a group action to take place at Richmond's Monument Avenue 10K (April 13, 2019). The MWG will produce alternative race day T-shirts with messaging related to the need to #DismantleWhiteSupremacy and #BuildAShockoePark.
7/ TWITTER A role of tweets from @jgg3mb that engage with monuments and memorials as well as RTs related to people and organizations working towards #commemorativejustice in #Charlottesville and #RVA.
8/ THE REASON FOR OUR WORK Presented as "the reason for our work," this page contains an extended description of how we became interested in public art and Confederate iconography, in particular.
8/ The page is also a list of people who inspired us: @ZyahnaB @BSAatUVA @uvastudentpower @TakeEmDownRVA @Move_Silent_Sam #DoItLikeDurham @ACWMuseum @slaveryuva @TheKudzuProject @NoahScalin @CheatsMovement @untoldrva @kelleylibby @PaperMonuments @monument_lab @theValentineRVA
9/ CONTACT Very simply, a way to get on our mailing list and stay in touch in 2018 and beyond. We plan to produce our first newsletter in the new year (another way to stay connected as we draw closer to the Monument Avenue 10K in the middle of April).
10/ PHOTO JOURNAL As part of our research and wanderings across the Internet we've kept a photo journal in the form of Flickr photo stream. Check it out. See what we see.
