Food blog coverage:

http://www.rvafoodie.com/?p=3198&cpage=1#comment-10812

http://www.brandoneats.com/brandon_eats/2011/03/pizza-party-at-the-lamplighter.html

http://veganrichmond.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/pizza-party-with-vegan-options-at-lamplighter-april-3rd/

Remember, you can get one ticket for $25 or two for $40. kid's ticket is $12.50! This Sunday!

Ticket Prices! Price Update!

We've updated our prices to make the evening very affordable for all of our friends and supporters:

1 ticket for $25

2 tickets for $40!

Kid's ticket for $12.50

A ticket gets you a fresh salad, lots of rustic wood-fire pizza, and a gourmet dessert. The menu includes vegan, vegetarian, and meat options. This is a great deal for a date-night or friend night out. $40 for 2 plus drinks! Who can beat that?

All tickets are available online at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/165742

OR

Email us at RVAPIZZAPARTY@gmail.com to have pick-up/delivered in the Richmond area. Also, Lamplighter has a limited # on hand at the coffee shop.

And the ABC License has been approved, so there will definitely be beer and wine at the cash bar!

Can't wait to see you there!

Anthony Weiner stands up for choice

Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D, NYC) speaks at the 2011 Planned Parenthood Stand Up For Women's Health Rally.

Pizza Party Update!

The only way to get into this epic pizza party is to get a ticket in advance at Lamplighter or at Brown Paper Tickets. Get your tickets Now!

The Better Not Makeouts will be pleasing your ears while you dine on our special menu from Pizza Tonight and of course coffee bar at Lamplighter will be open for all of your caffeinated beverage needs. Check it out!

Salad

Mixed green salad with Gorgonzola, walnuts and house dressing

Pizza

Pizza Margherita - Fresh tomato sauce, mozzarella, and freshly torn basil

White Pizza - Creamy white sauce with fresh oregano, Gruyere, and garlic sauteed mushrooms

Cheeky Vegan - Extra virgin olive oil, thinly sliced new potatoes, freshly picked rosemary, and sea salt

Della Nonna - Tomato sauce, mozzarella, Sausage Craft's Della Nonna Sausage, (made with Pecorino, white wine, and parsley) and caramelized red onions

Desserts
Chocolate Hazlenut Brownies
Vegan Chocolate Brownies
Caramelized Bananas

More?

The Better Not Makeouts will play at the Pizza Party!

The Better Not Makeouts http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Better-Not-MakeOuts/126458587421950

We are working to confirm 2 other musical acts, so stay tuned for updates!

And buy your tickets now! Tickets went on sale on Monday and people are buying! You don't want to miss out!

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/165742

Pizza PartyTickets!

Tickets for our epic pizza party are limited to 50!  You can purchase them online at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/165742

or

buy them in-person at Lamplighter (cash or check only)

or

email us!

PIZZA PARTY TIME!

GET TICKETS ONLINE TODAY! Or
E-mail us to reserve your tickets today!

The Big Lebowski Urban Achievers have teamed up with and Pizza Tonight and Lamplighter Roasting Company to present an epic pizza party to celebrate reproductive freedom. Join us April 3 in celebrating access to crucial funding and support.

A $25 ticket gets you a fresh green salad, a rustic wood-fired pizza of your choice from our specially selected Pizza Tonight menu and a gourmet dessert. The menu will include vegan, vegetarian and meat options. Stay tuned to the blog for a sneak peak at the menu and more!


ALL profits go to the National Network of Abortion Funds' Virginia fund with Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project . They seek to further reproductive justice by providing practical and financial support for abortion services in Virginia and surrounding communities. RRFP strives to be a resource to the community by engaging in grassroots advocacy for the full spectrum of reproductive rights.

PIZZA PARTY!
Lamplighter Roasting Company

116 South Addison Street
Richmond, VA
April 3rd 2011
7-10pm
$25 (Get tickets)

Fight TRAP

Protect Virginia's Women and their rights to reproductive freedom! Click the image for more details!

"TRAP" (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws single out the medical practices of doctors who provide abortions, and impose on them requirements that are different and more burdensome than those imposed on other medical practices. For example, such regulations may require that abortions be performed in far more sophisticated and expensive facilities than are necessary to ensure the provision of safe procedures. Compliance with these physical plant requirements may require extensive renovations or be physically impossible in existing facilities. TRAP laws may also allow unannounced state inspections, even when patients are present. These excessive and unnecessary government regulations – an ever-growing trend among state legislatures – increase the cost and scarcity of abortion services, harming women's health and inhibiting their reproductive choices.

TRAP laws generally fall into one of three categories: health facility licensing schemes, ambulatory surgical center requirements, and hospitalization requirements. A number of states impose more than one of these types of TRAP laws on abortion providers.

• Health facility licensing schemes vary widely in their breadth and scope, but generally require that abortion facilities (but no other comparable offices or clinics) become licensed by the state and meet a range of regulations governing such matters as physical construction, staffing, and procedures.
• Ambulatory surgical center ("ASC") requirements mandate that abortion providers – including, in at least one state, those that provide only first-trimester medical or surgical abortions – be licensed as ASCs, which are sophisticated facilities designed for the performance of a range of out-patient surgeries. These requirements go far beyond the recommendations of the national health organizations in the field of abortion care, and converting a physician’s office or outpatient clinic into an ASC can be too expensive for many providers.
• Hospitalization requirements mandate that abortions beyond a certain gestational age (generally at some point in the second trimester) be performed in a hospital. Although many states have some type of hospitalization requirement on the books, the vast majority of those laws are unenforceable because they been declared unconstitutional by a court ruling or state official, or have been superseded by another law. For more information on TRAP laws, read the Center's fact sheet or our briefing paper.

TRAP laws have proven extremely difficult to challenge in court. Nonetheless, in a number of cases, the Center has sought creative and compelling ways to fight these laws, and we continue to use litigation as a means of trying to block this growing threat to reproductive rights.

Source: http://reproductiverights.org/

Maude says...

Happy International Womens' Day!

"Her development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her  body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them; by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc., by making her  life simpler, but deeper and richer. That is, by trying to learn the meaning and substance of life in all its complexities, by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free, will maker her  a force hitherto unknown in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a force of divine fire, of life-giving; a creator of free men and women."

— Emma Goldma from Woman Suffrage, 1910