We are almost two weeks away from Virginia Organizing’s Grassroots Gathering 2016. There are still some spaces left if you have not registered yet or if you think of someone who might want to come (pl ...
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Regional residents are currently faced with the issue of the coal ash disposal in Chesapeake. Coal ash is what is left after coal is burned in coal-powered plants. In previous decades, Dominion along ...
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Published in The Roanoke Times Sandra A. Cook | Cook is a member of the Virginia Organizing State Governing Board. There have been times when I sat across the table from U.S. Sen. Mark Warner as a mem ...
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Letter to the Editor Published in The Daily Progress On April 22, my opinion of Virginia vastly improved with the governor's executive order that allowed more than 200,000 former felons to vote. I no ...
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Published by Public News Service Climate change represents a serious problem for U.S. coastal military bases - especially in and around Norfolk, according to a recent study. The report, "The U.S. Mili ...
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Lily Hungarland began her journey with Virginia Organizing in high school. She recently graduated and started at UVA this month. "I started learning about social justice issues and Virginia Organizing ...
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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced a new process for restoration of civil rights on Monday, August 22 to comply with the Supreme Court of Virginia orders on July 22, 2016. In April, the Gover ...
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Published by The Washington Post Donnell Honesty can’t remember what the fight was about or even quite how it started. He was a junior at D.C.’s Ballou High School in 2015 when another student stepped ...
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Charlottesville, Va.—Virginia Organizing joined 280 consumer rights, civil rights, labor, community, and non-profit organizations to emphasize strong support for the Consumer Financial Protection Bure ...
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Today, Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that he restored the rights of nearly 13,000 individuals after the Supreme Court of Virginia ordered the Department of Elections to cancel voter registrations ...
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