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Stan Maclin: December 2011 Leader of the Month

Stan Maclin: December 2011 Leader of the Month

Stan Maclin is leading the way in Harrisonburg by fighting anti-immigrant legislation and encouraging diverse groups to come to the table, literally. Recently, the Harrisonburg Virginia Organizing Cha ...

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Virginia Organizing December 2011 Newsletter

Virginia Organizing December 2011 Newsletter

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Virginia Organizing December 2011 Newsletter

Virginia Organizing December 2011 Newsletter

Governor McDonnell's Budget for the 1 PercentThis month, Governor McDonnell presented the people of Virginia with a budget that will hurt the 99 percent.  Instead of closing tax loopholes tha ...

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VIRGINIA MAIN STREET ALLIANCE UPDATE # 23

VIRGINIA MAIN STREET ALLIANCE UPDATE # 23

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!   We hope that you had a joyous and busy holiday season  The future of health care reform in Virginia still looks confusing.  The governor has decided that h ...

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Victory on UI and Payroll Tax Cut, Virginia Organizing at White House

Victory on UI and Payroll Tax Cut, Virginia Organizing at White House

Yesterday the obstructionists in the House of Representatives finally announced they'd join a majority of senators from both political parties to renew unemployment benefits and continue the payro ...

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Breaking up with Bank of America: Michele’s story

Breaking up with Bank of America: Michele’s story

Over the last several months Virginia Organizing has joined the campaign Move Our Money USA in moving $57 million away from the big banks into credit unions and small banks.We have moved our money bec ...

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No More Mr. Potter: Virginians Moving Money out of Big Banks

No More Mr. Potter: Virginians Moving Money out of Big Banks

The 1946 film "It's a Wonderful life," which starred Jimmy Stewart, has become an American Christmas classic. For hundreds of Virginians, one of the film's lessons is just as relevan ...

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Top 10 lies about Social Security (from those who just want to dismantle government)

Top 10 lies about Social Security (from those who just want to dismantle government)

Originally posted on Economic Policy Institute's blog.Since the season of top 10 lists is upon us, here’s the Social Security Scrooge version:Social Security costs are escalating out of cont ...

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Naughty? Rep. Cantor & Co. Give Virginia’s Poor and Middle Class a Lump of Coal

Naughty? Rep. Cantor & Co. Give Virginia’s Poor and Middle Class a Lump of Coal

Today Virginia members of the House of Representatives including Reps. Cantor, Hurt, Griffith, Forbes, Rigell, Wittman and Goodlatte, voted against the Senate budget bill, which includes an extension ...

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Rep. Cantor & Co. Give Virginia’s Poor and Middle Class a Lump of Coal With Today’s Vote

Rep. Cantor & Co. Give Virginia’s Poor and Middle Class a Lump of Coal With Today’s Vote

Just in Time for Christmas: Rep. Cantor and Other Members of the House Give Virginia’s Unemployed ‘A Lump of Coal’ With Today’s Vote Against Extending Unemployment Benefits and ...

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