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Black Friday is Coming…

Black Friday is Coming…

On Black Friday, millions of people will wait in lines to shop for the holidays. We’d like to offer the alternative of a gift that matters deeply and will affect thousands of lives. Will you make a co ...

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We need a clean spending bill

We need a clean spending bill

Virginia Organizing has learned that Wall Street is at it again, trying to tack some of their most controversial giveaways onto “must-pass” funding bills. To stop them, we need to keep members of the ...

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Racism on Campus is Nothing New. A Sustained Anti-Racist Campus Movement Would Be.

Racism on Campus is Nothing New. A Sustained Anti-Racist Campus Movement Would Be.

Published by the Alliance for a Just Society. As a first-year student at Brown University I was detained for trespassing by campus security. In my own dorm.  In sock feet. You see, I left my dorm room ...

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Virginia Organizing to Speaker Howell: “This Has Got To Stop”

Virginia Organizing to Speaker Howell: “This Has Got To Stop”

Fredericksburg, Va.—Virginia Organizing called on Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Bill Howell to stop blocking Medicaid expansion the day before the Remote Area Medical (RAM) will set up in ...

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John Kerry Warns Climate Change is a National Security Risk

John Kerry Warns Climate Change is a National Security Risk

Originally posted in The Daily Press. Ahead of high-stakes climate change talks in Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday of increasing and grim national security risks if countries fail ...

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Virginians Deserve Better

Virginians Deserve Better

Virginia’s health care crisis is bad. It’s so bad that Remote Area Medical—the organization that provides medical care to thousands of people that our health care system leaves out—will set up camp th ...

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Virginia Organizing Responds to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals DAPA/DACA Decision

Virginia Organizing Responds to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals DAPA/DACA Decision

Petersburg, Va.—The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction to block implementation of executive orders on immigration, including Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Deferr ...

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Student Loan Debt, A Growing Problem for Virginia

Student Loan Debt, A Growing Problem for Virginia

Originally posted in Public News Service. Student loan debt in the state is high and rising and it's a real problem for some. An annual survey by the Institute for College Access & Success found t ...

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Virginia Organizing Responds to President Obama’s Ban the Box Annoucement

Virginia Organizing Responds to President Obama’s Ban the Box Annoucement

Fredericksburg, Va.—Virginia Organizing State Governing Board member and returning citizen Duane Edwards responded to President Barack Obama’s announcement to delay asking questions about criminal his ...

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Death Penalty Support, Use Erodes in Virginia and U.S.

Death Penalty Support, Use Erodes in Virginia and U.S.

Listen to the story at Public News Service. The death penalty is in a long, slow decline in Virginia and nationally, according to opinion polls and how often it's being used. Robert Dunham, executive ...

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