About VAORG Admin

Harrisonburg Chapter Leaders Need Your Help!

Harrisonburg Chapter Leaders Need Your Help!

Virginia Organizing leaders in Harrisonburg are turning up the heat on U.S. Representative and House Judiciary Chairperson Bob Goodlatte!Constituents marched to Representative Goodlatte's office today ...

Read More »
Let’s Encourage President Obama to Take Action

Let’s Encourage President Obama to Take Action

Congress will soon leave for a five-week vacation. But that does not mean that we can’t make some progress on immigration reform while they are away! President Barack Obama is reportedly consider ...

Read More »
Virginia Organizing to Deliver a ‘Backbone’ to Representative Goodlatte

Virginia Organizing to Deliver a ‘Backbone’ to Representative Goodlatte

For Immediate Release: July 29, 2014What: Demonstration in support of immigrant youth and comprehensive immigration reform When: Wednesday, July 30 at noon Where: Community le ...

Read More »
A Sudden Push for Felon Voting Rights in a Most Unlikely Place

A Sudden Push for Felon Voting Rights in a Most Unlikely Place

Published in The Root on July 24, 2014Right now there is a stream of legislation on Capitol Hill that could open the door to restoration of the vote for millions of disenfranchised convicts and ex-con ...

Read More »
Poll: Let border kids stay

Poll: Let border kids stay

Published in Politico on July 29, 2014By Jonathan TopazNearly 70 percent of Americans believe the undocumented Central American children entering along the U.S.-Mexico border should be treated as refu ...

Read More »
Virginia Organizing Responds to Federal Appeals Court Ruling on Marriage Equality

Virginia Organizing Responds to Federal Appeals Court Ruling on Marriage Equality

For Immediate Release: July 28, 2014Richmond, Va.—Virginia Organizing State Governing Board Vice-Chairperson Del McWhorter responded to today’s Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that struck ...

Read More »
Groups Host Secretary of the Commonwealth for Conversation on Restoration of Rights

Groups Host Secretary of the Commonwealth for Conversation on Restoration of Rights

For Immediate Release: July, 28, 2014 What: Mr. Levar Stoney, Secretary of the Commonwealth, will speak about Restoration of Civil Rights  When: Tuesday, July 29 at noon  Where: Calvary Bapt ...

Read More »
Lack of Medicaid expansion poses a bigger danger to Americans than terrorism

Lack of Medicaid expansion poses a bigger danger to Americans than terrorism

Published in The Washington Post Letters to the Editor, July 25, 2014 Regarding Petula Dvorak’s July 19 Metro column, “Lines of desperation: Once-a-year chance to get medical care”: Ms. Dvorak is righ ...

Read More »
White House Pursuing Plans to Expand Immigrant Rights

White House Pursuing Plans to Expand Immigrant Rights

Published in the LA Times By Christi Parsons, Brian Bennett, Lisa Mascaro Even as President Obama grapples with the crisis of immigrant children arriving at the Southwest border, White House officials ...

Read More »
“Walking Mayor” Brings Rural Hospital Issues to D.C.

“Walking Mayor” Brings Rural Hospital Issues to D.C.

Published on July 25, 2014 in The Public News Service. By Dan HeymanRICHMOND, Va. - A small-town mayor walking though Virginia will reach Washington, D.C., on Monday, carrying the message that ru ...

Read More »
scroll to top