Relief for All Virginians: Sign On Letter to Members of Congress
More than 140 current and former public officials from every region of Virginia have signed this letter to our Congressional delegation. Dear Members of the Virginia Congressional ...
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Brandy Faulkner | November 2019 Leader of the Month
Brandy Faulkner wanted to get involved with Virginia Organizing years before there was a chapter in the New River Valley, so she joined immediately when an organizer moved to her ...
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Dustin Robins: How Does Change Happen?
Back in 2015, I was still trying to get my life back together after being homeless and out of work for the last 3 years. Things had started to look up though. I had steady employm ...
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Virginia Organizing Celebrates 54th Anniversary of Medicaid and Medicare in Christiansburg
Christiansburg, Va. — Advocates and leaders from the New River Valley Chapter of Virginia Organizing celebrated the 54th anniversary of the passage of Medicaid and Medicare yester ...
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Virginia Organizing partners with NAACP to host an Education Justice Forum
Christiansburg, Va. — The New River Valley Chapter of Virginia Organizing and the Montgomery County - Radford City - Floyd County Branch of the NAACP hosted an Education Justice F ...
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About the New River Valley Chapter
The New River Valley Chapter became one of Virginia Organizing's chapters in April 2017. In the beginning, the chapter focused on a local campaign to disrupt the school-to-prison ...
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My Son was in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Assistant Principal of my son’s school called to tell me and my husband that our son had received a three-day out-of-school suspension for fighting. They told me he had starte ...
Read More »On expanding Medicaid: “Virginia’s money needs to stay in Virginia”
Published on The View From Peak's Knob. One of my hardworking colleagues just found out that her family’s health insurance premiums are about to go from about $250 to $1200 a mont ...
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Faith Leaders Join Us to Call for Medicaid Expansion
Virginia Organizing and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) would like to invite you to join us in calling for the General Assembly to expand Medicaid. Starti ...
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Medicaid Expansion in the News
Dear friends, Last week Virginia Organizing and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) held nine news conferences around the state, with faith leaders, members o ...
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