Fredericksburg Leaders Question Senator Tim Kaine at Library Community Conversation
Virginia Organizing's Fredericksburg Chapter, the Spotsylvania NAACP, and other groups met with Senator Tim Kaine in a Community Conversation at the Salem Church Branch Library in ...
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South Hampton Roads Chapter Leaders Visit General Assembly
Leaders from the South Hampton Roads Chapter visited their legislators in the General Assembly in January. Every chapter will make these visits to advocate for our four top priori ...
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Without Medicaid expansion, Danville resident caught in middle
Published by Danville Register and Bee. Danville resident and cancer survivor Margaret Lipford said she started paying into the system more than 30 years ago. For decades, she wor ...
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Group gathers in Harrisonburg to discuss sanctuary movement
Published by WHSV. HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) — Virginia Organizing and local churches in Harrisonburg discussed the sanctuary movement for illegal immigrants. The groups held a for ...
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Thanks for Banning the Box
Published in the Martinsville Bulletin. To the editor: On Friday, Jan. 19, the Virginia Senate passed a bill that gives more people a fair shot at public employment. Senate Bill 2 ...
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My Daughter was also in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
I started trying to get my daughter the help she needed when she was still in elementary school. She didn’t pass the SOLs, even after we hired a tutor for her. I initiated a child ...
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About the Eastern Shore Chapter
The Eastern Shore Chapter first began meeting in March 2016, when 31 people attended a meeting at Mary N. Smith Cultural Center. The group spent two years doing core development w ...
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My Daughter was in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
When my daughter’s 6th grade teacher called to tell me she had been caught looking at a cell phone in class, she had already given her an in-school suspension. The teacher said he ...
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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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