Care for our Earth: Preventing Water Scarcity
How careful are we in our use of one of the Earth's most precious resource, water? If we were to experience a high category hurricane where our drinkable water supply would no lon ...
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Virginia Organizing SAW Chapter Works with Local Deaf Community to Increase Accessibility at Local Hospitals
Check out this video to learn more about why accessibility in hospitals is so important! Video by Phil Dixon. https://youtu.be/LzNB_CQCMow ...
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Amherst County Board of Supervisors Repeals Discriminatory Ordinance
Amherst, Va.—Virginia Organizing leaders in the emerging Lynchburg Chapter celebrated yesterday when the Amherst County Board of Supervisors voted to repeal an ordinance that coul ...
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Virginia Organizing Partners with Ten Thousand Villages for Shopping Event on Sunday
What: Shopping day to benefit Virginia Organizing When: Sunday, December 13 from 1-5 p.m. Where: Ten Thousand Villages Charlottesville (105 West Main Street (Downtown Mall), Charl ...
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Danville Police Expand Citizen Complaint Program
Originally posted on The Danville Register & Bee. Members of both the Danville Police Department and Virginia Organizing announced expansions in availability of citizen compla ...
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Chief Broadfoot and Virginia Organizing Hold Media Conference to Highlight Citizen Complaint Procedure
What: Joint press conference to highlight the availability of the City of Danville Police Department citizen complaint forms When: Wednesday, December 9 at 11:30 a.m. Where: Green ...
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Local Virginia Organizing Chapter to Hold Health Care Forum in Martinsville
What: Health care forum to provide information on the Affordable Care Act Marketplace and Medicaid expansion When: Tuesday, December 8 at 6 p.m. Where: American National Universit ...
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Amherst County to Revise Ordinance Restricting Felons from Operating Businesses
Originally published in The Amherst New Era Progress. Virginia Organizing leaders in an emerging Chapter in the area have been organizing around this important issue! In response ...
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Supporting Green Products with Our Purchases
Do we realize that our purchases shape the world? When a dollar leaves our hands, it goes to work, work that can support life and wellbeing or degradation and destruction! Even th ...
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All Virginians deserve access to front door
Published on Sunday, November 22, 2015 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Editor, Times-Dispatch: Regarding former first lady Roxanne Gilmore’s critique of the plan for a wheelchair r ...
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