Cook: Warner is betting on Americans
Published in The Roanoke Times Sandra A. Cook | Cook is a member of the Virginia Organizing State Governing Board. There have been times when I sat across the table from U.S. Sen. ...
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Updated Restoration of Civil Rights Process Announced
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced a new process for restoration of civil rights on Monday, August 22 to comply with the Supreme Court of Virginia orders on July 22, 2016 ...
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Restoration Update!
Today, Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that he restored the rights of nearly 13,000 individuals after the Supreme Court of Virginia ordered the Department of Elections to cance ...
Read More »Celebrating 81 Years of Social Security
Dear friends, August 14 was the 81st anniversary of Social Security, one of the most successful programs in our nation’s history. Social Security keeps millions of seniors, surviv ...
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Come to Grassroots Gathering 2016
Grassroots Gathering 2016 is next month! Have you registered yet? In addition to the engaging workshops, great people, and a beautiful location at Smith Mountain Lake, we are prou ...
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McWhorter: Renewables would bring more jobs
Published in The Roanoke Times on August 3, 2016 Re: "Marching on Richmond," July 19 editorial: In that piece, you asked those in support of environmental justice to think about h ...
Read More »Johnson: A march for environmental justice
This op-ed was published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch on July 29, 2016 When I moved from Hampton to Newport News in 1999, I was told I was not living in a flood zone. Fast forwa ...
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BREAKING: Supreme Disappointment from Virginia’s High Court
Tonight, the Virginia Supreme Court issued a stunning blow to the progress Governor Terry McAuliffe has made on voting rights by ruling that his latest restoration of rights order ...
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Will you help us #ReachTerry?
There is still time to register to join Virginia Organizing and hundreds of people concerned about environmental justice to tell Governor Terry McAuliffe to put people over pollut ...
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Opinion/Letter: Ashamed of opposition to voting rights
Letter to the Editor Published in The Daily Progress On April 22, my opinion of Virginia vastly improved with the governor's executive order that allowed more than 200,000 former ...
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