Healthy Compensation: Demanding Corporations Pay Their Taxes
Originally posted in the Petersburg Progress-Index. It wasn’t until I fractured my hip that I realized I’d been physically compensating for my muscular dystrophy by putting more p ...
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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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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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Black Friday is Coming…
On Black Friday, millions of people will wait in lines to shop for the holidays. We’d like to offer the alternative of a gift that matters deeply and will affect thousands of live ...
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We need a clean spending bill
Virginia Organizing has learned that Wall Street is at it again, trying to tack some of their most controversial giveaways onto “must-pass” funding bills. To stop them, we need to ...
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Racism on Campus is Nothing New. A Sustained Anti-Racist Campus Movement Would Be.
Published by the Alliance for a Just Society. As a first-year student at Brown University I was detained for trespassing by campus security. In my own dorm. In sock feet. You see ...
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Virginians Deserve Better
Virginia’s health care crisis is bad. It’s so bad that Remote Area Medical—the organization that provides medical care to thousands of people that our health care system leaves ou ...
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This Tuesday!
We have an important election every year in Virginia, and 2015 is no exception. On November 3, 2015, we will elect every single seat in the Virginia General Assembly. Here are som ...
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Water Conservation and Dishware
There are many ways to save water in our everyday lives. One great and unexpected way to conserve comes from the dishware we use! Reusable dishware is more sustainable than disp ...
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It was a BIG weekend
We had a great time celebrating our 20th anniversary at the 2015 Grassroots Gathering in Blackstone, Virginia this past weekend! Thank you to everyone who helped make this great e ...
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