2024 Legislative Priorities
The 2024 General Assembly session begins Wednesday, January 10 and ends March 9. Our power as an organization is in the people who take action with us, and thanks to you we've bui ...
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Community Gear Library | Featured Community Partner
Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, is surrounded by mountains. Most of those mountains are public land, whether it be the remote and rustic George Wash ...
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The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter
On August 29, President Biden announced that Medicare has selected the first 10 medications that they will negotiate lower prices for. These negotiations were made possible by the ...
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Join us for CLASS!
For our Community Learning and Strategy Session (CLASS) on THURSDAY, October 5 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will be talking about building campaigns and civic engagement. Come ...
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The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner
In the fight against childhood cancer, children are noncombatants. That is the response of The Alyssa House Board Chair, Lynn Divers, to the more common conception of cancer treat ...
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National and State Partners Appalachian Voices Chesapeake Climate Action Network Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Legal Aid Justice Center Virginia AFL-CIO Sierra Club Virginia Ch ...
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Patchwork Kinfolx | Featured Community Partner
In early 2022 a group of queer community members and allies decided to hold a Pride celebration at Breaks Interstate Park in rural Appalachia, on the Virginia-Kentucky border. The ...
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Join us for CLASS: Rural Organizing
For our Community Learning and Strategy Session (CLASS) on THURSDAY, September 7 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will be talking about Rural Organizing. Come learn about how organ ...
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VACOLAO | Featured Community Partner
For Beatriz Ambermann of the Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO), organizing for political power is about connection and community across time and space. Since 20 ...
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