Ask Senator Warner for a Budget that Protects Basic Services, not Tax Breaks for the Wealthy
In a close vote, the U.S. Senate failed to pass the Buffett Rule, a groundbreaking piece of legislation that would have required millionaires to pay at least the same tax rate as ...
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Downie: The President’s Plan to Help Virginia’s Homeowners
What a long road for homeowners. So many have suffered and lost their homes. I personally have watched two of my children fight to keep their homes. Both are upside down in ...
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Letter to Bank of America: You’re on Notice, See you In Charlotte.
Today, Virginia Organizing leaders attempted to the deliver the following letter to the Charlottesville branch manager. The mananger kindly refused so the group went to the neares ...
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Brown: An Afternoon With VP Biden on the SOTU
“We can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, does their fair shave, and plays by the same sets of rules”—President ObamaAs a member of the State G ...
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Victory on UI and Payroll Tax Cut, Virginia Organizing at White House
Yesterday the obstructionists in the House of Representatives finally announced they'd join a majority of senators from both political parties to renew unemployment benefits a ...
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Breaking up with Bank of America: Michele’s story
Over the last several months Virginia Organizing has joined the campaign Move Our Money USA in moving $57 million away from the big banks into credit unions and small banks.We hav ...
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No More Mr. Potter: Virginians Moving Money out of Big Banks
The 1946 film "It's a Wonderful life," which starred Jimmy Stewart, has become an American Christmas classic. For hundreds of Virginians, one of the film's lesso ...
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Ehrenthal: The House is Playing Reindeer Games with Unemployment & Middle Class Tax Cut
Once again the House of Representatives, led by the radical conservative bloc is holding up a needed tax break for most working Americans. After crafting a compromise budget bill ...
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The face of the unemployed
Today USAction helped put a face to unemployment in America. Amid a flurry of press coverage, including not one but two advance mentions in the New York Times, we relea ...
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Ehrenthal: Pepper Spray is Not Food and Occupy is Not Ambiguous
As Yogi Berra is purported to have said, “It’s like Deja Vous all over again”. Watching the treatment of those assembling in protest for the Occupy movement brings me back to the ...
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