The Case for a Public Option in Virginia
This text comes from Delegate Ibraheem S. Samirah, who has sponsored HB5083, which would add a public option to Virginia's health insurance marketplace: Researching the Costs Asso ...
Read More »Grassroots Gathering 2020 Sponsors
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Read More »Virginia Organizing Grades the Governor and Calls for Him to Support the VLBC Agenda
Richmond, Va. — On August 17, Virginia Organizing's State Governing Board held a media conference via Zoom to release a report card of Governor Ralph Northam's ...
Read More »New COVID-19 Relief Proposal Falls Short for Families, Workers, and State and Local Budgets
Richmond, Va. — Following the release of Senate Republicans’ COVID-19 relief package in Congress, Virginia Organizing Chairperson Del McWhorter released the followi ...
Read More »CDC Director: Children of Color Will Be Disproportionately Affected
Rebecca Klar of The Hill writes: Children of color will be disproportionately affected by school reopenings amid the coronavirus pandemic if additional resources are not in place ...
Read More »School Policing Snapshot
by Dr. Ruth Osorio, Ph.D. of the Norfolk Chapter To download a PDF of the full article (including Norfolk-specific information) click here. For the general Virginia version, click ...
Read More »Critical Protections Passed Protecting Workers Against COVID-19
Emergency temporary standards mandate common-sense protections for Virginians in the workplace Richmond, VA— Today, the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board acted to protect the ...
Read More »Weekly Voter Registration Trainings
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Read More »Lynchburg Chapter calls for SROs to be removed from city schools
On July 7, Pastor Reason Chandler and other leaders in the Lynchburg Chapter submitted comments to the Lynchburg School Board to ask that the schools eliminate the position of sch ...
Read More »Sendy Portillo | June 2020 Leader of the Month
Sendy Portillo moved to Richmond from El Salvador in 2008. She was looking for an organization to get involved in when Virginia Organizing started developing a chapter in the Rich ...
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