Our Top Ten of 2015
Virginia Organizing has done a lot in our 20th anniversary year and it was hard to narrow our list down to just 10—but we have! Check out our Top 10 of 2015 list below. Thank you ...
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20 Years
I want to take a minute to tell you a little about the last 20 years—but don’t worry, I will be brief! For 20 years, Virginia Organizing has been organizing to dismantle racism, s ...
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Governor McAuliffe Announces Further Reduction on Inmate Phone Call Rates
Originally posted by Governor Terry McAuliffe. RICHMOND - Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced that offenders in Virginia’s prisons can now stay in touch with loved ones by wa ...
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Shop Local First.
As you’re finishing up your holiday shopping, we’d like to encourage you to shop local businesses first! Small business owners contribute a lot to our communities, including placi ...
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Virginia Organizing SAW Chapter Works with Local Deaf Community to Increase Accessibility at Local Hospitals
Check out this video to learn more about why accessibility in hospitals is so important! Video by Phil Dixon. https://youtu.be/LzNB_CQCMow ...
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Your Federal Student Loans Just Got Easier to REPAYE
This article was published on Homeroom, the official blog of the Department of Education Beginning today, Federal Direct Loan borrowers can take advantage of a new repayment plan: ...
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Danville Police Expand Citizen Complaint Program
Originally posted on The Danville Register & Bee. Members of both the Danville Police Department and Virginia Organizing announced expansions in availability of citizen compla ...
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End tax breaks for big corporations
Our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness recently sent out an email to let us know that Congress is negotiating a huge package of mostly corporate tax breaks that have expired—ba ...
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Virginia Groups Want Stronger Safeguards on Fracking
Originally published by WSLS. Environmental and public interest groups are urging officials to halt any new fracking efforts in Virginia until they complete a thorough review of t ...
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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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