New Institute for Policy Studies Report Examines Wealth Concentration
From the Institute for Policy Studies America’s 20 wealthiest people, a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet, now own more wealth than the bot ...
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Amherst County to Revise Ordinance Restricting Felons from Operating Businesses
Originally published in The Amherst New Era Progress. Virginia Organizing leaders in an emerging Chapter in the area have been organizing around this important issue! In response ...
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Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing Introduction
This is an excerpt from Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing. Click here to order your copy today! In the mid-1990s, Denise Smith was living in Southwe ...
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Supporting Green Products with Our Purchases
Do we realize that our purchases shape the world? When a dollar leaves our hands, it goes to work, work that can support life and wellbeing or degradation and destruction! Even th ...
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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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Report: Youth Prison Systems Failing Virginia
Originally posted on Public News Service. A new analysis of the state's youth prison system finds it to be a costly revolving door, and experts are urging Virginia policymakers to ...
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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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John Kerry Warns Climate Change is a National Security Risk
Originally posted in The Daily Press. Ahead of high-stakes climate change talks in Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday of increasing and grim national security ris ...
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