Grassroots Gathering 2016: Brief Recap
Over the weekend of September 16-18, Virginia Organizing leaders gathered at Smith Mountain Lake to discuss important issues facing Virginians this year like education justice, en ...
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Virginia Organizing Leaders Speak Out About School Suspensions in Spotsylvania
Spotsylvania, Va.— Virginia Organizing leaders attended the September 12, 2016 Spotsylvania School Board meeting to speak out about the disproportionate number of suspensions for ...
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Virginia Organizing Chapter Leaders Will Speak at Portsmouth School Board Meeting on School-to-Prison Pipeline
What: Portsmouth School Board meeting When: Thursday, September 8 at 7 p.m. Where: Portsmouth City Hall, 6th Floor (801 Crawford Street, Portsmouth, VA 23704) Portsmouth, Va.—Lead ...
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Updated Restoration of Civil Rights Process Announced
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced a new process for restoration of civil rights on Monday, August 22 to comply with the Supreme Court of Virginia orders on July 22, 2016 ...
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Restoration Update!
Today, Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that he restored the rights of nearly 13,000 individuals after the Supreme Court of Virginia ordered the Department of Elections to cance ...
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Virginia’s McAuliffe to announce restoration of voting rights to 13,000 felons
Published by the Washington Post Gov. Terry McAuliffe will announce Monday that he has restored voting rights to 13,000 felons on a case-by-case basis after Republicans and state ...
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Roger Chesley: Justices’ smackdown of McAuliffe’s attempts to restore felons’ voting rights isn’t final word
Published by the Virginian-Pilot. I hesitated to call Patricia Skinner on Monday. I didn’t want to further muddle a confusing situation. Skinner, a former felon-turned-health car ...
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BREAKING: Supreme Disappointment from Virginia’s High Court
Tonight, the Virginia Supreme Court issued a stunning blow to the progress Governor Terry McAuliffe has made on voting rights by ruling that his latest restoration of rights order ...
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Virginia Organizing Celebrates Henry County Decision to “Ban the Box”
Henry County, Va.—Virginia Organizing applauds Henry County’s decision to remove questions regarding criminal history from county job applications following a request from the Mar ...
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Virginia Organizing Responds to Hate-Fueled Attack in Florida
Charlottesville, Va.—Virginia Organizing, a non-partisan statewide grassroots organization dedicated to creating a more just Virginia for all people, released the following statem ...
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