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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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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Chief Broadfoot and Virginia Organizing Hold Media Conference to Highlight Citizen Complaint Procedure
What: Joint press conference to highlight the availability of the City of Danville Police Department citizen complaint forms When: Wednesday, December 9 at 11:30 a.m. Where: Green ...
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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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Virginia Organizing Responds to President Obama’s Ban the Box Annoucement
Fredericksburg, Va.—Virginia Organizing State Governing Board member and returning citizen Duane Edwards responded to President Barack Obama’s announcement to delay asking questio ...
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Death Penalty Support, Use Erodes in Virginia and U.S.
Listen to the story at Public News Service. The death penalty is in a long, slow decline in Virginia and nationally, according to opinion polls and how often it's being used. Robe ...
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Virginia Organizing Danville Chapter Leaders Respond to Attorney General Herring’s Police Recruitment Pilot Program
Danville, Va.—Virginia Organizing Chapter leaders in Danville attended a media conference held by Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring where he announced a new pilot program in ...
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Virginia Organizing and Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice to Screen ‘Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot’
What: Screening of “Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot” and community discussion When: Sunday, October 25 from 2-4:30 p.m. Where: Staunton Public Library, 2nd floor (1 Churchville Av ...
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Let’s Ban the Box for Federal Jobs!
Virginia Organizing has organized with other groups across Virginia to “ban the box” in many localities and on state job applications — and we were successful! Now, we have an opp ...
Read More »It was a BIG week!
Last week, Virginia and the United States saw some pretty big victories for justice! It was also painfully clear that we still have more work to do as the members of the Emanuel A ...
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