Category: Civic Engagement

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  • Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Dreame Boyd - Richmond Chapter Dreame is an active and contributing member to the Richmond Chapter and the statewide Housing Strategy Committee. She has participated in several wor ...

  • Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    On May 12, our Halifax/South Boston Chapter held a Day Without Child Care event that recognized the importance of child care and early childhood education for parents, providers, a ...

  • Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    Over the past month, our Halifax/South Boston Chapter has been actively working with local kids and community members to address safety concerns in their neighborhoods—especially t ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Tour of Faith Mobile

    Featured Community Partner | Tour of Faith Mobile

    Tour of Faith Mobile collects and distributes free clothing and essential items to people experiencing poverty and homelessness in Charlottesville, VA. Founded by Letitia Curry-Sti ...

Civic Engagement Overview: Making Voices Heard

Civic Engagement Overview: Making Voices Heard

 The voices of all people matter. We believe in the rights of workers, consumers, shareholders and taxpayers to democratic self-organization. We are dedicated to encouraging ...

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Restoring voting rights is the right thing to do

Restoring voting rights is the right thing to do

May. 8, 2012http://www.newsleader.com/article/20120508/OPINION01/205080305/1014/rss03For many of them, it was a foolish decision made when they were 18 or 19. It could have been s ...

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Jay Johnson on Jim Crow disguised as fighting voter fraud

Jay Johnson on Jim Crow disguised as fighting voter fraud

Today, Jay Johnson, longtime board member and former-chairperson of Virginia Organizing spoke at a voting rights press conference at the General Assembly. The press conference was ...

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Protecting the Vote in Virginia Forum: 2/21 @6:30pm

Protecting the Vote in Virginia Forum: 2/21 @6:30pm

This afternoon in Martinsville dozens of Virginia Organizing supporters protested against the voter suppression bills in the Virginia General Assembly.Tonight the Virginia Legisla ...

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What is Del. Marshall thinking?

What is Del. Marshall thinking?

The following letter to the editor was published in the Danville Register and Bee and was writen by Viriginia Organizing leader Maxine Jackson: What is Del. Marshall thinking? By: ...

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Is the Virginia General Assembly Trying to Repeal the 20th Century?

Is the Virginia General Assembly Trying to Repeal the 20th Century?

The 2012 Virginia General Assembly seems intent on taking Virginia backwards. Yesterday, Senator Dick Saslaw of Fairfax summed it up perfectly: “It seems to me there are peo ...

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VA Group: No Love for the Legislature

VA Group: No Love for the Legislature

It's Valentine's Day, but one group isn't feeling the love from the General Assembly – and to signify that, is delivering empty broken-heart boxes to legislators ...

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The 2012 General Assembly bait and switch.  We wanted jobs, we got ____________.

The 2012 General Assembly bait and switch. We wanted jobs, we got ____________.

On Valentine's Day, Virginia Organizing supporters from Abingdon to Arlington will make their way to the Capitol for the Broken Hearts day of action to call attention to the m ...

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Valentine’s Day Action: The General Assembly Broke Our Hearts

Valentine’s Day Action: The General Assembly Broke Our Hearts

Our hearts have been repeatedly broken by the Virginia General Assembly this year.We've been lied to:"We'll work on jobs and education, we swear!"We've been ...

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VIDEO: Fredericksburg Residents Call on Sen. Reeves to Oppose Voter Suppression Bills

VIDEO: Fredericksburg Residents Call on Sen. Reeves to Oppose Voter Suppression Bills

Twenty fours hours after the House of Delegates passed HB 9, one of many voter suppression bills, Fredericksburg residents gathered at the library to speak out against a slew of b ...

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