Infant mortality in Virginia
Recently the Virginian Pilot ran an excellent story by Elizabeth Simpson on infant mortality in Virginia and the factors that race, economic status and geography play in the healt ...
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Virginia Organizing Commends VA Beach City Council on Affordable Housing Protective Order
Virginia Organizing Hails the Passage of the Mobile Home Protective Order and the Human Rights Resolution Virginia Beach, VA –Residents who have fought on local affo ...
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We Won the Housing Virginia 2010 Media Award!
Virginia Organizing and the Providence Mobile Home Park residents were the recipients of the Housing Virginia 2010 Media Award. Recognition and a $500 cash award were presented to ...
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Virginia Organizing Meeting Focuses on Local Unemployment and Why Congress Must Act
Community Members Call on Congress to Extend Unemployment Benefits, Extend Tax Cuts for the Middle Class and End Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Danville, VA – Close to twent ...
Read More »What Wall Street Reform Means For You
The historic Wall Street reform legislation passed by the Senate last night will have an impact on Main Street as well as Wall Street. The big banks will make every effort to dilu ...
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Ride the Divide Screening, benefiting Charlottesville Community Bikes and The Paramount
Join Charlottesville Community Bikes and the Paramount Theater for a fund raising screening of the award-winning feature film about the world's toughest mountain bike race, wh ...
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Minnis: ‘Young gun’ Cantor needs to go
Originally Published in the Fredericksburg Freelance Star 10/08/10 I think the time is right to send our "young gun" riding off into the sunset. The rabidly partisan and ...
Read More »A Note from Joe Szakos
Dear friends,Thank you for joining us to celebrate the Virginia Organizing Project's 15th Anniversary. A lot can happen in 15 years and sometimes looking back can be dizzying! ...
Read More »A View From the Fifth Row at the Chesepeake City Council Meeting
On the evening of Tuesday, 6/15 VOP members and ally organizations and friends went to bat for the residents of a Mobile Home park in Chesapeake, Virginia. The residents of this p ...
Read More »The Fight for Jobs in Danville Continues
The Danville chapter made a Local Jobs for America Act (HR 4812) presentation at the June 15 City Council meeting, bringing 200 signed letters of support for the legislation and o ...
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