Virginia Groups Want Stronger Safeguards on Fracking
Originally published by WSLS. Environmental and public interest groups are urging officials to halt any new fracking efforts in Virginia until they complete a thorough review of t ...
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Healthy Compensation: Demanding Corporations Pay Their Taxes
Originally posted in the Petersburg Progress-Index. It wasn’t until I fractured my hip that I realized I’d been physically compensating for my muscular dystrophy by putting more p ...
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State and Regional Groups Push for Stronger Virginia Fracking Protections
Richmond, VA – Today, four environmental and public interest organizations joined forces to call on Governor Terry McAuliffe to conduct a comprehensive review of the state’s safeg ...
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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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Virginia Organizing to Demonstrate in Support of Immigration on the Anniversary of DAPA Executive Order
Media Advisory What: Demonstration in support of immigrants and refugees When: Friday, November 20 at 3 p.m. Where: U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte’s Harrisonburg office (70 Nor ...
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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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