We need a clean spending bill
Virginia Organizing has learned that Wall Street is at it again, trying to tack some of their most controversial giveaways onto “must-pass” funding bills. To stop them, we need to ...
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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 to Speaker Howell: “This Has Got To Stop”
Fredericksburg, Va.—Virginia Organizing called on Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Bill Howell to stop blocking Medicaid expansion the day before the Remote Area Medical ...
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John Kerry Warns Climate Change is a National Security Risk
Originally posted in The Daily Press. Ahead of high-stakes climate change talks in Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday of increasing and grim national security ris ...
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Virginians Deserve Better
Virginia’s health care crisis is bad. It’s so bad that Remote Area Medical—the organization that provides medical care to thousands of people that our health care system leaves ou ...
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Virginia Organizing Responds to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals DAPA/DACA Decision
Petersburg, Va.—The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction to block implementation of executive orders on immigration, including Deferred Action for Parents of Americ ...
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Student Loan Debt, A Growing Problem for Virginia
Originally posted in Public News Service. Student loan debt in the state is high and rising and it's a real problem for some. An annual survey by the Institute for College Access ...
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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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More U.S. Children Get Health Coverage, But Rate in Virginia Stalls
Originally published on Public News Service. More children are getting health care coverage nationally, according to a new study from the Georgetown University Center for Children ...
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