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  • #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    We asked and our communities answered! Watch our video of our members sharing how Medicaid has impacted them. https://youtu.be/HoAxfv3ANvs?feature=shared ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    To be without an ID in the United States is to be illegible to the state, which can mean tumbling into a netherworld of nonexistence, locked out of basic services like jobs, housin ...

  • Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Have a sun-sational summer with your Peninsula chapter and join us for our upcoming events in Newport News and Hampton! We're moving the needle on local issues like housing, educat ...

  • 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 ...

End tax breaks for big corporations

End tax breaks for big corporations

Our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness recently sent out an email to let us know that Congress is negotiating a huge package of mostly corporate tax breaks that have expired—ba ...

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Local Virginia Organizing Chapter to Hold Health Care Forum in Martinsville

Local Virginia Organizing Chapter to Hold Health Care Forum in Martinsville

What: Health care forum to provide information on the Affordable Care Act Marketplace and Medicaid expansion When: Tuesday, December 8 at 6 p.m. Where: American National Universit ...

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Virginia Groups Want Stronger Safeguards on Fracking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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