Statewide Actions
2025 is starting off to be quite a year as we are headed to the General Assembly. Our statewide priorities focus around housing and environmental justice, restoration of voting rights, child care, and healthcare. Read our full list of priorities here. We are also supporting proposed changes to the state constitution, which you may have read in our recent statewide newsletter.
“We are very pleased to announce that the three constitutional amendments we support have been passed by both the Senate and the House of Delegates! This is the first big step in making these changes to the Virginia Constitution, to ensure that Virginia moves toward a more fair and equitable future. Giving a win to our Restoration of Rights efforts (SJ 248)! The other amendments passed were SJ 247, that protects women’s rights to reproductive freedom, and SJ 249, that repeals the same-sex marriage prohibition in Virginia.
All three of these amendments will move to the next phase of approval, which will involve going through another General Assembly session before being presented to the public to decide on the Virginia state ballot.”
Stay tuned for more updates on these amendments and next steps.
Join us for our national action in Richmond at Abner Clay Park on Monday, February 17 at 9:30 a.m.
Before then, we have weekly Calls To Actions where we make phone calls to our legislators at the General Assembly in their Richmond office. We encourage our community and chapter members to answer our calls to action and call during our actions on pieces of legislation we support or oppose.
Our representatives are:
Senator J. D. Diggs of the 24 District
Senator Mamie Locke of the 23 District
Delegate A. C. Cordoza of the 86 District
Delegate W. Chad Green of the 69 District
Delegate (Cia) Marcia S. Price of the 85 District
Delegate Shelly Simonds of the 70 District
Delegate Jeion A. Ward of the 87 District
Local Actions
City Council on the Peninsula
Fill the seats! Pack the place! #CallToAction
We continue our efforts to address housing insecurity and homelessness on the peninsula. We need you, our community, to move forward on this issue! Join us Tuesday, February 11 at 6:30 p.m. to demand funding for the shelter at the Newport News City Council meeting. At the meeting, the Newport News/Hampton Chapter will present over 135 postcards of support for the shelter to City Council.
Monthly Chapter Meeting
Join us for our monthly virtual chapter meeting on Tuesday, February 18 at 6:30 p.m. Contact your local peninsula organizer for the meeting link. We will have Sally Hudson speak on Ranked Choice Voting, also known as RCV, which we have featured on our main page.
