Chapter Updates November 2023
We attended Grassroots Gathering 2023 in Richmond! It was great to connect with other chapters and learn at the many workshops. We rallied in support of voting rights, demanding t ...
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Join us for CLASS: Rural Organizing
For our Community Learning and Strategy Session (CLASS) on THURSDAY, September 7 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will be talking about Rural Organizing. Come learn about how organ ...
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VACOLAO | Featured Community Partner
For Beatriz Ambermann of the Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO), organizing for political power is about connection and community across time and space. Since 20 ...
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July CLASS: Energy Justice 101
For our Community Learning and Strategy Session (CLASS) on THURSDAY, July 6 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will be talking about Energy Justice. Come learn about how our energy s ...
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A National Independence Day
https://youtu.be/Ct3q8ewJ0WE Juneteenth is officially a national independence day. It is a federal holiday here in the United States of America. On this day, we commemorate t ...
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Clio Schurtz | Albemarle/Charlottesville Organizer
Clio is the Albemarle/Charlottesville Organizer as of June 2024. She joined Virginia Organizing in June of 2023 as the New River Valley Organizer, and after a year of working in t ...
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Join us for CLASS in May: Why We Vote
For our next Community Learning and Strategy Session on May 2 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will discuss "Why we vote." Throughout our history, Virginia Organizing has worked to build pow ...
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First Gender Justice Workshop!
Over the weekend, 40 members of Virginia Organizing met in Harrisonburg for our first workshop on dismantling patriarchy and working toward gender justice. Over the three days, pa ...
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Lynchburg Chapter calls for SROs to be removed from city schools
On July 7, Pastor Reason Chandler and other leaders in the Lynchburg Chapter submitted comments to the Lynchburg School Board to ask that the schools eliminate the position of sch ...
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