The New River Valley Chapter became one of Virginia Organizing's chapters in April 2017. In the beginning, the chapter focused on a local campaign to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in Montgomer ...
Read More »What: Media conference with Lynchburg parents and community leaders to call on the Lynchburg School Board to meet with Virginia Organizing and other community groups When: Tuesday, June 6 at 5 p.m. Wh ...
Read More »Published by the Roanoke Times. Across the country, there is a growing call to make community college free. The argument is a simple one that grows out of modern economics: We provide free K-12 educat ...
Read More »Richmond, Va.—“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created to stop payday, car title, and other high interest, debt trap lenders from abusing working people,” said Ladelle McWhorter, c ...
Read More »The Lynchburg Chapter won our first local victory in early 2016 when we successfully petitioned the Board of Supervisors in Amherst County to remove discriminatory language from a county ordinance. Th ...
Read More »The Portsmouth Chapter began in January 2016 and is one of the largest chapters of Virginia Organizing. Their first campaign was to reduce suspensions as a way of stopping the school-to-prison pipelin ...
Read More »What: Block Party for Dignity, a celebration of the power of community and solidarity in the aftermath of three recent incidents involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement, local law enforcement an ...
Read More »From the Virginia Department of Elections. Qualified Virginia voters have until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 to request an absentee ballot be mailed to them for the June 13, 2017 Primary Election. ...
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