South Hampton Roads
Blog: South Hampton Roads Chapter
November 29, 2010 - 19:41
This blog is devoted to the South Hampton Roads Chapter of the Virginia Organizing. The purpose of this blog is to raise awareness and keep the public informed with how issues of social injustice progress in our community and what the Virginia Organizing is doing to address these issues. Click here to view the Virginia Organizing South Hampton Roads blog: http://hamptonrdsvop.wordpress.com/
Ehrenthal: Voter Fraud & Bigfoot, They Make Exist, But are Hard to Find
January 27, 2012 - 03:34
The right to vote, in a democracy, is a basic right. Under the United States Constitution that right in established by the 15th Amendment.
“No one can be denied the right to vote because of race, color or previous condition of servitude.”
But members of the Virginia General Assembly have introduced several bills to restrict voting rights. A couple months after Maine’s overwhelming rejection of their Voter ID law, the Old Dominion is giving large-scale disenfranchisement a go 'round.
Ehrenthal: The House is Playing Reindeer Games with Unemployment & Middle Class Tax Cut
December 19, 2011 - 22:34
Once again the House of Representatives, led by the radical conservative bloc is holding up a needed tax break for most working Americans. After crafting a compromise budget bill in the Senate—which was passed on Saturday—House Republicans had a change of heart over the weekend and are now threatening to oppose the Senate bill this evening.
Ehrenthal: Pepper Spray is Not Food and Occupy is Not Ambiguous
November 22, 2011 - 19:57
As Yogi Berra is purported to have said, “It’s like Deja Vous all over again”. Watching the treatment of those assembling in protest for the Occupy movement brings me back to the late 1960s and early 1970s. We seem to have learned nothing about how to treat relatively peaceful groups expressing their concerns. In the 60’s and 70’s it was integration and the war.
Ehrenthal: The Dangerous Myth of Supply Side Economics
October 27, 2011 - 20:14
During the late 1940's and 1950s, a vibrant middle class developed in the United States. Manufacturing grew and prospered and so did the workers who were making a living wage and therefore creating a demand for more products. A cycle of prosperity begun.
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VIDEO: Wendell Potter in VA Beach, "Health care law already saving the lives of millions"
October 4, 2011 - 15:48
Virginia Organizing, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy and Empower Hampton Roads were prompted to hold the "Real Dialogue on Health Care" forum because they feel that many people are unaware of what is in the health care law. The forum's keynote speaker, Wendell Potter, is a former insurance executive who testified numerous times before Congress on the need for health insurance reform.
Ehrenthal: L’est we forget: TARP, Tarbell and Triangle
October 3, 2011 - 23:50
Today is the three-year anniversary of TARP, the $700 billion bank bailout passed at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Even though no one actually liked TARP, including the Congress who voted for it, it is credited with saving our nation from financial collapse. However, three years after the banks received their bailout, the American people never got theirs. Every day, it becomes clearer that we have not learned from the mistakes of Wall Street and the Big Banks that led to the crisis, especially as Financial Reform legislation continues to be gutted piece by piece.
Dismantling Racism in South Hampton Roads
September 17, 2011 - 22:12
Sareeta Spliggs and Tim McCarthy were two of the more than thirty participants that attended the Dismantling Racism Workshop in South Hampton Roads on September 17th. The group committed to put an action plan together to work locally to interrupt the oppressive cycle of systemic racism.
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