Abortion Access Advocates Release Documentary Featuring Virginians Sharing Their Abortion Stories Shine The Light: Abortion Access in Virginia is a four-part documentary series that will be released episodically online over the next few weeks. Virginia—Shine The Light: Abortion Access in Virginia is a documentary featuring four Virginians sharing what it was really like to have […]
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Advocates Disappointed Governor Northam Won’t Use Rainy Day Funds To Support Hardworking Families in Pandemic
Richmond, Virginia—Between a pandemic that is causing families to struggle with massive unemployment, a child care crisis, police brutalizing protesters in the streets on a near-nightly basis all summer long, and reckoning with our racist past, it is not just raining in Virginia, it’s pouring. But this morning, Governor Ralph Northam unveiled a budget that […]
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ICYMI: Get Ready for Election Season, Not Election Night
Richmond, Virginia—This year, be prepared for election season. With new laws expanding access to absentee voting and a global pandemic pushing more voters to vote by mail, election results are unlikely to be available on election night in all races. A new law expands eligibility for ballots postmarked by Election Day and received by noon […]
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Actually, No, Trump Cannot Delay the Election
The Tweeter-in-Chief has done it again. President Trump tweeted this morning that he is contemplating delaying our November elections. There are safe, secure, and healthy ways to vote despite the raging COVID-19 pandemic. Not only can we conduct a safe and secure election in November, but Donald Trump does not have the power to delay […]
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ICYMI: COVID-19 Leads to Massive Job Loss in Black Community Largely Due to Systemic Racism
Virginia—Black workers in Virginia are being laid off or furloughed disproportionately in Virginia due to COVID-19. Because of gaps in education, discrimination in hiring, racist zoning, and many other factors based in systemic racism and white supremacy, Black people are over-represented in jobs that have been hit the hardest by the pandemic. “It’s already more […]
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Poll Shows Majority of Virginians Support Major Structural Reforms to Policing
A June 26-27th poll of 1083 registered voters found 51% support major structural reforms to policing in the commonwealth.
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Betsy DeVos Should Mind Her Own Business and Stay Out Of Fairfax County
Fairfax, Virginia—Over the weekend, Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, called for the full reopening of public schools across the country, despite the fact that the Center for Disease Control says “full-sized, in-person classes” would be of the “highest risk.” In making her dangerous call for schools to fully reopen five days a week with no […]
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Women’s Equality Coalition Celebrates Supreme Court Decision in June Medical Services v. Russo
The Court upheld precedent and affirms that burdensome, medically-unnecessary restrictions on abortion access are unconstitutional. Washington, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiringabortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges, reaffirming their 2016 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. By sticking to the precedent set in 2016, the Court affirmed that […]
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Progress Virginia Stands in Solidarity With Youth Organizers Taking a Stand Against Systemic Police Brutality
Richmond—Today, student and youth organizers from the Virginia Student Power Network filed a lawsuit suing the City of Richmond, the Richmond Police Department, and the Virginia State Police for violating their constitutional right to free speech, assembly, and protest. The lawsuit requests an immediate order to stop these violations. This lawsuit comes is a direct […]
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Progress Virginia Calls on Senator Chap Petersen to Apologize For Racist Comments
Fairfax, Virginia—Progress Virginia is calling for Senator Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax City) to immediately apologize for the racist comments made on the John Fredericks Show yesterday. Senator Petersen said the atrocities committed during the Jim Crow era, segregation, and Massive Resistance were “bad decisions…but at least they had a school system, ok, at least they had […]