About Progress Virginia: Progress Virginia is a multi-issue progressive advocacy organization that combines cutting edge online organizing and communications with rapid and hard-hitting earned media strategies. As Virginia’s progressive communications and digital hub, we work all year round to engage citizens from across the Commonwealth around issues of immediate state or local concern. Our mission […]
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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 […]
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Stop Riding the Fence: Resources on How to End White Supremacy
A list of resources for people to plug into in Virginia to take action against racism. *This list isn’t comprehensive. We’d love to hear from people with more ideas and suggestions Sign up for New Virginia Majority’s email list. Our partners at NVM are mobilizing to end mass incarceration, expand voting rights, build just economic […]
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Some Confederate Monuments Will Come Down, But There’s Still More Work To Do
Richmond, Virginia—Grassroots activists who have worked for years to remove the racist monuments to white supremacy from public spaces have something to celebrate today with the announcement that the statue of celebrated racist and traitor to the United States, Robert E. Lee, will finally be removed from Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Additionally, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney […]
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Progress Now Statement on White Supremacy
The undersigned state affiliates of ProgressNow released the following statement today regarding last week’s murder of George Floyd and the ongoing murder of Black people at the hands of police in this country. “George Floyd. Jamar Clark. Philando Castile. Thurman Blevins. Ahmaud Aubrey. Breonna Taylor. Marcus-David Peters. Freddie Gray. Patrick Harmon. Darrien Hunt. Damon Grimes. […]
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Coronavirus Double Whammy: Death and Economic Inequality for Virginia’s Communities of Color
The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating gross inequalities in the Commonwealth. Rampant racism and systemic discrimination existed way before the pandemic, but now they’ve left communities of color defenseless to the consequences of coronavirus. In Virginia, more Black and Latinx residents are dying from COVID-19 than white residents and more people of color lost their jobs […]
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Trump’s (Not So) Secret Anti-Environment Pandemic Agenda
We all know that Trump’s COVID-19 response has left a lot to be desired, but there is one thing he’s been really on top of during this crisis: rolling back protections for the environment. via GIPHY Hope You Didn’t Like Clean Air Since the pandemic started, Trump launched multiple attacks on environmental regulations, all the […]
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5 Things Less Popular Than Social Distancing
I don’t know about you, but I am slightly terrified about all of these calls to re-open the economy when it clearly isn’t safe yet. “Re-open the economy” seems like code for making people sick so that wealthy corporations can make money off the working class AGAIN. But while the calls to open things back […]
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You Want Us to Vote Now?
For reasons I cannot begin to fathom, the Virginia Senate decided to block efforts to move upcoming local May elections to a time in the future when it might actually be safe to vote in person. via GIPHY I worry about the danger this poses to communities throughout the state, including my own. Officials are […]
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Progress Virginia Stands With Virginia Legislative Black Caucus and Urges Delay of Reopening
Richmond, Virginia—Progress Virginia stands with the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus in urging Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to delay Phase One of his “Forward Virginia” plan to reopen Virginia businesses in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Data from the Virginia Department of Health shows ongoing serious outbreaks, some clustered in communities of color. Reopening too […]