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Description: "A leading nonprofit advocate for a just economy and healthy environment in the Appalachian region and a driving force in America’s shift from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy."
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Description: "The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) is the first grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our mission is to build a diverse movement powerful enough to put our region on the path to climate stability, while using our proximity to the nation’s capital to inspire action in neighboring states, regions nationwide, and countries around the world. "
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Description: "The vision of the Deaf Grassroots Movement (DGM) is for Deaf people to: have equal access and quality of care and services in all major facets of living; to have a nationally recognized and respected natural language of the Deaf for our primary communication access; to live in our American society without being judged, belittled or minimized; to have equal quality of education for all Deaf children and students as our nondeaf counterparts; to work towards and eventually achieve economic viability within our broader society; and, to honor and cherish diversity among the Deaf community with respect to life, liberty, and the pursuit of equality."
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Group: Deaf Rights
Source: http://dgmvirginia2014.wixsite.com/dgmvirginia/
Date: Captured 2019, Began in 2016
Description: "Friends of Nelson’s mission is to protect property rights, property values, rural heritage and the environment for all the citizens of Nelson County, Virginia."
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Description: "We’re an independent working-class organization that seeks to build power in the streets, focused on the local struggles against poverty, White supremacy, LGBTQ oppression, sexism & state violence. "
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Description: Kevin "Rashid" Johnson is an incarcerated activist in the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter). He has spent much of his time incarcerated in federal prisons in Appalachian Virginia.
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Description: "VACOLAO’s mission is to serve as a working alliance among organizations in Virginia that serve or support the interest of the Latino communities in order to empower the community and secure equal treatment, equal opportunity and equal representation for Latinos/Hispanics in Virginia."
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Description: "The Virginia Housing Alliance (VHA) is the statewide leader in advocating for the expansion of housing opportunities and ending homelessness in the Commonwealth by empowering people on the front lines through education, training, and technical assistance."
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Description: "The mission of All Together is to improve the quality of life of the community of Greater Williamsburg by bringing together people across racial, ethnic, and cultural lines to communicate and engage in activities that foster unity, inclusiveness, and equal opportunity."
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Description: "The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League is a regional, community-based, non-profit environmental organization. Our founding principles are earth stewardship, environmental democracy, social justice, and community empowerment. "
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Description: "Leaders Of the New South began as a movement to confront southern racism by turning a rallying symbol of REBELlion and oppression into a rallying symbol of REBELlion and liberation and soon evolved into a movement to enable US to be Leaders in our family, Leaders in our community, and Leaders in our nation. By developing and utilizing a network of LEADERS who take ACTION, we drive community empowerment and policy engagement."
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Group: Anti-Racism
Source: http://www.leadersofthenewsouth.org/
Date: Captured 2019-Ongoing, Began 2017
Description: "Performing Statistics, a project by Art180 and Legal Aid Justice Center, connects incarcerated teens with an incredible group of artists, designers, educators, and Virginia’s leading policy advocates to transform the juvenile justice system."
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Description: "PHAR’s Mission [is] To Educate and Empower Low-Income Residents to Protect and Improve Our Own Communities through Collective Action."
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Description: "We envision a just and peace world. To that end we work on the interconnected issues of peace, human rights, and economic, social, and racial justice through education, advocacy, training, nonviolent activism, community organizing, and collaboration."
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Description: "Preserve Floyd, originally known as Citizens Preserving Floyd County, is a grassroots community organization that was founded in the late 1970s by Wayne Bradburn and other concerned Floyd citizens to stop the 765 kilovolt Dominion power lines. Although the power lines divided the county geographically, they united a diverse alliance of county residents to resist the industrialization of our rural, agricultural, and cherished community."
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Description: Richmond Struggle was a communist organization which worked within worker and student movements.
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Group: Radical
Source: http://www.richmondstruggle.com
Date: Captured 2019, Site no longer active as of 2018, Began 2016
Description: "Today the Richmond Peace Education Center is working actively to build a more peaceful and just community and world. Through its workshops, public events, youth programs, and conflict resolution training, RPEC is making a difference in the region. In the past two years alone, the center has organized or co-sponsored nearly 100 events and programs involving thousands of participants, and its impact is growing."
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Description: "A project of the Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality, the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project was established on October 10, 2004 to apply historical insight to contemporary dynamics to help oppressed peoples exercise their right to self-determination."
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Description: "Side by Side is dedicated to creating supportive communities where Virginia’s LGBTQ+ youth can define themselves, belong, and flourish."
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Description: Appalachian Peace Education Center is an independent, non-profit organization, not affiliated with any church or other organization.
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Group: Peace and Justice
Description: "The Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality is an organization of Virginia residents working for the survival of our communities through education and social justice projects."
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Group: Peace and Justice
Description: "We are a radical lending library and community space located at 506 S Pine Street in the historic neighborhood of Oregon Hill in Richmond, Virginia. Our collection includes books, zines, periodicals, and other media about class, labor, feminism, sex, queer issues, immigration, anarchism, DIY, health, fiction, biography, art, film, religion, travel, psychology, peace, communism, poetry, plays, revolution, energy, environmentalism, animal rights, disability issues, gender, economics, urban studies, education, race, civil rights, and more!"
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Description: "The Va LEAD-K Campaign is a direct response to the Alarming number of Deaf, hard of hearing and DeafBlind children arriving at school without language. Language deprivation has irreparable catastrophic consequences on the educational, social and vocational development of Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind children."
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Group: Deaf Rights
Description: "No Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), based in Richmond, VA, was formed in the late summer/early autumn of 2014 in response to the announcement of new fracked gas pipelines proposed to cross cut Virginia and neighboring states, along with a growing awareness of the tyrannical role Dominion Resources and its subsidiaries play in both the environmental and political spheres. "
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Description: "New River Workers Power (NRWP) is a local independent working class organization that seeks to build political power for workers by workers and their allies across the region."
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Group: Radical
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Group: Peace and Justice
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Group: Statewide
Description: "The RRENEW Collective was created in the Summer of 2009 in the spirit of facilitating the placement of volunteers with organizations working for a sustainable Appalachia in the coal dependent region of Southwest Virginia. Several of the founding members of the collective have worked with a variety of organizations striving for a healthier Appalachia, in volunteer and staff capacities, and created RRENEW in order to advance these and other organizations."
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Description: "Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley advocates, educates, and connects people to conserve the natural resources, cultural heritage, and rural character of our region."
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Description: "I started this blog in 2010 with the hope of finding common ground between coal miners and environmental justice advocates. Over the years it became a sounding board for my personal views on the cultural, economic, and political complexities I encountered as I forged a new life for my family. At some point I stopped pulling any punches and began telling it like it is. There’s good and bad on both sides of the debate, but one thing is for sure, folks on both sides are going to have to find more common sense if we’re ever going to see any chance for a just transition and a better future."
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Description: "This website is for everyone who advocates for prisoners and seeks solutions to the judicial racism that plagues our criminal justice system."
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Group: Mass Incarceration
Source: https://vapjn.wordpress.com/
Description: "Virginia Organizing is a non-partisan statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. Virginia Organizing especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, Virginia Organizing strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change."
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Description: "We work to provide a world free from all forms of violence, such as: homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and heterosexism racism, classism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, ageism, hate violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, state-sanctioned violence, stalking, bullying and harassment. "
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Description: "Solidarity with Virginia Prison Hunger Strikers has been formed to support and publicize the hunger strike being launched by prisoner comrades at Wallens Ridge State Prison beginning Monday April 15th when men in segregation refused their first meal."
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Description: "Williamsburg (Va.) Indivisible Group — is developing action plans to influence decisions of elected officials on a wide range of issues — such as healthcare, national security, environmental protection, immigration and voting rights — and putting those plans into action. Among the tactics used by WIG have been written editorials, participation in demonstrations or protests, direct communications to elected officials, news media interviews and coordination with like-minded groups."
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Group: Multi-Issue Group
Source: https://williamsburgindivisiblegroup.org/
Date: Captured 2019, Began in 2017
Description: "We are a community based environmental organization that believes appreciating, understanding, and protecting our environment is essential to improving our quality of life, our health, and our well-being. We are supported by membership dues, donations and grants. TCC members and supporters are hikers, students, teachers, farmers, business people, birders, and lovers of the outdoors. Most of us hail from southwestern Virginia, though we have supporters around the state and throughout the country."
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Description: "Equality Virginia is the leading advocacy organization in Virginia seeking equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people."
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Description: "We are a political and activist organization, not a party; through campus and community-based chapters, DSA members use a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people."
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Description: "RIHD was formed with other volunteers in a similar situation, to educate and empower Virginia families and communities on the negative impact of a racially-disparate system to mass incarceration and provide educational outreach to reduce the level of societal disnfranchisement of people with a criminal record."
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Description: "The Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (RRFP) seeks to further Reproductive Justice by providing practical and financial support for abortion services in Virginia and surrounding communities. RRFP strives to be a resource to the community by engaging in grassroots advocacy for the full spectrum of reproductive rights."
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Description: "Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS) is an organization of concerned citizens working to build just and equitable communities while addressing current and legacy costs of extraction in our region."
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Description: "TWU first organized in the mid-1980s in response to the scheduled mass evictions of thousands of low-income renters in the Arlandria neighborhood of Alexandria. Wrongly assuming that residents would simply leave their homes to make way for gentrification, developers sought legal and illegal means to force people out. But the tenants stayed, they studied, and they organized. Together, we won a class-action lawsuit, staving off the evictions and giving us an incentive to keep organizing."
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Description: "The Virginia People’s Assembly is a multi-issue, multi-racial network, independent of political parties, that promotes the general goals of “Jobs, Peace, Justice.” The VPA tries to influence the legislative process while building a united movement for fundamental economic, social and political change. The VPA upholds the right of oppressed peoples to self-determination and promotes full rights for women, immigrants and the LGBTQ community. We recognize the connection between domestic and foreign policies and resolve to both struggle for justice here at home and oppose wars abroad."
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Group: Multi-Issue Group
Source: https://www.vapeoplesassembly.org/
Date: Captured 2019, Began in 2014
Description: "The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy advocates economic, social, and environmental justice in Virginia’s policies and practices through education, prayer and action."
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