Virginia Rising

From our friends at Virginia Organizing: Richmond– A new study has found that inverting state tax structures—whereby the highest income earners would be taxed at the current percentage of income for the lowest income earners, and vice versa—would collectively raise $6.9 billion more in revenue, a 21.4 percent increase over Virginia’s current tax structure. “Flipping” the tax structure would eliminate …

[Article originally posted here] Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media Traducción al español The authorities in Prince William County, Virginia, are known for their tough rhetoric on immigration. But now, according to a local civil rights group, that hard-line vision has translated into something more concrete: a redistricting map that unfairly undercuts the voting power of the county’ s growing Hispanic, Asian and black populations. The …

(originally posted at www.newdominionproject.com) Ingris Moran: Education Reform and the Virginia Dream | The New Dominion Project. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Oxzvn6Wew] When Ingris Moran talks about the American Dream, it isn’t hokey and it isn’t a cliche.  It’s something she deeply believes in, and she believes it’s happening to her here in Virginia.  So call it the Virginia Dream — and it comes …

Check out the latest from our compa’s blog latinova.net Prince William County Seeks Redistricting “Bail-out” by Marcos Vilar Foto courtesy of Mexicanos Sin Fronteras Prince William County The County Board of Supervisors of Prince William County in Virginia, recently filed papers with the U.S. Department of Justice requesting an opt-out from DOJ review of their redistricting plan, as mandated by the 1965 Voting …

As Corey Stewart continues to pursue a redistricting plan that relegates new communities of color to powerlessness for another decade, it is striking that he is also demanding that the Department of Justice have no oversight over the process to ensure fairness and opportunity for all Virginians. Corey Stewart and his anti-immigrant allies descend from a political heritage in Virginia …

By Marcos Vilar, VNM Board Chair During its first three years of existence, Virginia New Majority has worked hard to educate and mobilize voters for progressive change by focusing on health care, immigrant rights, and building community-based grassroots coalitions. A simple premise has guided the work. Virginia, like the rest of the country, is growing in diversity. While this diversity …