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Court Throws Out AG UVA Suit

Monday, 30 August 2010 | ACLU Virginia

article thumbnail ACLU of Virginia filed amicus, urged UVA to fight AG's demands Charlottesville, VA- An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge today ruled that the University of Virginia  is...
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Rights Groups Ask Court to Reject AG's Demand for Records of University of Virginia Climate Science...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 | ACLU Virginia

article thumbnail Amicus brief supports university's efforts to protect academic freedom Oral arguments in case to take place in Charlottesville on Friday Charlottesville, VA--Four...
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Jeff Barnett Seeks PDA VA Endorsement

Monday, 16 August 2010 | Andrea Miller

article thumbnail   Jeff Barnett is running for U.S. House of Representatives in the Virginia 10th District; Jeff is currently the Democratic nominee and he is seeking a PDA Virginia State...
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Rick Waugh Seeks PDA National Endorsement

Thursday, 05 August 2010 | Rick Waugh for Congress

article thumbnail Candidate Rick Waugh has requested National endorsement for his U.S. House of Representatives race against Republican incumbent Eric Cantor. On Sunday, August 2, 2010 Rick received the...
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Obama Administration Applies Stupak Amendment to High Risk Pools

Friday, 16 July 2010 | Jessica Arons

article thumbnail PCIPs are temporary health insurance pools that states or the federal government must establish or expand in every state to cover people who do not currently qualify for individual health insurance...
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Virginia pilot program adds Amtrak train to link Richmond and the District

Friday, 09 July 2010 | Jennifer Buske | Washington Post

article thumbnail Operated by Amtrak and funded by the commonwealth, the train will start July 20, leaving Richmond at 7 a.m. and stopping at Ashland, Fredericksburg, Quantico, Woodbridge and Alexandria before...
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IN DEFENSE OF HELEN THOMAS - on apologizing to apologists

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 | Paul Jay

article thumbnail Helen Thomas is the dean of the White House Press corp.  She has a fifty-year history of tough-minded journalism and is one of the very, very few journalists in the mainstream press who has had...
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ACLU Threatens Legal Challenge to Anti-Solicitation Ordinance Proposed by Herndon Town Council

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 | ACLU

article image Herndon, VA -- The ACLU of Virginia today informed members of Herndon's Town Council that the organization is prepared to mount a court challenge if the town passes a proposed anti-solicitation...
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New York Times Hails Webb Criminal Justice Commission

Tuesday, 11 May 2010 | Sen. James Webb (VA)

article thumbnail Introduced by Senator Webb in March 2009, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act creates a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission charged with undertaking an 18-month comprehensive review of...
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  • Mobilization for Healthcare Spreads

    Today the Mobilization continued to spread across America and our movement showed again that we will not rest until health care is a right for all. In Louisville, seven of the many supporters who occupied the Humana lobby yesterday spent the whole night i...
  • The Mobilization Spreads - Doctor Stays In Jail

    Yesterday, the next wave of the Mobilization for Health Care for All began with great success. See below for a list of media coverage of the actions. In 11 cities across the country, hundreds of everyday Americans who want Medicare for All confronted the ...
  • Pelosi's Not-So-Robust Public Option

    The public option was always a compromise for serious supporters of health-care reform, who -- like Barack Obama when he was running for the Senate in 2003 -- knew that a single-payer "Medicare for All" system was what America needed to provide health car...
  • Mobilization for Healthcare

    The Mobilization for Health Care had a very strong showing in DC and around the country yesterday. At least 54 people were arrested in nine mobilizations. As you know in DC despite a dozen people breaking the law in front of them the police decided not ...
  • Congressional Healthcare Votes Rescheduled

    Things can change quickly for all of us, and PDA is no exception. And when our plans rest on the plans of the Congress, anything can happen. It is no great surprise that the schedule for voting on the healthcare legislation in the ...
  • DC Healthcare Mobilization - October 15th

    We are planning a DC area Mobilization on Thursday, October 15 at 10:00 AM at WellPoint on 15th Street in Washington, DC.  As many as 10 cities will be holding Mobilizations that day. In order to prepare for that event we will be holding a meeting on Tu...
  • How Big a Slap in the Face Are You Willing to Take?

      As you may know, the current health reform being written in Congress, particularly that being put together in the Senate Finance Committee (which is literally being written by the former Vice President of Wellpoint - a large insurer) will not be univer...
  • Public Option - Accept Nothing Less

    Reforming healthcare is more than angry town halls and political rhetoric thrown around cable news shows and in the halls of Congress. It is a serious matter that requires serious solutions. Members of Congress have an obligation to make access to healthc...

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