[COMM-ORG] NPR on community organizing

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From: Virginia Organizing Project <e-action at virginia-organizing.org>


703 Concord Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22903-5208
(434) 984-4655 • (434) 984-2803 fax
www.virginia-organizing.org

Dear Friends,

In 1995, when I was on the founding board of the Virginia Organizing 
Project, we could only dream that one day community organizing would 
become a successful part of any statewide campaign here in Virginia, not 
to mention a presidential election campaign. At the time, we were 
fighting a private prison here in southwest Virginia, and hopeful that 
others around the state would join in our cause. We stopped that private 
prison and I have been fortunate to witness firsthand VOP’s incredible 
growth as a statewide group.

Well, it’s 2009, and we have learned a lot more about the power, and 
success, of grassroots organizing. Today, National Public Radio is 
beginning a multi-part analysis of the impact of grassroots organizing 
on the Obama Administration, and telling the story of our own VOP.

Check it out! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99048688

Best,

Andy Kegley

P.S. The 2009 Virginia General Assembly starts this week, and VOP will 
also be involved in pushing for policy reforms in Washington, D.C. this 
year. There will be action alerts to contact our policy makers and we 
hope we can count on you to help!

I also hope you will take this opportunity to help VOP financially, by 
contributing at http://www.virginia-organizing.org/donation.php.

VOP is moving forward!

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> I heard an interesting story on NPR this morning featuring Joe Szakos 
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