[COMM-ORG] VOP, health care, and national organizing

[Discussion list for COMM-ORG]

[ed: here is more on how community organizing may be working on more 
national issues.]

from: e-action at virginia-organizing.org

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Dear Friend,

The Virginia Organizing Project was featured on NPR this Tuesday, one of 
over 16 times VOP has appeared in the media in the last week. Things are 
moving fast.

Pam Fessler’s story titled “Health Care Fight Spotlights Community 
Organizers” begins:

The Virginia Organizing Project is one of many community organizing 
groups that hoped to have more clout after the election of President 
Obama, a former community organizer. The group is finding that it has 
certainly been more active on national issues this year than it ever has 
been.

VOP usually works on local issues, but it has now found itself swept up 
in the biggest organizing effort of the year — overhauling health care.

And they are having some impact...

FOR THE REST OF THE NPR STORY SEE:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111104637&ft=1&f=1003

TO SEE MORE OF VOP IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK:
http://www.virginia-organizing.org/news.php

ALL OF THIS GOOD WORK IS MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS. 
PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION TO VOP TO HELP KEEP UP THE MOMENTUM:
http://www.virginia-organizing.org/donation.php

Many thanks for all of the donations and calls to Congress on health 
care reform!

Organize!

Janice “Jay” Johnson
Chairperson
Virginia Organizing Project