VAJD News
Executive Board Spotlight: Ryan J. Suto
We’re continuing to introduce the newest members of the VAJD Executive Board to our members and the wider progressive community. The Executive Board has spent the first half of 2023 actively recruiting and interviewing candidates to joining the executive board with...
Update on Virginia’s Prime Deal with Amazon
Back in 2017, nearly 250 cities across the country submitted proposals to Amazon in an effort to court the company for their newest headquarter location, HQ2. States and local city governments promised Amazon the world with tax breaks, office space, and bullet trains...
Executive Board Spotlight, Alyssa Batchelor
The VAJD Executive Board has spent the first half of this year actively recruiting and interviewing candidates to join our executive team in hopes of expanding our reach across Virginia. So far, we’ve brought on three talented individuals who are ready to activate...
Keeping an Eye on Progressive Legislation
This legislative session was not one where we saw any major progressive victories. The republicans, at the behest of the Youngkin Administration, remain hellbent on importing extremist Floridian ideologies and keeping fringe issues at the center of Virginia politics...
Virginia Justice Dems Statement on AAPI Targeted Hatespeech & Violence, Women Targeted Violence, and the events in Atlanta, GA and Boulder, CO.
It has taken a long time to sit down and write this statement. Too long. But the Virginia Justice Democrats have continued the fight for Justice here in Virginia in the wake of the violence that has gripped national attention for the past week. Because if the multiple...
2021: Relaunching & Our Strategy for Growing the VA Progressive Movement
The past 11 months, and very likely for a while longer, have been a kind of tough a lot of us have never experienced before in our lifetime. It is difficult to wrap our heads around the moment because we are still in the thick of it. As if a global pandemic is not bad...
Virtual Meet & Greet with Jennifer Carroll Foy – VAJD Endorsed Candidate for Governor of VA 2021
https://youtu.be/I9wHr_Hphwg On January 25th, 2021, VAJD hosted a virtual Meet & Greet with our endorsed candidate for Governor of VA, Jennifer Carroll Foy. It was well attended by over 130 folks from across Virginia. Jennifer shared her vision for more just and...
Virginia Justice Democrats endorse Jennifer Carroll Foy for Governor of Virginia in 2021
Virginia Justice Democrats are pleased to announce our endorsement for Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy’s campaign for Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2021.
Policy Strategies that actually address Structural Racism
(*Hint* It’s what we’ve been talking about all along.) Co-authored by PWC Supervisor (Occoquan) Kenny Boddye and Ali Symons George Floyd’s murder wasn’t an accident. Neither was Breonna Taylor’s, Ahmaud Aubrey’s, or Tony McDade. This isn’t just in...
Civic Advocacy in an Environment of Outsized Corporate Influence — An Imbalance of Power
During the 2020 VA General Assembly legislative session, Virginia Justice Democrats, along with several other groups, publicly declared that “The Emperor has no clothes!” on the biggest clean energy omnibus bill of the session -- the VA Clean Economy Act (VCEA). It...