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Leah Jones, VAIPL's Outreach Coordinator presents an overview of VAIPL's 2021 legislative policy priorities

Join Virginia Interfaith Power & Light (VAIPL) in conversation with  Jorge Aguilar from Food & Water Watch for our second show on The Human Right to Water in Virginia. Learn more about why the human right to water is important for all Virginians and why it deserves to be prioritized to ensure all residents have access to safe, equitable water sources.

Jorge Aguilar, Southern Region Director, Food and Water Watch

All mothers deserve prenatal care! Listen now to hear from the experts.

GUESTS: Jill Hanken, Health Attorney

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Melanie Rouse, PhD, Program Manager, Virginia Maternal Mortality Review Team

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Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director at @vainterfaith

Today at we'll be speaking with experts about the critical issue of public transportation, justice, and climate! 

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Wyatt Gordan, Policy & Campaigns Manager, Land Use & Transportation, Virginia Conservation Network

Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director, Coalition for Smarter Growth 

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¡YA ES OFICIAL!   ¡El departamento de Inmigración (USCIS) estará aceptando aplicaciones INICIALES de DACA!   Estaremos hablando con la abogada de inmigración Astrid Lockwood que nos  explicar los requisitos, qué es el advance parole o permiso de viaje, extensión de TPS, donde puedes encontrar recursos comunitarios y también como evitar fraude.

Join Virginia Interfaith Power & Light for a discussion on the human right to water as a policy priority for VAIPL. Learn more about how local communities have been impacted and why the right to water is important for all Virginians

GUESTS: Leah Jones, VAIPL Community Outreach Coordinator and Kidest Gibre, VAIPL Communications & Education Coordinator 

As this long year comes to a close we would like to look forward to the new year and think about the changes that we would like to see, especially as we approach the 2021 General Assembly in January. At VAIPL, this year we are advocating for various environmental justice issues including energy burden, modernizing transportation as well as the human right to water. Today, on this episode of ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NOW! we would like to talk about earth’s universal solvent, the most important resource to all living things on earth-- water. As many of us use water every day without an issue, it is easy to forget that on a global scale having clean water is actually a privilege.

Say it with us: Farmers need protections! Listen today to hear us discuss faith, farmworkers' conditions + rights, policies, and much more.  

Guest: Tonya Osinkosky, Community Organizer, Virginia Justice Project for Farm and Immigrant Workers, Legal Aid Justice Center

Moderator: Yanet Limon-Amado, Immigrant Justice Organizer, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Listen to our podcast about our 2021 legislative priorities - advocating economic, racial, social, and environmental justice.

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Want to learn about the death penalty in Virginia? We are working to abolish it!

GUEST: Michael Stone, Executive Director, Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Join Virginia Interfaith Power & Light and the Concerned Citizens of Charles City County (C5) for a discussion about environmental injustices in rural Virginia. C5 was formed in June 2019. C5 works to inform and educate county residents of issues facing the county. This group has been formed in response to the multiple power plants proposed for the county--with limited involvement from residents. Two new gas plants have been proposed for the Roxbury Road corridor in Charles City County, more might be in consideration. These plants will use fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Moreover, there is a proposal to expand the landfill that sits within the community.