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Virginia's Pro-Choice Lobby Day

Port Folio Weekly | February 7, 2008

Members of the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League gathered at the capital on Thursday to rally in support of legislation that would add FDA-approved methods of contraception to the state code governing sex education.

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Tags: sex & reproductive issues

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Ad Campaign Latest Effort to take Smithfield Foods to Tasknew

Faith leaders, elected officials and Smithfield workers will gather in D.C. to unveil a series of advertisements decrying working conditions at the company's sprawling hog processing plant in North Carolina. The ads will soon begin appearing on the sides of buses and metro station walls across the D.C. metropolitan area.

Port Folio Weekly | Vernal Coleman | 06-18-2008 | Business & Labor

Tags: North Carolina, unions, advertising, D.C., business & labor, factory farms, hog processing, Smithfield Foods, work conditions

The Sunshine Boynew

Waldo David Landers Jaquith doesn’t consider himself a rabble-rouser, but he created a stir in political circles last year after he launched Richmondsunlight.com. The website allows users to easily find and track legislation being proposed by Virginia's lawmakers.

Port Folio Weekly | Vernal Coleman | 02-07-2008 | Politics

Blackwater Trial, Reduxnew

Steve Baggarly and the six other protestors arrested at Blackwater USA’s Moyock headquarters finally got what they had been denied after a judge abruptly closed the courtroom during their hearing in October: a public forum.

Port Folio Weekly | Vernal Coleman | 01-31-2008 | Civil Liberties

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