APV Stands Up Against Harmful, Medically Useless “Therapy”
The Alliance for Progressive Values took the lead on helping get this bill before the GA. Victoria Bragunier, Policy Director for APV, said the practice of conversion therapy harkens back to the days of shock treatment and the use of dangerous drugs. Add to that the main stream mental health communities’ acceptance of homosexuality and you’re left with a pseudo science option for an issue that requires no treatment. “With that kind of quackery, it lays open a minefield field abuse for people who don’t have a mental disorder. When you throw into that treatment for children, the vulnerability is dangerous.”
Read the story from GayRVA Here
APV and Delegate Hope are looking for more voices to help defend the bill HB1135. If you are a VA resident who was forced into reparative therapy as a minor, you can reach Del. Hopes Office at (703) 486-1010 or via email patrick.hope@verizon.net or reach out to APV’s Victoria Bragunier at 804-517-5206, or email vbragunier@apvonline.org
Alliance for Progress Values, New Years Fund Drive 2014
We have a very busy year ahead of us at APV, starting with the Virginia General Assembly in January. APV will have a strong presWe have a very busy year ahead of us at APV, starting with the Virginia General Assembly in January.
APV will have a strong presence at this year’s GA, working for sensible gun laws, clean elections, women’s reproductive rights, clean & renewable energy and equality for our LGBTQ friends and family. We are pressing forward this year with legislation that will end the dangerous and medically unsound practice known as “Conversion Therapy” which claims falsely to be able to alter LGBT people into heterosexuals, often in the case of minors, against their wills.
Here in Richmond we’ll continue to stand up for social justice, economic fairness and good government and against the latest plan to put a ballpark in historic Shockoe Bottom.
At the federal level APV will continue to lobby on behalf of protecting Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, protecting the environment and passing common sense gun laws.
We need your help to do this effectively. Can you make a donation today to keep APV’s progressive voice front and center in Richmond and Washington in 2014? Click on the thermometer to make a donation through PayPal or mail it to us at Alliance For Progressive Values, Box 14664 Richmond Va. 23221
APV Comments on Proposed NRC rules.
Below are the Alliance for Progressive Values public comments on new Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules on storage of High Level Radioactive Waste. Such materials are deadly for as long as 100 centuries and at present some of them are being stored within 50 miles of metropolitan Richmond Virginia.
“APV opposes the NRC draft plan for Waste Confidence DGEIS. Frankly, as high as the stakes are in regard to nuclear waste storage, we do not feel we can trust the industry, nor do we feel we can trust the regulators. And at its heart, we do not trust the technology itself. We are making a deadly mess that will last so far into the future that it can scarcely be imagined and leaving it for generations whose technological skills and societal framework, we cannot hope to predict. We have already gone too far. We must stop now and begin to seriously come to grips with the damage we have already done.”
Thank You for Your Service
APV wishes to announce the resignations of Board of Directors member Ann Hardy and Deputy Policy Director Roland Winston. Ann has served on the board since our inception and remains a valued member of our organization. Roland served as a Deputy Policy Director in 2013 and remains a valued member as well. We wish to thank them both for their service and wish them well in the future.
Three Strikes and You’re Out
Twice the people of Richmond have rejected a proposal to put a minor league baseball stadium in the historic Shockoe Bottom neighborhood. Now Mayor Jones is back with a new plan and we think this makes strike three.
City Council will hear debate on the plan on December 9th at 6:00 p.m. in chambers at City Hall. Council members have announced plans to hold local town-halls in their districts to hear public comment.
Here is a link to information on the town-halls.
Richmond Virginia City Council
Click here to read APV’s statement on the ballpark deal.
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