by MCDC | Jan 22, 2017 | 2016 General Election, News
The most vulnerable and the most in need of justice come last in Trump’s America. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law (Title IV, sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355) signed as...
by MCDC | Jan 20, 2017 | 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, Action Alerts
via People’s Action In his eulogy for Reverend Pinckney at Mother Emanuel in Charleston, South Carolina, President Obama said “to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and house the homeless is not just a call for isolated charity but the imperative of a just...
by MCDC | Jan 19, 2017 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Events
https://www.facebook.com/events/142008659620007/ By Shani Silver Stop asking what it’s about. Stop asking what I think it will accomplish. Stop trying to undermine a gathering of women by belittling them with questions you’d never ask a man. Stop thinking women...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2017 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts
Eight years ago, the artist Shepard Fairey made the iconic image that captured a period of HOPE in America. Today we are in a very different moment, one that requires new images that reject the hate, fear, and open racism that were normalized during the 2016...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2017 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, News
The next four years are going to be a constant assault against all of the progress made in the past hundred years by women, minorities, LGBTQ folks, immigrants and democracy itself. Everyone who knows me knows exactly how I feel about the impending Trump Presidency,...
by MCDC | Jan 13, 2017 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, History, News, Racism, Video
The lost letter from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s widow opposing Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship in 1986 has been found, and it’s a doozy.. “The irony of Mr. Sessions’ nomination is that, if confirmed, he will be given life tenure for doing...
