by MCDC | Jul 7, 2016 | Action Alerts, News, Racism
If I say “black lives matter”, and you think I mean “black lives matter more than others”, we have a misunderstanding. If I say “white privilege is real” and it means white people have some unearned social advantages just because...
by MCDC | Jul 1, 2016 | 2016 General Election, 5th District, Action Alerts, Events, Madison County, Quote of the Day, Video, Virginia
Please join us in the parade in Stanardsville on July 4th. The parade will go on, rain or shine. We will be assembling in front of the High School, in parade spot 46 (the numbers are in chalk on the road), starting at 9:00 am. The parade starts at 10:00 am. Main...
by MCDC | Jun 27, 2016 | Action Alerts, Equal Rights, News, Racism
Transcript: “Now, this award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to...
by MCDC | Jun 22, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, Voter Rights
Three years ago this week — on June 25, 2013 — the U.S. Supreme Court in its Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a civil rights law signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to ban racial discrimination in voting. Within minutes of...
by MCDC | Jun 18, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Gun Reform, Video, Virginia
Sen. Tim Kaine joins Sen. Chris Murphy’s filibuster. Please watch this powerful speech by U.S. Senator Tim Kaine on gun violence and ask yourself this question: What will it take and when will we act? -David J....
by MCDC | Jun 15, 2016 | 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, Action Alerts, Virginia
How Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. “With Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats...
