by MCDC | Jan 16, 2014 | Action Alerts, Video
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new “free trade” agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. Like other Free Trade Agreements (remember NAFTA?), this one is basically a permanent power grab by corporations and...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2014 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Education, Employment, Environment, Health Care
“A MOVEMENT, not a Moment!” If you believe that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, if you understand that what happens in North Carolina has implications for the future of the nation, if you believe that we can build a moral movement together to...
by MCDC | Jan 12, 2014 | Action Alerts, Opinion
The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress (via Techdirt) With the introduction of fast track authority (also known as “trade promotion authority”) in Congress, by which Congress abdicates its...
by MCDC | Jan 10, 2014 | Action Alerts, Issues
by Joshua Holland The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations enacted in the public interest. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Back in 1986, when the leaders...
by MCDC | Dec 11, 2013 | Action Alerts, Coal, Environment, Issues, Virginia
by Mary Anne Hitt Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive...
by MCDC | Nov 16, 2013 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Issues
We won’t go back. Republicans are opening new fronts in the war on healthcare, and rewriting their battle plans for the 2014 elections with a focus on opposition to the president’s reforms. But we won’t go back to letting insurance companies deny coverage to people...
