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 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, Employment, History, Minimum Wage, Sequester
BY IGOR VOLSKY It has been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson first declared that the nation could, “for the first time in our history,” conquer and win a war on poverty, pledging a “total commitment by this President, and this Congress, and this nation, to pursue victory...
by MCDC | Aug 29, 2013 | Civil Rights, Economy, History
It all adds up to a simple formula: concede wholehearted support for the points that have already been won, while dismissing (as irrelevant, or unpatriotic, or immoral) the points that are still active political issues with which conservatives...
by MCDC | Aug 28, 2013 | Civil Rights, Employment, Events, History, Video
Speaker John A. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House’s two most senior Republicans, were invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington — but declined. That wasn’t a wise choice, said Julian Bond, a...
by MCDC | Aug 27, 2013 | Civil Rights, Employment, History, Racism
Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood. Adapted from The Speech: The Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr.s Dream, by Gary Younge. Haymarket Books When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
by MCDC | Aug 24, 2013 | Civil Rights, Economy, Events, History, Immigration Reform, Minimum Wage, Racism, Voter Rights
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands gathered early Saturday on the nation’s “front yard,” the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the Rev. Martin Luther King 50...
