by MCDC | Apr 11, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, Education, Employment, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage
We are in essence punishing the poor for their poverty, as if poverty were an ethical breach, not the result of interlocking social, political, and personal realities, many of which are entirely out of poor people’s hands. How often do city planners consider the...
by MCDC | Mar 31, 2016 | Discrimination, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, Opinion, Racism
Democratic lawmakers drafted civil-rights legislation that would challenge Jim Crow laws in the South while leaving de facto segregation in the North intact. When NBC News asked the civil-rights organizer Bayard Rustin why many African American communities rioted the...
by MCDC | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, News, Voter Rights
A first-of-its-kind gathering in our nation’s capital is putting We the People back in charge of OUR democracy. Democracy Awakening — organized by Public Citizen, the NAACP, the Communications Workers of America, Greenpeace USA, People For the American Way, the...
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Health Care, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, News, Opinion
Paul Ryan’s penance has not been matched by a broader effort to change the substance beneath the words. Ryan has long been the intellectual torchbearer of a public policy that would immediately hurt the same people he has decided to stop calling “takers.” For...
by MCDC | Aug 12, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Income Inequality, News
Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch on Sunday compared the efforts of his political network to the fight for civil rights and other “freedom movements,” part of a growing effort by the organization to emphasize its commitment to the plight of the disenfranchised....
by MCDC | May 2, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, Opinion, Virginia
From a 4/26/15 lecture in Sperryville, Virginia, by Vernon Gras, Professor emeritus, English and Cultural Studies, Geroge Mason...
