by MCDC | Sep 15, 2016 | Environment, Global Warming, News
ONCE UPON A time, climate science and politics were separate things. Then came several decades of scientific denial, distortion, and gaslighting. One of the companies responsible for politicizing climate change is ExxonMobil, which for years funded climate change...
by MCDC | Sep 14, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, Discrimination, History, News, Racism, Virginia
More than one in five African-Americans in Virginia are disenfranchised, according to The Sentencing Project, a Washington-based nonprofit that focuses on criminal justice. McAuliffe has said the reinstatement of felons’ voting rights would distance Virginia from Jim...
by MCDC | Sep 13, 2016 | 2016 General Election, 5th District, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Racism, Virginia, Voter Rights
“I don’t care what their politics are,” McAuliffe said in an interview Thursday while visiting the Dan River Region for an economic announcement. “I want them to vote.” McAuliffe also countered the notion that his executive order was to earn Democratic voters or score...
by MCDC | Sep 12, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Virginia, Voter Rights
The conventional wisdom in the South is that despite gains on the local level, candidates who represent the views of people of color cannot win statewide office. But this conventional wisdom ignores the numbers. In 2012 there were 3.7 million unregistered black...
by MCDC | Sep 11, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Quote of the Day, Racism
Yeah, right. Every HRC supporter with a twitter account — please weigh in on the twitter thread and beat back the trumpers....
by MCDC | Sep 11, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Education, Employment, News
So now what? This 9/11 will see no forum on national service like the one in 2008, which is too bad. This strange and even harsher election season hasn’t sparked much public conversation regarding AmeriCorps expansion. Hillary Clinton has offered a plan embracing the...
