by MCDC | Mar 18, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Voter Rights
The Nashville Student Organizing Committee and a group of nine students from Fisk University and Tennessee State University, both historically black colleges, filed a lawsuit in early March against the state, alleging that excluding student IDs from the acceptable...
by MCDC | Mar 15, 2015 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, History, Racism, Video
Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, civil rights activists, demonstrating for voting rights, were savagely attacked by Alabama state troopers and vigilantes as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That day became known as “Bloody Sunday.” That night, ABC News...
by MCDC | Mar 13, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Issues
Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action, whether that’s the president’s endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in...
by MCDC | Mar 13, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Issues, News
Tell Democratic leaders in the Senate to put forward a resolution condemning in the strongest possible terms the 47 Republican senators who are endangering national security to damage the...
by MCDC | Mar 11, 2015 | Action Alerts, Events, Issues, News
Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday was arranged by House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, without the agreement or cooperation of the White House. The day before the speech, Rabbi Lerner and Tikkun ran a full-page ad in The New York Times...
