by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Economy, Education, Employment, GOP Shutdown, Health Care, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Video
Robert B. Reich: What are they really after? Connect these seven dots. Number one, they’re against extending unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for more than six months, even though there is still only one job for every three unemployed....
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Video, Virginia, Voter Rights
Augustine Carter, an 85-year-old voter in Richmond, tells her story of the trouble she went through to vote in 2012. Born in 1928, she never had a birth certificate and she never got a driver’s license because she decided years ago that driving wasn’t for...
by MCDC | Mar 5, 2014 | Education, Events, Health Care, Virginia
UMOJA: Noun 1. unity, oneness (the state of being one or undivided) On behalf of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Alliance of Black School Educators and the Young Black Professional Network of Charlottesville, we will like to invite you and your child to our...
by MCDC | Mar 2, 2014 | Environment, Global Warming, Gun Reform, Virginia
Ken Cuccinelli wants to protect your right to bear arms—and a whole lot more. A message to real Americans from Ken Cuccinelli’s Virginia Self Defense Law: We know that you aren’t just law abiding. You are, in our view, “universally far more law abiding...
by MCDC | Mar 1, 2014 | Education, Racism, Video
[googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”a/localcause.net/file/d/0B2FFEYgvKWZYc1ZabmhORTUyMUU/preview” query=”” width=”640″ height=”385″ /] American Promise is an intimate and provocative account, recorded over...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2014 | Civil Rights, Video
As attorney general of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli fought long and hard to reinstate an unconstitutional law banning consensual sodomy in the state. Defending his record as a state senator who routinely opposed basic legal protections for LGBTQ people, Cuccinelli...
