by MCDC | Jan 17, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Issues, Virginia
Letter to the Editor of the Times-Dispatch Medicaid expansion is the right thing to do, despite Ken Cuccinelli’s claims in his Op/Ed column, “Medicaid expansion is wrong for Virginia.” Cuccinelli claims that if Medicaid is expanded under Obamacare to provide care for...
by MCDC | Jan 17, 2014 | Civil Rights, Privacy
via Mother Jones Substantive reform, or just rebranding in the face of a PR nightmare? Obama’s NSA Reforms Are Going to Tick Off Everyone.. “No one expects China to have an open debate about their surveillance programs, or Russia to take the privacy...
by MCDC | Jan 17, 2014 | History, Issues, Video
A conversation with bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry about race, black womanhood, politics, media, and love. [googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”a/localcause.net/file/d/0B2FFEYgvKWZYaUcybkVvTTYxR3c/preview” query=””...
by MCDC | Jan 16, 2014 | Civil Rights, Issues, Voter Rights
Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last June invalidating a critical section of the VRA....
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Citizens United, Issues, News
by Joan McCarter Since September, Americans for Prosperity, a group financed in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, has spent an estimated $20 million on television advertising that calls out House and Senate Democrats by name for their support of the Affordable...
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...
