by MCDC | Jan 14, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Economy, Video
by MCDC | Dec 21, 2014 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Events, Issues, News, Racism, Video
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A mass of demonstrators chanting “Black lives matter” converged in the Mall of America rotunda on Saturday as part of a protest against police brutality that caused at least part of the mall to shut down on a busy day for...
by MCDC | Dec 20, 2014 | Issues, News, Video
In this week’s address, the President reflected on the significant progress made by this country in 2014, and in the nearly six years since he took office. “More jobs. More insured. A growing economy. Shrinking deficits. Bustling industry. Booming energy. Pick...
by MCDC | Nov 20, 2014 | Civil Rights, Events, Immigration Reform, Racism, Video
Our immigration system has been broken for decades. And every day we wait to act, millions of undocumented immigrants are living in the shadows: Those who want to pay taxes and play by the same rules as everyone else have no way to live right by the law. That is why...
by MCDC | Oct 17, 2014 | Civil Rights, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Satire, Video
Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which requires that men and women in the same work place be given equal pay for equal work, the “gender gap” in pay persists. Full-time women workers’ earnings are only about 77 percent of their male...
by MCDC | Oct 16, 2014 | Civil Rights, Video, Voter Rights
What better way to eliminate the infinitesimal amount of voter fraud in the United States than by disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people? That is basically what the Republican craze of “voter ID” laws will do. These laws will overwhelmingly impact students,...