by MCDC | Jan 19, 2014 | Action Alerts, Economy, Employment, Video
Tell your Representative to oppose H.R. 3830 “the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014,” legislation to grant “Fast Track” authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP has been negotiated by corporate insiders...
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. bell hooks (née Gloria Watkins), scholar-in-residence at The New School, is among the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Her writings cover a...
by MCDC | Jan 16, 2014 | Action Alerts, Video
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new “free trade” agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. Like other Free Trade Agreements (remember NAFTA?), this one is basically a permanent power grab by corporations and...
by MCDC | Jan 8, 2014 | Health Care, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Video
‘If Another Country Was Doing This To Our Kids, We’d Be At War.’ 50 Million Americans—1 in 4 children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. A Place at the Table tells the powerful stories of three such Americans, who maintain their dignity even as they...
by MCDC | Jan 4, 2014 | Employment, Ethics, Health Care, History, Issues, Minimum Wage, Sequester, Social Security, Video
extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
