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Every Day is Veterans Day
Nobody serves in the military to make a lot of money. They do it to protect our freedoms and country. Yet too many of our men and women have come back broken -- only to get kicked to the curb. A helpless, hungry or homeless hero is unacceptable in America! We must do...
Six In Ten Small Business Owners Want A $10.10 Minimum Wage
By Alan Pyke Nearly six in 10 small business owners support raising the minimum wage to $10.10, according to a new poll on behalf of Small Business Majority (SBM), with most respondents citing the prospect of increased consumer demand and improved competitiveness with...
Virginia #GOP legislators oppose Medicaid expansion despite benefits to their districts
Of the 50 House districts with the highest percentage of Medicaid recipients, 32 are represented by Republicans, according to a study by three political scientists at the University of Mary Washington. Those legislators are willing to forgo the federal largesse rather...
Koch Addicts Are Destroying America
http://youtu.be/y2-cIpXIoY4 Senate majority leader Harry Reid gave a hell of a speech in Congress about the agenda of the billionaire Koch brothers, carbon barons who are the prime beneficiaries of Citizens United, the Supreme Court case that ruled that corporate...
The War on the Poor and Working Families
http://youtu.be/Npj2U1PdIhI 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...
Augustine Carter
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 her. Her...
The First Annual Umoja Self-Love Symposium
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 "Self-...
A Law Firm for Real Americans
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 statistically...
US Trade Rep can’t figure out if Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect the environment
By Cory Doctorow The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a secretly negotiated trade agreement let by the USA. Though the text is secret, enough drafts have leaked to make it clear that one of its goals is to ensure that foreign corporations can sue governments over laws...
American Promise
American Promise is an intimate and provocative account, recorded over 12 years, of the experiences of two middle-class...
