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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
[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 12 years, of the experiences of two middle-class...
CNN commentator to Ken Cuccinelli: You are a homophobe
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...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
If you refer to yourself as a patriot, profess to have good business sense, describe yourself as a well-intended person having compassion for your fellow man, or all of the above, I strongly encourage you to discuss favorable with your delegate or senator the...
Richmond’s hell-no Republicans
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS, having been swept from power at the hands of an electorate alienated by their tilt toward extremism, retain just one bastion in Richmond: the state House of Delegates. From that redoubt, they have resorted to political stunts and budgetary...
Rally For Our Youth
Please join us for a “Black Youth Matter” Rally on February 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM at the Freedom Wall (located directly in front of City Hall and beside the city’s amphitheater) on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia and a “Black Boys Matter” movie and...
