by MCDC | Jan 21, 2014 | Action Alerts, Citizens United, Employment, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Immigration Reform, Minimum Wage, Privacy
For decades, one shadowy right-wing group has helped powerful corporations introduce and pass legislation quietly in nearly every state. They write entire bills from start to finish in a massive coordinated effort to push their conservative agenda at the state level....
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 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 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...
by MCDC | Jan 2, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Events, Video, Voter Rights
by Cory Doctorow Brian sez, “Lawrence Lessig, former EFF board member, chair of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, founder of the Center for Internet and Society, founding board member of Creative Commons, and former board member of the Free...
