Lauren McCauley
Lauren McCauley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
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Cooperation Jackson’s food sovereignty initiatives help with sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community...
“It’s a beautiful thing to be able to feed your community, especially in a food desert.”
“But I didn’t know!”
A second Trump presidency will unleash extremists' to target specific politicians and activists, just as any terrorist regime does.
US suffered almost 300,000 excess deaths during coronavirus pandemic, CDC reports
They found that excess deaths have occurred every week in the U.S. since March, peaking in the weeks ending April 11 and August 8.
Why the Founders Would Decry What America has Become
If the Founding Fathers saw what the United States has become, they would be devastated. Poverty, income inequality, suppression of speaking ones mind, crime, war, and oligarch like behaviors all make up this new U.S. It is far from being the democracy it was created as.
The US spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3 million people
"With movements calling for defunding and divesting, people are finally talking about spending and raising the heat on the thousands of corporations that profit off the millions of people we lock up."