Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick
Cuban doctors working worldwide are candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more at Mint Press News.
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Participatory Community Engagement at Risk
By Nathan Boucher, DrPH On February 3rd of this year, Raleigh City Council voted to disband the city’s 18 longstanding Citizen Advisory Councils (CAC), eroding public trust in government. This has now been compounded by…
How Do You Stop Politicians from Rigging the Ballot? This Woman Knows
By Ashley Spencer For many years Michigan was divided evenly along party lines – a checkerboard of red and blue every election. Then, in 2011, Michigan’s Republican party legally rigged the system. Charged with drawing…
Government Debts as Class Swindles
The richest sectors of modern capitalism avoid or replace taxes levied on them with interest-bearing loans to the same government. Read the story at Common Dreams.
Here They Come Again: The Kind of Neoliberal Democrats Who Prefer Trump to Sanders
Corporate Democrats and investor class liberals will fight to preserve the current order. Read the article at Common Dreams.
High-Tech Spying Undermines Democracy
Merely pass by a protest, tweet about it, and you could end up in a police database. by Michael Schwalbe In the fall of 2017, students protesting the presence of the Silent Sam statue on…
Seattle Bans Multinational Cash from Local Elections
This landmark campaign finance legislation bans corporations like Amazon and Bank of America from infiltrating the city’s electoral process. Read more at Common Dreams.
Joe Biden Has a Serious Problem with Social Security
A look at his record offers a troubling picture. Read the article at Common Dreams.
Overturning Felony Disenfranchisement in Southern States
In the last U.S. presidential election in 2016, 6.1 million Americans could not vote because of laws that disenfranchise people with past felony convictions. Read about it Facing South.
Trump Attack on SSDI
Proposed change could end disability benefits for hundreds of thousands – read the article at Common Dreams.