Jill Richardson
Jill Richardson is the founder of the blog La Vida Locavore and a member of the Organic Consumers Association policy advisory board. She is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It.
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Views Friday, February 01, 2019 Another Billionaire Presidential Candidate Who Doesn’t Get It Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz just announced he may run for president as an independent centrist candidate in 2020. I have some concerns about billionaires, however well-intentioned, running the country. For one thing, people generally pay a lot of attention to those who have more than them,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 23, 2019 The Transgender Ban Is About Bigotry and Distraction The Supreme Court just paved the way for Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military to move ahead, at least pending other court challenges. The ban will harm the military and help no one, while doing nothing to address the nation’s real problems. I’m neither transgender nor in the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 08, 2018 Republicans Don't Want Your Vote to Count Wisconsin Republicans have made the news again. After losing the governor’s race (but maintaining control of the state legislature, thanks to gerrymandering), Republicans have passed a series of measures to limit the power of Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 21, 2018 California Is on Fire. Trump’s Solution: Rakes? California’s in the midst of the deadliest fire our state has ever suffered. As I write, there are 79 confirmed dead, and that number may grow as many more are missing. The Camp Fire also destroyed more structures than any fires before in our history. An even larger area within the state is... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 31, 2018 The White House Desperately Wants This Election to Be ‘Us’ vs. ‘Them’ In the days leading up to the election, the news has been scary. “We” are under threat from all sides. “They” are threatening us. There’s an actual threat from violent extremists motivated by racial and ethnic hatred. One white supremacist murdered two black people in Louisville and another... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 04, 2018 We Need to Talk About Masculinity When we discuss sexual assault, we often talk about women. What should women do to stay safe? When I was in school, girls were even trained in women’s self-defense. I don’t know what the boys did during those time periods. Study hall? Ask any woman what she does to prevent sexual assault and she’ll... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 26, 2018 The Unbelievable Cruelty of the GOP’s Kavanaugh Charade This past week, my private reality and the public reality playing out on the television have diverged. It’s hard to believe that I live in the same world as Senator Chuck Grassley, the Senate judiciary chair trying to Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court. When Christine Blasey Ford first alleged... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Assault When Christine Blasey Ford came forward to report that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her in 1982, you could cue the response: Why didn’t she speak out then? Why didn’t she go to the police? There’s a long, long list of reasons why a woman wouldn’t... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 23, 2018 Here Out West, ‘Smoke Season’ Keeps Getting Worse Right now, much of the west is affected by wildfires. An unlucky minority will have to evacuate their homes, and some will lose their homes altogether — or even their lives. But for millions more across the west, “smoke season” is a real thing. Vast swaths of the west can be covered in smoke for... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Immigrant Kids Are Suffering Trauma That Will Last Years Let’s be clear about something: Separating children from families, as the Trump regime is doing to undocumented immigrants, isn’t just cruel. It’s going to cause irreparable damage to the children involved — and probably to the parents too. The difference is that developmental trauma — trauma... Read more |