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Government Shutdown and the Blame Game

Corporate Power
Using a bold-faced lie President Trump and Vice President Vance blamed immigrants, particularly the undocumented, for the government shutdown now in effect throughout the country. The Republican plan would increase Obamacare payments and make Medicaid cuts.

Emmy-Winning Journalist Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest

Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities, says the Committee to Protect Journalists.

A Salute to Chicagoans Fighting ICE

Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
A salute to Chicagoans fighting ICE and to the food delivery worker on a bicycle who outrode ICE agents after they tried to kidnap him on the streets of downtown Chicago.

Over 60 Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into Trump Administration’s Disappearances

Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Some Democrats in Congress have announced they are investigating the Trump administration’s practice of disappearing immigrants to other countries.

America Cannot Afford This Dangerous Step

Democracy
Americans should be chilled at government's recent designation of “Antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization (it isn't an organization). This allows for the criminalization of broad swaths of dissent, and won't stop with "Antifa."

America is Divided—But it’s the Wrong Divide

Wealth and Poverty
The real divide is between those who have and those who don't. We have the abundance to care for everyone and government must see to it that people's needs are met.

Slovenia’s President Tells UN: ‘We Must Stop the Genocide’

War and Peace
Nataša Pirc Musar, president of Slovenia, speaks about stopping the Gaza genocide, climate, respecting international law and other critical issues to the UN General Assembly. Videos of other international leaders are included.

Charlie Kirk’s Murder and Why Billionaires Want to Silence Us

Democracy
Government and the corporations are using the murder of Charlie Kirk to justify destroying free speech. It is no coincidence that billionaires and corporations are trying to silence us now.

Pushing People into a Really Bad System Will End Really Badly

Homelessness and Housing
President Trump's executive order fuses drug use and homelessness, ignoring that homelessness can cause or exacerbate substance use because people use drugs to cope with pain. Forced institutional settings rather than housing will not help the ill or unhoused.

Chicago Resistance Speaks: ‘Until All Are Free, None Are Free’

Democracy
An uprising is growing as the government tries to impose a dictatorship. Chicago resistance leaders recently offered their thoughts in public remarks made at demonstrations and press conferences.

Los Angeles Continues to Rebuild and Resist

Democracy
Angelinos, suffering from the profit over people economy, continue to rebuild after the fires and to protest immigration raids, while also experiencing joy in such difficult times.

Chicago Teachers Union Says: Trump, Stay Out of Our City

Education
Chicago Teachers Union rejects any unlawful federal occupation of their city, while welcoming federal leadership that fully funds public education, restores SNAP, and expands Medicaid to healthcare for all.

Journalist Says Why ‘I Can No Longer Work With Reuters’

War and Peace
A photojournalist says why it is impossible for her to maintain a relationship with Reuters "given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza."

Abrego Garcia Detained Again, Could be Deported to Uganda

Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant worker, was freed from detention in Tennessee Aug. 22 and then re-arrested by ICE on Aug. 25 in Maryland. The Trump administration is trying to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

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A Salute to Chicagoans Resisting ICE

Democracy
The resistance to the ICE invasion is characterized by people recognizing their common humanity and coming together. What is especially heartening are the small acts by individuals giving their neighbors rides to work, groceries taking their children to school.

Chicago Mayor Signs Executive Order to Protect Constitutional Rights of Chicagoans

Democracy
Chicago mayor signs order prohibiting use of city properties for ICE enforcement. The order comes after ICE violated Chicagoans’ rights, and because of the federal government threats of militarized activity.

ICE Zip-Ties Children During Raid on Chicago Apartments

Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
During a military-style raid on an apartment block in Chicago Sept. 30, ICE agents used flash-bang grenades, blew apartment doors off their hinges and zip-tied children.

‘Language is very powerful:’ Student Artivism During Turbulent Times

Democracy
Student artivism has been one of the responses to the Trump administration's assault on free speech. Nanzi Muro explores student artivism at San Diego City College.

DEBUNKING THE LIES

ABOUT REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS

REYNOSA, MEXICO

WHAT LED TO THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AT THE U.S. - MEXICO BORDER?

Witness at the Border

In December, 2022 a group of people began a 2,200 mile Journey for Justice along the US-Mexico border.

Border Human Rights Videos

Exploring human rights violations along our southern border.

‘Just Kill Em’: Fox News Host Endorses Giving Homeless ‘Lethal Injection’

Homelessness and Housing
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is facing calls to resign after suggesting that the state should execute homeless people who decline help during a live broadcast.

Homelessness Kills: Heather Lee, Rest in Power

Homelessness and Housing
Heather’s testimonial highlighted injustices and cruelty toward unhoused people

All Eyes on Gaza! All Hands on Deck!

War and Peace
Veterans For Peace calls for urgent end to US-Israeli genocide, for defense of Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, and to free disabled veteran ICE kidnapped.

Conservatives Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown

Democracy
US enters new era of McCarthyism as Trump administration equates leftist critique with “terrorism.”

Memes and their Political Influence

Culture, Cartoons and Art
Under Trump, we've seen a surge in political memes. Memes can numb us to the mistreatment of people here and in other countries. "Enjoy the memes you find funny, but be aware of the broader impact they can have," says the author.

Families Zapped by Utility Bills: Is Homelessness Next?

Homelessness and Housing
Utility bills — shut-off notices that will, if unaddressed, lead to a loss of an address, aka homelessness. Moms have all adamantly professed that returning to homelessness is NOT AN OPTION!

CoreCivic Detention Center is Not Wanted in California City!

Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Over 150 community members turned out recently to protest the opening of a new 2,500-bed ICE detention facility in California City, CA, operated by CoreCivic. It will be the largest ICE detention facility in California.

Bearing Witness at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and Hoping it’s Closing

Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Joshua Rubin of Witness at the Border describes his recent experience bearing witness outside Florida's brutal 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant detention center, which may soon be closing as the result of a lawsuit.

How Anti-Abortion Policies Devastate Poor Women

Healthcare
Forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term is a public health issue. Women denied abortions report worse overall health for years afterwards.

‘One Day it’s Going to Be You,’ Union Leader Pledges Resistance

Labor
Immigrants and workers’ unions are two of the Trump administration’s primary targets, but the president of Nevada’s branch of the SEIU said her union won’t back down.

San Jose CA.: Demand That the Sweep be Stopped

Homelessness and Housing
This family is fighting against the city towing the WRONG RV home. It ended with a trip to the ER after the father suffered a medical emergency. This is what's really happening at Columbus Park.

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Democracy

White Supremacy is at Work, says Texas Organizing Project about Gerrymandering

Republican officials ram through gerrymandered maps, proving the system is doing what it was built to do: protect white political power and erase Black and Latino Texans from decision-making.

Thousands of Texans Protest Trump’s Redistricting Plan To Get More Votes

The Texas capitol of Austin saw 5,000 people protesting Trump’s unconstitutional redistricting plan and other issues threatening our democracy.

Trump’s Takeover of D.C. is Ominous Sign for the Future

Trump's claims about crime in the capital city are misleading. Protesters want millions to stand up, saying he's going to go to other cities and do the same if not stopped.

It Is Indeed Our Fight

Founder of an Austin justice group speaks about how everyday people jump into dangerous situations to save anybody in weather and other catastrophes while the TX Governor debates who was to blame.

Juneteenth 2025: ‘We Have to Win this Fight,’ Hannah-Jones Tells Black Graduates

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones addressed Black graduates at Harvard University, telling them that "we are about to see unleashed upon us an America that we have not had to live in. And we have to win this battle."

Voices From the No Kings Day Protests!

Millions of people – estimates range from 11 million to 12 million – took to the streets in protests across the U.S. on June 14 in a direct response to President Donald Trump’s regime, unifying under the message that also named the day’s protest movement: No Kings.

Homelessness and Housing

An Open Letter to Mayor Matt Mahan of San Jose, CA.

From the San Jose CA Frontlines: Stop the sweeps. Unhoused people want a safe place to stay. All people should be respected, shown compassion, understanding.

The Interning of America’s Homeless

More families face homelessness as rents rise and food programs aand other social safety nets are cut. With the potential for tens of thousands more people forced onto the streets, could people be forced "far away" from the cities as Trump suggests?

Making Suffering Invisible

Housing First works. Utah’s program proved it: over 90% of people remained housed, and the state saved money compared to criminalizing poverty. It costs less to help than it does to punish.

“Your Profit Is Our Pain”

“Your Profit Is Our Pain” Count the dollars that you make From each tent that you forsake— Eighty bucks per empty bed While we sleep on concrete, dead. Your...

Homeless in Venice CA: A Story of Gentrification

A long-time resident of the Venice area of Los Angeles, once an affordable haven for free spirits, meditates on the damage done by gentrification, destruction of the area’s character, displacement and homelessness

An Open Letter to the Nation to Those Who Believe in Justice

Homeless Union leader Crystal Sanchez in an open letter to the nation calls out the federal government’s attacks on the most vulnerable – the houseless, immigrants, ‘minority’, poor and working class communities – as violations of the Constitution’s promise of equal protection, and calls for the people to resist its tyranny.

Healthcare

‘Respect Us a Little,’ Las Vegas Medical Workers Picket Hospital

Workers picketed outside Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas to raise awareness for their continued struggle while executives make millions.

Democratic Socialist Announces Candidacy for Nevada State Assembly

Democratic Socialist Tyler Cavey promises to fight for healthcare, education, and affordability when he announced his candidacy for Nevada's state legislature in August.

Still Healing 

After in ICU and trauma stepdown unit following life threatening accident causing broken ribs, punctured lung, pelvis fractures, fluids in lung lining, and more, patient received insurance denial for air ambulance services of $93,000, declaring it wasn’t medically necessary.

Crushing Wheelchairs: A New Movie about Homeless Lives

Green Diamond Projects and Poor Magazine announce the Bay Area screening of their powerful movie created by houseless and formerly houseless people, based on a play by tiny gray-garcia

Another Big Beautiful Betrayal for Rural America

You slash Medicaid, you’re swinging an axe at the heart of our rural hospitals, community clinics, doctors and nurses — and every family that depends on a job for a living. It’s not too late to raise hell.

Medicaid Defenders in Wheelchairs Arrested Ahead of Senate Budget Vote

Over 60 people, including grandmas in wheelchairs, were arrested in the U.S. Senate Rotunda in a nonviolent protest against cuts like Medicaid and the SNAP food program in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Budget Bill.”

Environment, Climate and Water

Why Did Flash Floods in Texas Bring Such Death & Destruction?

Some lives could have been saved with better local warnings in the recent flood in TX, but federal government cuts to FEMA, National Weather Service and NOAA are leaving communities ill-prepared for disasters.

Nevada Town Halls Respond to Elected Officials’ Plans to Develop Public Lands

Local organizations gather and inform community that their federal representatives are planning to sell and develop more of Nevada’s public lands.

Is FREE Electricity in our Future?

Electricity should be a right, free to all.  Yet, for-profit energy companies set prices to maximize profits to shareholders, even when users can’t afford the prices and suffer shutoffs.

‘We Need Urgent Global Climate Action’

Eighty-nine percent of people worldwide want their governments to do more to address the global climate crisis. Conference on tipping points says situation is urgent. Meanwhile U.S. govt does more to boost fossil fuel forms of energy.

Remembrances: Meeting With Pope Francis About Detroit Water Shut-offs and Poverty

Maureen Taylor of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization reflects on her visit to the Vatican in 2016 to discuss Detroit water shut-offs and poverty, which included a special, exclusive audience with the Pope Francis and other activists.

A Love Letter to Altadena

Our elected officials seem unable or unwilling to keep the financial vultures out of Altadena. We can only win if we fight together to ensure our future.

Women

Gaza Women’s Reproductive Health Endangered

Amidst the siege imposed by Israel, an estimated 690,000 menstruating women in Gaza are prevented from getting sanitary pads. Some women and girls are taking pills to delay periods. This all is creating serious health issues in Gaza.

Woman Miscarries, Ends up in Jail For 5 Months

A Texas woman who had a miscarriage in a restaurant bathroom was jailed for five months. Her story was falsely presented to the public as an act by an uncaring woman who ‘flushed her baby down the toilet.’ The truth is a far different story.

Mother’s Day, 2025: Arise Women of This Day for Peace

Julia Ward Howe, [a 19th century abolitionist], commenting on the after effects of the Civil War was one of the first to issue a statement about what Mothers really wanted, and that was peace.

How Much Longer Must Mothers in Gaza Fear Losing Their Children?

Again and again, mothers in Gaza have been forced to gather their children’s broken bodies from beneath the rubble.

Medicaid Cuts Could Devastate Access to Reproductive Care and Contraception

Medicaid cuts would disproportionately affect women of reproductive age, threatening access to birth control, maternity care, and other health services.

Trump Administration Attacks Public Health: Freezes $35 Million in Title X Funding

Ending Title X funding in eight states is just the beginning. Gutting America’s family planning program is an attack on reproductive health care, poor people and an attempt to dismantle public health.

Migrants and Refugees

The Borderlands Are Not Flooded with Fentanyl

Dr. Melody Glenn discusses the misinformation and politicization that is not based in fact of opioid overdose and the argument that because fentanyl is coming from Mexico, it’s coming through the border.

Labor Unions Join Resistance To Attacks on Immigrant Community

Local unions are taking leadership by negotiating language into their agreements prohibiting ICE from entering workplaces.

Nebraska Farmers Describe Trump’s Impact

Farmers from Neligh, Nebraska speak on Trump’s policy to round up farmworkers, the effect of the tariffs on farmers, and the resistance.

Trump’s Immigration Theater Ignores Whose Land ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma joined Florida tribes in protesting "Alligator Alcatraz. The tribe says it insults their ancestral homeland and threatens ecosystem.

Nearly 80% of Americans Think Immigration is Good, Gallup Poll Shows

The eight-point increase in support for giving immigrants living in the U.S. illegally the chance to become U.S. citizens reflects increased support from all party groups according to Gallop poll.

Farmworker in Critical Condition After Fall During California ICE Raid

A farmworker was critically injured during a California ICE raid after he fell from a greenhouse roof where he was hiding.

Education

Harvard University Stands Up to Illegal Federal Government Actions

Read letter by Harvard President Alan M. Garner, about the University's stance on the Federal government's illegal actions to force Harvard to give up the school's academic independence and academic freedom.

White School Officer Pepper-sprayed and Kneed Black Beaumont, TX Student, Complaint says. Will Feds Act?

A 6-second video, recorded by a teacher and reviewed by the Texas Observer, shows an officer grabbing a student’s hair, kneeing her in the face, and knocking the 100-pound girl on her back.

April 17 Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Targets Trump Attack on Higher Education

"Higher education is under siege. As faculty, students, and campus workers, we must have the courage to resist."

Homeless, Low-Income Families, Rely on Public Schools; And They’re Under Attack

The privatization drive means dismantling public schools. Money is shifted out of the public school system into exclusionary, discriminatory private school systems. And homeless kids and families are the first to be hit.

Education and Real Estate: A Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?

Education and real estate may seem like separate topics, but are instead inextricably linked for many reasons.

Texas Book Ban Sets Dangerous Precedent for Young People

Cameron Samuels (Center) started a movement against censorship in Katy,Texas and students are standing strong. They honored them for Banned Books Week as Youth Honorary Chair for distributing banned books and packing school board meetings. Young people call on the nation to not be silent and defend their rights because they feel no others will.

Labor

UAW President Denounces Trump Budget as ‘Betrayal’ of Working Class

UAW President says Trump budget hollows out rights and dignify of labor, shifting power further to billionaire class who get even more tax breaks.

Juneteenth and the Forgotten Diversity of Appalachia

Appalachia has always been more diverse than we realize. Labor history shows Black, white, immigrant, native-born workers finding solidarity in the mines that fought corporate control.

The Arrest of David Huerta is a Violation Of Us All

'What happened to David Huerta is not just an attack on a labor leader—it’s an attack on democracy, dignity, and decency in America.'

Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested Witnessing ICE Raid

Highly regarded labor leader was injured and then arrested while witnessing a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Bringing Jobs Back to America: The Cold, Hard Truth

There's lots of noise about “bringing jobs back to America,” especially from Trump and others trying to sell working people a dream that doesn’t hold up to logic.

May Day 2025: United We Will Win

International Worker’s Day is celebrated on May 1st around the world. Today, the entire U.S. working class, of which immigrants comprise an integral part, is under attack. The defense of immigrants is vital to the defense of the entire working class.

Police, Prisons and the Justice System

Chicago is Ready: Sanctuary Cities under Attack

Congress members from Chicago visited the Broadview Holding Center to conduct oversight of victims kidnapped by ICE agents in immigration raids that have been happening in Chicago.

Teen Violently Arrested Trying to Stop Mother’s ICE ‘Kidnapping’

More than two dozen community members formed a human chain to try to stop immigration agents who take the woman and her 16 year old daughter.

‘Who Was Officer?’: Family Still Seeks Answers From Jackson Police a Year After Son’s Burial

Dexter Wade, killed by off-duty officer, was mistakenly buried by Hinds County, Mississippi in a pauper’s field. His mother seeks answers to what happened to her son.

Texas National Guard Firing Pepper Spray Projectiles at Migrants

Texas National Guard has repeatedly fired pepper spray projectiles at arriving migrants, including women and children.

‘I Am Outraged, and You Should Be Too!’

The writer is outraged at four more persons killed in a school shooting. She also explains her outrage that the 14 year old child who killed four people and wounded others will be treated as an adult in the criminal justice system.

Michael Brown Jr.’s Father Is Still Fighting for Justice and His Son’s Legacy

Mike Brown Sr. releases butterflies after four and a half minutes of silence to honor the four and a half hours Mike Brown Jr.’s body was left on the ground after he was shot on August 9, 2014.

War and Peace

Global Food Authority Declares Catastrophic Famine in Gaza

On Aug. 22, the world's top authority on hunger crises officially declared that a catastrophe-level famine in Gaza exists—a humanitarian disaster engineered by Israel's relentless blockade of food aid and other life-saving supplies.

Nevada’s New Legal Definition of Antisemitism Stifles Free Speech, say Activists

Nevada’s new law claims to combat antisemitism, but activists say it just stifles free speech to protect Israel's genocide in Gaza.

80 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War?

Gerry Condon, former president of Veterans for Peace, makes the case that we are now closer to nuclear war than ever, and that the U.S. is primarily responsible.

Gazans Demand ‘Agency, Memory and Hope’

The true number of dead and missing in Gaza may be around 500,000. Another 500,000 face starvation. Palestinians say if there is to be peace, it must begin with respect for their voices, their rights and their humanity.

The American People Want Peace, Not War!

The US's immoral and illegal attack on Iran threatens the whole world with war. The American people have a special responsibility to come out into the streets and rein in the US government, which has become a rogue state.

Unite for Veterans Rally

Tomorrow, June 6th, 2pm at the Washington DC National Mall just north of the Smithsonian National Space and Air Museum, veterans and military families from across the country will gather for the Unite for Veterans Rally, to defend the values and promises made to those who served.

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