Florida homeless advocate discusses new anti-homeless laws in Florida, and elsewhere, criminalizing those who have to shelter, including upcoming Supreme Court rulings that could impact the nation.

The UAW union representing about 3,000 graduate student workers at USC filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school to end campus militarization and drop charges against students and faculty.

Voters in Enid, OK recalled a city council member who was a former organizer for a white supremacist organization after he failed to distance himself from connections to white supremacist groups.

‘No Robot Dogs!’ Los Angeles Community Action Network says to the City Council.

What may be the final hearings in Julian Assange's effort to halt his extradition to the U.S. are under way. The U.S. is engaged in criminalizing things that journalists do all the time, and this is a real threat to democracy.

Voices of the heroic efforts of those who suffer from and fight poverty, horrors of homelessness, heartless immigrant policies, and war.

The Supreme Court’s decision in the case out of southern Oregon, expected in June, will broadly impact how local governments write homelessness policy in the United States.

Sacramento, among many other towns and cities, turned out to protest on April 22, the day of the Supreme Court argument in the Grants Pass case.

Actions are taking place in the following cities: San Francisco (Bay Area), CA; Los Angeles, CA; Sacramento, CA; Portland, OR; Medford, OR; Missoula, MT; Seattle, WA; Denver, CO

Our current society loses 295,000 people each year to poverty, which is more people than by homicide, gun violence, diabetes, or obesity but the corporate media does not talk about that.

A coalition of current and former San Francisco officials and civic organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in advance of...

What is Improved and Expanded Medicare for All? Why Do We Need It? YOU ARE INVITED TO A FORUM

Prop 1 Would gut local mental health services and further criminalize the unhoused. The following is an excerpt from a voting guide prepared by Kris Rehl, a writer and organizer with LA Street Care, and was lightly edited for length.

Brittany Watts, 33, was charged with a felony in Ohio after police searched her toilet after she suffered a miscarriage. Doctors are pushing the prosecutor to drop charges.

Fired nurse tells story of Kaiser's poor patient care, driven by the profit motive.

Twenty nine poor Texas border counties are designated medically underserved. Residents lack access to primary care services, sites, or providers to meet their medical needs. There is an effort to change that.

The pandemic paused redeterminations for Medicaid in March 2020. All states were to resume the eligibility process on April 1. Since then, the State of Mississippi dropped 18,710 children from Medicaid; more are likely to come.

Benton Harbor city officials are shutting off the water at homes; in one week more than I00 homes water was shut off.

Earth Day is a reminder that Mother Earth pleads with us to care for her. The youth are listening, holding a global climate strike April 19. Although we are still far from reaching net zero emissions by 2050, it's time to be assertive with our world leaders for change will give our grandchildren a healthy Mother Earth and create a world of peace.

Flint water crisis 10 year commemoration demands clean and affordable water for Flint.

Nearly two dozen campaigners with the Sunrise Movement were arrested after protesting at President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign headquarters, issuing warnings that crucial votes from young people will be lost unless he takes bold climate action and ends his support for Israel’s massacre in Gaza.

Dozens of unhoused, disoriented, disabled Chicago residents will die. Hundreds will get frostbite and/or hypothermia. The city must open warming senters 24/7.

Thanks to the Benton Harbor Community Water Council and Rev Edward Pinkney, Benton Harbor’s water system is now providing safe water to its residents.. All the lead service lines have been replaced. But now Benton Harbor faces another drinking water crisis—the water, now safe to drink, is unaffordable.

Millions of women have been standing up to fight, but now, all women are needed to engage in the movement. Organize, support women, strike, protect our freedoms, our rights, our mutual vision of health, peace, and love.

For International Women’s Month we honor Dora Rodriguez, migrant survivor and Director of Salvavision, an organization providing support to asylum seekers and migrants. Dora exemplifies women’s contribution to peace and a better world.

Jennie is a fighter who has lived a hard life! She spent her whole life in broken systems meant to keep people down! She...

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By a decisive 56.6% to 43.4% margin, Ohio voters won the constitutional right to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions." This victory for reproductive rights was one of several won in November.

Alabama jailed Ashley Caswell on charges of endangering a fetus, then made her give birth without medical support.

The Biden administration plans to propose a rule that would make it more difficult for asylum seekers to apply for asylum.

The U.S. government should stop Texas' anti-immigrant campaign, says border activist Fernando Garcia. We need more welcoming centers at the southern border, not more militarization, he adds.

Refuting the lies that undocumented immigrants are “more likely to commit crimes,” and that immigrants take jobs away from people in the U.S.

Six men who were working filling potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge are presumed dead. Two bodies were found trapped in a submerged vehicle in the river. The six men, immigrant workers who had lived in the area for years, are among thousands of immigrant workers who help keep the Baltimore area functioning.

The movement against Texas’ SB4 law continues, undeterred by a highly contested U.S. Supreme Court ruling clearing the way for the law allowing Texas police to arrest and deport people they “suspect” are in Texas illegally.

The following is a March 11, 2024 press release from La Resistencia about the hunger strikes, attempted suicides, and death at the Northwest Detention...

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

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.

Pointing out that "Black history is American history," Prof. Kelly Harris gives an overview of some of the state legislation pending that would censor or prevent the teaching of Black history and discusses the importance of a comprehensive understanding of American history.

Watch video mocking Ron DeSantis coming to our schools, claiming that in the classroom, free speech does not apply.

UC Davis PhD student and UAW union member discusses the significance of the UC student worker worker strike, the demands, particularly of the lowest paid workers the settlement process now underway.

Striking UC graduate student workers are willingly getting arrested in acts of civil disobedience, viewing the strategy as a way to escalate their work stoppage, now in its fifth week. A main demand is raises that reflect the cost-of-living in California, one of the most expensive states to live in.

Speech given on what happened to create the internationally known holiday of May Day, a holiday that began in Chicago, Illinois in 1886.

From slavery, to organizing the first Black union-the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, and to their current workforce, Blacks continue to fight for a One Fair Wage.

A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a beacon of hope, a driving force behind the civil rights movement, for racial equality, and for his contributions to the Labor Movement.

The UAW International Union has voted to join the call for a ceasefire. "The UAW International is calling for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Israel and Palestine so that we can get to the work of building a lasting peace, building social justice and building a global community of solidarity."

Labor actions, the struggle in the Middle East, the fight of the homeless, migrants, refugees and others, are fronts in a struggle breaking out in many forms all over the country and world.

UAW President Shawn Fain addresses why the expansion of the strike and the growing support globally and nationally in two venues. Workers are fighting to get their fair share at a time when the profits of automakers are soaring. The challenge is where we're going to go as a country.

Pastor in Bryan, Ohio, pleaded not guilty to charges he broke zoning codes when he gave shelter to people who might otherwise have frozen to death.

Relatives of the 21 people killed in Uvalde, TX mass shooting demand criminal charges after federal officials say delayed police response cost lives

The U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices issued a scathing dissent this week as the tribunal's right-wing supermajority rejected the appeal of an Illinois inmate with mental illness imprisoned in solitary confinement without access to fresh air for three straight years.

The latest warriors to save Atlanta's Weelaunee forest and stop ‘Cop City’ are four elder women who believe people should decide the fate of the forest, not the Mayor, Atlanta City Council, or the Atlanta Police Foundation. A petition for a public vote was signed by 116,000 people.

CA Senate Bill 1338 created a mental health court. A court-appointed conservator would make health care decisions and control one’s medication and treatment — at an involuntary stay in a psychiatric facility. Could this be the housing promised by Governor Newsom?

This article reposted from the Atlanta Community Press Collective describes the Georgia Attorney General's attempt to stifle free speech by indicting opponents of Cop City in Atlanta.

$5,109 of the average American's taxpayer dollars went to fund the military and its support systems," said a new analysis.

Outrage is mounting here and globally for immediate cease-fire in Gaza. A significant percentage of Democrats are voting "uncommitted,” but the Biden administration is not stopping U.S. from providing bombs that kill Palestinian children.

Hundreds of protesters block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech to call for ceasefire and end to U.S funding for Israel's assault on Gaza.

Congresswoman Tlaib introduces bill to stop politicians from funnelling billions of American tax dollars to same defense contractors many of them are invested in and taking campaign donations from.

Israeli forces have killed over 10,000 children in roughly 100 days of Israel's assault into Gaza, as Save the Children reported, or about 100 children per day.

Grassroots group in Michigan calls on voters to write in "undecided" on primary ballot by Biden's name.