COACHELLA VALLEY, CA—On January 21, 2013 the visions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, and Mahatma Gandhi were remembered and their words...
Part 1 of this article appeared in the February, 2013 edition of the People’s Tribune.CROSSVILLE, IL— It is full speed ahead for corporate exploitation...
Illinois Green Party Candidate for U.S. House of RepresentativesFor the People’s Tribune, Allen Harris interviewed LeAlan M. Jones of Chicago who is the Green...
CARBONDALE, IL—The “Babes of Wrath” tour of the southwestern states, a 5,000 mile journey to raise community awareness of homelessness, especially its effects on...
With $45 million of false advertising, giant food corporations defeated California’s Proposition 37SONOMA COUNTY, CA— A month before last fall’s elections, California Proposition 37...
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” ~Abraham Lincoln.
Today, fundamental rights taken...
In recent months, the mainstream press has been extensively covering the impact of robotics on unemployment and the jobless recovery. Technology is replacing human...
SANTA ROSA, CA—The global movement of cultural activists calling themselves 100 Thousand Poets for Change is not waiting for its annual weekend of events in September. Instead, it is vibrantly alive from California to India.
Does poetry have power? Can it be a voice for justice? A threat to the powers that be?
I expect you recently read
that more American soldiers
—men and women both—
killed themselves
in Afghanistan last year
than were killed in physical
combat in the war there.
By Andi Sosin & Joel Sosinsky, The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition
As America approaches the 102nd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of...
After several tumultuous years, Joseph Harris, the Emergency Financial Manager in Benton Harbor, Michigan, is finally gone. He was a total failure. Joseph Harris...
Free
Mental health clinics
closed. Forced to fight our demons
in the streets. Again.
Angry Eyes
My angry eyes brim
With women searching dumpsters
For capital’s crumbs.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — On the eve of the 3rd anniversary of one of the most horrific earthquakes in modern times, in which more that 220,000 Haitians lost their lives, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco held a fundraising event of poetry and music and featuring the Haitian speaker Max Blanchet, at the Art Internationale, the Brigade’s center, on January 11.
There were politicians, poets, puffery, promises, the public,
The holy, rich and powerful were there. School kids, scarred
Veterans of last week’s, current and far away years’
Social, political and martial wars. Choirs, cheers, bands,
The press, ruffles and flourishes of rhetoric.
