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Monthly Archives: April, 2013

Federal deficit: The corporations caused it, let them pay

 The corporate mouthpieces are telling us that  “entitlement” programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid must be cut to reduce the federal budget deficit....

In Defense of the Earth: The People vs Corporate Plunder

 The blows of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast, and a summer of floods, severe droughts and monster forest fires, left the people of...

School Closings in Chicago: The Fight Continues

 On March 4 the latest round in the war on Chicago public education ended, with the last of the hearings on school closings.Erica Clark...

National campaign asks if college will be free or for-profit

 Budget cuts have slashed college workforces and denied hundreds of thousands of students the seats they worked for.  Yet some faculty and staff leaders...

Proud to be in the Green Party

Interview with John Gonzalez Jr.  For the People’s Tribune, Sandy Perry interviewed John Gonzalez Jr., who was recently elected Treasurer of the Philadelphia Green Party....

Illinois: Vote Green in the 2nd District!

 The Illinois Green Party nominated LeAlan Jones in December 2012 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois' 2nd Congressional District shortly...

Michigan: Fight for democracy

A protester marches up Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan on August 25, 2012 with hundreds of others during a Rainbow Push Coalition March. A...

Lack of Healthcare Spreads

By Al Gladyck, Clinton Township, MI  United Auto Worker VEBAs are a symptom of the disease The disease is the spreading lack of healthcare for tens...

New Draconian School Policy for Welfare recipients

 On October 1, 2012, Michigan's Governor Snyder, through Maura D. Corrigan, his Director of the Department of Human Services (DHS), has implemented a new...

A Tall Order from a Tall Union Man

 I told myself I was done kicking dead horses, sleeping giants, and inanimate movements. And then Right To Work For Less came to Michigan...

Why is the price of gasoline so high?

 Today, the average car owner spends $3,000 per year on gasoline. Pain at the pump? It’s more than that. It’s highway robbery combined with...

Eaarth: Making a life on a tough new planet

Book Review You must read this book! In it, the founder of the environmental group 350.org delivers the bad news that global warming has already...

Injured L.A. teacher speaks out about CA worker’s comp corruption

 LOS ANGELES—I was an art teacher at Sepulveda Middle School in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, when on December 8, 2000 I...

Memorial to Sheridan Talbott, a fighter for a better world

The movement for a better world lost a committed comrade and friend, Saturday, February 23 when Sheridan Talbott of Southern Illinois took his last...

Poverty and the Profit Motive

 Disparity is all around us, pocketed by great bunkers of wealth. Fortified swimming pools and Rolls Royces share the same intersections as shopping cart...

Cabrini Green evictions

 March 6, 2013 marks the 156th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision in which Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared that...

Cross-Border unity against corporate partnerships

 A movement of movements is re-uniting across the globe to say “ENOUGH!” to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—an international proposal being pushed by the Obama...

Americans of African Descent: From the Cotton Fields to Corporate Offices

 Editor’s Note: The following is Part 2 of a 4-part articleLONOKE COUNTY, AR—The community centered on the crossroads of U.S. Highway 70 and what...

Benton Harbor and Detroit are under a vicious fascist attack

Rev. Edward Pinkney, bhbanco.org The majority of the African-American people in Michigan are under the fascist newEmergency Manager law. But we are all threatened by...

flame

last year this time
sleeping out there
he was so cold he dreamed

Obituary: $7.25 A Week For Food

Embarrassed to plead
For his weekly grocery dough
George stayed home. . . and starved.