An old saying goes, "Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit." Columbia, South Carolina now punishes its homeless citizens by arresting them on sight ...
It has been said that a society is judged on how it treats its elders. In America, our judgment day is fast approaching. Across the country, countless local governments ...
Non-tenure track faculty —part-time and full-time— makes up 75% of the academic workforce. We have been called many names, but the newest is “tenuous faculty ...
Rollout of the “market-place insurance exchanges” created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), so-called Obamacare, begins October 1 with the bulk of ACA implementation ...
On August 29, fast food workers in Oakland joined fast food workers all over the country in taking a stand against big corporations. Many of us have stopped in at a KFC ...
With Tampa, Florida’s city government’s recent passage of a “No camping or sleeping on the Streets” ordinance, another law is passed criminalizing the homeless. With ...
Even though the homeless do not have "a place" per se, that does not mean that they are totally without rights or have to be silent about having rights. Take my story for ...
Over 100 tenants and their allies took action against the crushing rent increases caused by the Federal government sequester in a rally August 29 at City Hall. Some families ...
“Josh” and his mom were halfway out the door when Barb, the shelter director, stopped them to introduce us. His backpack drooped on his 7-year-old shoulders as he ...
Flight School is a weekly open mic show in Culver City, California. The night started with an idea to have a place that artists from all over Los Angeles can come by and ...
Many voices speak from the pages of Defending Public Education from Corporate Takeover, the new book edited by Todd Alan Price (University Press of America) ...
The World Courts of Women Against Poverty in the United States began at the 2010 United States Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan. A People’s Movement Assembly ...
On July 15, two different causes joined forces at the school board meeting to fight against injustices. Groups from mainly Latino and African-American communities ...
On Saturday, August 23, 2013, we, along with over 200,000 people of all races, gathered around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to commemorate the 50th ...
Some of the graduates of Scipio A. Jones High School are the following: Songwriter, producer, and former President of Stax Record Company, Alvertis Isbell ...
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On October 2 there was a rally and march in Detroit. The message from the speakers was crystal clear. What is happening in Michigan is just a...
The recent comments made by Detroit’s Emergency Manager, Kevyn Orr, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal strike at the very heart and soul of that which clearly ...
Benton Harbor is under misguided leadership, corrupted from the top to the bottom. The schools are in shambles. The school district has it own dictator, Leonard Seawood, ...
