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Monthly Archives: January, 2014

FOOD: Corporations profit, millions starve

Our world is abundant. Nature provides. Technology provides. Yet more and more Americans are going hungry. Why? The question of hunger, food production and food usage...

The Struggle for Health Care and the Fight for a New Society

  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may have given more people access to health insurance who didn’t have it before, but this law is not...

Our Walmart Workers launch November strike wave

The workers at Walmart—through their organization OUR WALMART—have just completed three years of continuous and constant struggle to make Walmart listen...

Richmond California stands up to Corporations

Mayor Gayle McLauglin: This was a great gathering of nearly 3,000 people coming together to remember the Chevron Richmond refinery fire of 2012, to support environmental ...

Low-wage workers point the way forward!

The People’s Tribune opens its pages to the low-wage workers who are fighting for their survival by standing up to a global capitalist class...

Detroit bankruptcy: Society is being reorganized for the corporations

Detroit, Michigan has now made new history. Judge Steven Rhodes has approved the Detroit Bankruptcy filing which allows the Emergency Manager much greater powers to...

My experience inside Quicken Loans

My first thought when entering the Quicken Loans offices in Detroit was: “This has to be a cult.” Everyone seemed so happy and excited—manically so—to be working; ...

Philadelphians Unite to defend quality public education

Over the past several years, Philadelphians have rallied to save their public education system in the streets, and in the halls of government and the school district. The crisis has ...

Fight for quality education in New Orleans

The People’s Tribune’s Joseph Peery interviewed DJ Markey, a leading advocate in the fight for equal quality education in New Orleans. This is part two of a two-part interview ...

Plan to create military school sparks protest

I started off at the wrong meeting. A staff person at Ames school sent me to a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) meeting upstairs. I soon knew I was not where I was supposed ...

Gale School in Chicago: The Path to Equality is Through Nationalization

CHICAGO—Gale Math and Science Academy, a K-8 school in Rogers Park (the northeast corner of Chicago), sits in a pocket long devastated by poverty. ...

Moral Monday’s day in court

Last summer, thousands of North Carolina residents showed up every Monday at the state capitol to protest laws that the Tea Party-dominated Republican Party was ...

Campaign for homeless bill of rights kicks off in California

Homeless advocates in Los Angeles helped launch a statewide campaign on October 5 to get California to adopt a bill of rights for the homeless. Citing efforts by local ...

Broad coalition emerges around killing of 13-year-old

In Sonoma County, California, a broad-based coalition has emerged over the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a county sheriff’s deputy who fired seven shots into his ...

“Could We Eat Our Way to World Peace?”

We are all hungry for peace
Hungry for the sword
Not to cut us apart
Not to cut into our feast

Coming Together For a Better Society

I am a formerly homeless man, husband, and father. I grew up in a rural area in Virginia called Ordinary. Poverty was something people just didn’t talk about. I was taught ...

People with disabilities: Fight to take control over our lives!

Listening to the radio the other day I came across this report talking about people with disabilities and how they were being mistreated in our own state, in California ...

Veterans For Peace Chapter Dedicates Peace Pole in Mecca

Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, with its 1,200 students, was the site chosen to receive a Peace Pole in honor of a late Redlands WWII veteran, John ...

Freedom of speech Thursday

Freedom of Speech Thursday (FOST) is more than a moniker or a reference to the 1st Amendment. It is a collective of unique individuals freely and authentically expressing ...

Should Whirlpool pay taxes?

The question is: should Whirlpool pay taxes and water bills? Benton Harbor residents must pay taxes and water bills. Why shouldn’t Whirlpool, with its annual 2012 ...

Where Are You?

YOU JUST WONDER WHY YOU SAY IT’S A LIE I SHOW YOU THE HOMELESS YOU PASS ON THE STREET

Message For The People

On Oct. 10, 2013, Mayor James Hightower told the Herald Palladium that the city income tax legislation on the ballot in the November, 2013 election may be illegal. A majority ...

The Morality Deficit in Georgia

The state of Georgia is now ranked the number one “business-friendly” state in the nation. Tax abatements, incentives and credits have combined to lure companies to Georgia ...

The Education Fight

On these pages we are publishing stories on the fight for education in America. An education system is needed that does what education is...

How the State Uses the Internet to Monitor the Peoples

Off the Network: Peoples Tribune Interview with Ulises Mejias, Associate Professor of communications studies at State University of New York, College at Oswego, and author...