Exclusive apartments in downtown Manhattan sell for $57 million while in the streets nearby people sleep (and die) in doorways. The market for champagne,...
The French author Victor Hugo wrote, "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." This holds special significance for African American...
“Open for Business,” reads Governor LePage’s welcome sign as drivers enter Maine. It could read “Open for Rampant Family Homelessness.” This would be bad for business, but true ...
Five homeless people died of hypothermia in Santa Clara County in the recent record low temperatures. Yet Sunnyvale's armory shelter—in which homeless would not have frozen...
“I live in rural southern Illinois on a 5th generation family farm. The road I live on has 17 private wells, including my own, supplying each of my neighbors with drinking water. One fracking ...
At the far north end of Chicago sits the Rogers Park neighborhood, where the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) celebrates Black History Month – by slashing school funding. What distinguishes ...
I think that the Education Reform Movement revealed in Chicago is very much related to the Japanese Education Reform Movement. In our national elections, former Financial Minister ...
The fight for the future of Chicago's public education continues. Teachers, parents, students and the larger community are growing impatient and angry. People are losing faith in the ...
Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man was murdered by Fullerton, CA police in July, 2011. A security camera recorded the relentless beating and tasing. Kelly is heard pleading 31 times for ...
Below are voices of Fullerton, CA protesters after the acquittal of the police officers in the murder of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man. Their stories illustrate the spreading ...
Public education is in crisis. It supports an archaic hypothesis which assumes: all children reside in stable environments, live at home with parents, who are gainfully employed, earning ...
A lot of people are tangled up defending the indefensible mess of the Affordable Care Act and its rollout also known as the ACA or ‘Obamacare.’ Behind the frustrations of technical ...
From its beginning the UAW Voluntary Employee Beneficiaries Association (VEBA) was underfunded by 36% even by the standard actuarial estimate. In other words, the VEBA was designed ...
The People’s Tribune met with four leaders of the World Courts of Women in Philadelphia: World Courts of Women Founder Corinne Kumar, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign ...
For forty years I’ve been fighting for social justice, a clean and green environment, and a cooperative equitable and peaceful world without want or exploitation. I’m now making ...
Shamako Noble is an artist, organizer and author. He is best known for his work with the Hip Hop Congress, which he co-founded, and he is currently the organization’s president. Shamako has performed ...
"I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed . . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take ...
All around the country day laborers and largely immigrant youth are challenging the authorities and “business as usual.” Whether chaining themselves to the undercarriages of deportation buses ...
On 12/23/13 five members of the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance and I were chained to ladders blocking the exit to the Fresno County jail. We did this to prevent vans from taking ...
The Public Safety Department of Benton Harbor, Michigan, is in need of citizen input, an independent evaluation of its services and employee practices. Public works of Benton Harbor ...
As thousands of articles extolling Martin Luther King Jr., are distributed on his birthday, most will fail to mention the Poor People' Campaign, the most important crusade of his career and, ...
“It tears my heart out the way my mentally ill adult son is treated by this system. I fear for his life,” says Anna Griffin in Silicon Valley, CA. “When he’s in jail, as he has been for the last two ...
