As technology continues to replace labor in production, the global market is shrinking, resulting in increased competition amongst capitalist countries for market share and...
At first glance, struggles over schools in México, Canada and the U.S. seem totally separate: Mexicans protesting a national law causing funding cuts and testing of teachers ...
Houston Independent School District (HISD), the largest school district in Texas, is planning to vote to close five schools on March 13, 2014. Of the five schools, four are predominately African American ...
The Common Core State Standards were developed by Governors James Hunt and Robert Wise, supported by the National Governor’s Association (NGO) and the ...
It’s been more than two months since Freedom Industries spilled 10,000 gallons of toxic 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) and an unknown amount of a polyglycol ...
There are two things you cannot get in Charleston, West Virginia today; guaranteed safe drinking water from the tap and straight answers from officials about the situation ...
The People’s Tribune interviews Vicci Hamlin, one of three women convicted of felony charges in their protest to stop the expansion of tar sands pipelines—before the next oil ...
We are at a political crossroad. Climate change is real. Artic ice is melting, destructive storms, drought, floods, and extreme temperature fluctuations are now common around the ...
The orgy of monied interests (the class interests of the one percent) represented by the struggle and negotiation taking place between technology giants, real estate moguls...
To me, economic democracy is about two core principles: opportunity and reinvestment. All communities should have the ability to give input into the decision making that directly benefits their ...
We were all inspired by North Carolina’s launch of the Moral Monday movement last year, and as 2014 approached, many of us in Georgia came to believe that the Moral ...
When severe cuts to retiree health care are included, former city workers are likely to recover no more than about 30% of what the city says they are owed. The city proposed paying less than ...
During the Great Depression my grandmother, the poorest of the poorest of poor, still fed the homeless from her back door. We only had a Great Recession, I’m afraid to say that I am ashamed ...
California is the richest state in the nation and the 8th largest economy in the world. Yet it has the worse poverty rate of any state—almost 24 percent. There are close to 9 million poor people, ...
Fifteen homeowners who have fought foreclosure for five years called a town meeting at the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Ontario, CA on March 8 where they invited a civil rights organization ...
The new face of Jim Crow is all across the county of Berrien in Michigan. The prosecutor, sheriff, County Clerk’s Office and the Mayor, James Hightower of Benton Harbor, are making it harder and ...
On March 3, 2014, activists from the Democracy Defense League called out Flint's Emergency Manager, Darnell Earley, and Mayor Dayne Walling, by reading a rebuttal statement after the mayor's ...
On February 25, teachers at Saucedo Academy unanimously decided not to administer the ISAT (Illinois Standards Achievement Test), scheduled for eight days in the ...
A Global Climate Convergence from Mother Earth Day to May Day, 2014, seeks to bring together the scattered movements necessary to secure economic justice and planetary survival. The ...
The Moral Monday movement is breaking out all over the South, from North Carolina to Georgia, from South Carolina to Florida. The common banner of the movements is “Forward Together, ...
