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Monthly Archives: June, 2014

The Corporations vs. the People: What Will it Take to Win?

The people are standing up to the corporations across America, and the corporate state is on the rampage, trying to contain them. The situation...

The solution to homelessness is a new society

First they came for the homeless. When the Nazis began their campaigns of extermination, they first launched a propaganda war against those they were...

Fighting the corporate dictatorship in Michigan

Benton Harbor, MI has become ground zero in the struggle against the corporate dictatorship sweeping across our country. Rev. Edward Pinkney has been fighting ...

Southern Illinois: Sacrifice Zone for Extreme Energy Extraction Corporations

The past two years the region often referred to as “Little Egypt” in the bottom third of Illinois has been ground zero in the fight to keep our land, air and water from being contaminated ...

Challenging Corruption and Patronage in Alabama

My goal is to stop the fossil fuel industry super majority of greedy legislators who control power in Alabama. The incumbent (Trip Pittman) is corrupt. When BP gave former governor Bob Riley ...

Arrests at San Francisco protest

he San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) started arresting people for standing up for what they believe in. There were 11 arrests that day, 10 were released, one is still locked up at ...

Students for Quality Education fight fee hikes

Students for Quality Education (SQE) is leading a campaign to defeat a proposed $560 fee hike at California State University, Dominguez Hills. SQE circulated an online petition via change.org asking ...

Student suspensions for questioning denial of teachers’ tenure

It is now mid-semester and the tides of protests have died down. Two students have been suspended from Los Angeles Mission College, located in Sylmar, CA, for simply questioning a ...

Kids for Cash

“Kids for Cash” is the name given to a scandal and to a new documentary film about what’s been going on in Luzerne County, PA, over the last decade. In 2011, two judges were convicted of ...

The struggle for affirmative action

Since The Star Spangled Banner became the national anthem, “The Land of the Free,” has been the claim of America. However, fifty years ago, that claim was a work in progress. And, there was plenty ...

Flint Protest Exposes Emergency Manager Order to Silence Public

With tape over their mouths, members of the Democracy Defense League, held a silent protest in the Lobby of the Flint City Hall to challenge yet another assault on any semblance of ...

Why the Rise of Civil Disobedience?

In North Carolina a growing movement has arisen to confront a government and political structure that is standing in the way of the people receiving even the most basic necessities of life ...

Luis J. Rodriguez California Campaign for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice

As we embarked on this campaign journey, we knew it would be a challenging road. We have a small core team of dedicated organizers working for free and with heart. Our grassroots ...

On the death of Comrade General G. Baker

As the People’s Tribune was going to press, we received word that, after a prolonged illness, Comrade General Baker had died. As an internationally known and respected ...

Luis Rodriguez speaks at De Anza College: “Imagine a new California”

Green Party-endorsed candidate for California Governor and renowned author Luis Rodriguez appeared at De Anza College near San Jose on April 28. Luis spoke with students in political science ...

As Dottie Stevens Joins the Elders, Our Determination to End Poverty Grows Stronger

Dottie Stevens joined the movement to end poverty when she saw politicians—including and sometimes led by Democrats—ripping holes in the safety net, “ending welfare as we know it,” and enforcing “workfare” while real jobs were disappearing. As she learned and taught and ...

Gentrification and Displacement in the Bay Area

A recent report on the state of Oakland reveals that it has lost fifty percent of its Black population, most of whom have relocated over the last decade. Throughout the ...

Privatization’s Trick Bag

Politicians these days all push the Austerity line that “there just isn’t any money.” The next step is to tout the wonders of privatization, often called “public-private ...

Prayer for Passover (April 14, 2014)

I passed over twelve destitute today:
homeless on the street,
some with signs, some with cups,
some shaking, some sleeping,
some black, some white,
some men, some women,
all hungry.

Water Wars and the Fight for a New Society

Detroit resident Nicole Hill, a single mother, recently told the L.A. Times what it’s like to not have water in your home. "It's frightening, because you think this is something that only ...