Our summer of occupation began June 1 in San Francisco. A small number of homeless people began occupying the only San Francisco Staples location. The battle for the commons, ...
The depth of the family homelessness crisis in Washington, DC “hit home” for me in mid-October, 2008. At a special meeting, DC City Council members were in a rush to make immediate ...
Nine months after weekly protests at the North Carolina Legislature, the Moral Monday/Forward Together Movement is in motion again. Last year, 940 people were arrested. They were outraged ...
Stewart Detention Center is a private, for-profit prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), located in Lumpkin, in rural South Georgia. Hundreds of immigrants are detained ...
Somebody needs to write a book about, “What’s the Matter with Michigan?” Michigan and the emergency manager system is what we call, “a corporate coup de tat without firing a single shot.” ...
How many people are having their water cut off in Detroit? Maureen Taylor: We’re told that it’s anywhere from 3,000 per month to 3,000 per week. But at our offices at Michigan Welfare Rights, we are ...
A loved and respected revolutionary, General G. Baker, died in May 18, 2014 in Detroit, MI. The vision of a new world of peace and freedom crowned the struggles led by General. Here, Marian ...
Business in this country has always supported healthcare for some of us when it benefits business profits. It never benefited all of us and business does not support any healthcare ...
“Unreal. I am heartbroken and speechless. It is abhorrent to put a child and family through this!” says Nellie Cotton. In trying to get proper nursing care at school for her son, who was ...
Gale, Gresham and Dyett are three Chicago Public Schools. All were saved from the “to be closed list” last year. Dyett and Gresham are on Chicago’s South side, an area devastated by ...
The positive discourse in liberal political circles surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA, popularly called “Obamacare”) sharply contrasts with the increasingly negative impact of the law on ...
Although this problem has been around for ages, it appears to be on the rise in Fresno County! Properties are sold dirt-cheap to investors who are buying blind! Not knowing the responsibility ...
An unusually broad cross-section of organizations is calling for the largest climate march in history in New York City this September 21. Their plan is to challenge Ban Ki-moon’s special climate ...
Since 1972, annual “Rainbow Gatherings” have been held in U.S. National Forests during the first week of July, bringing together thousands of people every year in one of the most ...
“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 ...
…everything that is responsible for creating something. out of nothing is a kind of poetry; and so all the creations. of every craft and profession are themselves a kind of poetry, ...
The good ol’ boy club in Berrien County, MI Courthouse, is usually male, white, of European descent, and lives in St Joseph, Michigan. Judge Charlie LaSata, Judge Sterling Schrock and ...
Many raise the issue today that “You can’t tell someone what they can and cannot do with their property.” However, this is not true. We do it all the time. For common sense and the ...
Two young men leisurely walk down the street in their Ferguson, Missouri community. The police ride up and moments later one of the young men, college-bound 18-year-old ...
