For the first time in history, the human species is now capable of producing a super abundance of all goods and services. Today it is possible to eliminate hunger and poverty and distribute ...
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 Michael Brown ...
Chicago students are going back to the schools that are still open, under a pall of increased cutbacks. Along with an average cut of 2.3% from last year’s budget, schools are struggling with ...
In July I attended the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Convention in Los Angeles as a delegate for the Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU). Our local passed a resolution rejecting the ...
The People’s Tribune’s Sandy Reid interviewed Sylvia Orduño, an organizer with the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO.) The MWRO are among those in the forefront of ...
A California judge decided in June that teacher tenure laws violate the civil rights of students by keeping “bad teachers” in the classroom. Tenure, however, is simply the guarantee ...
My name is John Armelagos. I’m a Registered Nurse for 29 years; an officer of the National Nurses United and Michigan Nurses Association, and a former, but still proud, 10-year member ...
While the Detroit water shutoffs drew international condemnation from the United Nations and shamed the city’s unelected Emergency Manager into allowing a temporary moratorium ...
It was early in the morning of July 14, 2014. I was making coffee and thinking about my day. I heard something outside. I walked to the window and looked outside. Two men were ...
Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown, recent high school graduate, should have begun college August 11. Instead he is now a statistic. Stopped as he walked in the street with a friend on his ...
Silicon Valley now boasts the richest corporations in the world and the largest homeless encampment in the continental United States. A temporary expansion of local hi-tech ...
I was in the State Legislature for fifteen years as a Democrat, but I’ve always been in favor of third parties, because we need to get more voices and more choices out there. In my ...
American education is approaching a critical turning point. Culture is being stripped from our curriculum as fast as computers are replacing instructors. Humanity has entered a ...
America is angry! The humanitarian crisis along our southwest borders and the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas has created polarity amongst the American working class to the ...
In reality, “Healthcare for All” is not a reform of “Healthcare for Some.” It is a strategy to establish a healthcare system to meet the healthcare needs of everyone in this country. “Medicare ...
On July 10, Mary Ann Grady Flores was sentenced to 12 months in jail for photographing a peace protest at the entrance to Hancock Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York. ...
The foreclosure crisis is tailing off leaving us with the aftermath: a landlord’s rental market, speculation and vacancy. Despite a handful of laws passed and a slap on the wrist here and ...
Another giant has fallen. Dr. William H. Watkins, life long proletarian revolutionary intellectual, died the evening of August 5th 2014. Comrade Watkins was, for thirty-five years, a contributor ..
A Berrien County judge ruled that the contested Benton Harbor recall election against the corporate allied Mayor James Hightower will go forward! But we can’t let up. Rev Edward Pinkney, a ...
Gentrification has tremendously changed the city of Benton Harbor. Many in this former industrial town—that at one time had plenty of jobs— are now living in dire poverty. Over the ...
This July, corporate outsourcing came to Jackson College, west of Detroit, MI. It became the sixth Michigan college to bring in EDUStaff to hire “adjunct” (that is, part-time) faculty. ...
