Oxfam reported recently that 80 ultra-wealthy individuals collectively hold the same amount of wealth as the world’s 3.6 billion poorest people. At the same...
The war on the poor is in full swing in Detroit. Before the auto show, Mayor Duggan expressed his determination to eject a dozen citizens from a tent city down the street from ...
Giving new meaning to “Justice Delayed, Justice Denied,” Flint's Emergency Manager recently announced the formation of a water 'advisory committee' to bring “solutions” ...
It is with profound sadness that I report the passing of Ms. Nicole Cannon, one of the chief plaintiffs in the Federal case in front of Judge Rhodes, to institute a temporary ...
On July 08, 2012 ALL hopes, dreams, and expectations for Love, Success, and Children were stolen from Adaisha right along with her Life. Aspirations for her future were solidified ...
The police killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York cast a spotlight on a systemic problem of police violence, a situation well known by the citizens of ...
National guardsmen, State Police, Border Patrol, FBI and local law enforcement special taskforces are patrolling a 100-mile strip of land terrorizing the populace! Is this Ferguson, ...
A Park Forest, Illinois police officer has been acquitted in the death of a 95-year-old WWII veteran. Officer Craig Taylor was acquitted of reckless conduct, the one charge he ...
When did you become homeless? Tina Chappell: In 2011. After the kids’ father died in a car crash I went town to town looking for work. I had to go into the shelter system (you can ...
“I am being drove out of the county,” Marie Leal told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat as she struggled with being turned out of her apartment by a landlord who wants to ...
The defense of the commons is entering its eighth month. Our commons are under attack. On June 1, 2014, we started occupying Staples in San Francisco. The purpose was to ...
International, educated, articulate and proud, yet she is also living in a mission in Skid Row—downtown Los Angeles. This proud euro-Black queen defined herself as ...
Mark your calendars! The Third US Social Forum (USSF) will be taking place from June 24 to 28, 2015. This year, organizations and activists will convene in Philadelphia, ...
It is clear to we who struggle to live and work in San Jose that the high tech industry we helped build no longer has any use for us. Although we once assembled mother ...
Nestled cozily just outside of the city of North Little Rock, is the unincorporated community of McAlmont. Primarily, the area is populated by socially and economically deprived ...
Don’t ask me why I took it there
Because I didn’t
This capitalist system put me
In this predicament
At the bottom of the pyramid
A second to last class citizen
It is our constitutional duty as American citizens to hold our elected officials accountable for their work, action and inaction of wrongdoing, which includes judges. ...
"I was subpoenaed by the Prosecutor, but I flipped the script on them and I defended Rev. Pinkney. In early February, I took part in a march organized by Andrews University ...
