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Monthly Archives: July, 2015

Housing is a cure for homelessness

In a movie to be released this September, “99 Homes,” real estate shark Rick Carver relays this message to an evicted suburban homeowner: “America ...

Nationalize healthcare for all

You have to be rich to get good healthcare in America. One in three Americans say they have trouble paying medical bills. Even the relatively ...

“Im not ready to give up! A victory for homeless rights

What we have here is an occupation, a fight for the commons, a fight for homeless rights. We have a literature table, we have a free box, we have ...

Illinois poverty increases and the children pay the price

One thing we know for certain here in Southern Illinois is that times are hard! Good paying jobs have all but disappeared. Part-time minimum wage and ...

Water struggles: Assault on poor galvanizes response

As State Chairperson of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, I am reminded that in the State Capitol in Lansing stands a bronze statue of ...

International Social Movements Gathering on Water and Affordable Housing, Detroit, MI

“In 2012 the city stopped sending out water bills. Now residents are getting water bills for thousands of dollars. The bills are attached to your property ...

The manufactured Chicago public schools pension “crisis”

The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) pension “crisis” is a manufactured one. Even Senate President John Cullerton has said as much in public. ...

The Chicago pension struggle and beyond

Illinois, and particularly Chicago, are notorious for their brazen addiction to wealth, corruption and waste. Meanwhile, there are now over 20,000 homeless students in Chicago Public Schools ...

The political significance of the Charleston killings

Across the country, churchgoers, community groups and everyday people are voicing heartfelt grief, shock and outrage over the massacre of ...

The shootings in Charleston: The American Sin

The fear of being a person of color in America was brought once again to the forefront of everyday living, exploding onto the pages of reality ...

We stand on their shoulders to invent a future

There are a number of institutions in the Washington D.C. area that help us grasp, as a people, where we have been and where we’re going. ...

Attack on immigration programs are an attack on all workers

The recent court decisions to halt two immigration programs are an attack on all workers. A few days before the Expanded DACA (Deferred Action for ...

In this era of antagonism the attacks on us are relentless

Wages can consist of your paycheck, your profit sharing check and the cost of medical insurance for you and the family. They can also consist of the medical ...

Homeless artist: for Mad Matt

The man living on the street has immeasurable talent. How will we ever know what he could have created ...

Reparations: window into a new society

Chicago is known as the torture capital of the U.S. Rebuked by the United Nations Commission on Torture, the subject of a Guardian series on the ...

Police state: Americans are under siege

As American citizens we have proudly worn a subliminal badge of honor elevating our "freedom" to that of a black American Express Card which we can ...

“Build a society where the people, not corporations, make the decisions”

The vicious, cowardly attack on democracy in Benton Harbor, Michigan, shows that the corporate power structure is determined to crush anyone ...

“We are all here together” says Benton Harbor activist

In 2012, Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams from Cleveland, Ohio, were driving in their older model car, in need of repair, when it backfired. ...

Rev. Pinkney jailed for being a spokesperson for the poor

Rev. Edward Pinkney, convicted without evidence of changing dates on petitions in a recall election of corporate-backed Mayor James Hightower, is filing a motion to be ...

The fight to protect the planet

The tragic proof of climate change was seen during historic rains and flooding in Houston, Texas in May. The rising water of Brays Bayou surged to nearly road level ...