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Monthly Archives: April, 2016

Dictator law poisoned Flint: Harbinger for America?

  A battle is unfolding in America. The workers are fighting for life itself— for food, water, shelter, healthcare, and education against a corporate class...

Flint in forefront of battle for health care for everyone

  America’s inability to provide good health care for all is most clearly visible when we have a health catastrophe such as exists today in...

Cooperative spirit key to ending homelessness

Despite massive rollout efforts, Covered California (ACA and Medicaid Expansion), have not yet proved the long-term healthcare solution for the ...

God lives in a tent

These days, you don’t have to look far to find tents. Tent cities have popped up across the country—the homes of the displaced and the homeless. ...

Homeless assert their right to life

Tent cities are popping up everywhere. Uncaring city governments tear them down as they go up. Homelessness illustrates the decay of an economic system ...

“There’s a remedy for homelessness”

Throughout history, there have been those that have plenty, and those that have nothing. When those with nothing have suffered enough, they ...

Sweeps in San Francisco aim to force homeless out

Okay let's just be honest about what is going on in this city . . . This city does not care about homeless people—all the men, women, and children ...

Democracy is a righteous threat to corporate rule

Named the “Homrich 9“ for blocking trucks owned by Homrich demolition company from shutting off thousands of poor people‘s water, our actions ...

The destruction of Detroit Schools and Emergency Management

Dozens of Detroit teachers staged a “sick-out” protest in January 2016, to draw attention to the deplorable condition of the school buildings that ...

The face of opposition to Emergency Management: Rev. Pinkney

Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI was among the first to speak out against the state’s dictator law which allowed for Whirlpool to take over the town’s prime ...

Jail the corporate shill, Gov. Rick Snyder!

Thousands in Michigan have organized protests and signed petitions calling for the jailing of Gov. Rick Snyder. At the behest of Flint’s Emergency Manager (EM) appointed by ...

“Here’s to Flint,” a new documentary about the poisoning of a city

‘It is a real honor to be in the room with all of you. I have one thing to say: it’s the power of documentation. Document injustices in your community ...

No jobs, only lead poisoning for Flint and Baltimore workers

How would you like to look into the face of your five-year-old daughter and know she is mentally retarded for life because you gave her a bath? ...

Visions of the new world we can have

“The revolution starts in the heart, spreads to the mind, and is highly contagious. Once you get it, it never goes away. The only cure is social change ...

i call god people

i call god people,
nature, earth,
justice, peace,
revolution,

Hundreds of Californians rally against oil trains

Hundreds of people from around California went to San Luis Obispo on February 4 to urge the county Planning Commission to reject Phillips 66 ...

2010 BP Oil spill

Concerned citizens of Springfield, Massachusetts, are trying to help our people who have been affected by the British Petroleum (B.P.) oil spill in ...

Letter to the editor

Thanks to Tobin Sterritt for the article in the January, 2016 issue of the People’s Tribune, “Former teacher on hunger strike after losing job and home.” An automobile accident ...

Chicago education: From economic battles to political confrontation

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has called for a “Day of Action” April 1, involving other unions statewide and some 35 community organizations ...

Academics are disposable members of working class

On March 2, the Board of Trustees at John A. Logan Community College in Carterville, Illinois, voted to lay off 55 employees in an effort to resolve ...

“It’s Almost Like We Don’t Matter”

“Why do they treat us this way?” asked one student. Oakland’s Laney College, called “The Flagship” of the Peralta Community College District, is a ...

The elections and a vision of a new America

As the election season unfolds, economists are projecting that an even deeper downturn in the economy is underway. Already half of all Americans ...

Rev. Pinkney is face of opposition to Michigan fascism

I now know, I now believe I know, how the twenty Blacks from the Dutch ship Jesus at Jamestown, Virginia, August of 1619, felt to be brought and sold, and then become ...

Requiem for Flint

Wade in the Water Wade in the Water, children Wade in the Water God’s gonna trouble the water