As we approach the 2016 presidential election, America is at a critical moment in history. Advanced technology and globalization continue to wipe out millions of jobs, permanently. Wages for many still working are driven down to ...
“Our water has been poisoned. Why? Who is wanting to do this to us?” asked a young schoolgirl at a Chicago meeting. Officials knew the drinking water in her school was contaminated with lead yet did nothing to ...
Now the city is carrying out a relentless and escalating campaign of sweeps, arrests, destruction of personal property, and persecution to make sure that nothing like ...
What does a community that is being displaced look like? Along Milwaukee Avenue in the heart of Chicago, where 10+ story towers are going up to dwarf Victorians and 100 ...
“Would you provide a free subscription to the People’s Tribune? There’s no TVs, radios, and newspapers here. Recently, two inmates died from suicide. This solitary ...
Job loss and soaring rents are forcing millions in America to live in cars, tents, and even swamps, only to be arrested and driven out again and again. Those of us who are morally ...
In late April I was approached by Tommy Little to help get his property back. He had been cited two weeks earlier for committing the crime of “sleeping on the sidewalk.” His arrest in late April, at his tent ...
Hi, my name is Andrea Guzman. I'm 16-years-old and I live in a community called South Tower Estates. In this community, we have a serious problem. This problem is a ...
For too long, corporate polluters have put the profits before human lives in Michigan. The corporation US Ecology has been seeking permission from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality ...
My heart has been heavy for weeks now as I visualize first-hand the tragedies of this war waged upon the people. But I am not the only one. The people are agitated as ...
While Congress and State officials continue to hold meetings, hearings and investigations, Flint residents still live their lives using bottled water and sink filters while coping with health challenges ...
On the weekend of June 10, Nico, the son of my cousin, Carolina Gaete, was kidnapped by Chicago Police and is being held on $750,000 bond on trumped up and false ...
Community College teachers and students, leaders in the fight for housing, as well as community leaders in the fight for healthcare, recovery, prison rights and the fight against ...
Freddie Gray died of homicide while in the custody of six Baltimore City police officers. Thousands demonstrated demanding justice. The Baltimore City Prosecutor ...
There are places and times that linger, producing an aching humanness that outlives those who populated those spaces. The ghost towns of the cities of the US were once so infused with yearning people from the ...
On July 25 at 3 pm on the south side of City Hall in Philadelphia, the poor and homeless will march in the March for Our Lives 2016 on the opening day of the ...
More than half of Americans have less than $1000 to their name and are vulnerable to being wiped out by the least emergency. Millions stand on the edge of the abyss, or ...
The poisonous policies impacting Flint, Michigan allows for deeper conversation regarding ongoing partnerships between government and corporations. These ill policies ...
In Uniontown, having the audacity to fight for your fundamental human rights—by saying the exact sentence above—can get you sued for $30 million in federal court ...
Stigma 101: the mark of disgrace that sets a person apart. To comprehend what this looks like to an observer, picture a middle-aged woman shabbily clad who laughs ...
LITTLE ROCK, AK — Throughout its existence, Shorter College as an institution, has experienced similar crisis to the ones experienced by the segment of...
To the American government: I wonder if your morals and spiritual progress is commensurate with scientific process. It appears to me that your morality lags behind ...
When hanging out at home recently, my daughter noticed a little girl (5-6?) crying at Sorter School (well, what USED TO BE!) and went out to see what was up. The girl had cut her ...
This special feature section, "In Defense of Flint," is a partnership between The People’s Tribune of Chicago and Caravel in response to the contamination of the city of Flint's water supply. Many of the poems here were published in April 2016 as a special insert to The People's Tribune for National Poetry Month.
