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Monthly Archives: August, 2016

The American people want an end to homelessness

Recently, the homeless Beale family with its four young children occupied the Mayor’s office at Oakland City Hall, demanding the government do something to help ...

Public Education: The fight for our future

We are living in times of immense change, where the world we thought we knew is transforming into something else completely. Technological advances have moved humanity ...

Defend the Homeless

The body of a homeless man in San Diego, CA, was set on fire—after he was murdered. This was one of a series of attacks on the city’s homeless that left two ...

Open Letter to Mayor Schaaf from a homeless Oakland family

Like thousands of other families in Oakland, CA, we are sick and tired of being homeless. Everywhere we go, it’s barriers. Everyone has a different story of how ...

Homelessness: Baltimore tragedies and the way out

Thousands of people are homeless in Baltimore, Maryland. Thousands are suffering from drug, sexual and physical abuses. Thousands are suffering ...

Homeless family works to create a cooperative society

"My name is Indigo Kelly; my wife is Pacha; my daughters are Nadia Theresa and Samantha Keona. About two years ago my family became homeless. Our blood family ...

Homeless protest for the right to sleep and survive

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I can only come up with one. And that word is torture. When a life sustaining activity like sleep is not permitted, ...

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very poor
written small
on a scrap
of poor cardboard

The need to sharpen our analysis

The state killed Malcolm X when his OAAU group began building beyond the black community… Martin was killed after he started talking anti-capitalism ...

Stop the killings: The people want a world of peace, justice and equality

The killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille by the police and the killings of eight police officers are having a major impact on American politics. On the one hand ...

Voices in the struggle for a just society

“The police just shot my boyfriend for no apparent reason. … They shot him. He shot him three times because we had a busted tail light. He asked them for his ...

50th Anniversary celebration of the Welfare Rights Movement 1966-2016

On June 24-25, in Detroit, the Welfare Rights movement celebrated its 50th anniversary in the fight to eliminate poverty. Activists shared stories of the ...

Flint water disaster is still alive and dangerous

A FEDERAL EMERGENCY for Flint, Michigan was declared on January 16, 2016. That declaration expires on August 14, 2016. The federal emergency did NOT solve ...

Judge sentences Flint activist — Likens her actions to Dallas killings

Gertrude Marshall was arrested in October, 2015, while protesting the water situation at the Flint Farmers Market. When one of the “security guards” snatched ...

Punish the Murderers

Without water there is no life. Last night a thirteen year old Told how she started her day, preparing for school, She pours bottled water into a pot ...

Amazon exemplifies replacement of humans with robots

By pushing people out of production and distribution, robotic high-tech is creating a new, proletarian class of jobless human beings. This stark reality—strongly felt ...

We will not be moved

“Good morning, Beloved Detroit. We are ending one chapter and beginning a new one today. Stay with us. These are our schools ...

Revolutionary poets: now is our time!

If you flip through the pages of a People’s Tribune newspaper, you will find the people’s poems—true gems of revolutionary imagination and artistic reporting from ...

Poem by Cantrell, 9th grader

I went to Gregory 10 years of my life That was 5 years of teachers not getting their rights Teachers that showed me a different level or altitude ...

Shorter College: Another underground railroad, Part II

Shorter College was founded in 1886 to offer a glimmer of light and a path out of despair to descendants of former slaves. Leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal ...

Fighting the corporate dictatorship in Benton Harbor, MI

Terrance “T-Shirt” Shurn is murdered by police in 2003 in Benton Harbor, MI. Then police violently break up a peaceful vigil, creating an uprising. The Army is brought in ...

Private corporations are profiting while making people homeless

According to the latest analysis done yearly by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, there are an estimated 125,848 homeless people living in the city of Chicago ...

Illinois Budget Impasse: We Need Federally Funded Education

Budget uncertainties continue to engulf Chicago Public Schools (CPS), as school opening approaches this fall. After a full year squabbling about funding, the Illinois ...

Rev. Pinkney case: Michigan Appellate Court Ruling Upholds Corporate Rule

July 26, 2016 marked the 588th day that Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been in jail for allegedly changing dates on an election recall petition ...

Sacred Waters: Standing with Standing Rock Sioux

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota got word of the Dakota Access Pipeline and its revised route in early April. Originally, the pipeline was to snake through ...