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Monthly Archives: September, 2016

Elections 2016: Raise the demands of the people

If it wasn’t clear before, the 2016 elections have proven to tens of millions of Americans that the current “two-party” system offers our people nothing. Both parties represent corporate America, and no matter whether Clinton or ...

Wide scale poverty makes class unity possible

  Hardly a day goes by before some new video goes viral vividly showing police brutalizing and gunning down working class Americans. As the bodies...

Florida is not all sunshine—especially for the homeless

In Florida, all is not sunshine and tourism. Florida is the third largest state in the country, with a population of more than 20 million people. It is ...

Communities come together to protest vicious eviction law

An extraordinary protest gathering was held recently in North Beach, San Francisco’s Washington Square Park, against the vicious Ellis Act, a law that created a scourge of evictions all over California ...

EVICTION!

I'M BEING EVICTED. I'M INNOCENT. Evicted for whatever reason, the obvious one is greed. Seniors at age 70(me 81), some older,

Resisting homelessness in the richest place on Earth

Alma Rosas, Affordable Housing Network: We need to end landlord discrimination against people in the Section 8 housing program. The landlords ...

Homelessness and Revolution

The homeless are those on the leading edge of this great economic tsunami that is threatening to drown us all. There on the streets and in the illegal ...

Detroit tax foreclosure crisis hits historic neighborhood

Historic Russell Woods-Sullivan area of Detroit is a historic district credited with being a premier African American neighborhood. Residents who lived in the neighborhood, in consideration of our ...

Bus trip to Court of Appeals hearing on Michigan’s dictator law

The Federal Court of Appeals hearing in Cincinnati is a significant fight by the victims of Michigan’s Emergency Management (dictator) law. The challenge to the law’s ...

Battle for clean water and democracy in Flint

WHEREAS, an estimated 500,000 children in the U.S. have elevated blood lead levels . . . African-American and Hispanic children are overrepresented in the at-risk ...

Desperate for Change: Interview with front-line fighter to end poverty

Poverty is devastating Philadelphia. It is the poorest large city in the U.S., and number one in death by drug overdoses. Poverty is growing everywhere I travel ...

Voices from the people about the elections

“There’s something many Democrats just don’t get about Bernie supporters. It’s actually pretty simple: many of us are drowning. We can’t find steady work. We can’t ...

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 ...

Invitation to rally and celebrate water solidarity!

In response to the water crises of Detroit, Highland Park and Flint, Michigan, we invite all people of good will to a community festival benefiting the relief ...

“Mothers Against Senseless Killing” promote a new vision

Chicago is not only a tale of two cities—the Magnificent Mile vs. poverty stricken neighborhoods—it’s also the tale of two visions. One vision is to secure our city with military-style ...

#FreedomSquare: Occupying a torture site In the name of a new system

“Join The #LetUsBreathe Collective at Freedom Square—a community block party and occupation to imagine a world without police . . . Show up ...

Justice Department investigation condemns Baltimore Police

The Baltimore Police Department has shown the City who is boss. After “a homocide” was committed on Freddie Grey while in the custody of six ...

Workers in the berry fields rebel

On the edge of a San Joaquin Valley blueberry field, hundreds of workers lined up in the pre-dawn darkness in May, ready to vote in a union election ...

United against Police Killings

“Today at the protest I met the mother of Dylan Noble [whose teenage son was killed by Fresno police].teenage son was killed by Fresno police]. She is a loving ...

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the welfare rights movement

“I want to speak of the reach of the National Welfare Rights movement, not only in this country but internationally. I’m from a little village in a little island that was a ...

Culture is the bloodline of the movement

Since 2012, a cultural-political movement of creativity and connection has swept through Latin America. Cultura Viva Communitaria or Live Community Culture ...

Stolen 30 months by a corrupt Berrien County court system

Some of my personal suffering over the last few years have served to shape my thinking. I always hesitate to mention these experiences for fear of ...

“If we want change, we must speak out!”

The community of Benton Harbor has been under economic oppression for a long time. But, since the Emergency Manager law swept through Michigan ...

We have budget cuts

We have budget cuts
Schools getting shut down
teachers getting cut
Not enough books go
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