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Monthly Archives: October, 2016

Elections 2016: The people demand a humane society

America, indeed the entire world, is in crisis. Since World War II, developments in technology have revolutionized how we produce the necessities of life. Electronic production is rapidly eliminating human labor in all sectors ...

Standing Rock: the people vs corporate destruction

When the Standing Rock Sioux of North Dakota discovered that a pipeline carrying fracked oil was to be built through their land, poisoning the land and its people, there near the headwaters of the Missouri River, destroying sacred sites ...

Chicago: Homeless point the way forward

All eyes are on the presidential debates, but putting an end to poverty and homelessness is not being addressed. In late September, an entire homeless ...

The Cause of Our Stress

Test after test It’s not really the best It causes too much stress When can we rest? But that is what CPS wants, right?

Homeless youth survive and organize

Joker and Jester (Keenan and Eddie) and their friend Chris were confronted by a Walmart employee while they were quietly spanging (spare-changing) ...

Homeless mayoral candidate envisions a new society

Look at me. Elect me. For endless months the circus of electoral politics has assailed even the most hardened of senses. On one hand you have the clown ...

Tent encampments rising all over the country

As automated technology throws millions of people out of work, then into homelessness and the streets, we see the rise of tent encampments ...

Homeless battle corporate attacks

  Battle Creek, Michigan is facing a grim future. The town Kellogg and Post Cereal built, and the home town of Michigan Gov. Snyder, plans...

2 Years 2 Long Coalition Demands: Congress Act Now to Bring Relief to Flint Water Crisis

After nearly three years, the residents of Flint say enough is enough! Why did the U.S. Senate recently pass a Flint Fund (bi-partisan) BILL? only to now ...

School Board Race: Keeping public schools public for Detroit’s children

There are 62 people in Detroit’s school board race. New legislation allows only seven board members. It allows this body only one thing: To privatize ...

“The status quo doesn’t work”

The Peoples Tribune interviewed Eddie Cisneros, President of Students for Bernie at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. Eddie was an elected Sanders delegate ...

Candidate pledges to wrest control of government from corporations

In September, hundreds of people gathered in downtown Baltimore to support Green Party Candidate for Mayor, Joshua Harris. Years of one-party rule by the Democratic Party has left ...

Interview: Chairman Dave Archambault II of the Standing Rock Sioux

It seems that the corporations and the government work together. How are you dealing with that? We’re just exposing that. The reason why there’s a merger is the way federal ...

State of Texas must provide for the poor

The State of Texas stopped assisting the poor with their light bill on August 31, 2016. Over 700,000 Texans who relied on assistance were affected, like Francisca who ...

Coal miner’s daughter speaks about the fight for clean water

Sandy Reid of the People’s Tribune interviewed Paula Swearengin, born and raised in Appalachia, about the poisoned water, sickness and drug addiction among West ...

The poisoning of a community in East Chicago, Indiana

The West Calumet housing community was once home to a lead refinery center. This community was built between the late 1960s and early 1970s, and mostly houses ...

Stop the killings! Anger at police murders grows

Hardly a week goes by that there isn't some new video going viral on the Internet clearly showing police officers brutalizing and gunning down Americans ...

We Want Freedom

A packed house gathered at the Uri-Eichen gallery on September 9 with veterans of the 1960’s Rainbow Coalition (not associated with Rainbow Push) between the Black ...

Fight for Fair, Democratic Elections!

Electoral politics is one path the 99% can use to achieve economic and social justice. However, the 1% created forces and rules that make it difficult for the 99% to ...

A bubble of revolution is on the brink of bursting

Science is the “intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world ...

The separation of families is immoral

In this photo a young boy weeps as he leaves the US Mexican border wall where he visited his grandmother who is dying of cancer. This inhumane wall that ...

“Mr. Colin Kaepernick, you are my hero,” says Rev. Pinkney

Mr. Colin Kaepernick, you are my hero. I will take a knee with you. Mr. Kaepernick, by not standing during the singing of the national anthem you have exposed ...

Voices from Benton Harbor

“I know we all live, only to die, but no mother should ever lose a son the way I lost my son, Martell Walker-Hadley. He died in police custody, at the Berrien ...

Free Rev. Edward Pinkney!

The People’s Tribune met Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI, just after the 2003 rebellion. The police murdered a young man in a high-speed car ...

Happy Birthday, General B

Happy Birthday, General B, You can never be far from me Times are tough, just like you said Corporations positioned to see us all dead.

Elections: Raise the demands of the people

The struggle in Michigan, where public assets such as water and public schools, are being taken over by corporations via a governor appointed dictatorship ...

We need a vision of a new society to move forward

The question before us is: what kind of new society will replace this dying system? Will it be a police state that suppresses our struggle for survival and protects the property and wealth of the corporate class? Or will it be a cooperative society ...

The struggle to protect Appalachians from poisonous water and air pollution

“We are losing about 4,000 people a year from the impact of mountain top removal coal mining. My daughter, who is only 22, has lost four friends to cancer. Her best friend died ...