Nic Smith, a union organizer and self-described “white trash hillbilly,” makes $2.35 per hour plus tips at a waffle house. Below are excerpts from an interview with ...
Many homeless people have come forward with allegations of discrimination, favoritism and now, with the implementation of the so-called badge system, it’s more ...
Trump says he’s for us workers. Really? Trump’s cabinet nominees so far are worth $13 billion, greater than the world’s 70 smallest countries. The truth is ...
The homeless in the Chicago neighborhood of Uptown are up against the harsh, natural elements: a rigged housing and job market, a society and political ...
These are the WRISTBANDS that St Vincent De Paul in the City of St. Petersburg is forcing people to wear in order to get services, ala Star Of David that happened ...
“What is going on here is that the police are putting us in jail for sleeping. We’re trying to be downtown so we can be closer to work and other things. The police ...
“One in three homeless people in Los Angeles County are women. The total of more than 14,000 women is a 55% increase from 2013. The number of women camped ...
Today we again lost gear. Two truckloads. Including brand new gear we were storing. Day 2 of the new Arreguin administration is not looking good for the poorest ...
Four more indictments have been issued regarding the Flint water crisis. This brings a total of 13 people charged to date. But for the first time, Emergency Managers ...
“Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into ...
“I have one message, we have to stand as one, we have to unify, we have to continue to love each other and trust each other in a one-step movement with each other ...
The last world war will be fought over water. Never mind the oil that they’re trying to ship out and sell. They’ll be choking when they try to eat their money. You can’t ...
In early December, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, more than 2,000 U.S. military veterans converged in Standing Rock to form a human shield around Dakota ...
I have almost 30 years underground. I worked for Massey Energy, the same company where the explosion killed 29 miners. They took my job because I stood up to ...
We hear so much these days about energy sources and our future. Many speak out against oil and coal as being outdated and dangerous as well as toxic to our ...
“A long strip of deep and fertile soil pinched by sharply rising mountains, the valley has more than doubled its output of produce in recent decades and now grows ...
Trump’s selection of a cabinet nominees are made up almost entirely of corporate people and military generals. All are committed to stealing all that remains public ...
The 2016 Presidential election has angered many American voters about the electoral college. The illusion that the public elects the president via popular voting for ...
Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education is billionaire Betsy DeVos. DeVos has always held that public education should be destroyed and that ...
Millions are protesting in defense of our immigrant brothers and sisters and their children who are living in fear of what will happen once Trump takes office. Trump ...
On December 2, a raging fire destroyed the artist live/work space known as “The Ghost Ship” in East Oakland, claiming the precious lives of 36 people. Many have ...
I often think about this image when riding the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). It's not nightmarish, but a kind of comfortable place, having inspired ...
What happens to a student deferred?
does she give up
like there’s nothing left?
or does she keep going –
cuz its fun?
does she try her hardest to pass?
Our readers support the People’s Tribune because it speaks the truth. It is a paper truly of, by and for the people. This is so because the People’s Tribune prints the voices of ...
I was given a potential death penalty—30 months inside the prison system. This with absolutely no evidence, no confession, no witnesses, no crime scene ...
Elena Herrada, former Detroit school board member, stripped of power by Michigan’s Emergency Manager law, speaks about the destruction of democracy: "Reverend ...
I'm from the boondocks
An iron city full of rum and drugs
South Central slums no fun is where I'm spawning from
The 90's unwind me to the time these Devils tried to blind me
my opponent is myself and only i can define me
I experienced the streets
These stories show the struggle for clean, safe, running water across the country. Water is a basic human right. The struggle for water is posed against a corporate government and ...
There is plenty of housing. We can easily house everybody.No one should be abandoned to the streets to die. This criminal system has to go and in its place a ...
