On the morning of November 4, 2016, at about 5 a.m. I was awakened by Berkeley police officers violently shaking my tent. Barely awake, I tried to get them to wait a minute. ...
I am a citizen of a country that does not yet exist. In Denver, the Samaritan House, a shelter program of Catholic Charities, threw pregnant women out into the freezing rain ...
We have a dying system that’s throwing millions of us to the curb and will not care for us unless we demand it. Just look at the number of our fellow human beings left to ...
Another means of attacking the homeless in Chicago, and now the Uptown viaduct encampments, is by conducting frequent encampment "cleanings". If done at a ...
On January 21, millions of women, grandmothers, mothers, daughters, families with men pushing babies in strollers, and young people, turned out to protest in cities ...
As the Flint water crisis surpasses 1,000 days since the disaster began, a busload of Flint women decided to take the issue to the Million Women March. This was ...
On election night I felt a great sadness for America. While we face a dire situation, this is not new. We faced it during Reconstruction, amid the wreckage of the Civil War ...
I am very happy about the protest of thousands at our state capital. Donald Trump brought a lot of unity here. On election night I felt anger not only because of Donald ...
Not only is fracking unsafe and secret, it is often done by major water supplies. When the chemically induced water is retrieved – and only about 30% is actually brought back – it ...
In a single day, Trump green-lit the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines, which threatens the land and water for millions of people while making ...
“We spend more per person on healthcare than the next 10 biggest spending nations. You’d think we’d have better healthcare outcomes. We don’t. The Affordable Care Act ...
“The coming attacks on Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act (Obamcare) plans, veterans’ healthcare and even employer-based plans must be opposed. While some mainstream ...
As we celebrate African American History Month, 2017, millions of Americans continue to “baptize” President Trump with sustained, massive protests against his ...
One hundred people huddled together in the severe cold, gaining little comfort from the tiny candles cradled in their hands. The Hermosa neighborhood held a vigil for ...
Merced County advocates are gearing up to face a Trump administration. On December 15, 2016, about 35 members came to a presentation at the Merced Multi-Cultural Arts ...
The Whirlpool Corporation has committed genocide in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people, especially of ...
There has been a lot of strategic planning to dismantle the economy and school system here in the city of Benton Harbor. A lot of individuals have bought in to this, not knowing ...
They try to fit us into the mold of the perfect student.
They try to create the leaders we already have in the new
generation. But don’t they see they aren’t working with the
generations now? We’re not the same.
The mass marches all over the US expressed an overwhelming sentiment that the American people will not allow themselves to be divided by hate, and will ...
This woman spoke at a rally at Leimert Park in Los Angeles at Steve Mnuchin’s Brentwood mansion. She describes how OneWest Bank fraudulently foreclosed on her home ...
According to a recent study, 8 of the world’s richest individuals now own as much wealth as half of the rest of the human race. This polarization of society into ...
On March 8, International Women’s Day, when people all over the globe rally for women’s rights, organizers of the historic January, 2017 women marches ...
