One of Trump’s first acts as president was to green-light the Dakota Access Pipeline, threatening the drinking water of millions of people. For months,...
If you are elderly, chronically ill, disabled, retired or just plain poor this question —what and who is government for—should now be on your mind. President ...
The destruction of our public school system in favor of privatized corporate run schools began long before Trump, under both Republican and Democratic ...
Homelessness and food insecurity now affects every level of public education, from pre-school to K-12 through higher education. At the University of ..
On Feb. 10, as part of a sweep through 12 states, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained dozens of people in the Austin region and more than 680 ...
The legislative defeat of the American Health Care Act unleashes the path to a real solution for guaranteed healthcare for all. Defense of Medicaid remains ...
If you’re dangerously ill, good healthcare may be the only thing between you and dying. Yet in America healthcare has become a profit-making $3.2 trillion-a-year ...
On January 27, the “new” president signed an executive order called “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” The order barred ...
In Berkeley, CA, a plan to put homeless people into a camp that resembles a refugee or prison camp, with fence and guard shack, has outraged the homeless and ...
I first ended up homeless when I had to move out of an elderly man's house who allowed me to live there in exchange for ten hours of work a week. I was a ...
Take a walk along the river's trail, move the tents to no avail
Little do they realize, each is a house for a pair of eyes
Will they ever realize?
Or continue spreading more lies
Fear of losing the “roof over our heads” is at an all time high in Chicago. Rampant gentrification is destroying once stable communities. Small homeowners ...
Housing is not a reality. How many years do you have to wait? So, until then, you are a target. No stability at all. Keep your gear close. They are coming for you. No ...
April, 2017 marks the third year commemoration of the poisoning of the water and the people of Flint. As a tribute to their monumental struggle, which has put the ...
Paula Swearengin, a coal miner’s daughter, and uncompromising leader in the fight for clean water and air in Appalachia, spoke with Senator Bernie Sanders ...
Recently, John Kass, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, posted an article entitled "A plan for Trump's feds in Chicago" in which he laid out a master plan to solve ...
In a 2010 interview with Larry King, the famous scientist Stephen Hawking said, “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.” ...
I read Bryan Stevenson’s book, “Just Mercy,” and the story seems very similar to mine. I would like to quote you from his book. “My main years of struggling against ...
Life is hard enough. Growth and death and love and loss. Responsibility to those around you, those who came before you, those still to come. That's life, and It's ...
The first "Resist Trump Tuesdays" protest was held in St. Joseph, MI in front of Whirlpool heir Congressman Fred Upton's office in January. Dr. Eric Lester, Chair of ...
Our number one focus is the water. I live in northeast Nebraska. Once that pipeline enters Nebraska it gets into the sandhills. The sandhills have a fragile environment ...
May Day signifies a very important moment for the working class. It’s a time to examine our experience and put forward a program and vision of what needs to be done ...
