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Monthly Archives: May, 2017

Water Wars: Trump’s EPA will create more Flints

  America is heading for a showdown between the corporations and the American people. Corporate owner Warren Buffett gave notice in 2006 when he said,...

Unity forged in the fight for human needs and rights

Society is going through epochal changes. We live in a time of revolutionary transition from an economy based on securing a living through working for wages to one based on robotics, which makes human labor unnecessary ...

Proposed EPA cuts: corporations are making the rules

President Trump’s proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency would nearly eliminate all regional cleanup programs, including those for the Great ...

Stop Gifting Nestlé, Governor Snyder!

This just in: The Oscebla Township Planning Commission just denied the water permit for Nestlés. Evidently, the (growing) push back from activists all over the state ...

East Chicago fights for environmental justice

East Chicago, a small town in northwest Indiana, devastated by extremely high levels of lead contamination, protested the visit by Environmental Protection Agency ...

March for Science

Across the nation and world, thousands of scientists and their supporters convened on Earth Day to defend science against proposed government cuts. “Basic scientific ...

The movement for clean water grows

On these pages are stories from the nationwide battle for clean water. From Flint to Standing Rock to West Virginia to the pipeline fights that are erupting in rural ...

Nebraskans fight to stop pipeline and protect the water

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 …

Water is our Mother – without it there is no life

Without water, there is no life. So, we do the things we do— these crazy water protectors—for the plants, for the animals, for the future generations. ’Cause we understand ...

Blood on the Mountain

Blood on the Mountain is a searing investigation into the economic and environmental injustices resulting from coal company control in West Virginia. The documentary ...

International gathering of social movements on water

Attend the 2nd International Gathering of Social Movements on Water; plus the 2nd Legal and Legislative Summit on Water Discuss Water Rights: Reports, Analysis, Documentation,...

“We are first to take the “Survival Ban” to court,” say Denver’s homeless

On April 4, Jerry Burdon, Terese Howard and Randy Russell pled not guilty to charges of violating Denver’s Unauthorized Camping Ordinance, also known as the “survival ...

The homeless point to a new concept of community

The People's Tribune features reports by the homeless and others joining their fight to hold the government responsible for housing its people. We report on the ...

When I meet a homeless person, I think: ‘That could be me’

Today I met a man named Josh standing out in the cold weather, standing on ice and snow, holding a sign that says, “Waiting...

Families living in storage units

Fiesta Flea Market is classified as a commercial vending establishment for sellers. The site includes almost 100 storage units which are used as living quarters as well as for sellers in a Texas community ...

Bureaucratic nightmare for seniors

In Franz Kafka’s novel, The Castle, a land surveyor, as ordered, leaves his home, travels a great distance, and arrives at his ruler’s village to discover his services ...

What does “community” mean?

To some people, "the community" means "the people who live here" and to others it means "the people who pay to live here." To me, a community is not a group of people ...

Stopping eviction of 92 year old vet

On April 6, renters protested the cruel and senseless eviction of 92-year old Paul Mayer from his apartment of 44 years. A tsunami of evictions is sweeping San Jose ...

Coal miner speaks about the fight to save miner’s healthcare

By Chuck Nelson, interviewed by Sandy Reid  People’s Tribune: Chuck, what is going on with the miner’s benefits? Chuck Nelson: Back in 1946, Truman said if...

Alysha Brilla’s new album envisions a future founded on love

In an interview with the People’s Tribune’s Danny Alexander, Brilla explains her vision, a brilliant counterpoint to that of our corporately-run government and media. ...

2017: The significance of May Day

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 ...

Facing a jobs ‘apocalypse’

Bruce Taylor is one of the biggest growers in California. Never a great friend of the workers whose labor has made his fortune, he told the AgTech Innovation Forum in ...

Hope lies in those who survive suffering

I have never been more optimistic about the future of our planet than I am today. My hope is not rooted in the moral monstrosity that is mainstream America but in the people ...

Humans have a higher moral value than a dollar

Everyone is aching for the kind of America we want and against what Trump and the class he represents need. Trump is not alone, he represents a class that is organized ...

Fresno church declares itself a sanctuary

Rev. Sharon Avril of Carter Episcopal Church recently announced that her church is now a sanctuary for all immigrants. Carter Memorial has been in existence ...

Women on Hunger Strike at Immigration Prison

Eighty women caged at the Northwest Detention Center are on a hunger strike over conditions. “We came here fleeing from our countries so we could be heard and to ask ...

If your wages cannot pay your rent then you live on the street!

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, “Whatever definition one uses, authorities and laypersons alike commonly assume that the effects of poverty are harmful to ...

Bees

Lead in Flint water
Poison in Syrian air
Cancer in the dirt,
Cancer on the airwaves,
Tumors in the White House.

“Benton Harbor city income tax must pass,” says Rev. Pinkney

We are in life or death struggle in the city of Benton Harbor. Our living conditions (and the planet) are being assaulted by the capitalist system from all directions ...

Surveillance self-defense

I'm a tech worker living in Chicago. In the past few years I've been on a mission to teach activists, journalists, and lawyers how to protect themselves against electronic ...

“Help save my child from a corrupt system,” says father

Georgia's Department of Family and Child Services (DFCS) web site states: “Child Protective Services staff investigates reports of child abuse or neglect and ...

Solidarity and protest: California and Mexico

More than 700 people turned out on March 28 to protest the appearance in Sacramento of Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

“Voices of Benton Harbor”

  “The People’s Tribune is right on time! I thank you for your healthcare articles. I live this. They took my Medicaid. I’ve been fighting...