"I don’t care if the DNC (Democratic National Committee) backs me or not. This is a people-funded campaign," says Paula Swearengin who's running against...
While asleep in his tent a man living under a freeway in West Oakland was hit and dragged by the city’s heavy-equipment bulldozer (like the bulldozer pictured above). The city said it was “removing garbage” ...
Lindsay Gerhardt founded Humans For Hope in December of 2016. This organization sets up carts or tables full of donations to give away to homeless people living on the streets ...
Pitch-A-Tent is an direct action by the houseless advocate organization R2S (Right 2 Survive). R2S became aware of an ordinance passed by the city officials that allows people ...
A massive “Renter Power” movement is arising in California and elsewhere in response to skyrocketing rents for millions of Americans. It has won some spectacular gains, like the ...
CA —San Jose, CA has approved historic just-cause eviction and anti-displacement protections for renters after a two-year campaign to improve a decades-long unenforced rental ...
In the Chicago neighborhood of Uptown, under the viaducts of Lake Shore Drive, there are encampments, "Tent City" or "Uptown Tent City", they are called. The homeless ...
The 2nd International Gathering of Social Movements on Water has now passed into history. The Gathering was a great accomplishment and a tremendous success. ...
On this page are excerpts from some of the powerful voices at the 2nd International Gathering of Social Movements on water, June 9-11, 2017 in Detroit, MI. In the August, 2017 ...
Atlantic City (AC) saw its economy stumble with the general decline in the nation’s economy in recent decades, and with the fall-off in the city’s casino gambling industry since 2006 ...
“It is a joy to be here today. We are free! The laws were being changed because of the dirty work of Detroit. They could have taken the money spent on this case and paid people’s ...
On the same day Michigan Attorney General Schuette announced involuntary manslaughter charges against five officials for their alleged role in the Flint water crisis, 9-year-old Flint ...
This could be your brother, your sister, your mother. . . I have relayed various tragic details of this life of mine over the years. . . All I have written before tells a story that has resolved. A ...
In 2014, corporate money bought Bruce Rauner the office of governor in the very troubled state of Illinois. Rauner’s pro-business, anti-union agenda and his refusal to raise revenues ...
Sandy Reid for the People’s Tribune interviewed Lissa Lucas, a West Virginia native, who is among those Americans taking matters into their own hands by running for ...
In 1921, some 10,000 miners fought a nine-day war on that mountain, battling thousands of company thugs, the state police, and—ultimately—the U.S. Army. Scores died. Over 1 million ...
On May 7, the Texas legislature and Governor Greg Abbott signed into law SB-4 which criminalizes law enforcement who do not comply with requests to hold detained immigrants for ...
Two recent cases in the Los Angeles area show that the government’s attack on “undocumented criminals” is a threat to the rights of immigrants, and even citizens. Unless a broad ...
The American dream never had a “for sale” sign.
We dreamed of candles instead of pyres
Carillon instead of cannons
Bells ringing in every church and temple.
A thousand people showed up on May 19 in Sacramento to spend the day rallying and lobbying state legislators on behalf of SB 562, the Healthy California Act, which would establish ...
As human beings, we have always struggled to change the conditions under which we live. The result has always been the development of new more efficient means of production ...
Disabled people and supporters gathered June 22 inside the U.S. Capitol to protest proposed cuts to Medicaid in the Senate healthcare bill. “My child is going to die and my family ...
I am Reverend Edward Pinkney, a national and community activist, who tragically, became a political prisoner in the state of Michigan on December 15, 2014. I was sent to prison ...
It’s morning. June 10, 2017. I just learned that among the previous day’s gun violence is the shooting death of Xavier Joy 23, a college graduate who returned to Chicago to work with ...
Excerpts of remarks by Valerie Castile on June 16 after St. Paul (MN) area police officer Jerónimo Yánez was freed in the killing of her son Philando Castile on July 6, 2016 are below. In grief ...
The stories below are from the nationwide battle for clean and affordable water. These fights, all of which are butting up against corporate power, did not begin with Trump—but are escalating rapidly ...
The fire that killed at least 79 of the poor housed in the Grenfell Tower Block in the UK was nothing short of murder by the owners of the luxury apartments that are near the Grenfell Tower ...
A mighty movement to end homelessness is arising in this country and all over the world. An important part of this movement is alive in the tent communities and other actions that defy the rulers’ ...
“From the Ashes,” a new documentary on the coal industry directed by Michael Bonfiglio, distributed by National Geographic and funded by former New York City Mayor and one-time presidential ...
Georgia Blue Cross and Blue Shield recently announced it would no longer cover ‘non-emergency’ visits to emergency rooms in the State. Anthem’s BC/BS will determine when ...
The Illinois General Assembly just adopted a budget that cuts funding for most public services by 5 percent below 2015 levels, cuts funding for higher education by 10 percent ...
Anger Boils Over at Denial of Healthcare
Healthcare is a life or death matter. We have a right to it. The healthcare crisis gives us an opportunity to fight forward. The entire healthcare system should be publicly owned and healthcare should be free and available to everyone. We can take the first step in that direction by enacting a national single-payer public insurance system: improve Medicare and expand it to cover everyone.
"The American Political Prisoner You've Never Heard About." Watch comedian Lee Camp's coverage of Rev. Edward Pinkney, political prisoner jailed for leading the fight...
