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Monthly Archives: September, 2017

Charlottesville: Uniting in the fight for our common humanity

In the wake of the hatred and violence exhibited by a group of fascists who reared their ugly heads in Charlottesville, people of all colors and nationalities stepped forward across the country ...

“My health care shouldn’t be a market!”

“Without health care coverage I’m dead or bankrupt!” said one person in the audience. ”Health insurance as a for-profit business is immoral”, shouted out another, to applause ...

Bill Bunting on love, peace and the need to “think”

Good Morning Y'all, WOW...what a week. Lots of extremes from both sides of our energy . . . meaning lots of hate and lots of love. But from what ...

Voices from the people after Charlottesville

“The powerful elite of this country has had us at each other's throats forever. That way we can't see them destroying this planet in the rush for ...

Public education under attack: WHY?

A crisis is taking place in our educational system. Public schools are being closed or underfunded while for-profit private and charter schools get ...

Chicago Teacher’s Union President on challenges faced by teachers and students

The major attacks of corporate-style takeovers of the public sphere have emboldened the “bosses” or ruling elites to take as much as they ...

Homeless and tortured

Robert Allan Tigro Jr., lives on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico on the west coast of Florida. While in a Florida jail for a misdemeanor, he witnessed ...

How Skid Row Saved My Life

I was standing on 6th and San Pedro on one leg after the police officers broke my leg then dumped me from jail. They call that police dumping. So I cried ...

Government finances private condos, homeless live in warehouses

“Few Of Many” is a statement stenciled on one of the newly built condos in Oakland CA. What does it mean? Is it alluding to the fact that many buildings ...

We need a clean environment and jobs, says WV candidate

Lissa Lucas is running for the West Virginia House of Delegates from Ritchie County. This is the first time she’s run for office. There is natural gas ...

Nebraskans fight construction of Keystone XL Pipeline

“There was a big rally of pipeline fighters and water protectors on the steps of the state capital on August 6, and a march with lots of speakers and ...

Water is Life: Strengthening the Great Lakes commons

Water is Life. There can be no contesting this fact. Yet all over the world greedy corporations and individuals are determined to remove water ...

Implement the Water Affordability Plan! Keep water public!

Below is an abbreviated version of the Water Affordability Plan. 1. The DWSD (Detroit Water and Sewerage Dept.) agrees to implement ...

More people are speaking out, says W.V. Senate candidate

“I don’t think Charleston understands exactly what we’re going through in the coalfields, but I’ve seen so many new faces in the progressive ...

Energy companies should do more for the workers, says WV candidate

Last year, Richard Ojeda was brutally beaten and hospitalized. He believes it was politically motivated. The retired U.S. Army veteran had been filing ...

Standing Rock water protectors honored at Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe 150th Pow Wow

For thousands of years, the ancestors of the "Dakotas" lived generation after generation in Minnesota. The Dakota Sioux were the first to ...

There is no democracy in Texas

Manuel, please tell us about the dangers of this new bill (SB 4). Manuel Torres: The bill is against sanctuary cities. It is part of an executive order ...

Death in the fields

On Sunday, August 6, Honesto Silva Ibarra, an H2A guest worker, passed away—the result of horrible working conditions on his job picking blueberries ...

Healthcare: Microbes don’t care about borders or politics

People are looking at the healthcare debate and debacle in completely the wrong fashion. The issue isn’t only money or insurance or entitlement ...

Healthcare: the next battle for guaranteeing healthcare access for all

The leadership of both parties in Congress appear to be headed for some kind short-term, bipartisan deal on healthcare access. They should be fighting ...

What’s in the Single Payer, Medicare for All Act?

Here are some highlights from the Medicare for All bill (H.R. 676) introduced on January 24, 2017 in the House of Representatives by John Conyers ...

You and the People’s Tribune: We need each other

In the decades before the Civil War, the movement to abolish slavery printed thousands of newspapers, pamphlets, leaflets and books. The ...

Music, poetry and art of all kinds can bring us a change of heart

I got my first guitar when I was 7 and I haven't stopped making music since. It is the most important part of life to me and I'm so grateful that I'm able ...

Too Old Young Men

We’re a couple of too old young men
Who keep going back, again and again
Calling each other on the phone
Time’s passed, neither leave it alone

Charlottesville: We must organize the people

While I feel very good that there has been a quick response by some to denounce the intimidating, harassing, threatening, violent behavior of the ...

Labor Day 2017: Let’s unite to create a society in which we can thrive

Labor Day 2017 finds the workers worldwide facing a very uncertain future. Forty percent of the American workforce are now part-time, contingent ...

The people must control the water

Our demands are: No one should be denied water! No one should have to drink poisoned water! No one should be allowed to profit from water! ...

New West Virginia non-profit to launch Mother Jones Community Centers

Mari-Lynn Evans, award-winning documentary director and producer of The Appalachians, Coal Country and Blood on the Mountain, and Maria ...

The Mystic Trumpeter (excerpt)

Rouse up my slow belief, give me some vision of the future, Give me for once its prophecy and joy. — Walt Whitman

People’s Candidates Challenge Corporate Parties

People’s Candidates Challenge Corporate Parties The ruling class will attempt to do what they have always done: derail or push the movement off course from its final destination. But, the will of the people is to have an economy and government that are both finally of, for and by the people, and we will not be deterred.