The damage, injuries, deaths and government abandonment of people after the recent hurricanes that slammed Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and elsewhere are just the first blow from the storms. The next blow will come ...
You can see the passion in the signs the Dreamers hold at demonstrations, with such slogans as “Undocumented and Unafraid” and “Keep Families Together.”...
For years, Puerto Rico has been hammered by capitalism’s ongoing economic hurricane, and now Hurricane Maria has devastated the island. Some 3.5 million people...
Public outcry against efforts to stop people from feeding the hungry has inspired the creation of the myth about the dangers of “street feeding,” claiming meals shared on” ...
One thousand four hundred sixty days of homelessness, every day crawling into a tiny tent, my only entertainment being the woman next to me singing "Oh Lord, Why Me? ...
As a tsunami of dispossession breaks across society, the powers that be are moving to further criminalize what homeless people must do to survive: sitting, sleeping ,...
As we went to press, the homeless residents of the Wilson and Lawrence avenue viaducts were being moved, and, in some cases, having their tents and other ...
When we talk about homelessness in Los Angeles on Skid Row, we’re talking about 60 % of the individuals being of African American descent. For the last several years there has been an increase of women ...
As we go to press, the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico is intensifying. Large parts of the island have no water or power. The US government is doing very little and very ...
For those trapped here, San Francisco's Treasure Island, an artificial landform built in San Francisco Bay, is an inescapable toxic prison. Mothers and children are stricken with tumors and cancers from the Navy dumping ...
Poisonous water. Water shut offs. Billions of people drinking water contaminated by plastic particles. Why is this shameless criminal disregard for the health of the people allowed? ...
“My name is Bessie Morrison, and I live in Debord, Kentucky, and I’m here because my son asked me to. Since the 1970’s, I’ve been getting a little card every year, that the ...
Family and friends: This is real!! Low-income people in the United States of America who cannot afford basic residential water and sewage costs are denied it, even in the midst ...
A new study done by assistant professors David Slutsky at Kansas University and Daniel Grossman at Virginia University released a shocking report. Study and data from 2008 ...
The General Baker Institute held its 4th annual General Baker, Jr., Tribute at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American history in Detroit on September 6. The Institute ...
I am a veteran, a person of faith, a pastor in the Christian Church Disciples of Christ, transgender, and a recipient of single payer with people in my life who live with disabilities ...
On Sept. 25, disabled people once again led the fight for everyone’s health care when they disrupted a US Senate Finance Committee hearing on the worst bill yet, the ....
We the people. Here is your chance. Tell us your solutions to our problems keeping us from loving our brother and uniting against those who wish to keep us slaves ...
In each weather catastrophe, tens of thousands of people, some risking their own lives, reach out to help one another in the face of government inaction. A Hurricane Harvey ...
Last July, police cheered President Trump after he told them "please don't be too nice," when detaining people.
As if in response, police in St. Louis took Trump's call to a ...
Let me see if I have this right. Grandma becomes homeless because she lives on a fixed income and the bills get to be too much. She reaches out for help, and the agencies that are supposed to help cannot. She tries to ...
Today started out well enough on outreach in Oakland. Then we got a call of a sweep at 29th and MLK. As I walked up I saw a garbage truck tossing peoples meager possessions away ...
The battle lines are being drawn in Oakland, California. Corporate interests, working closely with city government, are reshaping Oakland from a diverse working-class city into one of the most expensive housing ...
Rise above the beastly nature
Be the human that you are
The struggle of endless competition
Ends in ultimate ruin
Resources depleted
Fertile ground left sterile
Here we share comments from homeless readers who are struggling every day just to stay alive. They discuss why the People’s Tribune it is so important to this fight ...
It has been a bad month for the people. We need a revolution now! We need a new society! Here is a rundown of the month: Another killer cop walks free in Saint Louis ...
The tension is depressin
Others hold the same aggression
Ain’t no telling but accepted as a life lesson
They say the root of all evil is dinero
Poverty terror
