In December, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival held a press conference and other events in Washington, D.C., to help launch a campaign of direct ...
The thing I hated most during winter was going inside. I knew I would have to go back outside, into the weather. Rain and cold, combined with wind is miserable ...
Successive mayors in Los Angeles have refused to provide basic human rights for the residents of Skid Row. From Tom Bradley to Antonio Villaraigosa to the ...
Eighty plus people gathered in Chicago’s cold for the 5th annual Las Posadas event sponsored by Logan Square Ecumenical Association. Mark Saulys spoke for the ...
Willy (not his real name) was evicted from his apartment, robbed twice after sleeping on the streets of Boston homeless, and missed enough dosages of his HIV ...
I want to take a moment to talk about the police, to at least challenge some conventions. I have been detained by the police eight times in the last two years ...
“It’s an outrage for our government to allow a foreign corporation the right to come in and take farmers and ranchers and Natives land to make more money ...
Disappointment. Hurt. Anger. All emotions felt by my small community in Minden, West Virginia when we met with the EPA on October 27-28. A community of ...
Residents of Flint continue to suffer the effects of having ingested toxic water, laced with lead and harmful bacteria, for nearly four years. The Michigan Department of ...
On these pages are stories from the many water and environmental struggles taking place across our country, all of which are butting up against the reign of corporate ...
Months after Hurricane María hit Puerto Rico, tens of thousands of people on the island have no electricity or water—many use river or stream water. Meanwhile ...
I wondered how I would begin this article. And I can only begin by saying that We the People are under attack by our very own government and by the energy companies ...
Parent and teacher complaints about rats forced Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to “deep clean” Mollison Elementary School. Health inspectors failed the school ...
The fires in Northern California’s wine country were terrible, but the aftermath may get pretty ugly, too, as vulture capitalists wheel above the devastation. ...
Oakland has the hottest real estate market in the country and one of the worst housing crises. In July, fire destroyed the Alta Waverly construction site where ...
The Tax and Budget proposals do exactly what Congress has intended for years: devastate Medicaid, dismantle the ACA, ominously cut Medicare and erode, if not totally ...
On November 7, Maine became the first state to expand Medicaid by a ballot referendum was successful. The next day, Governor Paul LePage, announced that he ...
Same thing happened to my Mom and Dad recently. When my Dad was taken off of Medicaid and put on Medicare they looked at my parents’ income—they are ...
With President Donald Trump rescinding DACA, a new chapter in the movement of the Dreamers has begun. DACA allows young people brought to the U.S. without ...
What is your opinion of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention centers? ICE’s agenda is to keep immigrants from doing their daily activities, whether ...
Were you surprised by the number of KKK members, neo-Nazis, and white nationalists who were in Charlottesville, Virginia? In this nation, and in many others ...
We’ve seen gigantic leaps and bounds in the past 60 years. From making massive strides in equality across the globe, to industrialization and increased productivity ...
One of the brutal facts of today’s world is that many people, particularly children, are going to bed hungry many days of the month even if families have SNAP, WIC ...
The case of Rev. Edward Pinkney went before the Michigan Supreme Court on November 7, 2017. While supporters came from various parts of the country ...
For the past 15 years, I’ve been working with disenfranchised communities that lacked the resources to bring the arts into their school environment. When I come in ...
