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Monthly Archives: February, 2018

No blank check for billionaires

  When Trump proposed a budget last year that would cut programs for the poor, a woman in Mississippi described to a reporter how she...

Housing for all or death in the killing cold

As vicious winter storms blasted across the Eastern and Central US, with murderous temperatures comparable to those on Mars, unsheltered people froze to death in the ...

Healthcare for all: Build the Movement

Want to get rid of poor people? It’s simple. Deny them health care so they’ll just get sick and die. Want all American families, including the poor, to be healthy ...

New Year Supermoon

So full
so close
to the Earth
Bigger brighter
lightening the darkness
now slowly waning

Fight or Freeze

Cold snap doesn’t even come close to describing the weather this holiday season as 90% of the nation suffered weeks of freezing weather. Chicago was no exception. Sub-zero ...

Homeless reader responds to ‘The Real Plight of the Homeless told by the Homeless’

It's back to the Dirt for Don. Things change fast when compassion fades and contempt sets in. We hope, at least I hope, that my presence is ...

Poverty in US is “stunning and cruel” Says U.N. Rapporteur on Adequate Housing

In clear view of some of the most expensive property in the world, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani ...

Coalfield county organizes for clean water

Martin County, Kentucky residents can’t count on getting water daily from their taps. And when the water does flow, people ...

Mountaintop removal: Destroying communities and the environment

Junior Walk, who used to work in the coal industry and now works with Coal River Mountain Watch in Naoma, West Virginia ...

We Win! Atlantic City’s water stays public; Victory for grassroots organizing against water privatization

After months of organizing, state officials released a letter that announced: “The State of New Jersey will not sell or lease the ...

The life or death fight for water and Earth

The immoral corporate drive to own and/or control the public’s water, and the poisoning, shutoffs and rising cost of water, is drawing communities across the country into ...

Flint Rappers Call Out Water Crisis

Ira James Dorsey aka "Bootleg" of the legendary Dayton Family, a hip hop rap group from Flint, has created a scathing video ...

Immigrant rights leader targeted for deportation

Maru Mora-Villalpando, called a “modern-day freedom fighter,” leads the Seattle organization, Northwest Detention ...

Stand by our leaders

The repressive apparatus of the government, which includes ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,) is quietly singling ...

Women’s marches: A fight for real change

Lauded as one of the largest marches in U.S. history, the January 20, 2018 Women’s Marches saw a million women, men, and ...

Farmworker women stand with Hollywood actors against sexual assault

We write on behalf of the approximately 700,000 women who work in the agricultural fields and packing sheds across the United ...

Billionaires vs the right of unions: What’s at stake in the Janus vs. AFSCME case?

“What is Disgusting? Union Busting!” That is the slogan I heard so many years ago during the 2004 strike in the City Colleges ...

All I Wanted For Christmas Was Peace on Earth

It is February now, long past Christmas. I did not get what I wanted for Christmas. None of us did. All I wanted for Christmas ...

Toward the Chicago Poor People’s Conference 2018

Basing ourselves in the long history for justice and on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, we announce our ...

SPEAKERS FOR A NEW AMERICA. BOOK SPEAKERS NOW!

“Her visit was truly amazing, our community was truly inspired by her,” said a professor about a Flint water warrior who ...

This is how we win National Improved Medicare for all

Health advocates often support incremental reforms rather than calling for a change as large as National Improved Medicare ...

Iowa Chamber of Commerce decisions could render seniors homeless

Shamrock Heights is a HUD housing project in Centerville, Iowa for seniors and people with disabilities. For almost two years ...

Whirlpool: a poverty pimp

A cold snap during the beginning of the year took a toll on the homeless and the poverty-stricken in the city of Benton Harbor ...

Black History Month 2018

When I was a kid we had Black History week. We discussed heroes in African American history and in the American Civil War. At that time, Black history wasn’t seen as central ...

The uncanny hatred towards the homeless endangers the homeless community

Recently a Facebook post referred to a homeless lady who was minding her own business as a “piece of shit homeless parasite.” ...

Homeless James Thomas

Ah, look at all the homeless people! Ah, look at all the homeless people! Homeless James Thomas picks up a tarp and the mat where his home tent had been Lives on dirt air.

Cicada Season: Revolution Coming Up From Underground

“Cicada Season” is meant to announce our presence as a band onto the scene after three years of steadily growing ...