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Monthly Archives: March, 2018

Our youth demand: Stop the killing

The recent killing of Florida high school students has shocked the country’s conscience and galvanized young people especially. Students are planning a national march and school walkouts. America’s youth are ...

Keep Water Public

Water. There is no life without it. Despite covering about 70% of the Earth's surface, only 3% of it is fresh and suitable for drinking. Over one billion people lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce for at least ...

POLITICS UNUSUAL: Women disrupt the 2018 election cycle

When Donald Trump won the election in 2016, Teresa Shook of Hawaii (retired and a first-time activist) shared a Facebook post with a few friends ...

Evicted in Googleville

CalTrans recently evicted residents of San Jose’s largest homeless encampment since the “Jungle” in a massive sweep on the morning of February ...

Homeless show how true community works

In Richmond VA, homeless people sit up all night on torturous wooden seats in a dank basement courtroom, or freeze outside; this is what passes for 'shelter' ...

Thoughts from our readers on the People’s Tribune’s homeless coverage

“I am a senior citizen working multiple jobs and I have two disabilities. Recently approved for Section 811 housing, I am now told there are no apartments and ...

Now let’s go

Now let's go
But we can't go
Backwards

‘All we have is an idea’

Today, at 5 am, the police raided our city hall location. They did it with less than 24 hours notice. They displaced over 40 people. Those displaced were seniors ...

manifesto

he writes his manifesto on a scrap of cardboard: 'share the love'

‘We just reach out and help’

The best things about what we have now is that these are not people who are choosing to be here cuz they need a place to stay, they’re tenting up here ...

Mayor says no to water testing in town where people are sick

There’s hundreds of people here who say they’re always sick and can’t find out why. A lot of people have kidney failure, cancers, other illnesses that may ...

Women’s History Month

Within these pages of the People’s Tribune are strong articles by woman, in honor of Women’s History Month. While women are increasingly represented in the elite ...

Lupe, a Skid Row activist, speaks about women’s lives

I came from Wilmington to Skid Row, to the 38th and Broadway Shelter in Los Angeles. Because the shelter kicks you out during the day, they brought me ...

Dear Welfare Queens

I live in a little apartment on the second floor of a house with my son who is 15 and has two disabilities. I make deliveries during the day for Postmates when ...

Candidate dragged out of WV House Chambers for exposing Delegates’ campaign donors

“As I tried to give my remarks on HB4268 in defense of our constitutional property rights, I got dragged out of the West Virginia House chambers ...

‘You are our voice’

“When Senator Cantwell’s office called me and invited me to join the State of the Union address in Washington, DC, I felt it was my opportunity to ...

“It’s time to go outside, to organize . . .”

I live my Life promoting social justice through healing. Every week, for almost three years, I have offered auriculotherapy clinics for communities in Puerto ...

Reading scores plummet since Flint water crisis began

Giving his last State of the State address in Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder gave deafening silence to yet another consequence of the Flint Water Crisis ...

“Get The Lead Out Rally” at Milwaukee City Hall

Youth Rising Up, a student union and activist group at North Division High School in Milwaukee, works with local organizations on issues plaguing the city ...

Will Minnesota stop Enbridge pipeline from invading Native American lands?

Minnesota stands in a position to protect one fifth of the nation’s water supply by refusing to let Enbridge Inc. finalize construction on a “replacement” for its ...

“They’re raising the cost of water 49%” says Kentucky resident

I didn’t go to the water department meeting about the rate hike because no one was allowed to ask questions. It was at 8 a.m. in the morning. I’m not going ...

“Nobody should have to beg for clean water, clean air and prosperity,” says West Virginian

West Virginia native and coal miner’s daughter, Paula Jean Swearengin, has pledged a fight for the rights of all people in West Virginia. Working class ...

A Dreamer breaks her silence

Everyone has a shadow—even when it is dark, it’s still there. But what happens when instead of letting your shadow follow you, you become your own shadow ...

Immigrants point to a society where everyone’s dreams can be realized

The burning issues in the immigrant rights movement are: “Trump’s wall,” chain immigration (where relatives of immigrants can join their families in the U.S.),...

Medicaid work rule shifts money to fat cats, pits us against each other

The Trump administration on Jan. 11 announced it will allow states to apply for federal waivers allowing them to impose work requirements on ...

WV teachers strike to defend themselves and the children

Teachers and school service personnel throughout West Virginia walked off the job Feb. 22. The strike entered its third day as this is being written ...

Cicada Season: Revolution coming up from underground

“Cicada Season,” our debut EP, is meant to announce our presence as a band onto the scene after three years of steadily growing underground. And because ...

We have to learn to work together

“There are 400 families in America who make an average of $97,000 per hour and the people [are fighting just to] make $15 and the majority of us ...

Campaign against poverty kicks off national tour

Leaders of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival marched with hundreds of striking fast-food workers here Feb. 12 on the ...

Be strong, stay woke

    I’m full of promise but I need help! Confused! Misguided! Mentally disturbed child with nothing to go back home to except drugs, danger and...

Speakers for a New America. Book speakers now!

Speakers for a New America promotes leaders in the forefront of the fight for a new society. Speakers’ topics include the fight for clean affordable water ...

The life and death fight for publicly owned clean, affordable water

The water crisis — the poisoning, the shutoffs, the pipeline threats, the destruction of our streams and water ways, the increasing price of water, the effort ...

Chicago pushes poor out through destruction of public education

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is destroying the city of Chicago. He is making it impossible for black, brown, low-income, and working-class people to ...

Bootleg of The Dayton Family – City of Lead

This video is about the water crisis in #Flint Michigan and the problems that stem from it. Please share to spread the word. We...