Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents and putting them in cages has run into a buzz saw recently. Millions of Americans,...
In May, Professor Philip Alston, special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights for the United Nations, was invited by the U.S. federal government to...
Some of us are unaware of the brutal role the US government has played in forcing families to flee their countries and embark on the perilous journey ...
Below are thoughts from protesters at the “Families Belong Together” rallies in support of immigrant families June 30. Millions of Americans have voiced outrage ...
The upcoming midterm election is a tremendous opportunity. Ordinary people are running for office and using the campaign season to express the demands ...
Political primaries were held in 17 states in June. The results highlighted an increasingly obvious fact: Today, there are two Americas: one is the America of the ...
I want to read you what’s on the back of my water bill. It says if you are pregnant, have an infant, are elderly or have a severely compromised immune ...
Still reeling from the closing of the bottled water distribution sites by the state of Michigan, residents of Flint scramble to find donations of water ...
For three years, Mayor Barrett of Milwaukee has resisted any attempt by the Freshwater for Life Action Coalition (FLAC) to highlight lead in water playing ...
The Michigan Poor People’s Campaign gathered in Detroit with a message for city officials. Sylvia Orduño (center) tells the crowd: “We are here for affordable ...
Do bees know their own troubles?
Can they buzz the blues
for our dying world?
I wish I could tell them
we're sorry,
but too many think
murder is all...
I would like to dispel rumors about the homeless. The main things that have been said about the homeless is that they are one or more of the following ...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing spending $20 million dollars on building emergency shelters in each of the 15 districts in Los Angeles and ...
We are Serve the People and we are here to demand that the proposed Google project be halted immediately, and that the 16 parcels of public land be ...
On June 2 the Poor People’s March on Washington, DC gathered in Kensington, Philadelphia—the poorest district in Philadelphia—to march to Washington, DC ...
Before you want to quit, go talk to the sister I met in Washington state who lived in a homeless camp who came to a mass meeting who said, ‘I am the ...
The American people are outraged at the ruling elites’ insistence that workers must live with increasing austerity in the midst of record corporate profits ...
The Black people in the city of Benton Harbor are in serious trouble. I, Rev Edward Pinkney, want to bring something to your attention. There have been ...
Memorial Day weekend and it was hot in the city hall parking lot. I was here to join the protest of the Senior PGA tournament, which is played on what some ...
Antwon Rose was just 17 when his life ended on June 19 in East Pittsburgh, PA. Officer Michael Rosfeld fatally shot him three times as he ran from a traffic stop ...
As a founding member of the World Poetry Movement in Medellin, Colombia in 2011 and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco in 2009, I was ...
On these pages are struggles unfolding around the country for clean affordable water and a safe environment. Behind all of the attacks taking place today on our very lives ...
