This year, the political primary season has become a summer of discontent. In June, the stunning victory of a 28-year-old working-class woman over a New York City political hack caught the attention of the entire country ...
The national debate around K-12 education is boiling to the surface again, with teachers striking and threatening to strike again this fall, and other...
Our country is in crisis. Scenes of children crying at the border have shocked every decent person. Millions are wondering how to end the toxic regime that produced this outrage ...
Since the article below was first written, huge protests have erupted across the country against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Women and ...
If Californians vote in November to pass Proposition 10, known as the Affordable Housing Act, it would repeal the notorious anti-rent control Costa Hawkins Act ...
I coordinate the homeless and housing desk on the People’s Tribune editorial board. I hope you will donate, subscribe and keep abreast of the fight to end poverty ...
On this page are voices of candidates and activists about some of the vital issues raised in the mid-term elections. Regardless of party affiliation, each brings ...
Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician, and activist for Medicare For All says disputes those who say universal healthcare is too costly: “Everyone is in the system ...
In a CNN interview three years before her death, Aretha Franklin corrected anchor Don Lemon when he suggested she was on the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement. She ...
Teachers, parents and students are joining together to fight for a publicly owned education system. Will it be education that serves the people or the corporations ...
“Everything "public" has been blurred with "private" for some time. Just as public television and radio is largely funded by corporate sponsors and corporate matching ...
Do you want your daughters and sons or other young adults to succeed in college? Do you want them to be shackled with debt when they are done getting their ...
The push for privatizing K-12 public schools in America through converting them to charter schools took a big leap after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005 ...
Why would a community embrace the hiring of an Emergency Manager in expectation of them being their savior? (Emergency managers are governor appointed ...
On these pages are our ongoing stories of the fight for a healthy earth from corporate destruction. Stories are from water protectors against pipelines and against ...
L'eau Est La Vie Camp is home base for a network of pipeline resisters who organize, protest and monitor construction along the Bayou Bridge Pipeline route ...
I’m a cynic when it comes to court cases. Too often, I’ve seen our courts demonstrate that they are not so much about “justice” as they are about state repression ...
The impacts of climate change are taking devastating tolls, and as the Southern Oregon wildfires claim more land amidst record-breaking heat waves, once again this ...
This is embrassing. However, I want to share a little of my story of our water crisis. Many residents of Flint were affected by the switch to the Flint River. Some have ...
Youth today are taking up the urgent call humanity and the planet. Their efforts to build a climate change movement are crucial steps toward the ultimate solution ...
“This is a Homrich truck. Homrich is the private contractor who has already scored millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money for the purpose of shutting off’ ...
The immigrant workers are a part of the U.S. working class. The moral outrage at the separation of families, the unjust deportations, the torture of children, is growing ...
When I received a certified letter on December 20, 2017, I did not imagine the change in the country, the overwhelming support for our immigrant communities in 2018
Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden is a movement of grandmothers and their allies spurred to action by the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the southern border ...
Friends and family gathered in May at the corner of Irving Park and Western where Michelle Robey had been gunned down by the Chicago Police. Michelle’s sister ...
Chicago activist and poet Malcolm London joined the community protest of the police killing of Harith “Snoop” Augustus, a popular barber, on July 14 on the South Side ...
The police in the United States kill an average of 2.8 adult men a day, according to a recent study by a Cornell University researcher, Frank Edwards, who said the ...
The truth is America is a fraud. We have the most corrupt system, run by the establishment, in the world. The court system is rigged, judges are bribed, and there is ...
On July 16, 2018, Faya Rose was driving by Tabernacle Baptist Church with our 11-year-old granddaughter, and there was a sign right in front of the Church on a public ...
Tell everyone you know to ‘get a sub’ to the People’s Tribune—a paper where the movement has a voice! People’s Tribune contributors share their stories in the ...
Texas representative Beto O'Rourke brilliantly explained why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful. When asked if he agreed with athletes taking ...
