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Monthly Archives: October, 2018

Elections 2018: Our lives and the planet are in the balance!

  “We’re suffering. We’re dying. Our kids aren’t being properly educated. Our water is poisoned. Our air is sickening. You deserve better.” This cry from the...

Socialism: Not just a good idea, but a necessity

According to an old story from the mid-20th century, Henry Ford II and UAW President Walter Reuther toured a newly built automated Ford motors plant in Cleveland, Ohio together. As they gazed upon the labor replacing machines ...

Where do we go from here?

Sitting in this beautiful meadow in the foothills of the West Virginia Appalachian Mountains always brings me peace. Watching the brown butterflies mingle with ...

Yes on Prop 10: California’s fight for rent control

Throughout California people are struggling to stay in their homes. Developers, landlords and powerful Wall Street speculators have free reign over our affordable ...

State law to improve L.A. for businesses hurts the homeless

In the 1960’s the federal government began passing laws to help struggling urban areas across the country. The Property and Business Improvement District Law passed ...

“I am and will be Other”

“I am and will be Other, until I write you into my heart and make you see my home as what it is. Just another extension of your own home. For there is no them; there is only us.”

Oakland, CA: Standing against the housing crisis and homelessness

It was high noon on September 11, 2018, a day on which people remembered the sudden violence of airliner attacks on the U.S. It was also a day when Mr. Nino Parker ...

How to House the Homeless Tomorrow!

In Oakland by last count, 150 people were housed in Tuff Sheds with no running water, while 1,000 new homeless people set up camp on the streets. This is ...

On Community

Community . . . a unity, harmony of sights and sounds that resounds and echoes as it flows all our pain and woes, it knows one another as Sister, and Brother... it speaks as ...

FLINT: 1600 days and counting without clean water

After bullying the city into a long-term 30-year contract with the Great Lakes Water Authority, Federal and especially State authorities resorted to its old Playbook ...

Major victory in Bayou pipeline fight, but water activists aren’t stopping

Since the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests, dozens of bills and executive orders have been introduced in at least 31 states to clamp down on protests. Water protectors ...

‘I’ve seen first hand what is happening to people living around coal mining’

I hope you know the health impacts from living in an area surrounded by mountaintop removal operations, and how coal mining has destroyed our water, air, and our ...

Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court: A giant step toward open, outright fascism

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 ...

Tree is planted in the name of the People’s Tribune

The People’s Tribune has received a gift of a tree, to be planted in the paper’s name in one of the National Forests in desperate need of replanting because of the unprecedented ...

Donate and subscribe to the People’s Tribune — a voice of and for the movement

The People’s Tribune is a voice of and for the growing movement for a new America. The stories in the pages of the People’s Tribune connect everyone’s ...

Grannies put spotlight on government terror against migrants

I am an occupational therapist who has worked with students in Massachusetts for more than two decades, including many immigrants and children of immigrants ...

‘Don’t distort Mollie’s death to advance racist views’ says father

“To the Hispanic community, my family stands with you and offers its heartfelt apology. That you've been beset by the circumstances of Mollie's death is wrong. We treasure ...

Will we have fascism or democracy?

The assault on immigrants gets worse by the day. In recent months we have seen government rule changes that allow more immigrants to be detained and denied their ...

Aretha Franklin: ‘Think. . . let your mind go, let yourself be free’

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 ...

The Murder of Dylan Hartsfeld

When Bob Frank and John Murry released their critically acclaimed album, World Without End, in 2006, Frank told me “These are murder ballads based on true stories ...

Congress – Hands off our Social Security

Social Security was passed in 1935 to provide a form of economic security to address the need to support workers after the end of their work lives with resources provided ...

America’s enslaved prisoners go on strike

On August 21, 2018, inmates in prisons and immigration facilities across America and Canada went on hunger strikes, sit-ins, boycotts and work stoppages to protest ...

Prison activists speak about Black August

This is an interview following an event in Los Angeles, CA during the month of August, which is referred to as Black August, that commemorates the loss of many prison ...

Letter to the Editor: Medicare cuts

“Yes. HR 676 Medicare for All is THE solution! It is the only plan that will cover every person in the USA for 100% of the cost of every medical need for life. It will put an end ...

Nebraska is changing

  CHADRON, NE — The Chicago revolutionary poet/songwriter Adam Gottlieb stopped in at the northwest Nebraska Panhandle town of Chadron as part of his western...

Union workers strike Chicago hotels over healthcare

Union contracts covering some 6,000 workers at 30 Chicago hotels expired Aug. 31, and the unionized workers at at least 26 of those hotels had been on strike for four days ...

The ‘Tears of Hate’ Arcane

My tears last night
seeing my brothers
and sisters in GI Jews
were not only theirs
shed 73 years ago
outside liberated nazi
concentration camps,

Benton Harbor, MI, has higher lead levels than Flint

Benton Harbor, the city of no return, is among 71 water districts in the state that have higher lead levels in the drinking water than Flint, says the Michigan Department ...

Hunger in America

According to the USDA, U.S. meat producers now have 2.5 billion pounds of surplus meat while U.S. dairy producers have 1.39 billion pounds of surplus cheese and they’re ...

Let me tell you what forced separation feels like

The images of immigrant children in cages are incredibly painful to digest. Still, many people seem to forget that the U.S. has a long track record of forcibly separating ...

Fighting for Earth, fighting for humanity

In a passionate showing of will to save humanity and save the Earth from corporate destruction, on September 8 in San Francisco, 30,000 people joined hundreds of ...

Thanks to photographers and cartoonists

The People’s Tribune thanks the many photo journalists and cartoonists who share their work. Without these contributions, the paper could not promote the face of ...

Testament

Now they’re caging our babies and quoting the Bible The same scriptures that slave-owners used to claim justifiable Chaining and shipping human beings by the millions In...

Murder Inc: Journalist’s death shows profits ‘trump’ human life

When corporations and governments make their “transactions” — in this case the selling of weapons to dictators—of more importance than human life and rights ...

Tarana Burke on What “Me Too Is Really About”

Me Too founder Tarana Burke reacts to Harvey Weinstein's indictment and discusses what some people misunderstand about the movement.