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Monthly Archives: November, 2018

2018 Election: A wave of resistance

  Six years ago, Lucy McBath was a Delta flight attendant in Marietta, Georgia. On November 23, 2012, she learned that her 17-year-old son had...

Climate crisis demands revolutionary change

  A dire warning to the world to drastically change the course of our future within 12 years before irreversible climate changes are unleashed was...

Photos from Tree of Life memorial

The photos on this page are from the memorial for those killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 27, 2019. Photos ...

Voter suppression: 92 year old blocked from voting

Denying African Americans the right to vote is one of their old tricks to drive back the resistance. Here’s an example from the recent mid-term election in Georgia. ...

The fight to save the Earth and humanity from corporate destruction

Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice march in San Francisco. in September. 30,000 marchers chanted "Keep it in the ground" and "Oil Money Out. ...

Some of the wins in the midterm elections:

More than 100 women will go to Congress next year! Women understood that someone had to stand up. In part women were driven by the Trump effect, but also because of ...

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 ...

‘It’s time to be true organizers’

The local government needs to stop policies and ordinances that seek to shuffle around, keep out of sight or incriminate the displaced population in the Bay Area. Seniors ...

‘Mommy, what’s a Tuff Shed?’

With over 2,000 human beings living in our streets, the City of Oakland has started installing Tuff Sheds (pre-fab utility sheds) at several of the 200+ tent camps as a ...

Baltimore fight for housing moves forward

The 2015 Baltimore uprising after Freddie Gray’s death on Baltimore’s West Side got people talking about Baltimore’s poor. Under the banner of “Fair Development,” a number ...

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Flint to the world: Water is a human right

Nakiya Wakes, a Flint, Michigan, resident, spoke calmly as she addressed a workshop during the 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental ...

Flint still paying the price

Flint resident Jassmine McBride [seated] contracted Legionnaires’ disease in 2014. It is a severe form of pneumonia caused by bacteria-infected mist, probably linked to the ...

Stop corporate polluters like Veolia

Cathy Talbott of the People’s Tribune interviewed Rev. Michael Atty of United Congregations of Metro-East (UCM), a peace and social justice organization, about ...

Interview: Pipeline battle in Nebraska escalates

Art Tanderup, a Nebraska farmer on the frontlines of the battle to stop construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, to protect the land and Ogallala Aquifer, spoke ...

Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice March in San Francisco

On September 8, in the largest climate march ever on the West Coast, 30,000 marchers chanted “Keep It In the Ground” and “Oil Money Out, People Power In.” In this ...

Kavanaugh: women and the fight for democracy

Placing Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court shows how determined the rulers are to destroy democracy. His many previous rulings were anti-women, anti-labor, ...

Chicago: the Epicenter of the struggle for community control of the police

Upon hearing the guilty verdict read for Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke in the murder of Laquan McDonald, a crowd of nearly a thousand marched through the streets of ...

Activist calls for voting out city council members who helped cover-up

William Calloway, an activist who successfully pressed the city to release the Chicago Police dashcam video of officer Jason Van Dyke executing Laquan McDonald. ...

Millions flee California deadly fires

California. Fires burned a football field a second . . . people trying to escape were burnt alive in their cars . . . Hundreds of people are missing. Hundreds . . . Think about ...

In memory of Alexandra Maria Engel (July 23, 1998 – September 4, 2018)

It is with great sadness that the People’s Tribune learned of the death of our beloved friend and colleague, Alexandra Maria Engel. Alex died of a drug overdose at age ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico faces ruin from colonialism

The Peoples Tribune spoke with Francisco Duprey, who returned recently from Puerto Rico where he has been working in transportation. He gave us a firsthand ...

I Know Her from the Neighborhood

She is your mother and my mother too
I know her from the neighborhood
She phones her son through the jailhouse glass
I know her from the neighborhood
She lies awake til her daughters come home
I know her from the neighborhood

Why are caravans heading to the US?

Members of the caravan of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America are revealing why people are getting up and walking out of their countries, heading for ...

The Fight for $15 Continues

Workers around the country, including this woman in Wisconsin, are standing up for their rights. An estimated 3.8 million people work in fast food restaurants. Even senior ...

Let them drink LaCroix

  At Facebook, we have five different flavors of La Croix sparkling water, including Pamplemousse. We have four different flavors of Crystal Geyser sparkling water....

Celebrants at Rev. Pinkney’s birthday pledge to fight on

A spirited birthday celebration for Rev. Edward Pinkney, on October 27 in Benton Harbor, MI, drew family, friends, and activists from Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, California and even ...

California Burning

Propelled by gale-force winds, the sparks and embers swept rapidly down the hillsides and across the highways a year ago, jumping from ridge to ridge across five counties ...

Flint court case claims at risk

Giving new meaning to snatching Victory from the jaws of defeat, the Michigan Republican legislature is using the lame-duck session to undo the gains made by Michigan ...

Why the violent acts against the people?

On October 24, a white man in Jeffersontown, KY gunned down two black senior citizens at a grocery store just minutes after he tried to enter a black church. Three days ...