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Monthly Archives: February, 2019

Shutdown: Government makes war on workers

  The truth of this shutdown is that it’s actually not about a wall. … The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of...

Homeless demand housing, not death on the streets!

  A homeless encampment in Seattle is raided and razed with nothing offered to the people who lived there. The Village, an Oakland, CA, tent...

People speak out about the shutdown

"I don’t know how I will pay the $250 a month for my son’s medication [for ADHD]. My husband and I have put ourselves on a macaroni and cheese and grilled cheese ...

Homeless protesters occupy People’s Park

In defense of trees and people’s lives, a group of people from ‘First they came for the indigenous’ and ‘First they came for the homeless’ and other supporters, mostly ...

‘A dangerous trajectory’

Othering, verbal and physical assaults, laughing at victims of economic displacement, wanting to strip people of their possessions and their dignity, describing people ...

down a wet alley

down a wet alley from a bright ATM someone curled-up sleeps with nothing over him

National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day

The year 2018 has been hard for the homeless community in Orange County, CA. A federal lawsuit over a homeless encampment is in the center of controversy ...

‘We can all fight together in this struggle!’ says homeless mother

As the rain pours, I think about the homeless pregnant woman who sleeps outside our office. How in the city if you are pregnant and homeless you still can’t get ...

Resisting corporate displacement in Silicon Valley

December 4, 2018 was a preview of what politics may look like under Google corporate domination. To the local community, it confirmed where the city ...

Congress: Fund the Black Lung Disability Fund!

Every time I’ve been to DC and I see coal miners trying to get healthcare and pensions, and they say they got it, they didn’t. It was only a temporary fix. No one is doing ...

A poisoned southern town fights for clean water

  Editor’s note: Deanna Miller Berry of Denmark Citizens for Safe Water speaks with the People’s Tribune about the fight for safe water in Denmark,...

Save the Earth. Save Humanity

  On these pages are stories of the peoples' fight to save the Earth and humanity from corporate destruction. Please send your stories to info@peoplestribune.org or...

If It Was Your Child: 60 Children develop cancer

“We are done begging,” said Kari Rhinehart, mother of a 13-year-old who died of brain cancer in 2014 and a member of the 6000-member group, If It Was Your Child. “ ...

Protesters in California demand: Don’t bail out PG&E, make it public

With cries from the public of "shut it down" and "democratize our energy, don't bail out PG&E" and signs that read "Justice for Paradise" and "Make PG&E Public," 100 ...

For a Green New Deal in the Rust Belt

On January 18, workers in Detroit rallied to demand Mayor Duggan and Detroit City Council, and Mayor Majewski and Hamtramck City Council take control of the ...

Refugee and migrant caravan: Report from the Border

In December I traveled to the San Diego-Tijuana border where I had the honor of participating in “Love Knows No Borders”—an interfaith action sponsored by the American Friends ...

Something new struggles to be born in Chicago

A pall hangs over the Chicago elections scheduled for February 26. It is the ghost of Laquan McDonald, murdered by former officer Jason Van Dyke, covered up by his ...

The absolute truth about GM plant closings (Part 1)

“In 1937, 45,000 people worked for GM in Flint. That number grew to 80,000 in 1978. By 2010, only 8,000 people had a job with GM in Flint. “In 1979, about 1 million members ...

GM should respect workers, says autoworker

I think the protest is beautiful. The energy level is beautiful. The amount of community support that we’re getting from Canada, from union brothers and sisters from ...

From WV to LA: Teachers oppose destruction of public schools

The Los Angeles teacher’s strike rises to counter the aggressive national campaign for privatization of public schools to make education exclusively serve corporate interests ...

Louisiana Jim Crow law overturned

These are excerpts from an interview by Joseph Peery with Belinda Parker Brown, President of Louisiana United International, about their recent victory in overturning the ...

The ‘new lead,’ PFAS contamination, in Benton Harbor

I want to wrestle with you. I want to cry in public. I want to maybe cry out loud. I want to holler out loud. I want to shout out loud and even suggest that America needs a revolution ...

In Memoriam: Dave Arian 1946 – 2019

  It is with a deep sense of loss that we report that longtime union leader and revolutionary Dave Arian passed this last January 2....

Benton Harbor children’s garden ‘a learning tool’

Emma Kinnard, a longtime community activist in Benton Harbor, MI, the impoverished city run by the Whirlpool Corp., spoke at a Martin Luther King Day luncheon in Detroit ...

Mayoral candidate seeks peace in Chicago

Tamar Manasseh is a mother who has had enough. She has entered the Chicago mayor’s race as a write-in candidate. Tamar understands nothing can change in the city ...

Voices of Chicago’s candidates

“My first priority is that the status quo of housing is unbridled development, which is not meeting the needs of most residents. In a community like the 49th Ward ...

The fight for justice for Laquan continues

What happened in the Jason Van Dyke sentencing (sentencing him to just six years and nine months) was a clear and blatant expression of the fact that the powers that ...

The homeless fight for us all

On this page are a collection of articles that illustrate the ongoing fight that the homeless, along with supporters, are waging. They are demanding an end to ...

Water and environmental protesters head for trial

As part of Poor Peoples Campaign 40 Days of Action on June 4, 2018, activists from around the state joined the protest at Michigan Department of Environmental ...

Why is helping people a crime?

Now we face prison for caring for one another… while government abandons us. An Indiana school superintendent faces felony charges for using her son’s insurance to obtain ...

Donate to prisoner subscription fund

The People’s Tribune mails complimentary subscriptions to prisoners. The paper is a bright light for those who are behind bars. Won’t you donate $20...

Voices from the border, Donate & Book speakers

Won’t you donate today for a special edition of the People’s Tribune and Tribuno del Pueblo? The edition will carry the voices of the...

SPEAKERS FOR A NEW AMERICA

Our speakers bring a message of hope and the possibility of creating a new society whose wealth benefits all. Speakers discuss: • Fighting Criminalization...