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Youth lead the fight to save the earth

  With a sense of urgency youth are in the lead: marching, speaking out, occupying congressional offices in DC and state legislatures, and planning climate...

Homelessness rises with gentrification and skyrocketing rents

Every day, 4 year-old Austin Perrine, in a red satin superhero cape, hands out chicken sandwiches to homeless men and women outside a Birmingham, Alabama shelter. On his shirt are the words “Show Love.” His father, who goes ...

‘They only care about money,’ says 11 year old climate activist

The following quotes are from one of 15 Amicus briefs filed in support of the Juliana Plaintiffs, pictured above. Over 36,000 young people from around the world ...

Could all your possessions fit into one Hefty bag?

Wondering how YOU would react if a city ordinance limited your personal property to what can fit in a 60-gallon Hefty bag, and is it only for homeless residents ...

Stephon Clark Lives

On March 18, 2018, Sacramento Police drew their guns and killed Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s back yard. Officers had been dispatched to Meadowview, one of ...

Death in the streets, clichés from the Mayor

Unhoused individuals and communities in Chicago have struggled to survive through two polar vortexes this winter. Many living on the streets did not make it ...

Louisiana’s 10/2 law: Slavery, corporations and profits

The recent fight to abolish Louisiana’s Jim Crow 10/2 law and free all those who were wrongfully convicted under it, has uncovered injustice that goes far beyond ...

Visions of an America where everyone can be happy

Below are quotes that point toward a society where we, the people are in the driver’s seat, where our country’s vast resources are shared with everyone, and ...

Earth Day, April 22: fighting to save Mother Earth and Humanity

In recognition of Earth Day, April 22, 2019, the People’s Tribune continues to share stories on these pages of the people’s fight to save Mother Earth and ...

The fight to End Homelessness

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‘His spirit light will continue to shine’

Kevin Fulton, known by his street name ‘Flee,’ was found dead in February 2019 near Drumm St. in San Francisco where he used to ask for survival donations, and ...

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On these pages we continue our monthly coverage of voices of, by, and for the homeless. Today, millions in this nation of plenty face rising poverty, evictions ...

The rights of corporate property vs the public

As the people in the path of environmental destruction attempt to use their right to free speech and engage in civil disobedience to protect their communities ...

5 years later: Flint water disaster alive and well

This is dedicated to deaths of Lori Carter, age 57, Jassmine McBride, age 30, Mary J. Watson, age 43, along with scores of others who fell victim to the toxic ...

Is your tap water safe?

Yearly from 1982 to 2015, between 9 million and 45 million Americans got their drinking water from a source that violated the standards of the Environmental ...

Detroit water shutoffs are over 100,000

In 1914, when Henry Ford advertised the first $5 a day opportunity for those willing to work on the assembly line, blue collar workers eventually fought and won ...

Stabilizing the Earth and humanity

“When we set about … reclaiming the earth, becoming part of the earth again, I think that will be a real accomplishment … to rebuild the earth, to clean it up, ...

When our children woke up to the nightmare

“Flint was not only the birthplace of GM. This is where brave and radical and disobedient Flint autoworkers demanded a fair share of our prosperity. The American ...

West Virginian speaks on environmental clean up

Maria Gunnoe speaks to the People’s Tribune about what needs to be done to clean up after the industrial polluters in West Virginia. Maria is a 2009 Goldman ...

Youth demand senators back #GreenNewDeal: Voices from Chicago

Young people in Chicago gathered outside the Kluczynski Federal Building in February to urge Senators Durbin and Duckworth to cosponsor the #Green ...

Historic support for community control of the police in Chicago’s elections

The cry for freedom from police tyranny grows ever louder in Chicago, the only city in America that requires its public schools to teach the history of local police ...

Chicagoans fight for their future

This election will be different! That was the hope of millions of Chicagoans as they turned towards the April 2nd runoffs, which were under way as this is ...

Chicago chapter launches Movement for a People’s Party

The Democratic Party has never been a party of the people. To the contrary, it has fought us every step of the way. The best we have ever gotten from the Democratic ...

Massive movement needed to achieve Medicare for All

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has introduced HR 1384 in the U.S House of Representatives with 106 congressional co-signers. It is the most extensive legislation ...

California higher ed students face corruption, lockouts

Students, faculty and staff in Los Angeles public higher education are battling corruption and a plan to lock out thousands of future students. First, the ...

Mexican autoworkers are not to blame for plant closures

General Motors has been around since September 16, 1908. As of February 19, 2019, GM has 84 factories open around the world.Fifty-nine of those factories are ...

Fear and anger as GM closes Lordstown, Ohio plant

While GM reports a new record $12 billion profit for 2018, some of the 1600 former GM workers in the now-closed Lordstown, Ohio plant speak out about the ...

Voices from the Border

Speakers who recently returned from the border to express their solidarity with the Caravans are available to speak. Speakers bring the voices of the migrants ...

Not one more deportation!

Joaquin Sotelo Tarin of Merced County, a decorated U.S. Naval veteran of the Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan campaigns of 2001 to 2006, narrowly avoided deportation ...

Military Budget: They Gotta Be Kidding

The U.S. defense budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, 2018, is $716 billion. It’s one of the biggest defense budgets in modern American history. And ...

We demand justice in Benton Harbor

The fight in Benton Harbor is a war, not a conflict. It is about whether Americans will have prosperity and democracy or live in poverty under the heel of corporate ...

H2O: cool water

We here on the shores of one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water, Lake Michigan, are also in need of free, cool, clear, clean water. As the nation ...

Massacre in New Zealand

People at the Chicago Memorial Service for the 51 Muslim victims of the massacre in New Zealand express their unity against hate. “Speeches condemning the ...

So Many Words

They come to most forums Say many words Coiffed with intimations of home Empty, ruling class promises.

144 billionaires in California – and no money for US students

There's no money to fund education in Oakland, California (and the rest of California and the US) for low-income students and communities, but there are 144 billionaires ...

Chicago election results: People want change!

The winds of change blowing across America have hit the Windy City with gale force. The results of the local election here show that Chicagoans are sick of the ...

Stop the American war on Venezuela

In 1995, a handful of Venezuelans lived in luxury, while 66% of Venezuelans were living below the poverty line. In 1998, Venezuelans elected a...

Rebuilding a sustainable economy in West Virginia

On February 26, 1972, the coal slurry impoundments at Buffalo Creek failed, releasing 132 million gallons of black-waste water and coal sludge. Seventeen towns ...

Aida Rodriquez on Nipsey Hussle

Entertainer Aida Rodriquez challenges America's morality in this inspiring video about the life of rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was killed in Los Angeles in...