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Monthly Archives: May, 2019

Pipeline fighters defend earth and liberty

  "You think we live in a democracy? The federal government will not protect you." "I’m angry because I feel that private citizens no longer have...

Reunite families, stop the deportations

  In mid-April, Laura Maradiaga-Alvarado, an 11-year-old girl now in Houston, received a deportation order terrorizing her and her family. Laura faced deportation back to...

Freedom of speech and the Assange arrest

Regardless of how anyone feels about Julian Assange or Wikileaks, Assange’s arrest and the plan to extradite him to the US for trial threatens everyone’s ...

‘Poor People’s Hearing:’ U.S. has an abundance of resources to overcome poverty

A homeless technology worker living in his van in a parking lot. A 17-year-old high school student afraid climate change won’t let her live to have children ...

‘We’re all human beings!’ says fighter for homeless rights

On April 6 over 19 endorsing organizations conducted an action at a houseless encampment in Harbor City, CA, demanding that “the City of Los Angeles and ...

‘Life is a marathon, not a sprint’

On April 11, in the African American tradition, a homecoming took place for Ermias Asghedom (aka Nipsey Hussle), who had been shot and killed in the Hyde ...

Columbine’s 20th Anniversary provokes student campaign

As part of the 20th anniversary of Columbine, the #MyLastShot campaign is a violence prevention project led by students from Columbine High School and ...

Notre Dame fire: Anger at billionaires and visions

Billionaires from around the world pledged over $1 billion overnight to restore the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Although most people favor rebuilding ...

5 years and counting . . . FIX FLINT NOW!

We stand here today in front of the Flint Water Treatment Plant to commemorate the disaster that continues to affect the people of Flint. [It is] five ...

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 ...

Fighting to survive in Louisiana’s death alley

The People’s Tribune recently interviewed Pat Bryant and Robert Taylor, who are among those fighting environmental poisoning by the petrochemical ...

KXL Pipeline: Water protectors vow to never allow this “black snake” to be built

On March 29th, water protectors gathered at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Spirit Camp near Ideal, SD. They gathered on that beautiful hill to celebrate the ...

‘We’ve found the enemy, and it’s not each other’ says winning candidate

I came to the U.S. as a child, as an immigrant, and as someone who lived undocumented for over a decade. I understand firsthand the ways in which ...

Vote for Medicare for all: healthcare for everyone

According to PBS, 44 million Americans don't have healthcare and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. NetQuote, an insurance lead provider ...

Stacey Abrams resists Georgia voter suppression

After Stacey Abrams lost her bid to become the first African American woman to become governor of Georgia, she said that she was angry, sad and despondent ...

There’s no democracy in Texas

Senate Bill 9 is part of another anti-working-class pro-fascist legislation that has passed the State Senate and is now sweeping the Texas House ...

‘20/32 Movement:’ The end of labor peace in Mexico

On January 12, 2019 seventy thousand maquiladoras workers in the northern region of Tamaulipas, Mexico went on strike for the first time in decades, chanting ...

Mexican autoworkers are not to blame for plant closures (Part 2, Chrysler)

The original Chrysler Corporation was founded in 1925 by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company. As of May 11, 2015, Chrysler has 26 ...

‘Voices from the Border’: Speakers available!

Speakers who traveled to the border to bring back the voices of the refugees to the public, and other experts on immigration, are available to speak ...

May Day: Fight for a new society beginning to take shape

May Day commemorates the battles for the 8-hour day from 1886 and afterward. It is recognized the world over as the day when workers and their organizations ...

VA system as model for healthcare access and delivery?

As a healthcare professional and Senior Care Advocate, it’s a call I get often: “I am a veteran and I want to go through the VA for my medical needs, because ...

We must stop the cover-up of Benton Harbor contaminated water

I am the current President and CEO of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization, better known as BANCO. I am also Pastor of God's Household of Faith ...

Unanimous Is Not Enough: The struggle continues

As the struggle continues on the part of the Unanimous Is Not Enough movement to free all those wrongfully convicted by the state of Louisiana's Jim Crow 10/2 law, it reminds ...

Voices from Benton Harbor

  Whirlpool has destroyed our community, tactics used in gentrification across the United States. We only have one high school and they have torn...

Chicago elections: A sleeping giant awakens

A specter haunts the ruling circles of Chicago: the specter of a working class that cannot find a job in a city that no longer works. Seventy percent of that working class sat out ...

Proposed law forces fossil fuel companies to pay public fee

Congress has introduced H.R. 763 known as the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 in which fossil fuel companies would pay a carbon emissions fee ...