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Monthly Archives: June, 2019

Stop 55,000 immigrant kids from becoming homeless

As many as 108,000 people in 25,000 households, including 55,000 children, could become homeless as a result of the Trump administration’s proposed rule changes governing public housing, published in the Federal Register on May 10, 2019. The ...

The foul smell of William Barr’s contempt

The worst thing the Attorney General did this spring had nothing to do with the Mueller report On May 1, U.S. Attorney General William Barr vigorously defended his handling of the Mueller investigation in a defiant appearance before the …

Homeless say ‘Give us a home or leave us alone!’

As the ongoing crisis in the economy, the rising cost of rents and housing, and the lack of livable wages everywhere pushes people into the streets ...

Join Friends of the People’s Tribune and the Tribuno del Pueblo

The People’s Tribune and the bilingual Tribuno del Pueblo are sister publications that bring you essential news and views from fighters in the grass-roots struggle for a ...

The right to housing vs. profit

The Logan Square community in Chicago recently packed into a meeting just a quarter-mile from a homeless encampment. This public hearing to get 100 ...

I feel safer on the streets

During the past year, Eve Garrow, policy analyst and advocate for the ACLU Foundation of Southern California did an investigation of three Southern ...

A poem to honor a man that used to come in Bezazian Library in late 90s.

While leaning against a urine-stained & crumbling wall, Hard up against the El tracks, His heart stopped. Softly he sank down to the pavement Clasping to his chest A plastic bag that held ...

‘This camp was a home!’

So the Ross Camp was evicted today. A home to upwards of 200 people, an “unsanctioned encampment” in the words of the City. I was there for the large ...

No Displacement without Placement

On May 1, 2019, 145 residents of Sacramento’s Stockton Blvd Encampment, and advocates, were greeted with a raid carried out by approximately 150 ...

‘There is a better way of doing things’, says homeless leader

My name is Mike Zint. I'm the cofounder of ‘First They Came for The Homeless.’ Recently, city officials and police came by our camp and threatened to ...

Communities demand gov’t restart mountaintop removal health study

In 2017, we testified on the health study by scientists on the impact of mountain top removal mining on Appalachian communities. About a month or ...

The Scars of Appalachia

I recently spent a lovely afternoon with a couple of lifetime Blacksburg, Virginia residents directly effected by the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) ...

Flint braces for a long hot summer

In 2018, the Michigan Department of Human Services reported 28 known cases of Legionella disease in Flint. So far this year there are eight cases, but ...

Standing Rock: Three years and still fighting

In honor of the third anniversary of the Water Protectors movement at Standing Rock, below are excerpts from an interview by Tracy L. Barnett of the ...

Proposed law forces fossil fuel companies to pay public fee

This fee would go into a “Carbon Fees Trust Fund” and 100% of the money in this fund would be divided up and sent out to all American households in ...

People challenge new anti-protest laws

Since the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, among others, have funded model ...

Chicago Mental Health Clinics Crushed under Corporate Heel

A political will has been there a long time: the will to reward private industry with public money meant for public resources, in this case the ...

‘We’re going to #change the debate,’ says Sunrise movement

The Sunrise movement is “building an army of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process” (sunrisemovement.org) ...

The fight for universal healthcare in Utah

Voters in three “red” states: Utah, Idaho and Nebraska, passed ballot initiatives last November to expand Medicaid. Below, Utah activist Paul Gibbs ...

Interview with candidate featured in ‘Knock down the House’

The People’s Tribune spoke with Paula Swearengin about the new documentary “Knock Down The House” by Rachael Lear. It showcases the grassroots ...

Denmark, SC holds Safe Water Justice Town Hall

Residents of Denmark, South Carolina, joined presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in a Justice Town Hall in May on their fight for safe water. “High ...

Death Alley marchers demand: Stop poisoning the people

The following is excerpted from a statement by the Coalition Against Death Alley, which is fighting chemical pollution in Louisiana. CADA members and ...

Outpouring of resistance over attack on women’s right to choose

“It’s not the moment to be quiet. It’s not the moment to go home and fix your dinner and watch TV. This is the moment for you to march. It is a moment ...

June Teenth, 2019: Freedom Day!

On June 19, 1862, Congress outlawed chattel slavery in all territories of the U.S. (not yet states). On that same day, three years later, June 19 ...

Police have killed nearly 400 so far in 2019, database shows

Some 204 people this year were “not fleeing the scene” when the police killed them, according to the Post. Males made up 348 of the fatalities, 22 were ...

It’s Mother’s Day at the Border

It was a sunny day on the Playas of Tijuana side of the border wall where it meets the ocean. Members of DREAMer’s Mom’s gather next to the wall under ...

The Etowah Visitation Project: Supporting ICE detainees

Etowah County Alabama is under contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house up to 350 male immigrants at the Etowah County Detention ...

Voices from the Border – Speakers available!

Speakers who traveled to the border to bring back the voices of the refugees discuss a society where everyone has their needs met and where we are no ...

“Good Time” saves money and reduces the prison population

Eddie Treadwell, a prisoner at Coldwater Prison Facility, said Michigan’s increased use of habitual offender sentences, the elimination of “Good Time ...

Victory: all charges dropped in Michigan environmental action!

“We blocked all the doors (and eventually the parking lot) of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) headquarters, plus surrounded ...

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 the bottoms of boats, ripping parents from children, ...

Fighting for the Earth and humanity

On this page we continue our coverage of the fight for to save the Earth and humanity from corporate destruction. – The editors ‘We’re going to #change the debate,’ says ...

Health of the country is tied to universal health care

We really don’t talk about fixing the health care system. We talk about issues, quality, cost, availability, management, ability to pay, demographics, equity ...