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Monthly Archives: July, 2019

Grassroots force issues into presidential campaign

  Shouts of “Yes! Yes!” and cars honking support. Enthusiastic waves from passersby. That’s what greeted Southern nurses in bright red union T-shirts as they...

What kind of monsters put children in cages?

  “What kind of monsters put children in cages?” reads a woman’s sign, protesting the mass forced separation of thousands of children from their parents...

Assault on immigrants: Democracy and humanity at risk

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has correctly described migrant detention facilities as “concentration camps.” On July 1, she and 13 other Democratic ...

‘No more deaths’ on the border

Scott Warren is with “No More Deaths,” a humanitarian group that leaves water, food and meds for migrants who face death in their journey across the hot ...

Valley of Tears, Rio Grande Valley

“Today it seems to be legal to murder and put in concentration camps thousands of our people. Our children are killed right before our eyes. Central ...

Rallies demand: End criminalization of immigrants

Men, women and children from all walks of life rallied in 50 states (and 13 foreign countries) in defense of immigrants, with demands to protect ...

On direct action to defend immigrants

Direct action is a tool that should only be used when it needs to be used. Protesting with a permit is not direct action. Anytime you appeal to authority ...

‘Close to home, close to my heart’

Another shooting death hits close to my home, and close to my heart. His name was Quintin Brown, 17-years-old; a boy with a goofy grin and a sense of ...

Protests, lawsuit after South Bend cop kills Black man

At a funeral in a black community church, hundreds of people came to pay their respects to Eric Jack Logan, a black father of seven known by the nickname ...

People’s Tribune: A voice in the fight for a clean environment

On these pages are voices from the movement to save humanity and earth from corporate destruction. The people are demanding that government protect the ...

Flint is still broken

When the Michigan Attorney General’s office dropped the bombshell on Flint residents—through the mass media—announcing the dropping of all charges ...

Illinois communities vow to fight Veolia’s poisonous power

On June 19, residents from communities of Metro--east St. Louis gathered to protest the decision of the EPA to allow the multi-national corporation ...

Minden, WV demands government act on PCB contamination

On June 8, over 150 Minden residents and allies from all over West Virginia and six surrounding states marched to bring awareness to the long-term impacts ...

Sunrise Movement, Chicago: a vision of a just future

This summer, the Sunrise Movement has been on a “Road To a Green New Deal Tour”—more than 200 town halls across the country bringing the national ...

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Marchers tell AMA: Back Medicare for All, or get out of the way!

On June 8, doctors, nurses, medical students, patients and others gathered here where the American Medical Association was holding its annual ...

Medicare for All! Now is the Time!

“Hey hey, ho ho, Everywhere we go, people want to know, who we are, what we stand for. We are the nurses, mighty mighty nurses, fighting for our patients ...

Representatives head to largest ever DSA Convention

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has experienced explosive growth, especially among millennials—a generation characterized by more debt ...

‘We all deserve a dignified home!’

All across the country, as a collapsing economy drives more and more people into the streets, housing and homeless movements are finding common cause ...

Google’s Billion Dollar Deception

At first glance, the announcement that Google is investing one billion dollars towards housing might sound like a great idea. Wow! This corporation really ...

Provide shelter, says homeless advocate: ‘Jesus was homeless too’

Dear friends and fellow homeless advocates, my name is R. Joshua Collins. While in Spokane, Washington, I was a mathematics instructor, had graduated ...

survival’s flute

I heard survival's flute behind me in the street ...

Low Income Tenants Organizing For Justice

On the 11th floor police discovered the decomposing body of 43 year old Thomas Lyons. Lyons had been shot several times and stuffed into the closet of ...

Tragedies and celebrations

Most days I walk about three blocks down Wilson Avenue in Uptown, Chicago, to and from work. The street tells countless stories: a few apartments ...

Automation and job elimination in LA/Long Beach Harbor

“Los Angeles Long Beach Harbor is the largest port in the U.S. by volume and tonnage. And we (the ILWU) also handle the most containers of any port ...

Governor attacks Benton Harbor school system, creating crisis

Let the truth be told by the people of Benton Harbor. The tentative agreement between Benton Harbor’s school board, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other ...

Benton Harbor community demands high school stays open

“Closing down the high school will be educational genocide. The much trumpeted zero percent college readiness is false. I have about 15 friends who are ...

People’s Tribune launches fund drive

For decades, the People’s Tribune and its bilingual sister publication, the Tribuno del Pueblo, have opened our pages to the growing movement in America ...

People putting forward a new morality

People are standing up for humanity across America and the world. Their voices are asserting the essential unity of the human species. Their morality stands in ...

The border says stop

The border says stop To the bird, but the bird sings Another language.

Detroit Gay Pride March threatened by Nazis

DETROIT, MI — In June, there was a Gay Pride celebration/parade in Detroit. Marching alongside it were 12 (or so) fully armed Swastika/flagwaving N.A.Z.I.S.,...

Linking Gun Violence, Racism and Fascism

After a summer of numerous mass shootings by white supremacists across the country, the ties of racism and violence have finally arrived as a central topic in ...