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Monthly Archives: December, 2019

Texas police killings: Are African Americans not safe anywhere?

  “This is something that could happen to anybody. When does this stop? When are we able to just live, to be productive citizens like...

America 2019: Rot at the top of society, leaders at the grassroots

  As the year 2019 stumbles toward its end, one thing seems clear: This year brought to light the obscene wealth, rot and depravity at...

‘Go back to work,’ says Amazon, after worker dies on the floor

Outrage swept a Minnesota Amazon Fulfillment Center after the company discovered a man lying on the floor for 20 minutes in apparent cardiac arrest, and workers were ...

‘These tent communities provide safety and support!’

Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, in a special report on the growing number of people made homeless in California and across the country, and the organized resistance springing up ...

below the window

below the window where l sip espresso a neat cardboard condo

No housing! No peace!

Robert Woodlief, John Thompson, Nick Marini, and Manuel Murillo lived in a vacant lot behind Ross Clothing in Santa Cruz in November 2018. “We heard ...

Chicago high school teachers say what they are fighting for

“Our kids need a voice. Somebody got to speak up for them. … Our kids come in with a lot of issues. Growing up in the neighborhood, seeing a liquor store on each and every corner ...

Fighting for Mother Earth

“Our rage as a nation has to burn as fiercely as every fire we witness—for the retiree who's lost their entire life savings, for the family forced to evacuate from a home ...

PG&E must go!

During October, millions of people in the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California were without electricity for days as Pacific Gas & Electric shut down power to prevent ...

Kentucky fights for water as a human right

Kentucky’s Martin County Concerned Citizens say 50% of county residents cannot afford their monthly water bill. People also say the water is often undrinkable, making ...

#NoKXL!

“On this day [Nov. 6] in 2015, I was combining corn. I got a call from a national media source wanting my reaction to President Obama’s rejection [of the XL pipeline]. After ...

Residents mourn loss of fighter for Flint

Flint residents were heartbroken upon hearing about the recent death of Congressman Elijah Cummings. Representative Cummings was ranking member of the Oversight ...

Two wins for the people in defense of democracy

Thirty-two charges were dropped against eleven defendants including trespassing, peace disturbance and resisting arrest after they formed an all-day blockade in 2017 to the ...

Successful radical forest and climate gathering in Shawnee National Forest

Over 300 grassroots, frontline and Indigenous Peoples from North America attended the The Resurgence: 2019 North American Forest & Climate Movement Convergence ...

Save historic community center in Los Angeles

Several months ago, I attended a meeting organized by Jabari Jumaane, Executive Director of the AFIBA Center in Los Angeles, CA. AFIBA is the acronym for African Firefighter In ...

National conference: Fight for community control of police

We can struggle to gain community control of the police so that Black and Brown communities in particular can decide who polices them and how they are policed. Chicago is a ...

South Asians in California fighting fascism

Around 120 people gathered at Ambedkar King Study Circle’s 2nd annual conference held on September 7 in Cupertino, California. Dr. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd ...

INEXTRICABLY INTERWOVEN

We are inextricably interwoven Like the yarn our grandmas used To craft warm scarves

Chicago Teachers prepare for strike

In September, about 90% of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted, and of those, 96% approved a strike. On September 28, the CTU set a strike ...

Programs of Presidential candidates

On this page we highlight some presidential candidates. Our aim is to help our readers determine what program might help “we, the people” continue our fight for a ...

Bernie asks America: ‘Are you willing to stand together and fight?’

Tonight in America, over 500,000 people find themselves homeless. Half of our population is struggling to pay their rent, mortgage, light bill, struggling to just stay ...

We need a society that puts ‘humanity first,’ says Yang

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has centered his campaign around the impact of workers losing jobs to technology. Yang has written that a wave of automation and the ...

Potential Green Party nominee: Nationalize some industries

I’m running on the theme of an ecosocialist Green New Deal. I was the first candidate to use that theme in the New York gubernatorial race against Andrew Cuomo who had an austerity ...

Poor People’s Campaign and Climate Emergency

The following are excerpts from a presentation by Cathleen Williams at the Poor People’s Campaign Forum at Sacramento State, October 16, 2019 sponsored by the ...

Speed rail to love

“After watching my friends at the Minority Humanitarian Foundation (MHF) create a modern humanitarian speed rail—nightly trips getting asylum seekers off the side ...

Veteran deported

A Marine combat veteran who served in Iraq was deported to El Salvador in October. He is one of hundreds of other veterans who have suffered a similar fate. He lived in the ...

Remove law enforcement from youth services

In San Jose, there’s a challenge to the role of law enforcement in youth services and a push back against a further criminalization of Black and Raza youth. The city has a nationally ...

Felony disenfranchisement is a crisis of democracy

I am formerly incarcerated. During my prison sentence, not unlike others, I worked on myself, programmed, and eagerly awaited my move from my past. Yes, I made poor ...

The struggle for democracy in Benton Harbor and the country

The Rev. Martin Luther King must be turning over in his grave over what is happening in Benton Harbor, Michigan and around the country. Today automation, computers, robots ...

In memory of Robert “Bob” Brown

We at the People’s Tribune are deeply saddened by the sudden death in early November of our long-time friend and colleague Bob Brown, passionate revolutionary thinker and ...

People’s Tribune needs you!

As the country slips deeper into crisis and is inundated with the corporate media’s lies and distractions, the People’s Tribune is needed more than ever. This paper ...

Are you a designer? The People’s Tribune needs your help

  Are you a designer and want to contribute your talents to support the People’s Tribune’s mission? We are looking for designers to help us...

Chicago Teachers: A strike for our children

The 11 day Chicago teachers and support staff strike is over. From the outset, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) announced they struck over the lack of basic ...