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Fight for healthcare drives presidential race

  As we approach the primaries for what will certainly be one of the most important presidential elections in history, tens of millions of people...

How can we guarantee healthcare for everyone?

Editor's note: This editorial was written for the People's Tribune by Lisa Doloff, our beloved Editorial Board member from Virginia who passed away recently.  From...

Impeachment: What’s at stake for us all when govt serves the billionaires

The House is preparing to impeach Trump as we go to press, although it seems likely the Republican-controlled Senate will vote to keep him in office. Americans are divided ...

‘It’s Our Energy. Take It Back,’ says Detroit Climate Activist

“Close your eyes and imagine it’s 2040 and we’ve averted the climate crisis and we have an active and alive democracy. No one’s heat is shut off. We can walk to school without ...

Pensions on line and more, says UMWA local president

Jack McReynolds, UMWA District 12 Local 2420 President, spoke with Cathy Talbott of the People's Tribune about the fight for miners' pensions, jobs, healthcare ...

Former EPA chief poised to head environmental “advocacy” group

In 2017, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental advocacy group, was among plaintiffs who won a successful lawsuit ...

Water victory against Nestlé

The citizens of Osceola township in Evart, Michigan received their just reward for several years of legal battle to enforce their own zoning ordinance in the face of ...

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The fight for housing as a right

While Trump spearheads a government plan to round up homeless people, those who the billionaires no longer need, the articles below illustrate the life or death fight ...

Stop Trump plan to round up homeless people

Now is the time for all people of conscience to speak out and act decisively to block the Trump administration plan to round up homeless people just like the Germans ...

“Moms 4 Housing” takeover vacant Oakland house

On November 23, hundreds of Oaklanders joined together in a March for Housing Now: Our City, Not Scarcity. The event highlighted two homeless mothers who moved ...

Housing Justice Village: ‘We’re not just speaking for ourselves!’

On November 24, homeless-led groups set up the Housing Justice Village in front of Oakland City Hall. With 13 tents, this action was organized by The Village, ...

Austin, TX: Slight victory in fighting criminalization of homeless

“How is it okay to criminally penalize anybody for not having permanent housing when the number of beds available is fewer than the number of individuals in ...

HOMELESS

Just so I roll up my sleeping and step into another shitty day Maybe it rains on everyone ...

California: We have choices!

California: We have choices as we organize and vote! See stories below about burniung issues such as homelessness, public education, healthcare, and more ...

Oakland’s rogue school board privatizes schools

Oakland’s school board has gone rogue and intends to close 24 schools in the face of massive community opposition. Out of the last 18 schools they closed, 14 opened as ...

College students and faculty fight austerity

The California state government holds $19 billion in reserve “rainy day” funds, yet in Oakland, our community colleges are being slammed with austerity-justified cuts ...

A nurse speaks out: We need Medicare for All!

I’ve been a nurse for 12 years. I work in Long Beach in medical/surgical assignments. I work with all systems as an emergency room nurse. Most of my patients are ...

People in San Jose fighting anti-homeless law

Laura's Law is a statewide law enacted in 2002 when a clinic volunteer was shot and killed by a mentally ill man who refused treatment. It allows counties to force ...

Your vote matters: insurgency and upheaval in California

In this centerfold we are focusing on California, where the poverty rate is the highest in the nation. In this state, what you might call an insurgency is developing—an ...

Doctors jailed for trying to provide care for immigrants

Six protesters, including four doctors, were arrested outside of a Border Patrol facility in Chula Vista, California as they demanded agents allow them to give migrants flu shots ...

A sample of Democratic candidates’ views on immigration reform

Various Democratic presidential candidates have called for reforming the immoral U.S. immigration system. Below is a representative sample of some of the more specific proposals. ...

Food stamp cuts doom us to more hunger while corporations get fatter

A 75-year-old U.S. Army veteran said: “Many times, I’ve felt like I was starving. There’s neighbors that need food, too. There’s people [on] dialysis that need food ...

Solidarity with Scott Warren

“The government failed in its attempt to criminalize basic human kindness,” says Scott Warren to the crowd outside the Arizona courthouse after a jury found him innocent ...

In Chicago, rebirth of a historic mass defense organization

The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is refounded.

On winning the fight against police torture

“Chicago won a historic reparations ordinance in 2015, the first of its kind, that provides financial redress for survivors of police torture, [and] mandated the creation ...

Millions take up the struggle for which King died

Dr. Martin Luther King, born January 15, raised this question in a 1967 speech: “Why are there forty million poor people in America?” When you ask that question, ...

A hometown view of Mayor Pete from BLM of South Bend

Three activists with Black Lives Matter in South Bend, Indiana,Marcus Washington, Roger Calderon and Yemoja Redding recently gave their views of outgoing mayor ...

‘We must defend our soldiers’

A true man of God, Keith Collins, pastor of the Church of the Overcomer—a blue jean friendly church—says he “presents gospel to a world that is broken and filled with ...

Free the innocent

We are here today, standing in an unbroken line of march from slavery to freedom. Every step forward has been met with massive resistance, including legal and extra-legal ...