In an action reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, President Trump has ordered that the elite tactical ICE unit BORTAC be deployed to Sanctuary cities throughout the country during the months of February through May ...
Beloved America. This is a rotting empire. Weren’t many of us happy to see Obama win after the reign of Bushes? My father donated to that [Obama]campaign. ...
Trump says America will never be a socialist country, but Bernie Sanders pointed out recently that it already is. He said the problem is, it’s just socialism for the rich. ...
Now is the time for Medicare for All. On top of being threatened with illness, people who are sickened by coronavirus Covid-19 and don’t have health insurance or ...
Homelessness is the biggest issue. They just cut the HUD budget again. Sold public housing, sold Jordan Downs, it is now mixed use, market rate housing. Public ...
Why with all its power and wealth doesn’t the U.S. house its people? As millions of housing units stand empty, people die in the streets, and our schools are full of ...
“We must do away with the notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable ...
he said - l’m tired, old and black
but not necessarily in that order
seen more blues than the indigo sky
and royal sea put together
but they’ve never got the better of ...
Wayne Warren, 73, froze to death in his tent at the Roosevelt and Desplaines Tent City in Chicago, Illinois in the early morning of February 15. He was an army veteran. ...
Mike Zint, longtime homeless activist, died at age 53 on Valentine’s Day, 2020, from severe lung disease and pneumonia. After some years of homelessness, he ...
Super Tuesday results have created what will now be a seesaw battle for the Democratic nomination for President. The Bernie Sanders campaign has given ...
On February 25, the Laney College Teach-In on “The Power Of Your Vote” sought to inform an audience of around 250 students of serious threats to our ...
We head into election season with a complex and multilayered shroud of voter suppression engulfing the country. Once concentrated primarily in Southern ...
Heading toward the March 17, 2020 Illinois primary elections, Bernie Sanders holds a lead in the polls, reflecting a grass roots dissatisfaction with same-old non-solutions, a hunger to address ...
On these pages are stories of the fight to save our Earth from the scourge of dirty fossil fuel corporations and secure clean water as a human right for millions of people ...
A decade-long battle between the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and a company planning to build a natural gas pipeline through their territory in British Columbia (B.C.) ...
Hundreds of thousands of people in low-income families across Michigan have borne the brunt of the record rise in the cost of water services and the unaffordable ...
A dangerous anti-protest bill, HB 4615 passed the WV House in mid-February and was scheduled for a Senate committee hearing March 4. The bill would make ...
The Trump administration used undocumented youth as a bargaining chip, but it’s not the first administration to keep the undocumented waiting for a stable future.
“The child separation policy is a stain on this country that will resonate for a generation or more. It’s truly hard to conceive of what type of people it takes to ...
“In the past five years, rents went up in Santa Cruz over 50%. We are asking for an increase in our wages so we don’t pay more than 30% in rent. We found ...
In honor of the 100th anniversary, the Smithsonian opens a major exhibition on the history of women’s suffrage: “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence.” The ...
Lifting up the names of loved ones lost to violence, Indigenous women are leading a powerful international coalition to stop violence against Indigenous women. ...
Some people believe Jessica may have been shot at Willie Lark Jr.’s house, which is in the family’s neighborhood. There was a puddle of blood in the front of the ...
Your support is requested to help send a People to People Fact-Finding Delegation to the U.S.-Mexico Border. Activists from different parts of the country ...
