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Monthly Archives: June, 2020

Across America, millions say: Black Lives Matter! NO to a police state!

Derek Chauvin’s cold stare said everything. His nine minutes of relentless cruelty crystallized centuries of wrong. America exploded in righteous anger and will never be the same. The extraordinarily broad response to the ...

Tulsa’s racist rally: Trump must go!

  A president who fails to lead during the pandemic ravaging the country. Who spreads harmful disinformation and whips up ugly, divisive hatred. Who refuses...

The life of homeless people

I have to steal to get by I have to panhandle to get by Where's my house Where's my food I get tired of sandwiches and fruit ...

Solidarity in the fight for Black Lives Matter

“Daddy changed the world,” said Gianna, George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter.” Gianna’s mother, solidarityRoxie Washington said, “He will never see her grow up, graduate, ...

Journalists condemn police attacks on press and protests

[Police] have opened fire with rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, pepper balls and have used nightsticks and shields to attack the working press ...

The murder of George Floyd: All lives can’t matter until black lives matter

Repudiating racism is key to the unity needed to create a new America.

Covid-19 kills people in prisons

Paris Thomas was a vibrant teenager, but at the age of 14 he started dropping his pencil, comb, and food. He started to struggle in school with his studies. ...

Voices from the fight

"The reason the buildings are. … burning [is] because the people here in Minnesota are saying to the people of New York, to the people of California ...

Will we let more people become homeless?

Millions of renters are facing the possibility of becoming unhoused as the crisis has left them jobless and unable to pay rent. The limited federal, state and ...

People demand govt. act to stop coming eviction wave

Without government action, a wave of evictions is coming. Millions were struggling to get housed or stay housed before the crisis, and the problem is ...

Whiskey and News

  I poured myself a glass of whiskey and set about the task of reading the day’s news. But soon I had to stop because it made me want to...

2020 Elections and the Fight for our Demands

As 2020 elections heat up, one of the most important in US history, Americans face a devastated economy, more hunger, joblessness, police killings ...

COVID19 Rent Strike for Universal Right to Housing

As U.S. deaths from COVID19 escalate past 107,000 and unemployment climbs above 43 million, people are asking why our government is not doing more to ...

Fighter for climate justice joins Sanders-Biden panel, calls for continued grassroots pressure

Varshini Prakash, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, talks about the need to both defeat Trump and stay in the streets to build support for the Green New Deal.

Health care is a right

As the Illinois Single-Payer Coalition says, “We know that the roots of the [Covid-19] emergency stem from a deeper and much longer-term crisis—that of ...

Healthcare workers stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter

On June 4, 2020 healthcare workers at Bellevue, Kings County, Lincoln, Jacobi, and Montefiore Hospitals demonstrated across New York City ...

Will Covid vaccine be free? Federal officials won’t commit

During a Senate hearing on coronavirus measures May 12, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put U.S. health officials on the spot about whether a Covid-19 vaccine ...

Fired Amazon worker organizes essential workers

I had been with the company since 2015. I opened up three major buildings, with my last location at Staten Island. In early March I started to raise health ...

COVID-19: Essential workers fight for their lives

McDonald's workers went on a one-day strike in 20 cities in May, over inadequate Covid-19 protections. Scores of McDonald's workers have Covid-19 and ...

Navajo Nation: fighting Covid-19 without water

The coronavirus’s impact on the Navajo Nation has pushed the tribe’s public health system to its limits. Decades of negligence and billions of dollars ...

Celebrating small water victory in Denmark, SC

With Covid-19, access to safe affordable water when under quarantine is a hardship. Yet, recently, the City decided to start shutting off everyone’s water ...

A grassroots victory in the Michigan water fight

When the corona virus hit, we were told, "Wash your hands often." But for tens of thousands of Detroiters whose water has been shut off, this was ...

What do we do when the jobs vanish?

Momentum Machines, based in San Francisco, has a robot that serves 400 hamburgers per hour. The company's cofounder, Alexandros Vardakostas ...

Mass Digital Assembly: Moral March on Washington June 20

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is building a generationally transformative digital gathering called the Mass Poor People’s ...

‘Change the world,’ Boots Riley tells 2020 graduates

Screenwriter, director and rapper Boots Riley was among some famous alumni of Oakland’s Skyline High School who gave video addresses to the school’s ...

What makes the People’s Tribune special?

  A People’s Tribune reader and contributor recently included this in a Facebook post: “I have been working with the People's Tribune /Tribuno Del Pueblo....

For the Little Ones

Don’t let anyone tell you that you have your whole life to do something. Perhaps Trayvon, Mike & Tamir were told the

Calling for Transformation

Stay at home
cover your mouth
don’t shake hands
don’t see your grandkids