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Monthly Archives: March, 2021

Growing Movement Demands Action to Help Jobless, Hungry, Homeless

America is in crisis. The ex-president who sent a lynch mob to attack the U.S. Capitol has escaped impeachment — and just received a hero’s...

As the people fight for survival, threat of dictatorship looms

Trump is out of the White House, but that doesn’t mean Trumpism is gone. The far right could still impose a dictatorship on this...

World Water Day March 22!

Broad coalition urges Biden to halt water and utility shutoffs For World Water Day, 2021, we highlight the effort of a coalition of over 600...

We are the Women in a Pandemic

  Women's liberation is humanity'sInternational Women’s Day March 8 We are women always. We take care of humanity. We are called to serve again. We learn...

Karen Lewis: a fighting leader

Below is an excerpt from an article by Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle about the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) which includes a remembrance of the late Karen...

Is the Flint settlement protecting our children or the powerful?

Editor’s note: Below are excerpts from a press conference held in front of the Flint Water Plant days before a Federal Judge gave preliminary...

Water Webinars are coming to your town via Zoom!

In March, the People’s Tribune, water warriors, and grassroots groups engaged in the fight for water as a human right across the country will...

The struggle fighting repression and state violence

The Black Lives Matter movement has captured the attention of the whole world. Below we bring you a story from a leader of Detroit...

Amazon fights to stop union in poorest Alabama town — while profits soar

Excerpts below are from union organizers who spoke with democracynow.org about the union drive at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. It the union wins, it...

Covid-19: Nurse decries lack of inmate care at privatized Florida prison

Cathy Talbott of the People’s Tribune interviewed a nurse who wishes to remain anonymous who worked for the Florida Department of Corrections before the...

‘We are not gonna stop fighting,’ say strikers for $15

The following are excerpts from an article by Jake Johnson, published in Common Dreams on February 16, 2021, prior to Congress removing the $15...

Minimum wage work ethic?

WEST VA — When I came home from the military, I worked in a lumber mill for minimum wage. It was the hardest work...

‘When We Said Zero Eviction January, We Meant It’

KANSAS CITY, MO — On Thursday, January 28, the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County resumed evictions after a two-week moratorium. The Courts scheduled 152 eviction hearings for the day.

‘Our community continues to share!’ Resistance in the shadows of Las Vegas casinos

LAS VEGAS, NV — In this past year there have been an unprecedented amount of people awakened to the injustices that our most disenfranchised...

‘I choose to follow the Revolutionary Jesus’ Reverend Bruce Wright, In Memoriam

The People’s Tribune mourns the loss of street minister and revolutionary organizer Rev. Bruce Wright, a frequent contributor to its pages from the front...

Freedom Ride for Housing in Los Angeles: Make Some Noise!

LOS ANGELES — In January, the Services Not Sweeps Coalition and other groups held a car caravan of 200 vehicles to gentrifying developments in...

Texas: Bitter Cold, No Heat, No Water – WHY?

AUSTIN, TX — In the 1930’s, Texas designed its own electric grid to avoid federal regulations. It’s cut off from the rest of the...

Frigid Texas Prisons: Broken Toilets, Disgusting Food, Few Blankets

Below are excerpts from an article by Keri Blakinger, published by The Marshall Project. “Prisoners are defecating in paper bags and overflowing toilets, there aren’t...

How a campaign by indigenous women turned into a just transition model

INDIAN BAYOU, LA — It began along the bank of the Mississippi River, among the crawfish ponds of Southwest Louisiana, and in the sweltering...

For a world unto itself, free of petty conflicts—just music

DETROIT, MI —Good morning. Several years ago, I was driving to work at the cafeteria workers' union. On the radio, I heard music that...

Take action: Stop the reopening of immigrant child detention center!

The Biden administration recently announced that it plans to reopen a detention center for migrant children in Homestead, Florida—essentially imprisoning children who have come...

Shouldn’t vaccines be publicly owned?

We the people paid a lot of the up-front development costs for the vaccines, but the drug companies own them and get all the...

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