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Monthly Archives: April, 2021

Movement rises to defend the vote and democracy itself

The movement for a new America is standing up to defend democracy. Most of us are under no illusions. We see that the assault...

Abolish the filibuster — completely!

Earlier this year, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive measure to expand voting rights and also passed an important change in...

Pandemic anywhere = Pandemic everywhere

Despite our progress, we are entering a fourth wave of the pandemic. Virus cases have increased 10% globally, and cases are rising in about...

None of us are free until all of us are free

The statement below is from Project South in Atlanta. On March 16, in the Atlanta area, we witnessed the calculated targeting and racist mass murder...

Mourning with Asian massage workers in the Americas

Excerpts below are from a press statement by Red Canary Song, a grassroots collective of Asian and Migrant sex workers, organizing transnationally. “In the wake...

George Floyd Square: A Return to the Commons

Editor’s note: Excerpts below are from comments made by community defenders at George Floyd Square (GFS) in Minneapolis, a space of protest and autonomous...

Witnessing a Murder

“I stay up nights apologizing to George Floyd,” 18-year-old Darnella Fraizer said through tears from the witness stand today. “It’s not what I should...

Police kill 13-year-old: Community demands answers

VIGIL FOR 13-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED BY CHICAGO POLICE “I just want to know what really happened to my baby . . .  he was a...

‘Fight for the Good Life!’

Homeless Union demands rights of the homeless be respected CHICAGO, IL — Me becoming homeless was because I was in a domestic violence relationship, so...

Like You

Like you ILove love, life, the sweet smellOf things, the sky-blueLandscape of January days. And my blood boils upAnd I laugh through eyesThat have known...

Tent community and supporters stand up to riot-clad police

LOS ANGELES, CA — “They have deemed people like this a lower dredge of society, even when a majority of people are a paycheck...

Echo Park Lake residents and supporters resist a brutal sweep

LOS ANGELES, CA — “This was one of the most successful housing actions ever.” — Steve Diaz, LA CAN, referring to the protestors who...

Year Seven of Flint Disaster:

Michigan Poor People's Campaign Seeks Justice The statement below is from the Michigan Poor People’s Campaign. We demand restorative justice for Flint in the wake of...

Biden sued by 21 states for revoking KXL pipeline permit while those affected rejoice

Editor’s note: President Joe Biden signed an executive order revoking the Keystone XL pipeline permit. A coalition of 21 states is now suing him...

Water Is Life: An Indigenous Perspective

People’s Tribune Water Discussion Webinar Series The People's Tribune water discussion group presented a webinar on water titled "Water Is Life: An Indigenous Perspective"on March...

The magnitude of Al Rojas’s contribution: A tribute

The Sacramento community has lost Al Rojas, who passed away Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Sacramento. He came from the fields of the valley...

The real crisis is not a ‘border crisis’

By the Editors In a recent article in Common Dreams, Jessica Corbett described how U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to social media March 30 about...