A call for everyone to speak up and insist that the rights of the most vulnerable are not negotiated away in a mad rush to “compromise.” The people need the full $3.5 trillion bill to pass, at a minimum.
The central battlefield where the struggle between democracy and dictatorship is being waged is the electoral arena, including around the right to vote. Passing these bills won’t mark the end of the struggle, but it will be a needed victory in the long fight that lies ahead.
Climate protests took place over a five-day period beginning on October 11 in Washington, D.C., to demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects.
Silas Neeland from the White Earth Reservation speaks at the People vs. Fossil Fuels protest about the fight to shut down Line 3 and urges the fighters to not back down to police.
The People’s Tribune’s Bob Lee interviews Belden “Noonie Man” Batiste, a New Orleans activist and mayoral candidate, about the situation in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
Law enforcement officials in Texas found the remains of a man assumed to be a migrant who was found hanging from a tree 80 miles from the state’s border with Mexico.
After four years of being targeted by Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) for her work to dismantle the enforcement agency, immigrant rights defender and organizer Maru Mora Villalpando has been granted prosecutorial discretion by the Department of Homeland Security.
Antonio, an 11-year-old Chicago Public School student reports his personal story of what happened inside his school during the COVID pandemic, what it felt like to him and a common-sense call to action that is needed today to save lives.
Read some of the stories of how people are organizing to defend themselves and their fellows.’ We must support all efforts. House everyone as a human right.
Humanity lay dismembered
In knitted satchels
Strewn along pavement
Thrown from the buildings
Families kicked out,
their apartments removed
No body-parking on grass
Homes broken like sleep
An acclaimed author on homelessness raises the alarm about Idaho, a state with not only record Covid deaths and infections, but also with a brutal housing crisis.
Four million march to support abortion rights. Eighty-five percent of the marches were organized by new grassroots activists that have been true for every Women’s March. Organizers are activated and they aren’t going away! Women’s right to choose is a fundamental right and central to any democracy.
Last night they pushed away hope
They slapped decency in the face
Deep oh deep in the heart of Texas
They opened the door
They struck up
The rotting band of death
And the devil
The world and the movement for social transformation has suffered the loss of one of its great lights and souls with the passing of the revolutionary visionary poet and organizer Jack Hirschman.
Members of the Bakery Workers Local 3G in Battle Creek, Michigan picket the Kellogg cereal plant. Workers at all four U.S. cereal plants are on strike.
An appeal to President Biden’s sense of morality, human dignity and as a fellow Catholic regarding the urgency of treating migrants at the border humanely.
