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Monthly Archives: September, 2022

Uvalde, Texas: a High School Student Shares Her View

A Texas High School student describes the new sad reality of students in Uvalde after the massacre.

Organizing to Fight Fascism: Be The Machine

Like Woody Guthrie, the American people today are once again calling out the fascists, and organizing to fight against fascism and for the rights and needs of every one of us.

A Win for Frontline Communities, Manchin Withdraws Dirty Deal from Senate Vote

Hundreds of national and grassroots groups made a victory for climate and against fossil fuel expansion possible by working together for a livable future for the planet.

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It Could Be Anything

Treatment Not Trauma: Reopen the Clinics

Find out why Chicago, a city of over three million people, has only five public mental health clinics.

Santa Cruz Dismantles Benchlands Camp: Hundreds of Homeless Forced Out

People at the Benchlands camp in Santa Cruz, CA, speak about what they face now that their encampment is being dismantled by the city.

The United States Is Now an Un-Developing Country

In a shock to many Americans, the U.S. ranks 41st in the United Nations’ latest annual ranking of nations, which includes the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.

Remember Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862)

Within days of the victory at Antietam, the first major legal step was taken to abolish slavery in the United States.

What Will Keep Our Children Safe?

On August 9th Martha Escudero addressed a crowd of city residents preparing to enter the Los Angeles City Council to protest a law, LAMC 4118, that would expand areas in the city to 20% of city land where sitting, sleeping, or lying is a crime.

No More Sacrifices

Liz Theoharis, Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign discusses why it is time for us to fight for a comprehensive, intersectional, bottom-up approach to the injustices that continually unfold around us.

Hundreds Demand No Mining at Juristac Sacred Indigenous Grounds

Demonstration at Santa Clara County government to demand Board of Supervisors deny permit for Quarry at Juristac Mutsun Sacred Grounds.

It’s Not a Crime to be Homeless Say Sacramento Protesters

Sacramento CA. Today on September 10, 2022 a protest was held at the intersection of Land Park and Broadway. An original protest was initiated by...

Jackson: A Water Crisis Amid a Legacy in Decline

This article from the Mississippi Free Press is part of a three-part series by the Free Press on the origins of the Jackson, MS, water crisis.

Alarm as Gov. Threatens Water Privatization in Jackson, MS

Jackson, Mississippi residents still lack safe drinking water, and now, people must contend with the governor’s threat of privatization.

General Gordon Baker on Labor Day

These are the words of General Gordon Baker on Labor Day, September 5, 2004. General Baker, who died in 2014, was a beloved internationally known labor leader and Detroit auto worker. He loved and fought for the working class.

Behind Starbucks Union Busting is CEO Who Got 1 Billion Dollars Richer During Pandemic

Howard Schultz is CEO of Starbucks, and behind the company's notorious union busting. Over the last decade his wealth has increased by about $640,000 a day on average.

We are homeless but not helpless!

The message must be delivered loudly to the Biden/Harris Administration that disabled people are in jeopardy due to leftover Trump policies and must be addressed.