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Monthly Archives: October, 2026

Let Love Be The Uprising

"There is a particular kind of courage in remaining tender when the world rewards brutality," writes poet Sarah Hackney.

A Room for Two-Thirds of My Income

There is something remarkable about being too poor for an affordable housing opportunity. It is a market signal delivered directly to your nervous system.

A Vision For a City We Can Live In

A mayoral candidate's platform in Oregon symbolizes many campaigns for change nationally, highlighting concrete platforms for change that include local control by the public, housing/homelessness first, food, jobs, health, and more. 

fast food fascism

fast food fascism by Gregory Pond this is the land of the never been free home of the no longer brave where the only thing self-evident is that the truth...

US Terrorizes Migrants and Countries, Witnesses Tell Mexico City Tribunal

A series of International Tribunal of Conscience hearings held over the last eight months in the US and Latin America have gathered testimony on US crimes against migrants and countries. The hearing this month in Mexico City featured around 40 witnesses from more than 16 countries.

People’s Tribune Wants Interns!

The People’s Tribune is looking for passionate interns to help us amplify grassroots voices for change. We are independent, non-profit, volunteer-run with no paid staff or corporate funding.

Politics and Family Homelessness

Given adequate support, people can move forward with their lives. Kids who receive assistance and access to educational offerings — academic, extra-curricular, athletics, nutrition — can thrive as adults.

The Kids Are Alright. Maybe the Rest of Us Need To Remember What Standing up Actually Looks Like

Youth in France and other countries are asking why they should accept a system that keeps telling them there isn't enough to go around while those at the top keep getting richer?

Outside the Gate

Poem by Sarah Hackney, a Choctaw/Chickasaw tribal member, currently visiting Minneapolis. Sarah said, "I’ve been keeping up with the Minnesota ICE situation since the beginning. Haven Watch and the people of Minnesota have been such a huge inspiration. They have given me hope in humanity during these dark times. My heart belongs in Minnesota!"

And ain’t I an American?

America is a Hemisphere, North, Central, South, United, not Divided, Historically and culturally Indigenous at its core.

Police Shooting of 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi Attorney General Says

Police fired into a car in a MIssissippi Walmart parking lot in June, killing baby Kohen Wiley. Mississippi's attorney general now says the shooting was "justified."

The Homeless Time Clock

A homeless man created 15 continually-updated counters of homelessness in the U.S, counting the homeless from 2005. The counters do not pause or reset.

Homeless Shelters Were Once Off-Limits to ICE. Not Anymore

Los Angeles Is seeing a surge in Latino Homelessness, and a 2025 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Policy Change Means Shelters Are No Longer Safe from ICE.

ICE Has Arrested Twice As Many Children This Year

ICE arrested more than twice as many children this year through July as in the same period last year. Many of these children have been detained where lawyers and family members couldn’t find them.

ICE Terror Targets Us All

ICE terror is morally wrong, is spreading, and can easily threaten us all. Already, there are victims nationwide, citizens and non-citizens alike. Millions more need to stand up. Stop The Terror. Stop ICE.

Vote Now: Sacramento Poor People’s People’s Campaign Joins March to the Polls

Why are they trying to make it more difficult to vote when there is no evidence of fraud in the electoral system? It is because new candidates are running across the country to represent the needs of poor, unhoused, and working-class voters.

Around My Neck

A poem by someone who wears a whistle around their neck to "to warn my neighbors when danger happens."

Register: Oct. 14-16 Webinar on US Crimes Against Immigrants and Countries

Hearings are being held Oct. 14-16 in Mexico City on the US attacks on immigrants and on other countries, especially in the Americas. The hearings are being livestreamed. Registration information is in the article.

Trump Sent Homeland Security to Search My House

"In their ludicrous, partisan investigation into my immigration status, Trump is telling his voters: Ignore the price of gas, the war in Iran, that you’re losing healthcare —get angry about this instead," says U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families

Man who runs a small nonprofit called AZ Hugs in phoenix is criminalized for helping homeless people eat nightly meals.

A Rare Win in Indian Country: How Tribes Drove Out Mining Company in One Week

“None of this moves forward without all of us working collectively,” said Anissa Martin, who leads NDN’s Black Hills Land Back campaign. “Everybody had a role, and we understood that.”

Abolish ICE: Protests Erupt in NYC After ICE Shoots Father With Son in Car

"There is no excuse for allowing ICE to come into our city, to shoot seven bullets into cars where there are children. It is just an outrage. I truly have no words for just how enraging everything that transpired last night was," says candidate for Congress in New York City.

We are Jane Doe

What happens when the institution responsible for investigating harm is the same institution worried about its reputation, donors, fraternity relationships, and legal liability? Silence protects power. Accountability means confronting it.

Believe Women. Believe Survivors. Teach Our Boys Better.

"What I can do as a man is listen, believe women, support survivors and refuse to participate in the attitudes and behavior that make sexual violence easier to dismiss or excuse."

ICE is detaining pregnant immigrants. Most Americans say they shouldn’t.

Recent polling shows more than two-thirds of Americans say that immigrants who are pregnant, nursing or have recently given birth should generally not be held in immigration detention.

Nancy Leaves Before Dawn

This story brings insight into the lives of the millions of women and men who leave before dawn to keep entire cities running by cleaning, building, cooking, caring. But suddenly some want them seen them as criminals.

‘Unhoused Neighbors’ Film Review

Seven unhoused people face the camera, explaining their lives after seven years of living outside.

The Opportunity Is the Point

Assumptions about disability can become barriers.

Zak Mucha – Introducing a New Contributor

He is the author of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense and Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work as well as two collections of poetry.

The Cycle Must Cease

The Cycle Must Cease D.L. Lang America’s bloodlust has not changed in 250 years. War and terror are two sides of the same coin. It doesn’t matter how...