Young homeless person in Oakland, California tells the story of the cause of homelessness, being homeless and solutions the cities can undertake to help homeless youth.
Editor's Note: This article was contributed from the Laney College Chapter, Poor People's Campaign
Being homeless at the end of my high school senior year...
End game – to incarcerate the unhoused who have experienced the violence of being stigmatized for mental health and substance use, both of which are results of state-inflicted violence on poor communities of color.
Joy Bunton, a public health activist, shares her testimony from a rally held by The People’s Response Network to COVID on April 24, 2022, at a COVID vaccination in Chicago’s Little Village.
The Biden administration has unnecessarily—and often unlawfully—jailed tens of thousands of asylum-seekers, many of whom have suffered “severe” physical and psychological abuse and discrimination, according to a report published April 21.
A walk out of students at Huntington High School in West Virginia took place on February 9, 2022 after their school opened its door to a Christian revivalist minister.
It appears that the powerful and well-heeled forces of corporate America are once again targeting the Reverend Edward Pinkney, president of the grassroots Benton Harbor Community Water Council, for the “crime” of standing up for the poor, the elderly, and the children by providing people with safe drinking water.
The road to reach the better world of our imagination may be long. And there are many obstacles in our way. But our north star is clear. It is time for America to guarantee comprehensive, affordable health care to all. The best way to do that is By enacting Medicare for All.
Al was a wonderful friend and comrade who devoted his life to the fight for a society that respects and provides for the rights and well-being of the common working-class people, here and globally.
Whether we’ll have a corporate dictatorship is now a question of how hard the American people are willing to fight for democracy. If we don’t defend the right to vote, in particular, it will be that much harder to win any of the battles we are involved in.
People’s Tribune brings you its first print edition since the pandemic set in, and discusses how readers can help get the urgent message of the growing movement out to people.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, here are the voices of some of the many women leaders standing for a true democracy in America and against the encroachment of a corporate-run dictatorship of billionaires.
Workers at more than 100 Starbucks locations in 26 states have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for union elections. The company responded with an aggressive anti-union campaign, but public support for the defiant Starbucks workers grows.
The Border Patrol killed another migrant along the southern border in Arizona in February, and once again there are questions about the integrity of the investigation into the killing.
The ex-Chicago police officer spent only three years in prison for killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald with 16 gunshots in October 2014. He is out now.
A bill to guarantee equal universal health care for all Californians regardless of income, em-ployment, or immigration status, by eliminating profiteering in the health care industry did not pass despite tremendous popular support. The fight continues.
Youth voted for President Biden for him to be the best president ever on climate because it’s “our generation and our lives at risk,” says a leader of the Sunrise Movement.
Group fighting to get lead and other toxins out of a town’s drinking water say they had a hard time getting straight answers from the EPA about whether their water is safe to drink.
For the people of Ukraine and Russia who don’t stand
to profit from this war.
Heroes are born from dirt and struggle
They bleed red through interconnected veins
Women have been fighting for equality on so many levels. How long has it been since women’s lib first opened doors to Women’s Rights? And now the attack on voting rights! We have to keep up the fight!
The point of attack against the voting rights legislation is the rights of people of color, but the object of the attack is everyone’s rights, it is democracy itself.
Residents of a tent community near the Los Angeles harbor mourn the death, and celebrate the brave life, of one of their own — one of an increasing number of lives lost to the city's streets this past year.
Voices throughout the country are sounding the alarm that democracy as we’ve known it is in grave danger. Voter suppression laws targeting African Americans and other minorities have passed in 19 states. No one is untouched if the right to vote is destroyed.
A resident-run community of small homes, with heat and light, on 'beautiful' grounds, is being planned by grassroots organizers in Oakland, CA, as a model of autonomy and stability.
Mass struggles by parents, educators, and students for safe schools took center stage in a global fight to stop the pandemic. In Chicago, schools are overcrowded, poorly ventilated, dirty; some even without soap. Students are walking out in protest around the globe.
At least 27 journalists were killed in 2021, with India and Mexico topping the list of countries with the most media worker deaths. Of the total – which rose by three since early December – 21 were singled out for murder in retaliation for their reporting.
LAPD bullets pierced the wall of a store dressing room and killed a 14-year-old girl. The family wants justice. LAPD officers shot at least 37 people in 2021, killing 17—more than either of the last two years.
The son of farmworkers dedicates his essay to the retirees who cannot stop working: “May their lives inspire the rest of us to fight for a more just and humane society.”
Imagine a New California for Shared Well-being, Then Let’s Build It! My name is Luis J. Rodriguez. I’m running for governor of California. . . I’m for a complete shift in how we imagine and implement governance in this state.
At the core of the history of Puerto Ricans is their fight for independence – personal and collective, alongside a commitment to solidarity with the just struggles of people everywhere.
Manufacturers of the most widely sought vaccines — Pfizer and Moderna — have refused to share patents and know-how. Facing a surge of the Omicron virus, the peoples of the world must escalate the fight to save lives.
Today, as powerful forces move to deprive millions of the right to vote, we should remember the bitter struggle it took to win that right. The only way to preserve the right to vote today is to return to the mass action that brought it into being.
We stopped printing temporarily because of the Pandemic and focused our effort on-line. Now some of our readers have asked us to restart a print edition to reach people at rallies and events, and we need your help!
There is a growing, far-right movement that is committed to destroying what is left of American democracy and imposing a dictatorship, but there is another movement now in the streets defending democracy, and it must be expanded so it can win.
The majority of the people want and need the Build Back Better and Voting Rights bills passed, but the agendas of the corporate Democrats and Republicans are dictated by billionaires. Massive popular pressure is needed to get these bills pushed through.
We stopped printing temporarily because of the pandemic and focused on further developing our online presence. Some readers are now asking that the People’s Tribune resume printing so they can get a print paper out at public events. Your donation is needed to help in this effort.
A campsite of unhoused people by the San Lorenzo River was flooded by torrential rains. The city of Santa Cruz pushed people out of the city to the camp site, and then later had police block them from moving to a safer location to escape the flood.
Sacramento coalitions and homeless union protested the devastating destruction of the only homes many unhoused people have. Tagging hundreds of vehicles, the City then towed cars and RV’s that stayed parked because their unhoused owners did not have the money to get them running, even as storms brought freezing rain.
Responding to a mean and unconstitutional ban against panhandling by the city of West Palm Beach, homeless people and their supporters rallied to protest and defy the law, which was struck down as a violation of free speech.
Nearly 600 people have died this year
On the streets of San Francisco
Pandemic, fentanyl and other drug overdoses
Simple neglect, mental illness, abandonment
Even tragically been set on fire while sleeping
This statement on behalf of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement notes that the tragedy that occurred in Chiapas, Mexico, Dec. 9, reflects a general pattern of vulnerability and persecution of migrants in transit through Mexican territory. The statement also refers to an upcoming virtual forum planned for January 2022.
Over one billion people have some form of disability. Imagine being trapped in your 6th floor apartment for days because the elevator doesn’t work. Or being yelled at because “you aren’t working fast enough.” Lack of accommodation for our disabilities is intolerable. Send your story to the People’s Tribune!
Chicago medical doctor and community activist discusses what President Biden needs to say and do about the pandemic but won’t. This includes the urgent need for a massive emergency increase in federal funding to health departments, schools, etc., increased production of safe masks and billions in international aid.
The pharmaceutical firms’ monopoly control over how many vaccines and treatments are made has to be suspended on an emergency basis. This is necessary to get the supplies needed to end the pandemic.
Discussion with Michael Mann, distinguished professor and director of Earth System Science Center, about why we see an increase in massive tornado outbreaks, and why they will continue and become more extreme examples of climate change.
The rich are buying up the housing and working class people can’t afford to buy houses anymore. The wealthiest 10% of Americans now hold more than 13 times the wealth of half of the nation. The pandemic saw the steepest increase in billionaires’ wealth in history.
Story highlights the first successful union organizing victory at a Starbucks store, in Buffalo, New York, along with information about the profits and union busting tactics of giant corporations that fight to keep unions out.
On December 6 Arizona college students began a hunger strike, demanding that Congress pass the voting rights bills as part of the fight for democracy. As word got out, young people from many other states joined their White House protest. Hear their voices.
Mainstream media have declared that the Democrats losing the Virginia governor’s race means the Democratic Party should isolate progressives and be more “moderate” in...
At the United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow (known as the #COP26 conference), Vanessa Nakate, a 24-year-old climate activist from Uganda, warned that, “Commitments...
As this is being written, President Biden has signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law. Now progressive lawmakers and...
Razor wire like “freedom”
Was designed to rip the arses
Of the poor and underclasses.
Razor wire outshines napalm
Allays all anxiety and doubt
The affluent kept safe the indigent kept out.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by our sister publication, the Tribuno del Puelo at www.tribunodelpueblo.org/
While we were all surprised by 15,000 Haitian...
Editor’s Note: As this edition of the People’s Tribune was being posted, the verdict had just been rendered in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial. The...
Thank you for acknowledging this letter. As an incarcerated person of a continuous three decades, and from an intersectionality of marginalized groups, I wanted...
Editor’s note: This article by Chas Moore, Executive Director of the Austin Justice Coalition was originally published at www.AustinJustice.org and is reprinted here with...
This article was published in the Tribuno del Pueblo at http://www.tribunodelpueblo.org/2021/10/two-paths-forward-division-war-and-misery-or-cooperation-with-one-another-and-harmony-with-mother-earth/
Times such as these sorely try women’s and men’s souls: Chaos, division, hate, police killings,...
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.
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.
In advance of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled to begin Nov. 1 in Glasgow, Scotland, three working groups consisting of 230...
Editor’s note: Corporate water has been taking away the public's control of water for decades. A webinar on water privatization with community speakers...
Editor’s note: Below Sandy Reid of the People's Tribune interviews Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI, a small largely African American town, about...
Editors note: Let’s stop the water privatization plan. Communities need an infrastructure package that provides real money, not privatization scams with public-private partnerships and asset...
SACRAMENTO, CA — The California Homeless Union and its local affiliate, the Sacramento Homeless Union, strongly oppose Mayor Steinberg’s “Master Siting Plan to Address...
The following is from a Facebook post from Elena Herrada in Detroit. She is a ‘counter narrator, mother, grandmother and shameless heckler. Radio host...
In 2020, the People’s Tribune and our sister bilingual publication, El Tribuno del Pueblo launched “The People-to-People Fact-Finding Delegation to the Border” in collaboration...
Central American families expelled from US to Mexico-Guatemala border.The governments of the region must clarify terms of agreement.August 11, 2021 Tapachula, Chiapas, México
On August...
Attention Justice Warriors!
The recent COVID-19 relief package (America Rescue Plan 2021) signed into law in March of this year offers opportunities for those on...
Maria Elena Martinez, editorial board member of the Tribuno de Pueblo, interviews Kenia Torres-Alcocer, Co-Director of Unión de Vecinos and Co-Director TriChair of the...
BREAKING: TransCanada (aka TC Energy) announced the Keystone XL pipeline *TERMINATED!*
“Without a determined group of farmers, ranchers and tribes, KXL would have been in...
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the Tribuno del Pueblo, sister publication to the People’s Tribune.
We are currently living in the midst...
Juneteenth has finally received the official recognition it deserves.
While such recognition is long overdue, Juneteenth this year must also be a time to look...
CHICAGO, IL — There is a simple, cost-effective solution readily available to get us herd immunity that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot refuses to implement...
AUSTIN, TX — Last Saturday we marched on Matt Mackowiak’s office, the genocide-supporting Republican strategist behind Prop B and Save Austin Now.
We first rallied...
As this is written, people across America and the world are demanding that Israel stop its brutal oppression of the Palestinians.
In a recent article...
Before the brave, before the proud builders and workers,I say I want the wide American earth,Its beautiful rivers and long valleys and fertile plains,Its...
Rights group United We Dream warned April 27 that unless he takes immediate steps to improve his administration's treatment of immigrants, President Joe Biden...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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 ILove love, life, the sweet smellOf things, the sky-blueLandscape of January days.
And my blood boils upAnd I laugh through eyesThat have known...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Below are voices from some of the many individuals and groups who helped make the Georgia victory possible.
"The victories of Senators-elect Jon Ossoff and...
As Covid-19 continues to ravage the country, with the highest death count ever, overwhelming the healthcare system, destroying jobs and the families dependent on...
Cathy Talbott of the People’s Tribune interviewed Trisha Springstead, R.N., Panacea, Florida, on her experiences working with Covid-19 patients in today's failing healthcare system....
Deanna Miller Berry, fighter, advocate, activist and people’s mayoral candidate in Denmark, SC tells the People’s Tribune why she is running.
I run because I...
SAN DIEGO, CA – In December, the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) US-Mexico Border Program released “Countering ICE’s Abusive Practices with Community Resiliency: Testimonies...
The same courage and mobilization displayed in the defeat of Trump in November must now be deployed to demand that government address the burning issues the country faces during this brutal winter.
Kim Foxx was reelected as Cook County State’s Attorney, bringing a strong message of social justice. Foxx, an African American woman who grew up in ...
Police in Alamance County in North Carolina pepper-sprayed a peaceful get-out-the-vote march October 31, including children and elderly people, on the ...
A crowd of close to 100 community activists and residents marched down Ashland near 67th Street, while cars honked in support, during GoodKids MadCity ...
Inez, Kentucky, nestled in the hills and hollers of eastern Kentucky's coal fields in Martin County, was chosen by the United Nations to host world ...
Rev. Edward Pinkney: “The mayor said the water was great. He didn’t know I was testing. It came back that the water was undrinkable with lead and other ...
These testimonies are from interviews by the advocacy group Services Not Sweeps, in response to brutal encampment sweeps in targeted areas all over ...
The view from the U.S.-Mexico border is both a damning portrait of national policies, and an inspiring vision of community struggle and resilience. ...
What little that’s left of American democracy could soon be destroyed. Millions of Americans sense this. They are heartbroken by the 210,000 needless coronavirus...
President Trump’s refusal to take responsibility for either the more than 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus or the cost of his special medical treatment...
In her book, Dismazed and Driven: My Look at Family Homelessness in America, Diane Nilan hit the road in 2005 to chronicle stories of family homelessness with a focus on children.
The government’s response to the pandemic and poverty has not been enough. The people need things like income, housing and health care now. Instead the ...
On September 1, in the midst of the pandemic, the limited federal eviction moratorium ended, setting millions of renters and mortgage-payers up for losing...
“Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world. “In fidelity and ...
The People's Tribune hosts ongoing discussions with many of our communities, urban, rural and Native, across the country fawater crises. In bringing together
We stand on the brink.
Democracy in America is in danger of being destroyed.
President Trump has dispatched federal agents to several cities where they have...
“I saw on TV men wearing combat fatigues. ... abducting people from the streets of Portland, putting them in unmarked vans. ... I wanted to speak to ...
Among concerns about the growing pandemic, tensions between the U.S., and its international allies and domestic unrest, the upcoming election has taken ...
Homeless mother and president of the Santa Cruz Homeless Union, Alicia Kuhl officially officially announced her bid for Santa Cruz City Council on August 5 ...
Cori Bush is a nurse, community activist, a mother and pastor who has dedicated her life to advocate for progress. She is running for US Congress in ...
We’re calling it a rent strike, but let’s be clear on our slogan: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay. Twenty million people are facing eviction due to COVID19, and they’re ...
The situation of my family is critical. The company where my husband worked went out of business due to the pandemic. My mom is too old to work, my ...
Pastor Errol Victor was railroaded to jail under the Louisiana Jim Crow 10/2 Law, which made it possible to convict with 10 out of 12 jurors in criminal ...
As Trump and his minion, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, call for reopening schools, claiming the science should not stand in the way and threatening ...
Employer health care doesn’t work. If you lose your job, you lose your right to health care. Everyone knows someone who has lost health care or has ...
This is a cultural project on refugee children organized by Chicago artists, where people read the stories of the children in banners and reflect on how ...
The centuries-long fight to make America a real democracy continues to revolve around the struggle of Black Americans in particular to have their lives and rights respected.
Water quality is important to all, and to Benton Harbor, the city of no return. We made it a high priority in the city's continued effort to test for lead ...
This is Mississippi's deadliest dirtiest secret ever. These cancer numbers are from the National Health Statistics. Madison County is No. 1 for breast ...
In the 1980’s, half of all retail in the United States was in smaller independent stores. By 2020, that percentage was less than one fourth. With the predicted ...
Derek Chauvin’s cold stare said everything. His nine minutes of relentless cruelty crystallized centuries of wrong. America exploded in righteous anger and will never be the same. The extraordinarily broad response to the ...
A president who fails to lead during the pandemic ravaging the country. Who spreads harmful disinformation and whips up ugly, divisive hatred. Who refuses...
“Daddy changed the world,” said Gianna, George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter.” Gianna’s mother, solidarityRoxie Washington said, “He will never see her grow up, graduate, ...
[Police] have opened fire with rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, pepper balls and have used nightsticks and shields to attack the working press ...
Paris Thomas was a vibrant teenager, but at the age of 14 he started dropping his pencil, comb, and food. He started to struggle in school with his studies. ...
"The reason the buildings are. … burning [is] because the people here in Minnesota are saying to the people of New York, to the people of California ...
Millions of renters are facing the possibility of becoming unhoused as the crisis has left them jobless and unable to pay rent. The limited federal, state and ...
Without government action, a wave of evictions is coming. Millions were struggling to get housed or stay housed before the crisis, and the problem is ...
As U.S. deaths from COVID19 escalate past 107,000 and unemployment climbs above 43 million, people are asking why our government is not doing more to ...
Varshini Prakash, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, talks about the need to both defeat Trump and stay in the streets to build support for the Green New Deal.
As the Illinois Single-Payer Coalition says, “We know that the roots of the [Covid-19] emergency stem from a deeper and much longer-term crisis—that of ...
During a Senate hearing on coronavirus measures May 12, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put U.S. health officials on the spot about whether a Covid-19 vaccine ...
I had been with the company since 2015. I opened up three major buildings, with my last location at Staten Island. In early March I started to raise health ...
McDonald's workers went on a one-day strike in 20 cities in May, over inadequate Covid-19 protections. Scores of McDonald's workers have Covid-19 and ...
The coronavirus’s impact on the Navajo Nation has pushed the tribe’s public health system to its limits. Decades of negligence and billions of dollars ...
With Covid-19, access to safe affordable water when under quarantine is a hardship. Yet, recently, the City decided to start shutting off everyone’s water ...
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is building a generationally transformative digital gathering called the Mass Poor People’s ...
Screenwriter, director and rapper Boots Riley was among some famous alumni of Oakland’s Skyline High School who gave video addresses to the school’s ...
A People’s Tribune reader and contributor recently included this in a Facebook post: “I have been working with the People's Tribune /Tribuno Del Pueblo....
“While this campaign is coming to an end, our movement is not.”
Those words spoken by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders during a live-streamed speech April...
As stories in this digital edition of the People’s Tribune show, the economic and public health catastrophe now gripping America is exposing a for-profit...
I’ve heard about the firing of Dr. Ming Lin in WA state, physician and ER doctor . . . for speaking out about the complete lack of PPE and protection for front line staff…
I work at a public hospital within the Health and Hospitals Corporation system. We rely on public funding that has been cut continuously over the past several decades. ...
The Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately hitting communities that have historically suffered from racism and unequal treatment, including African Americans, ...
Workers from Amazon, Walmart, Whole Foods and other grocery stores, transit workers, delivery drivers and domestic workers considered essential employees are organizing ...
As the Corona virus sweeps its deadly way across the country, homeless-led groups are demanding real housing and calling for taking over empty spaces, whether ‘given’ or ...
On April 1 in Chicago, the Autonomous Tenants Union (ATU), in conjunction with the Democratic Socialists of America, the Lift the Ban Coalition and others, livestreamed ...
The economy was on thin ice even before the virus hit. Wall Street commentators said all it would take to push it over the edge was a “black-swan” event — something ...
The grassroots importance during this campaign cycle and the previous cycle is what uplifted Bernie Sanders. It was the people. The organic creativity and the clear ...
This story is about the experience of the author’s 21-year-old grandson, Zachary Thomas, who has been detained since mid-March in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, now ...
On April 6, the U.S Supreme Court refused to postpone the Wisconsin primary until June, forcing voters to go to the polls in April. The ruling resulted in the disenfranchisement ...
Fifty years after the EPA was established to protect our environment, it has been captured by corporate forces intent on lifting all regulations on industry.
We are at a time in our lives that humanity can make a decision to ensure that every man, woman, and child, plus future generations, can have the necessities to thrive ...
Actions beginning on May 1 aim to build a US and global movement that determines how we emerge from the crisis with life itself as the primary value. It is about a true ...
Women asylum seekers in ICE custody at the for-profit jail in the small rural town of Jena, LA are desperate due to the Coronavirus. “We are afraid because we ...
The shelters in Reynosa began to fill to overflowing once again in December, just as the cold arrived. Thanks to Church World Services, we were able to get a lot of ...
Recent interviews with California farmworkers conducted by Líderes Campesinas reveal that although considered essential to the U.S. economy, they are also the ...
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world ...
In a time of crisis, the People’s Tribune brings to our readers our own reporting and also the voices of those fighting for a society and a government that meets our ...
In an action reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, President Trump has ordered that the elite tactical ICE unit BORTAC be deployed to Sanctuary cities throughout the country during the months of February through May ...
Beloved America. This is a rotting empire. Weren’t many of us happy to see Obama win after the reign of Bushes? My father donated to that [Obama]campaign. ...
Trump says America will never be a socialist country, but Bernie Sanders pointed out recently that it already is. He said the problem is, it’s just socialism for the rich. ...
Now is the time for Medicare for All. On top of being threatened with illness, people who are sickened by coronavirus Covid-19 and don’t have health insurance or ...
Homelessness is the biggest issue. They just cut the HUD budget again. Sold public housing, sold Jordan Downs, it is now mixed use, market rate housing. Public ...
Why with all its power and wealth doesn’t the U.S. house its people? As millions of housing units stand empty, people die in the streets, and our schools are full of ...
“We must do away with the notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable ...
he said - l’m tired, old and black
but not necessarily in that order
seen more blues than the indigo sky
and royal sea put together
but they’ve never got the better of ...
Wayne Warren, 73, froze to death in his tent at the Roosevelt and Desplaines Tent City in Chicago, Illinois in the early morning of February 15. He was an army veteran. ...
Mike Zint, longtime homeless activist, died at age 53 on Valentine’s Day, 2020, from severe lung disease and pneumonia. After some years of homelessness, he ...
Super Tuesday results have created what will now be a seesaw battle for the Democratic nomination for President. The Bernie Sanders campaign has given ...
On February 25, the Laney College Teach-In on “The Power Of Your Vote” sought to inform an audience of around 250 students of serious threats to our ...
We head into election season with a complex and multilayered shroud of voter suppression engulfing the country. Once concentrated primarily in Southern ...
Heading toward the March 17, 2020 Illinois primary elections, Bernie Sanders holds a lead in the polls, reflecting a grass roots dissatisfaction with same-old non-solutions, a hunger to address ...
On these pages are stories of the fight to save our Earth from the scourge of dirty fossil fuel corporations and secure clean water as a human right for millions of people ...
A decade-long battle between the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and a company planning to build a natural gas pipeline through their territory in British Columbia (B.C.) ...
Hundreds of thousands of people in low-income families across Michigan have borne the brunt of the record rise in the cost of water services and the unaffordable ...
A dangerous anti-protest bill, HB 4615 passed the WV House in mid-February and was scheduled for a Senate committee hearing March 4. The bill would make ...
The Trump administration used undocumented youth as a bargaining chip, but it’s not the first administration to keep the undocumented waiting for a stable future.
“The child separation policy is a stain on this country that will resonate for a generation or more. It’s truly hard to conceive of what type of people it takes to ...
“In the past five years, rents went up in Santa Cruz over 50%. We are asking for an increase in our wages so we don’t pay more than 30% in rent. We found ...
In honor of the 100th anniversary, the Smithsonian opens a major exhibition on the history of women’s suffrage: “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence.” The ...
Lifting up the names of loved ones lost to violence, Indigenous women are leading a powerful international coalition to stop violence against Indigenous women. ...
Some people believe Jessica may have been shot at Willie Lark Jr.’s house, which is in the family’s neighborhood. There was a puddle of blood in the front of the ...
Your support is requested to help send a People to People Fact-Finding Delegation to the U.S.-Mexico Border. Activists from different parts of the country ...
When Carter G. Woodson introduced African American History Month in 1926, as Negro History Week, it soon became clear that American history without African American history was ...
Filmmaker Ray Santisteban’s new documentary, the First Rainbow Coalition, tackles the question of what it takes to build trust and solidarity between oppressed groups in a country.
On New Year's Day, a Kansas City homeless man found his friend frozen to death in a shed where they slept at night. “l picked him up and he was frozen." A friend of the two men ...
We’re cousins … we care, we listen, we share, we open our hearts to those who need. We are blessed!” said Street MOMs, a group in Wheeling, West Virginia, “dedicated to serving ...
As l walk through the camps with a huge jacket, frosty temps in the air. . . It takes me back to a time when l was young and homeless. I look at what I’m fighting now and what my ...
At the invitation of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Sec-Treasurer Christiana Wagner, I accompanied a 17-member congressional delegation to visit the refugee camp in the dangerous ...
The year 2019 brought children in cages, families separated, and thousands locked in detention centers. The gates were shut, supposedly because there’s “no room at the inn.” Now ...
On this page are drawings from children awaiting asylum at the U.S. border in Matamoros, Mexico. They drew their experiences as part of an art project by Dr. Belinda Arriaga, an ...
Andrew Yang wasn’t in the most recent Democratic debate, but he continues to amass a hard core of supporters, many attracted by his position regarding technology eliminating jobs ...
Below are recent quotes from a variety of people, from Twitter posts and other sources, regarding the question of universal health care in America, including their support for ...
As the California Primary on March 3 looms just ahead, Californians find themselves in a fight for their lives. Articles below reflect some of these fights ...
Members of the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) at Laney College in Oakland, California, attended the December San Francisco mass meeting of the national Poor People’s Campaign Tour, ...
For over three decades, Exide Technology contaminated their employees and the surrounding areas in Southeast Los Angeles County, while every government agency in place failed ...
The grassroots community group, “Decarcerate Sacramento,” has mobilized the public to oppose jail expansion in Sacramento, calling for the funding of sustainable, community- ...
Members of the Council and my fellow citizens, in the spirit of the ancient Greek forums of old, when men of reason, logic, and a sense of civic duty gathered to bear witness to ...
As the California Primary on March 3 looms just ahead, we find ourselves in a fight for our lives. Articles on these pages reflect some of these fights: from Moms 4 Housing in ...
The Sunrise Movement, a youth-led grassroots organization fighting to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs in the process, endorsed Bernie Sanders for president ...
The stories below are about some of the battles for the Earth; from the youth, to the still suffering children of Flint, to the fighters in Death Alley in Louisiana, to the Amazon ...
On the evening of January 6, 2020, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporation Formosa for its $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing ...
Juliana v. United States is not about the government’s failure to act on climate. Instead, these young plaintiffs between the ages of 12 and 23, assert that the U.S. government, ...
On January 14, residents of Flint confronted the County School Board for failure to dispatch needed Special Education funds to the long suffering, poisoned ...
After two major hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Congress approved almost $20 billion in disaster aid. But the Trump administration has refused to send $18 billion of this ...
Editor’s note: Vast numbers of people are participating in the 2020 election campaign to demand change. Here we look at the Bernie Sanders campaign....
We're a group of Amazon employees who believe it’s our responsibility to ensure our business models don’t contribute to the climate crisis. Jeff Bezos and Amazon ...
“So if we are in this situational reality where we’re looking at the predatory . . . ruling class, and we’re talking to them about environment and . . . alternative energy, ...
The US government’s assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and a top Iraqi paramilitary commander in Baghdad was in part calculated to provoke Iran into going to ...
Military spending makes up two-thirds of the US federal budget, and it could soon become three-quarters of the budget. The $1trillion US military budget today is bigger than the ...
The US Justice Department on Dec. 18 announced the launch of “Operation Relentless Pursuit,” which Attorney General William Barr claimed is aimed at “combating violent crime” in ...
The attack on democracy in Benton Harbor, MI shows that the corporate power structure aims to crush anyone who stands in its way. It is a process under way across America. After ...
Editor's note: This editorial was written for the People's Tribune by Lisa Doloff, our beloved Editorial Board member from Virginia who passed away recently.
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The House is preparing to impeach Trump as we go to press, although it seems likely the Republican-controlled Senate will vote to keep him in office. Americans are divided ...
“Close your eyes and imagine it’s 2040 and we’ve averted the climate crisis and we have an active and alive democracy. No one’s heat is shut off. We can walk to school without ...
Jack McReynolds, UMWA District 12 Local 2420 President, spoke with Cathy Talbott of the People's Tribune about the fight for miners' pensions, jobs, healthcare ...
In 2017, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental advocacy group, was among plaintiffs who won a successful lawsuit ...
The citizens of Osceola township in Evart, Michigan received their just reward for several years of legal battle to enforce their own zoning ordinance in the face of ...
The People’s Tribune is a voice of millions of everyday people struggling to survive and move our revolution forward. And it helps build connections among the fighters ...
While Trump spearheads a government plan to round up homeless people, those who the billionaires no longer need, the articles below illustrate the life or death fight ...
Now is the time for all people of conscience to speak out and act decisively to block the Trump administration plan to round up homeless people just like the Germans ...
On November 23, hundreds of Oaklanders joined together in a March for Housing Now: Our City, Not Scarcity. The event highlighted two homeless mothers who moved ...
On November 24, homeless-led groups set up the Housing Justice Village in front of Oakland City Hall. With 13 tents, this action was organized by The Village, ...
“How is it okay to criminally penalize anybody for not having permanent housing when the number of beds available is fewer than the number of individuals in ...
California: We have choices as we organize and vote! See stories below about burniung issues such as homelessness, public education, healthcare, and more ...
Oakland’s school board has gone rogue and intends to close 24 schools in the face of massive community opposition. Out of the last 18 schools they closed, 14 opened as ...
The California state government holds $19 billion in reserve “rainy day” funds, yet in Oakland, our community colleges are being slammed with austerity-justified cuts ...
I’ve been a nurse for 12 years. I work in Long Beach in medical/surgical assignments. I work with all systems as an emergency room nurse. Most of my patients are ...
Laura's Law is a statewide law enacted in 2002 when a clinic volunteer was shot and killed by a mentally ill man who refused treatment. It allows counties to force ...
In this centerfold we are focusing on California, where the poverty rate is the highest in the nation. In this state, what you might call an insurgency is developing—an ...
Six protesters, including four doctors, were arrested outside of a Border Patrol facility in Chula Vista, California as they demanded agents allow them to give migrants flu shots ...
Various Democratic presidential candidates have called for reforming the immoral U.S. immigration system. Below is a representative sample of some of the more specific proposals. ...
A 75-year-old U.S. Army veteran said: “Many times, I’ve felt like I was starving. There’s neighbors that need food, too. There’s people [on] dialysis that need food ...
“The government failed in its attempt to criminalize basic human kindness,” says Scott Warren to the crowd outside the Arizona courthouse after a jury found him innocent ...
“Chicago won a historic reparations ordinance in 2015, the first of its kind, that provides financial redress for survivors of police torture, [and] mandated the creation ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, born January 15, raised this question in a 1967 speech: “Why are there forty million poor people in America?” When you ask that question, ...
Three activists with Black Lives Matter in South Bend, Indiana,Marcus Washington, Roger Calderon and Yemoja Redding recently gave their views of outgoing mayor ...
A true man of God, Keith Collins, pastor of the Church of the Overcomer—a blue jean friendly church—says he “presents gospel to a world that is broken and filled with ...
We are here today, standing in an unbroken line of march from slavery to freedom. Every step forward has been met with massive resistance, including legal and extra-legal ...
Outrage swept a Minnesota Amazon Fulfillment Center after the company discovered a man lying on the floor for 20 minutes in apparent cardiac arrest, and workers were ...
Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, in a special report on the growing number of people made homeless in California and across the country, and the organized resistance springing up ...
Robert Woodlief, John Thompson, Nick Marini, and Manuel Murillo lived in a vacant lot behind Ross Clothing in Santa Cruz in November 2018. “We heard ...
“Our kids need a voice. Somebody got to speak up for them. … Our kids come in with a lot of issues. Growing up in the neighborhood, seeing a liquor store on each and every corner ...
“Our rage as a nation has to burn as fiercely as every fire we witness—for the retiree who's lost their entire life savings, for the family forced to evacuate from a home ...
During October, millions of people in the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California were without electricity for days as Pacific Gas & Electric shut down power to prevent ...
Kentucky’s Martin County Concerned Citizens say 50% of county residents cannot afford their monthly water bill. People also say the water is often undrinkable, making ...
“On this day [Nov. 6] in 2015, I was combining corn. I got a call from a national media source wanting my reaction to President Obama’s rejection [of the XL pipeline]. After ...
Flint residents were heartbroken upon hearing about the recent death of Congressman Elijah Cummings. Representative Cummings was ranking member of the Oversight ...
Thirty-two charges were dropped against eleven defendants including trespassing, peace disturbance and resisting arrest after they formed an all-day blockade in 2017 to the ...
Over 300 grassroots, frontline and Indigenous Peoples from North America attended the The Resurgence: 2019 North American Forest & Climate Movement Convergence ...
Several months ago, I attended a meeting organized by Jabari Jumaane, Executive Director of the AFIBA Center in Los Angeles, CA. AFIBA is the acronym for African Firefighter In ...
We can struggle to gain community control of the police so that Black and Brown communities in particular can decide who polices them and how they are policed. Chicago is a ...
Around 120 people gathered at Ambedkar King Study Circle’s 2nd annual conference held on September 7 in Cupertino, California. Dr. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd ...
On this page we highlight some presidential candidates. Our aim is to help our readers determine what program might help “we, the people” continue our fight for a ...
Tonight in America, over 500,000 people find themselves homeless. Half of our population is struggling to pay their rent, mortgage, light bill, struggling to just stay ...
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has centered his campaign around the impact of workers losing jobs to technology. Yang has written that a wave of automation and the ...
I’m running on the theme of an ecosocialist Green New Deal. I was the first candidate to use that theme in the New York gubernatorial race against Andrew Cuomo who had an austerity ...
The following are excerpts from a presentation by Cathleen Williams at the Poor People’s Campaign Forum at Sacramento State, October 16, 2019 sponsored by the ...
“After watching my friends at the Minority Humanitarian Foundation (MHF) create a modern humanitarian speed rail—nightly trips getting asylum seekers off the side ...
A Marine combat veteran who served in Iraq was deported to El Salvador in October. He is one of hundreds of other veterans who have suffered a similar fate. He lived in the ...
In San Jose, there’s a challenge to the role of law enforcement in youth services and a push back against a further criminalization of Black and Raza youth. The city has a nationally ...
I am formerly incarcerated. During my prison sentence, not unlike others, I worked on myself, programmed, and eagerly awaited my move from my past. Yes, I made poor ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King must be turning over in his grave over what is happening in Benton Harbor, Michigan and around the country. Today automation, computers, robots ...
We at the People’s Tribune are deeply saddened by the sudden death in early November of our long-time friend and colleague Bob Brown, passionate revolutionary thinker and ...
As the country slips deeper into crisis and is inundated with the corporate media’s lies and distractions, the People’s Tribune is needed more than ever. This paper ...
The 11 day Chicago teachers and support staff strike is over. From the outset, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) announced they struck over the lack of basic ...
What do U.S. auto workers at GM, Chicago teachers and nurses, direct care provider workers in Massachusetts, Metal workers in Brazil, South African bank ...
The crisis in our country is arousing millions of people to bring their demands for economic survival and a just society to the arena of the 2020 elections ...
I’ve said it a million times Trump’s next target is the homeless. … Sprung tents in Sacramento … the last shelter had barbed wire like prison and awful ...
Seemingly out of nowhere the discussion among the Los Angeles City Council, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, homeless service providers and even some ...
You say that you support the homeless people of Chicago. I don’t believe that is true. Because this past weekend we had so many police down in the park in ...
Sailing under the banner “Unite Behind the Science”, Greta Thunberg brought her enthusiasm and leadership to the UN Climate Summit and the September ...
“We should be building an unstoppable movement of the world’s people that crosses all boundaries, united in a commitment to create a world that truly works for all ...
Below are a few excerpts from an Open Letter by Maria Gunnoe, a 2009 Goldman Prize winner who has been the fight for a safe environment in Appalachia ...
In October, Lakota youth activist Tokata Iron Eyes and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke at rallies in Native American country in South Dakota ...
“My parents left me and my brother in El Salvador for five years, and at the age of seven, I was reunited with people who said they were my parents ...
Attacks on migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border and inside the U.S. are increasingly vicious. The pro-migrant/immigrant movement is also gaining strength ...
“Media suddenly discovered El Paso after the killings, but it has been like this for years. What is different today is the level of militarism by the ...
On Sept. 20, some 2,200 nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) carried out a one-day strike. The nurses, represented by National ...
Women of all backgrounds and trades have been fighting for equality in the workplace for generations. Much progress has been made, but as we say, the ...
Let the truth be told in the city of Benton Harbor, Michigan, a small city just beside Lake Michigan. The land is so valuable that Whirlpool, the dominant ...
In late September, 94% of the teachers authorized the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) to strike. This photo at Hearst Elementary shows support staff from SEIU ...
Make the People’s Tribune October fund drive a success Our country and the world are in crisis, and this has aroused people to build unity in the fight for a new society that ...
Outside the second Democratic Presidential debates in Detroit, various groups took to the streets to march, rally, and protest to articulate their demands. The spirit of the rally centered on the burning issues facing workers. Climate ...
As the threat of recession looms, the Trump administration has submitted a $4.7 trillion budget to Congress for the year 2020 that would drastically cut ...
Dear Readers, your skills are welcome to help the People’s Tribune continue to be a bright light in our battle for a society that cares for us all. ...
On these pages are some of the many voices in the fight for a society that doesn’t know killings, poverty, jailings, children separated from parents, borders, and pain ...
shalom aleichem to you angels of justice
angels of the most high
show us how to fight for the liberation of anyone
who has been forced from their homes pursued ...
As you all know, M.A.S.K. does not do marches, rallies, etc. because they believe their activism is better served by what they do for the community ...
In another act of incredible cruelty, Jimmy Aldaoud, of Iraqi extraction, who came to the U.S. from Greece and lived here since he was six months old ...
Hundreds march to the ICE building in Milwaukee for a prayer vigil in support of migrant children and their families on Aug. 7, 2019. The vigil took ...
“Tonight we experienced a tiny example of the violence ICE uses on our immigrant neighbors every day. [In the video of the incident], you can see the ...
As the articles on these pages illustrate, the life or death battle for Earth, humanity, and power over the corporations, particularly energy, is on ...
On September 20 and 27, youth from more than 150 countries will be leading climate strikes, slated to be potentially the largest such actions to have ...
The asbestos exposure in Libby, Montana, caused by W.R. Grace Company, whose vermiculite mine poisoned the entire region, left thousands of people, ...
The death of environmental activist Geraldine Mayho, pictured above holding megaphone at a Coalition Against Death Alley march last May, has brought ...
Dr. Kalama O Ka Aina Niheu (Kanaka Maoli), lifelong protector of sacred Native Hawaiian lands and co-founder of the Mauna Medic Healers Hui, interviewed ...
The Resurgence: 2019 North American Forest and Climate Movement Convergence intends to bring grassroots environmental, Indigenous Peoples and social ...
“I knew from being homeless that I had to get politically involved,” Jordan said when I asked how he came to be a delegate at the 2019 Convention of ...
After a summer of numerous mass shootings by white supremacists across the country, the ties of racism and violence have finally arrived as a central ...
I dreaded going to the California Democratic Party Convention held in San Francisco last May, and even more my hearing held afterwards. I had documented ...
Millions of America's 140 million poor are already living without housing and many of us are a medical crisis, layoff or car repair away from joining ...
Not all of us are addicts. Most are vets and disabled. There’s a staggering amount of them here in Stockton, CA. The shelters and Gospel mission turning ...
It was a hot month in July, slightly over a million people, close to a third of Puerto Rico’s current population, took to the streets and forced the ...
Kentucky miners have been blocking trains loaded with coal from leaving the mine after Blackjewel, the sixth largest coal mining company in the country ...
A new reader who is homeless told us, “When I saw your paper I gave it to others and said read it . . . I want to use the paper to awaken people to ...
“So in Chicago on September 20, my organization on our youth climate strike is organizing a strike. It will begin at Grant Park at 11:00 a.m., and we will march ...
“There is very little that I have not done to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and to stop the coal industry tirade on our land, water, air, our ...
Shouts of “Yes! Yes!” and cars honking support. Enthusiastic waves from passersby. That’s what greeted Southern nurses in bright red union T-shirts as they...
“What kind of monsters put children in cages?” reads a woman’s sign, protesting the mass forced separation of thousands of children from their parents...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has correctly described migrant detention facilities as “concentration camps.” On July 1, she and 13 other Democratic ...
Scott Warren is with “No More Deaths,” a humanitarian group that leaves water, food and meds for migrants who face death in their journey across the hot ...
“Today it seems to be legal to murder and put in concentration camps thousands of our people. Our children are killed right before our eyes. Central ...
Direct action is a tool that should only be used when it needs to be used. Protesting with a permit is not direct action. Anytime you appeal to authority ...
Another shooting death hits close to my home, and close to my heart. His name was Quintin Brown, 17-years-old; a boy with a goofy grin and a sense of ...
At a funeral in a black community church, hundreds of people came to pay their respects to Eric Jack Logan, a black father of seven known by the nickname ...
On these pages are voices from the movement to save humanity and earth from corporate destruction. The people are demanding that government protect the ...
On June 19, residents from communities of Metro--east St. Louis gathered to protest the decision of the EPA to allow the multi-national corporation ...
On June 8, over 150 Minden residents and allies from all over West Virginia and six surrounding states marched to bring awareness to the long-term impacts ...
How can anyone separate a parent and child, and put them in cages? Or behind barbed wire? RESIST! People’s Tribune bundles: 50 cents per paper. People’s ...
“Hey hey, ho ho, Everywhere we go, people want to know, who we are, what we stand for. We are the nurses, mighty mighty nurses, fighting for our patients ...
All across the country, as a collapsing economy drives more and more people into the streets, housing and homeless movements are finding common cause ...
At first glance, the announcement that Google is investing one billion dollars towards housing might sound like a great idea. Wow! This corporation really ...
Dear friends and fellow homeless advocates, my name is R. Joshua Collins. While in Spokane, Washington, I was a mathematics instructor, had graduated ...
On the 11th floor police discovered the decomposing body of 43 year old Thomas Lyons. Lyons had been shot several times and stuffed into the closet of ...
“Los Angeles Long Beach Harbor is the largest port in the U.S. by volume and tonnage. And we (the ILWU) also handle the most containers of any port ...
Let the truth be told by the people of Benton Harbor. The tentative agreement between Benton Harbor’s school board, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other ...
“Closing down the high school will be educational genocide. The much trumpeted zero percent college readiness is false. I have about 15 friends who are ...
For decades, the People’s Tribune and its bilingual sister publication, the Tribuno del Pueblo, have opened our pages to the growing movement in America ...
People are standing up for humanity across America and the world. Their voices are asserting the essential unity of the human species. Their morality stands in ...
DETROIT, MI — In June, there was a Gay Pride celebration/parade in Detroit. Marching alongside it were 12 (or so) fully armed Swastika/flagwaving N.A.Z.I.S.,...
After a summer of numerous mass shootings by white supremacists across the country, the ties of racism and violence have finally arrived as a central topic in ...
As many as 108,000 people in 25,000 households, including 55,000 children, could become homeless as a result of the Trump administration’s proposed rule changes governing public housing, published in the Federal Register on May 10, 2019. The ...
The worst thing the Attorney General did this spring had nothing to do with the Mueller report On May 1, U.S. Attorney General William Barr vigorously defended his handling of the Mueller investigation in a defiant appearance before the …
As the ongoing crisis in the economy, the rising cost of rents and housing, and the lack of livable wages everywhere pushes people into the streets ...
The People’s Tribune and the bilingual Tribuno del Pueblo are sister publications that bring you essential news and views from fighters in the grass-roots struggle for a ...
The Logan Square community in Chicago recently packed into a meeting just a quarter-mile from a homeless encampment. This public hearing to get 100 ...
During the past year, Eve Garrow, policy analyst and advocate for the ACLU Foundation of Southern California did an investigation of three Southern ...
While leaning against a urine-stained & crumbling wall,
Hard up against the El tracks,
His heart stopped.
Softly he sank down to the pavement
Clasping to his chest
A plastic bag that held ...
So the Ross Camp was evicted today. A home to upwards of 200 people, an “unsanctioned encampment” in the words of the City. I was there for the large ...
My name is Mike Zint. I'm the cofounder of ‘First They Came for The Homeless.’ Recently, city officials and police came by our camp and threatened to ...
I recently spent a lovely afternoon with a couple of lifetime Blacksburg, Virginia residents directly effected by the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) ...
In 2018, the Michigan Department of Human Services reported 28 known cases of Legionella disease in Flint. So far this year there are eight cases, but ...
In honor of the third anniversary of the Water Protectors movement at Standing Rock, below are excerpts from an interview by Tracy L. Barnett of the ...
This fee would go into a “Carbon Fees Trust Fund” and 100% of the money in this fund would be divided up and sent out to all American households in ...
The Sunrise movement is “building an army of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process” (sunrisemovement.org) ...
Voters in three “red” states: Utah, Idaho and Nebraska, passed ballot initiatives last November to expand Medicaid. Below, Utah activist Paul Gibbs ...
Residents of Denmark, South Carolina, joined presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in a Justice Town Hall in May on their fight for safe water. “High ...
The following is excerpted from a statement by the Coalition Against Death Alley, which is fighting chemical pollution in Louisiana. CADA members and ...
“It’s not the moment to be quiet. It’s not the moment to go home and fix your dinner and watch TV. This is the moment for you to march. It is a moment ...
Some 204 people this year were “not fleeing the scene” when the police killed them, according to the Post. Males made up 348 of the fatalities, 22 were ...
It was a sunny day on the Playas of Tijuana side of the border wall where it meets the ocean. Members of DREAMer’s Mom’s gather next to the wall under ...
Etowah County Alabama is under contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house up to 350 male immigrants at the Etowah County Detention ...
Speakers who traveled to the border to bring back the voices of the refugees discuss a society where everyone has their needs met and where we are no ...
Eddie Treadwell, a prisoner at Coldwater Prison Facility, said Michigan’s increased use of habitual offender sentences, the elimination of “Good Time ...
“We blocked all the doors (and eventually the parking lot) of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) headquarters, plus surrounded ...
Now they’re caging our babies and quoting the Bible
The same scriptures that slave-owners used to claim justifiable
Chaining and shipping human beings by the millions
In the bottoms of boats, ripping parents from children, ...
On this page we continue our coverage of the fight for to save the Earth and humanity from corporate destruction. – The editors ‘We’re going to #change the debate,’ says ...
We really don’t talk about fixing the health care system. We talk about issues, quality, cost, availability, management, ability to pay, demographics, equity ...
In mid-April, Laura Maradiaga-Alvarado, an 11-year-old girl now in Houston, received a deportation order terrorizing her and her family. Laura faced deportation back to...
Regardless of how anyone feels about Julian Assange or Wikileaks, Assange’s arrest and the plan to extradite him to the US for trial threatens everyone’s ...
A homeless technology worker living in his van in a parking lot. A 17-year-old high school student afraid climate change won’t let her live to have children ...
On April 6 over 19 endorsing organizations conducted an action at a houseless encampment in Harbor City, CA, demanding that “the City of Los Angeles and ...
On April 11, in the African American tradition, a homecoming took place for Ermias Asghedom (aka Nipsey Hussle), who had been shot and killed in the Hyde ...
As part of the 20th anniversary of Columbine, the #MyLastShot campaign is a violence prevention project led by students from Columbine High School and ...
Billionaires from around the world pledged over $1 billion overnight to restore the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Although most people favor rebuilding ...
We stand here today in front of the Flint Water Treatment Plant to commemorate the disaster that continues to affect the people of Flint. [It is] five ...
On February 26, 1972, the coal slurry impoundments at Buffalo Creek failed, releasing 132 million gallons of black-waste water and coal sludge. Seventeen ...
On March 29th, water protectors gathered at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Spirit Camp near Ideal, SD. They gathered on that beautiful hill to celebrate the ...
According to PBS, 44 million Americans don't have healthcare and another 38 million have inadequate health insurance. NetQuote, an insurance lead provider ...
After Stacey Abrams lost her bid to become the first African American woman to become governor of Georgia, she said that she was angry, sad and despondent ...
On January 12, 2019 seventy thousand maquiladoras workers in the northern region of Tamaulipas, Mexico went on strike for the first time in decades, chanting ...
The original Chrysler Corporation was founded in 1925 by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company. As of May 11, 2015, Chrysler has 26 ...
Speakers who traveled to the border to bring back the voices of the refugees to the public, and other experts on immigration, are available to speak ...
May Day commemorates the battles for the 8-hour day from 1886 and afterward. It is recognized the world over as the day when workers and their organizations ...
As a healthcare professional and Senior Care Advocate, it’s a call I get often: “I am a veteran and I want to go through the VA for my medical needs, because ...
I am the current President and CEO of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization, better known as BANCO. I am also Pastor of God's Household of Faith ...
As the struggle continues on the part of the Unanimous Is Not Enough movement to free all those wrongfully convicted by the state of Louisiana's Jim Crow 10/2 law, it reminds ...
A specter haunts the ruling circles of Chicago: the specter of a working class that cannot find a job in a city that no longer works. Seventy percent of that working class sat out ...
Congress has introduced H.R. 763 known as the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019 in which fossil fuel companies would pay a carbon emissions fee ...
With a sense of urgency youth are in the lead: marching, speaking out, occupying congressional offices in DC and state legislatures, and planning climate...
Every day, 4 year-old Austin Perrine, in a red satin superhero cape, hands out chicken sandwiches to homeless men and women outside a Birmingham, Alabama shelter. On his shirt are the words “Show Love.” His father, who goes ...
The following quotes are from one of 15 Amicus briefs filed in support of the Juliana Plaintiffs, pictured above. Over 36,000 young people from around the world ...
Wondering how YOU would react if a city ordinance limited your personal property to what can fit in a 60-gallon Hefty bag, and is it only for homeless residents ...
On March 18, 2018, Sacramento Police drew their guns and killed Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s back yard. Officers had been dispatched to Meadowview, one of ...
Unhoused individuals and communities in Chicago have struggled to survive through two polar vortexes this winter. Many living on the streets did not make it ...
The recent fight to abolish Louisiana’s Jim Crow 10/2 law and free all those who were wrongfully convicted under it, has uncovered injustice that goes far beyond ...
Below are quotes that point toward a society where we, the people are in the driver’s seat, where our country’s vast resources are shared with everyone, and ...
In recognition of Earth Day, April 22, 2019, the People’s Tribune continues to share stories on these pages of the people’s fight to save Mother Earth and ...
Kevin Fulton, known by his street name ‘Flee,’ was found dead in February 2019 near Drumm St. in San Francisco where he used to ask for survival donations, and ...
On these pages we continue our monthly coverage of voices of, by, and for the homeless. Today, millions in this nation of plenty face rising poverty, evictions ...
As the people in the path of environmental destruction attempt to use their right to free speech and engage in civil disobedience to protect their communities ...
This is dedicated to deaths of Lori Carter, age 57, Jassmine McBride, age 30, Mary J. Watson, age 43, along with scores of others who fell victim to the toxic ...
Yearly from 1982 to 2015, between 9 million and 45 million Americans got their drinking water from a source that violated the standards of the Environmental ...
In 1914, when Henry Ford advertised the first $5 a day opportunity for those willing to work on the assembly line, blue collar workers eventually fought and won ...
“When we set about … reclaiming the earth, becoming part of the earth again, I think that will be a real accomplishment … to rebuild the earth, to clean it up, ...
“Flint was not only the birthplace of GM. This is where brave and radical and disobedient Flint autoworkers demanded a fair share of our prosperity. The American ...
Maria Gunnoe speaks to the People’s Tribune about what needs to be done to clean up after the industrial polluters in West Virginia. Maria is a 2009 Goldman ...
The cry for freedom from police tyranny grows ever louder in Chicago, the only city in America that requires its public schools to teach the history of local police ...
This election will be different! That was the hope of millions of Chicagoans as they turned towards the April 2nd runoffs, which were under way as this is ...
The Democratic Party has never been a party of the people. To the contrary, it has fought us every step of the way. The best we have ever gotten from the Democratic ...
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has introduced HR 1384 in the U.S House of Representatives with 106 congressional co-signers. It is the most extensive legislation ...
Students, faculty and staff in Los Angeles public higher education are battling corruption and a plan to lock out thousands of future students. First, the ...
General Motors has been around since September 16, 1908. As of February 19, 2019, GM has 84 factories open around the world.Fifty-nine of those factories are ...
While GM reports a new record $12 billion profit for 2018, some of the 1600 former GM workers in the now-closed Lordstown, Ohio plant speak out about the ...
Speakers who recently returned from the border to express their solidarity with the Caravans are available to speak. Speakers bring the voices of the migrants ...
Joaquin Sotelo Tarin of Merced County, a decorated U.S. Naval veteran of the Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan campaigns of 2001 to 2006, narrowly avoided deportation ...
The U.S. defense budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, 2018, is $716 billion. It’s one of the biggest defense budgets in modern American history. And ...
The fight in Benton Harbor is a war, not a conflict. It is about whether Americans will have prosperity and democracy or live in poverty under the heel of corporate ...
We here on the shores of one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water, Lake Michigan, are also in need of free, cool, clear, clean water. As the nation ...
People at the Chicago Memorial Service for the 51 Muslim victims of the massacre in New Zealand express their unity against hate. “Speeches condemning the ...
There's no money to fund education in Oakland, California (and the rest of California and the US) for low-income students and communities, but there are 144 billionaires ...
The winds of change blowing across America have hit the Windy City with gale force. The results of the local election here show that Chicagoans are sick of the ...
On February 26, 1972, the coal slurry impoundments at Buffalo Creek failed, releasing 132 million gallons of black-waste water and coal sludge. Seventeen towns ...
Listening to the words coming out of the White House, we have a real emergency on our hands. Rapists, drug lords, and criminal masterminds are threatening the livelihoods of America’s working class. But the offenders who most ...
Utah voters, morally opposed to people in need going without healthcare, passed Prop 3 to expand Medicaid. Lawmakers overturned the legislation, voting for ...
Mr. Trump, you recently declared that America “will never be a socialist country.” You said, “We are born free, and we will stay free.” But how “free” are the ...
Four months—yet it feels like it’s been forever since the Camp Fire ravaged the tight-knit community of Paradise, CA. The fire, which started on November 8 of 2018 ...
Raelynn Butcher and others from the Marysville Homeless Union, a chapter of the California Homeless Union, and part of the Poor People’s Campaign, visit a ...
Danielle Williams, 46, takes care of her teenage daughter and two dogs in the parking lot where she lives in her minivan. She downsized from an apartment to a car ...
Does the Walton family earn more in one minute than Walmart workers do in a year? The Washington Post says: YES. The Walton family makes: $25,149 a minute ...
Rally during the Super Bowl in Atlanta, GA protests the violation of the rights of the homeless who were moved out of the area for the Super Bowl; the money ...
The Google 8 were arrested for dissent at the December 4 City Council Google Project vote, but people every day are arrested simply for being unhoused and ...
Many residents of Denmark, SC, rallied near their city hall Jan. 26 to demand a solution to the poisoning of the town’s water. It came out last year that the ...
I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where climate change was never up for debate in my school system. Instead, I learned about the greenhouse gas effect ...
Let’s look at an illustrative story of corporate theft: the “Sharples Water Line Extension Project” in Logan County, West Virginia. That project used public money ...
John 15:4-5 “Remain in me, as I remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in ...
Oakland’s regular public schools lose $57 million a year to charter schools. If this money was kept in the district, it could be used to reduce class size and ...
Friday, January 18, 2019, marked the First Indigenous Peoples March in Washington D.C. Beginning in prayer and ending in a traditional round dance, the marchers ...
On February 1, Atlanta rapper 21 Savage released a video for his hit single “A Lot” on YouTube, the most popular platform for new music. It featured new lyrics ...
There is no period in country music that resonates today as much as it did in 1956-1972. But you’d have to dig beyond just the hits—into the B-sides and deep ...
In the short run, it is obvious that the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Canada Auto Workers (CAW) are not causing this situation. Neither is the $4 an hour GM ...
A trending hash tag on Twitter is #GOPTaxScamStories. It is flooded with acid comments from outraged middle class taxpayers who have recently filed their...
Don’t eat with steel fork
Eat with fingers & timeless maize
Your soul weaved into saliva
Don’t drink Coke
Drink yerbabuena & café con leche
Your tongue soaked in justice
The new CEO of the Benton Harbor Area Schools told a local TV news program that his installation at the helm of the school district is in effect a state ...
US Youth Climate Strike, a movement of youth fighting for the conservation of our planet will have a global day of climate action and first ever nationwide ...
When demonstrations occurred across the country before the inauguration of the new president in January 2017, demonstrators continued weekly actions ...
Hosting a teach-in for the first time can be intimidating. How can we remember our talking points? How can we attract people's attention and keep their ...
“I’m a veteran of the United States Navy for 22 years. The biggest thing we had was Healthcare. A lot of vets and a lot of civilians don’t have Healthcare ...
“Women are leading the fight in the interests of all society. In the age of A.I. and robotic production, marginalized and dispossessed women are leading a growing ...
So many people in Flint are being diagnosed with cancer, especially kidney cancer. Lead has an affinity to the kidneys. Just how many people in Flint have died ...
Earlier this week, we heard the State of the Union address inside the capitol building. We heard the president say that he likes quote-unquote “legal immigration.” ...
On this page, in honor of International Women’s Day, when people all over the world rally for women’s rights, the People’s Tribune highlights women who are ...
"I don’t know how I will pay the $250 a month for my son’s medication [for ADHD]. My husband and I have put ourselves on a macaroni and cheese and grilled cheese ...
In defense of trees and people’s lives, a group of people from ‘First they came for the indigenous’ and ‘First they came for the homeless’ and other supporters, mostly ...
Othering, verbal and physical assaults, laughing at victims of economic displacement, wanting to strip people of their possessions and their dignity, describing people ...
The year 2018 has been hard for the homeless community in Orange County, CA. A federal lawsuit over a homeless encampment is in the center of controversy ...
As the rain pours, I think about the homeless pregnant woman who sleeps outside our office. How in the city if you are pregnant and homeless you still can’t get ...
December 4, 2018 was a preview of what politics may look like under Google corporate domination. To the local community, it confirmed where the city ...
Every time I’ve been to DC and I see coal miners trying to get healthcare and pensions, and they say they got it, they didn’t. It was only a temporary fix. No one is doing ...
On these pages are stories of the peoples' fight to save the Earth and humanity from corporate destruction. Please send your stories to info@peoplestribune.org or...
“We are done begging,” said Kari Rhinehart, mother of a 13-year-old who died of brain cancer in 2014 and a member of the 6000-member group, If It Was Your Child. “ ...
With cries from the public of "shut it down" and "democratize our energy, don't bail out PG&E" and signs that read "Justice for Paradise" and "Make PG&E Public," 100 ...
On January 18, workers in Detroit rallied to demand Mayor Duggan and Detroit City Council, and Mayor Majewski and Hamtramck City Council take control of the ...
In December I traveled to the San Diego-Tijuana border where I had the honor of participating in “Love Knows No Borders”—an interfaith action sponsored by the American Friends ...
A pall hangs over the Chicago elections scheduled for February 26. It is the ghost of Laquan McDonald, murdered by former officer Jason Van Dyke, covered up by his ...
“In 1937, 45,000 people worked for GM in Flint. That number grew to 80,000 in 1978. By 2010, only 8,000 people had a job with GM in Flint. “In 1979, about 1 million members ...
The Los Angeles teacher’s strike rises to counter the aggressive national campaign for privatization of public schools to make education exclusively serve corporate interests ...
These are excerpts from an interview by Joseph Peery with Belinda Parker Brown, President of Louisiana United International, about their recent victory in overturning the ...
I want to wrestle with you. I want to cry in public. I want to maybe cry out loud. I want to holler out loud. I want to shout out loud and even suggest that America needs a revolution ...
Emma Kinnard, a longtime community activist in Benton Harbor, MI, the impoverished city run by the Whirlpool Corp., spoke at a Martin Luther King Day luncheon in Detroit ...
Tamar Manasseh is a mother who has had enough. She has entered the Chicago mayor’s race as a write-in candidate. Tamar understands nothing can change in the city ...
“My first priority is that the status quo of housing is unbridled development, which is not meeting the needs of most residents. In a community like the 49th Ward ...
What happened in the Jason Van Dyke sentencing (sentencing him to just six years and nine months) was a clear and blatant expression of the fact that the powers that ...
On this page are a collection of articles that illustrate the ongoing fight that the homeless, along with supporters, are waging. They are demanding an end to ...
As part of Poor Peoples Campaign 40 Days of Action on June 4, 2018, activists from around the state joined the protest at Michigan Department of Environmental ...
Now we face prison for caring for one another… while government abandons us. An Indiana school superintendent faces felony charges for using her son’s insurance to obtain ...
The People’s Tribune mails complimentary subscriptions to prisoners. The paper is a bright light for those who are behind bars. Won’t you donate $20...
Our speakers bring a message of hope and the possibility of creating a new society whose wealth benefits all. Speakers discuss: • Fighting Criminalization...
As this issue of the People’s Tribune goes to press, a caravan of 7,000 Central American men, women and children is in Tijuana, Mexico, seeking asylum in the U.S. They are hungry ...
In the face of record profits, General Motors (GM) announced on November 26, during the start of the Christmas Holiday, plans to end production at five plants in the U.S. and ...
In light of all the recent misinformation that has been flooding the corporate airwaves concerning the caravan that has arrived at our southern border, let’s ...
I’ve been on the streets five years now, my wife and I together on the streets for three years. We’ve been swept about 300 times in those three years, Comin’ in in the middle ...
“There’s only one place in America anybody is guaranteed a roof over their head, and that’s in prison,” said Oakland community leader John Jones III when ...
Goodbye summer, hello rain and cold. This coming winter is forecast to be a bad one by The Farmer’s Almanac. For most, this is not a big deal. For the homeless, it can be ...
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old girl from Guatemala, crossed the U.S. border on Dec. 6 with her father and 161 other migrants. On Dec. 8 she ...
This is real life. Scene from inside the “faith-based” Rescue Mission homeless shelter in Tennessee: “I should have had my camera out to photograph a man kissing ...
The People’s Tribune continues its monthly coverage of the many women leaders who are fighting in the interests of us all, for a society that cares for ...
It’s been almost two years since the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) stepped foot back into the small former coal town of Minden, WV, regarding a decades long ...
Giving new meaning to snatching Victory from the jaws of defeat, the Michigan Republican legislature is using the lame-duck session to undo the gains made by ...
Behind the recent stepped-up grassroots electoral activity and the election of representatives to Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib ...
Paradise, California is a town which is only a10-minute drive from the bustling little town of Chico. Most people wouldn’t be able to point either out on a map, yet for ...
On Election Day, November 6th, 77% of the voters in Baltimore approved Question E, a charter amendment that declared their water system to be a “permanent, inalienable asset ...
I will refrain from using her name. She is a working mother, a homeowner, and a resident Angelino, so if you are a working mother, a homeowner, and a lower ...
The elections left little doubt that universal healthcare remains an unmet necessity. From passage of Medicaid expansion referendums in three ‘red states’ to ...
Ruth Anna Buffalo (above) made history as the first Native American Democratic woman to be elected to North Dakota's state legislature, 27th District. In a shocking ...
Jemel Roberson was a 26-year-old father. He was a talented musician who belonged to a gospel singing group and played organ in Chicago area churches. He was an ...
Let the truth be told. This was a very bad year for the residents of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation has completely taken over the city of Benton Harbor, which ...
Look out! They’re trying to steal your healthcare again! Just before Christmas a Texas federal judge ruled that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because ...
What do Americans do on Martin Luther King Day? If lucky enough to have the day off, we attend the many marches, celebrations and events that honor Dr. King ...
On December 4, after ejecting dozens of protesters and arresting eight, the San Jose City Council banned the public from its meeting, locked the doors to City ...
On these pages are struggles unfolding around the country for clean affordable water and a safe environment. Behind all of the attacks taking place today on our very lives ...
“A collective of Indigenous activists, organizers, Tribal leaders, social entrepreneurs, artists, educators, innovators and changemakers who are working to build the ...
Once upon a time, there was a charter school located in the village of Detroit where the townspeople were very poor but very proud. Their children were excited about going to ...
The Los Angeles teacher’s strike rises to counter the aggressive national campaign for privatization of public schools to make education exclusively serve corporate ...
The photos on this page are from the memorial for those killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 27, 2019. Photos ...
Denying African Americans the right to vote is one of their old tricks to drive back the resistance. Here’s an example from the recent mid-term election in Georgia. ...
More than 100 women will go to Congress next year! Women understood that someone had to stand up. In part women were driven by the Trump effect, but also because of ...
Sitting in this beautiful meadow in the foothills of the West Virginia Appalachian Mountains always brings me peace. Watching the brown butterflies mingle with ...
The local government needs to stop policies and ordinances that seek to shuffle around, keep out of sight or incriminate the displaced population in the Bay Area. Seniors ...
With over 2,000 human beings living in our streets, the City of Oakland has started installing Tuff Sheds (pre-fab utility sheds) at several of the 200+ tent camps as a ...
The 2015 Baltimore uprising after Freddie Gray’s death on Baltimore’s West Side got people talking about Baltimore’s poor. Under the banner of “Fair Development,” a number ...
Nakiya Wakes, a Flint, Michigan, resident, spoke calmly as she addressed a workshop during the 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental ...
Flint resident Jassmine McBride [seated] contracted Legionnaires’ disease in 2014. It is a severe form of pneumonia caused by bacteria-infected mist, probably linked to the ...
Cathy Talbott of the People’s Tribune interviewed Rev. Michael Atty of United Congregations of Metro-East (UCM), a peace and social justice organization, about ...
Art Tanderup, a Nebraska farmer on the frontlines of the battle to stop construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, to protect the land and Ogallala Aquifer, spoke ...
On September 8, in the largest climate march ever on the West Coast, 30,000 marchers chanted “Keep It In the Ground” and “Oil Money Out, People Power In.” In this ...
Placing Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court shows how determined the rulers are to destroy democracy. His many previous rulings were anti-women, anti-labor, ...
Upon hearing the guilty verdict read for Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke in the murder of Laquan McDonald, a crowd of nearly a thousand marched through the streets of ...
William Calloway, an activist who successfully pressed the city to release the Chicago Police dashcam video of officer Jason Van Dyke executing Laquan McDonald. ...
California. Fires burned a football field a second . . . people trying to escape were burnt alive in their cars . . . Hundreds of people are missing. Hundreds . . . Think about ...
It is with great sadness that the People’s Tribune learned of the death of our beloved friend and colleague, Alexandra Maria Engel. Alex died of a drug overdose at age ...
The Peoples Tribune spoke with Francisco Duprey, who returned recently from Puerto Rico where he has been working in transportation. He gave us a firsthand ...
She is your mother and my mother too
I know her from the neighborhood
She phones her son through the jailhouse glass
I know her from the neighborhood
She lies awake til her daughters come home
I know her from the neighborhood
Members of the caravan of migrants and asylum seekers from Central America are revealing why people are getting up and walking out of their countries, heading for ...
Workers around the country, including this woman in Wisconsin, are standing up for their rights. An estimated 3.8 million people work in fast food restaurants. Even senior ...
At Facebook, we have five different flavors of La Croix sparkling water, including Pamplemousse. We have four different flavors of Crystal Geyser sparkling water....
A spirited birthday celebration for Rev. Edward Pinkney, on October 27 in Benton Harbor, MI, drew family, friends, and activists from Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, California and even ...
Propelled by gale-force winds, the sparks and embers swept rapidly down the hillsides and across the highways a year ago, jumping from ridge to ridge across five counties ...
Giving new meaning to snatching Victory from the jaws of defeat, the Michigan Republican legislature is using the lame-duck session to undo the gains made by Michigan ...
On October 24, a white man in Jeffersontown, KY gunned down two black senior citizens at a grocery store just minutes after he tried to enter a black church. Three days ...
“We’re suffering. We’re dying. Our kids aren’t being properly educated. Our water is poisoned. Our air is sickening. You deserve better.”
This cry from the...
According to an old story from the mid-20th century, Henry Ford II and UAW President Walter Reuther toured a newly built automated Ford motors plant in Cleveland, Ohio together. As they gazed upon the labor replacing machines ...
Sitting in this beautiful meadow in the foothills of the West Virginia Appalachian Mountains always brings me peace. Watching the brown butterflies mingle with ...
Throughout California people are struggling to stay in their homes. Developers, landlords and powerful Wall Street speculators have free reign over our affordable ...
In the 1960’s the federal government began passing laws to help struggling urban areas across the country. The Property and Business Improvement District Law passed ...
“I am and will be Other, until I write you into my heart and make you see my home as what it is. Just another extension of your own home. For there is no them; there is only us.”
It was high noon on September 11, 2018, a day on which people remembered the sudden violence of airliner attacks on the U.S. It was also a day when Mr. Nino Parker ...
In Oakland by last count, 150 people were housed in Tuff Sheds with no running water, while 1,000 new homeless people set up camp on the streets. This is ...
Community . . . a unity, harmony of sights and sounds that resounds and echoes as it flows all our pain and woes, it knows one another as Sister, and Brother... it speaks as ...
After bullying the city into a long-term 30-year contract with the Great Lakes Water Authority, Federal and especially State authorities resorted to its old Playbook ...
Since the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests, dozens of bills and executive orders have been introduced in at least 31 states to clamp down on protests. Water protectors ...
I hope you know the health impacts from living in an area surrounded by mountaintop removal operations, and how coal mining has destroyed our water, air, and our ...
Since the article below was first written, huge protests have erupted across the country against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Women and ...
The People’s Tribune has received a gift of a tree, to be planted in the paper’s name in one of the National Forests in desperate need of replanting because of the unprecedented ...
The People’s Tribune is a voice of and for the growing movement for a new America. The stories in the pages of the People’s Tribune connect everyone’s ...
I am an occupational therapist who has worked with students in Massachusetts for more than two decades, including many immigrants and children of immigrants ...
“To the Hispanic community, my family stands with you and offers its heartfelt apology. That you've been beset by the circumstances of Mollie's death is wrong. We treasure ...
The assault on immigrants gets worse by the day. In recent months we have seen government rule changes that allow more immigrants to be detained and denied their ...
In a CNN interview three years before her death, Aretha Franklin corrected anchor Don Lemon when he suggested she was on the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement. She ...
When Bob Frank and John Murry released their critically acclaimed album, World Without End, in 2006, Frank told me “These are murder ballads based on true stories ...
Social Security was passed in 1935 to provide a form of economic security to address the need to support workers after the end of their work lives with resources provided ...
On August 21, 2018, inmates in prisons and immigration facilities across America and Canada went on hunger strikes, sit-ins, boycotts and work stoppages to protest ...
This is an interview following an event in Los Angeles, CA during the month of August, which is referred to as Black August, that commemorates the loss of many prison ...
“Yes. HR 676 Medicare for All is THE solution! It is the only plan that will cover every person in the USA for 100% of the cost of every medical need for life. It will put an end ...
CHADRON, NE — The Chicago revolutionary poet/songwriter Adam Gottlieb stopped in at the northwest Nebraska Panhandle town of Chadron as part of his western...
Union contracts covering some 6,000 workers at 30 Chicago hotels expired Aug. 31, and the unionized workers at at least 26 of those hotels had been on strike for four days ...
Benton Harbor, the city of no return, is among 71 water districts in the state that have higher lead levels in the drinking water than Flint, says the Michigan Department ...
According to the USDA, U.S. meat producers now have 2.5 billion pounds of surplus meat while U.S. dairy producers have 1.39 billion pounds of surplus cheese and they’re ...
The images of immigrant children in cages are incredibly painful to digest. Still, many people seem to forget that the U.S. has a long track record of forcibly separating ...
In a passionate showing of will to save humanity and save the Earth from corporate destruction, on September 8 in San Francisco, 30,000 people joined hundreds of ...
The People’s Tribune thanks the many photo journalists and cartoonists who share their work. Without these contributions, the paper could not promote the face of ...
Now they’re caging our babies and quoting the Bible
The same scriptures that slave-owners used to claim justifiable
Chaining and shipping human beings by the millions
In...
When corporations and governments make their “transactions” — in this case the selling of weapons to dictators—of more importance than human life and rights ...
This year, the political primary season has become a summer of discontent. In June, the stunning victory of a 28-year-old working-class woman over a New York City political hack caught the attention of the entire country ...
The national debate around K-12 education is boiling to the surface again, with teachers striking and threatening to strike again this fall, and other...
Our country is in crisis. Scenes of children crying at the border have shocked every decent person. Millions are wondering how to end the toxic regime that produced this outrage ...
Since the article below was first written, huge protests have erupted across the country against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Women and ...
If Californians vote in November to pass Proposition 10, known as the Affordable Housing Act, it would repeal the notorious anti-rent control Costa Hawkins Act ...
I coordinate the homeless and housing desk on the People’s Tribune editorial board. I hope you will donate, subscribe and keep abreast of the fight to end poverty ...
On this page are voices of candidates and activists about some of the vital issues raised in the mid-term elections. Regardless of party affiliation, each brings ...
Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician, and activist for Medicare For All says disputes those who say universal healthcare is too costly: “Everyone is in the system ...
In a CNN interview three years before her death, Aretha Franklin corrected anchor Don Lemon when he suggested she was on the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement. She ...
Teachers, parents and students are joining together to fight for a publicly owned education system. Will it be education that serves the people or the corporations ...
“Everything "public" has been blurred with "private" for some time. Just as public television and radio is largely funded by corporate sponsors and corporate matching ...
Do you want your daughters and sons or other young adults to succeed in college? Do you want them to be shackled with debt when they are done getting their ...
The push for privatizing K-12 public schools in America through converting them to charter schools took a big leap after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005 ...
Why would a community embrace the hiring of an Emergency Manager in expectation of them being their savior? (Emergency managers are governor appointed ...
On these pages are our ongoing stories of the fight for a healthy earth from corporate destruction. Stories are from water protectors against pipelines and against ...
L'eau Est La Vie Camp is home base for a network of pipeline resisters who organize, protest and monitor construction along the Bayou Bridge Pipeline route ...
I’m a cynic when it comes to court cases. Too often, I’ve seen our courts demonstrate that they are not so much about “justice” as they are about state repression ...
The impacts of climate change are taking devastating tolls, and as the Southern Oregon wildfires claim more land amidst record-breaking heat waves, once again this ...
This is embrassing. However, I want to share a little of my story of our water crisis. Many residents of Flint were affected by the switch to the Flint River. Some have ...
Youth today are taking up the urgent call humanity and the planet. Their efforts to build a climate change movement are crucial steps toward the ultimate solution ...
“This is a Homrich truck. Homrich is the private contractor who has already scored millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money for the purpose of shutting off’ ...
The immigrant workers are a part of the U.S. working class. The moral outrage at the separation of families, the unjust deportations, the torture of children, is growing ...
When I received a certified letter on December 20, 2017, I did not imagine the change in the country, the overwhelming support for our immigrant communities in 2018
Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden is a movement of grandmothers and their allies spurred to action by the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the southern border ...
Friends and family gathered in May at the corner of Irving Park and Western where Michelle Robey had been gunned down by the Chicago Police. Michelle’s sister ...
Chicago activist and poet Malcolm London joined the community protest of the police killing of Harith “Snoop” Augustus, a popular barber, on July 14 on the South Side ...
The police in the United States kill an average of 2.8 adult men a day, according to a recent study by a Cornell University researcher, Frank Edwards, who said the ...
The truth is America is a fraud. We have the most corrupt system, run by the establishment, in the world. The court system is rigged, judges are bribed, and there is ...
On July 16, 2018, Faya Rose was driving by Tabernacle Baptist Church with our 11-year-old granddaughter, and there was a sign right in front of the Church on a public ...
Tell everyone you know to ‘get a sub’ to the People’s Tribune—a paper where the movement has a voice! People’s Tribune contributors share their stories in the ...
Texas representative Beto O'Rourke brilliantly explained why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful. When asked if he agreed with athletes taking ...
Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents and putting them in cages has run into a buzz saw recently. Millions of Americans,...
In May, Professor Philip Alston, special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights for the United Nations, was invited by the U.S. federal government to...
Some of us are unaware of the brutal role the US government has played in forcing families to flee their countries and embark on the perilous journey ...
Below are thoughts from protesters at the “Families Belong Together” rallies in support of immigrant families June 30. Millions of Americans have voiced outrage ...
The upcoming midterm election is a tremendous opportunity. Ordinary people are running for office and using the campaign season to express the demands ...
Political primaries were held in 17 states in June. The results highlighted an increasingly obvious fact: Today, there are two Americas: one is the America of the ...
I want to read you what’s on the back of my water bill. It says if you are pregnant, have an infant, are elderly or have a severely compromised immune ...
Still reeling from the closing of the bottled water distribution sites by the state of Michigan, residents of Flint scramble to find donations of water ...
For three years, Mayor Barrett of Milwaukee has resisted any attempt by the Freshwater for Life Action Coalition (FLAC) to highlight lead in water playing ...
The Michigan Poor People’s Campaign gathered in Detroit with a message for city officials. Sylvia Orduño (center) tells the crowd: “We are here for affordable ...
Do bees know their own troubles?
Can they buzz the blues
for our dying world?
I wish I could tell them
we're sorry,
but too many think
murder is all...
I would like to dispel rumors about the homeless. The main things that have been said about the homeless is that they are one or more of the following ...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing spending $20 million dollars on building emergency shelters in each of the 15 districts in Los Angeles and ...
We are Serve the People and we are here to demand that the proposed Google project be halted immediately, and that the 16 parcels of public land be ...
On June 2 the Poor People’s March on Washington, DC gathered in Kensington, Philadelphia—the poorest district in Philadelphia—to march to Washington, DC ...
Before you want to quit, go talk to the sister I met in Washington state who lived in a homeless camp who came to a mass meeting who said, ‘I am the ...
The American people are outraged at the ruling elites’ insistence that workers must live with increasing austerity in the midst of record corporate profits ...
The Black people in the city of Benton Harbor are in serious trouble. I, Rev Edward Pinkney, want to bring something to your attention. There have been ...
Memorial Day weekend and it was hot in the city hall parking lot. I was here to join the protest of the Senior PGA tournament, which is played on what some ...
Antwon Rose was just 17 when his life ended on June 19 in East Pittsburgh, PA. Officer Michael Rosfeld fatally shot him three times as he ran from a traffic stop ...
As a founding member of the World Poetry Movement in Medellin, Colombia in 2011 and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco in 2009, I was ...
On these pages are struggles unfolding around the country for clean affordable water and a safe environment. Behind all of the attacks taking place today on our very lives ...
HUD Director Ben Carson, a Trump appointee, recently proposed that rents in subsidized HUD housing be tripled, leaving the poorest households with a mere...
In a story posted on talkpoverty.org, Kristen Arant described how she contemplated suicide because she had no health insurance to help her cope with her opioid addiction. Finally getting Medicaid, she said, literally saved her ...
Cairo, Illinois, this impoverished historic river town located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers has been at the center of the national public ...
On May 13, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, launched 40 days of nonviolent direct action across the country to confront systemic racism, poverty ...
My name is Josh and this is my wife Ashley, “Little Bit.” We’ve been together off and on for the last 12 years. I’ve been out on the street for eight years now. We’ve stuck ...
I am as influenced by the Rastafarians as I am by the Christians. I follow Christ. But I don’t resonate with Western Christian Culture. It’s not my culture. I can appreciate the ...
I’m Lindsey Krantz of Berkeley, homeless. I am a member of ‘First they came for the homeless’ and a class lawsuit member of Sullivan et al. v. City of Berkeley ...
The State will not call this a disaster—the City of Flint has had its share of Toxins, Larger than most Cities. We could smell it, breathe it from G.M. to Buick ...
Over and over, Michigan state government has failed to do what it was designed to do: act on behalf of the people and protect the people. In fact, it has ...
This fight really started with our effort to stop privatization. The District tried to privatize the substitute teacher pool to a temp agency called Goodwill TalentBridge. We defeated ...
This month, the Supreme Court will likely decide the Janus v. AFSCME case that seeks to stop public unions collecting fees from all the employees they’re ...
OK. We're trying to build on the block this summer. They're shutting the schools down in the fall, so all those 8th graders and the entire Robeson High ...
The two issues I see facing West Virginia are poverty and substance abuse, and oftentimes they are related. My motivation for running for office came through ...
Today actually broke my heart. I marched with students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) to a place where the federal fiscal control board signed ...
A debate about what kind of America we want is coming up in many mid-term electoral campaigns. And many first-time candidates are rejecting the “I’m for me and to Hell ...
Neo-Nazis, led by the National Socialist Movement (NSM) out of Michigan, held a white supremacist rally in the small Georgia town of Newnan on April 21. The number of ...
Today a high school was the scene of yet another horrific and despicable parade of violence. Also today 900 high schoolers gathered in Walt Disney Concert ...
On April 13, Comrade Hector Barajas, a decorated U.S. Army paratrooper, was allowed to return to the United States. He participated in a ceremony that ...
Let the truth be told. I, Rev. Edward Pinkney was charged in Berrien County, Michigan with five felony counts of election forgery under Michigan Compiled Law ...
On April 5, 2018 in a joint raid involving ICE, Homeland Security, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division and Tennessee Highway Patrol, 97 workers were arrested at ...
As I watched in horror the situation as it unfolded on national television, I was sick to my stomach at this disgraceful event. Chikesia Clemons was being ...
A major battle against corporate dictatorship and for democracy has been won in Benton Harbor! Rev. Edward Pinkney is free at last! Now, after spending 2-1/2 years ...
The Poor Peoples Campaign for over two years has been organizing around the nation, traveling to cities and townships near and far, to interview impoverished ...
On the eighth anniversary of the BP oil spill, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who founded a coalition of Louisiana environmental groups, stood in front ...
Everyone knows about Flint. But there’s a lesser-known drinking water crisis in rural California, which predominantly impacts low-income communities ...
Washington D.C. -- At approximately 930pm on June 11th, federal police began evicting poor & homeless from Resurrection City II in Dupont Circle despite ...
The ruling class of this country is creating more laws that convert us into criminals for trying to survive. In fact, the problem is that this country is going through an economic ...
On June 25, a Florida judge issued a massive eviction order to impoverished and desperate families and adults who live in a trailer park on the edge ...
The American people are standing up. Teachers are striking. Students are mobilizing. The homeless are organizing. Whether the issue is water, homelessness, environmental destruction, low wages, lack of jobs, poverty, police violence and other violence, healthcare, immigrant ...
A striking Oklahoma teacher called the mushrooming struggle around public education “a turning point.” She is right. This year we have seen sweeping, rolling statewide strikes by teachers that began in West Virginia and spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee ...
More grassroots candidates than ever before are running for office. Many put forth a program that “we the people” have a right to food, water, housing, healthcare and ...
The articles below highlight water and environmental struggles in Flint, Detroit, Chicago, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Louisiana. With these stories we continue to ...
The fear of becoming homeless crept up on me slowly. Housing security had never been an issue as I moved between nine states and two countries over the last thirty years ...
On Wednesday, May 9, attorneys for Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners subsidiary Sunoco will attempt to make the case at the Huntingdon County Common ...
In a victory for the people in the fight against naked corporate power and defending democracy, the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled 6-0 that Rev. Edward ...
Joann Mae Spotted Bear Announces Presidential Campaign
By Diana Zwinak
On June 6, 2018, Joann Mae Spotted Bear, seventh generation Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, whose family fought...
“This is not an issue of Democrats versus Republicans. It’s about human lives, student lives; it is an issue with the morality of humanity, not about a political debate between two ...
The Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter was officially closed on August 28, 2017. The Metro Atlanta Task Force Executive Director, Anita Beaty, was the facilitator of the shelter ...
You do not belong here. Those are the signs strategically posted throughout my city to remind people who have nowhere to belong that we don’t care about them ...
For three long years, the senior residents of the Judge Fisher and Caroline Hedger Apartments suffered mental and physical trauma at the hands of the Chicago ...
The Mountain Valley pipeline project will have devastating impacts on the scenic landscape of the Appalachian Trail, the local drinking water, and the economy. The ..
The articles below are stories from water and environmental struggles in Flint, West Virginia, St. Louis, and Baltimore. With these stories we continue to expose ...
The People's Tribune spoke with Alex Cohen, co-founder of the Earth Defense Coalition based in St. Louis, Missouri, which is involved in the fight to clean up the West Lake ...
The Maryland House of Delegates recently passed a bill halting the sale of homes and businesses for failure to pay a water bill. Although this bill was effectively ...
This is a People's Movement and now the people are realizing that. I’m still in awe of what happened yesterday, just aside from the fact of how oppressive the system can ...
April 22nd will mark the 48th anniversary of Earth Day. A day of global awareness of our planet and the impact and relationship we have with our life giving Mother Earth ...
“ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is going after me and my family because they want to silence my work, which has exposed their cruel, inhumane ...
I came to the U.S. when I was one year old from Mexico with my mom and brother. As we attempted to cross the desert, we were abandoned by our guide. Not only did we ...
On March 24, immigrant youth will march in solidarity with the courageous survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and students ...
Coal miner’s daughter Paula Jean Swearengin has pledged a fight for the rights of all people in West Virginia and the nation. Her people-funded campaign is against U.S. ...
Chuck Nelson, a retired 4th generation coal miner with almost 30 years underground, speaks with the People’s Tribune about the resurgence in Black Lung, the disease ...
A few months ago, millionaire Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told a group of high school students near Milwaukee that healthcare, food, clothing and shelter are privileges, ...
I regret to inform you that my father Juan Torres has passed away. My father had written articles about the death march in Texas. No one knew the valley more than him ...
On February 23, the Jane Addams Senior Caucus led a march of more than 60 people to Congressman Mike Quigley’s office in Chicago, demanding that he represent the ...
Chicago supporters of the People’s Tribune and Tribuno del Pueblo are raising donations to expand circulation of the papers. They are offering limited edition ...
The attacks on public education and unions are moving ahead full force. They are part of a corporate campaign, facilitated by government at all levels ...
On February 26, the Supreme Court heard the Janus vs. AFSCME case. Mark Janus sued AFSCME claiming that unions do not represent his political interests and that payment ...
Let the truth be told. I was surprised and shocked in reference to the Benton Harbor school system: that a system controlled by Whirlpool Corporation would even ...
On March 12, police killed Decynthia Clements, 34, after an hour-long standoff with Elgin, IL police on Interstate 90. Those protesting her death said police had no ...
The articles below show homeless people unifying, forming encampments where they take care of one another and demanding their right to housing. As one ...
I am a member of ‘First They Came for The Homeless.’ I joined this group in October 2016. When I first started with ‘First They Came for The Homeless,’ I was a wreck ...
