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 ...
