Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, threatened to target Chicago the moment Trump took office and they are making good on that promise. What they didn’t expect was how Chicagoans are unwaveringly dedicated to protect their undocumented neighbors.
Trump and Republicans in Congress showed they would happily cut things like Meals on Wheels, housing assistance, and food for mothers and young children, to fund tax breaks for billionaires.
Privatization is next step towards dismantling public schools. Vast sums of money are shifted out of the inclusive, traditional public school system into exclusionary, discriminatory private school systems.
Immigration activists in Chicago and Newark, NJ, describe how the government's assault on immigrants violates the Constitution and threatens everyone's rights.
Dozens of organizations came together here and worldwide to create the People’s March 2025. Hundreds of thousands of people came to protest the policy promises of President Donald Trump and to convey a loud message of resistance to his promised policies and ultimate dictatorship.
Emergency Room doctor asks how many people will defer life saving care because of their immigration status, fearing deportations and family separation.
The modern-day version of the repressive 1850 Fugitive Slave Act kicked off in the Central Valley of California, even prior to the recent inauguration of Donald Trump and his promises of mass deportations.
During a Martin Luther King Day rally in Washington, DC, Jan. 20, Rev. Al Sharpton called for targeted boycotts of companies that abandon DEI initiatives.
The Trump administration's executive orders launching an assault on immigrants are being challenged in court, as are other orders Trump recently issued.
Right now there is no coordinated national mass movement to defend immigrants, but there will be, says human rights activist Camilo Pérez-Bustillo in this interview with the People's Tribune.
Provisions of the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act raise serious concerns for due process and erode the principle of presumption of innocence. Anyone’s civil liberties can be threatened — U.S. citizens, documented and undocumented immigrants alike.
Climate campaigners said blame for the catastrophe in L.A. ultimately lies with the mega-profitable oil and gas giants that have spent decades knowingly fueling the crisis.
In this interview with the People's Tribune, Pedro Rios, director of the AFSC's US/Mexico Border Program, describes the likely shape of Trump's planned immigration crackdown, and how people are organizing to resist it.
With strikes and the threat of strikes, workers did more than forestall concessions: They gained ground. With Trump, expect attacks on unions, safety regulations, and the very idea of labor law..
Where candidates get their money is a good predictor of how they'll act In office .Four of five top contributors in Nevada's 2024 elections were directly tied to casinos.
Faith leaders and houseless people observe San Jose's eleventh annual Unhoused Memorial, and set up tents lettered "Where Do We Go?" to protest ongoing encampment sweeps
The ACLU has obtained documents revealing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is considering expanding immigrant detention capacity across the country.
Across the country groups are protesting Trump's plans to deport undocumented immigrants. Groups are also helping people prepare for what could come, as is this Texas group.
More people — many older and homeless — are freezing to death during winter in California. Hypothermia is the underlying or contributing cause of death for Californians last year, more than double than a decade ago,
The US public response to the murder speaks volumes about Americans’ widespread disgust with a profit-driven health care system that leaves so many destitute or simply dead, says Jacobin.
Sacramento CA: California has a different kind of plague. Billions of dollars have come down to end this crisis, but the resources never make it to the people.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Dexter Wade, killed by off-duty officer, was mistakenly buried by Hinds County, Mississippi in a pauper’s field. His mother seeks answers to what happened to her son.
Read the speech delivered by a student at the student walkout at MSU two days after the Presidential election. Thousands of students nationwide walked out to protest Donald Trump's election and his policies on the same day.
Pedro Rios, who runs the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S. Mexico Border Program, speaks about what to expect on the Borderlands with Donald Trump.
Thousands of groups and millions of people are beginning to reach out to one another to resist the Trump agenda. Regardless of who we voted for, we the people, have a common interest in seeing to it that all our families are well taken care of, that all children are well educated and have a future, and that we have a society free of climate disaster, racism, bigotry and inequality.
"Many Americans roused to action by their government’s complicity in Gaza’s destruction have no personal connection to Palestine or Israel. Their motive is not ethnic or religious. It is moral."
Adriana Jasso, the program coordinator for the U.S./Mexico Border Program of the American Friends Service Committee, describes her experience of helping immigrants at the border wall every day for the past year.
"[The student nationwide] walkouts represent a call to action for both parties," said Sunrise Youth Movement, a group that advocates for political action on climate change.
'There are no winners here, because we are all bound by our nation’s refusal to confront its own soul. This fight is not over; it’s only beginning,' says Director of Los Angeles Skid Row organization, LA CAN.
Those of us who have a history of being on the front lines knew this moment was coming and we’re telling ourselves it is not the time to fatigue out! We know either way it lands, that it’s in our laps and we need all boots on the ground.
For the third year, a group of former Wood Street encampment residents bicycled some 80 miles from Oakland to Sacramento in a show of solidarity with unhoused Californians.
Nevaeh Crain cried in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Vomiting and feverish at her baby shower, the teen went to two different emergency rooms, returning home, worse than before. Pregnant women have become untouchables.
UAW President Shawm Fain rallies voters in support of Kamala Harris, calling her the only pro-worker candidate for president, and that she is committed to fighting Trump's NAFTA.
Californians have an opportunity in Tuesday’s election to pass a ballot measure that will address the high cost of housing, which is one of the top grievances among the state’s voters. Proposition 33 will allow cities and counties to implement rent control ordinances.
The author describes how her family was forced to migrate from Mexico to the U.S. after the North American Free Trade Agreement destabilized Mexico's economy.
Human rights defenders underscore links between the decolonization struggles of Native Americans and Palestinians, and call out the hypocrisy of the U.S. providing military aid for Israel as it wages a war on Gaza while touting rights for Native Americans.
All of us suffer when our country mistreats immigrants, migrants and refugees. Abusing immigrants and limiting their rights sets the stage for denying everyone’s rights.
Defeat Trump and Project 2025. But this is not an endorsement of the Democratic Party. The people have been driven back by both parties, and the people will have to fight to build a real democracy, regardless. Forward Ever, Backward Never.
Michigan's non-elected Emergency Manager dictatorship made Flint's water crisis possible. Pay attention to the danger of losing our Democratic rights as we’ve known them in this election. Vote while you still can!
Using fear and misinformation to manipulate California voters, the Yes on 36 campaign is based on lies: claiming crime is increasing when it is down; claiming 36 will get more people into drug treatment, when it will DECREASE funding, forcing people who want treatment to prison instead; providing zero dollars for housing and millions for prisons and jails.
US doctors who visited Gaza tell Biden, Harris they've never seen such horrific injuries, on such a massive scale, with so few resources, that our bombs are cutting down women and children, and that a ceasefire must be imposed.
I’m Crystal President of Sacramento Homeless Union, on the Board of the California Homeless Union Statewide Council, and an Executive Board member of the...
Despite the lurid headlines about immigrants and crime, many researchers have found there is no connection between increased immigration and crime rates.
Grassroots organizations filed a lawsuit against Georgia's cruel abortion laws, and the county judge took a firm stand on the side of justice, writing in his ruling that “liberty in Georgia" includes "the power of a woman to control her own body . . . and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”
Hundreds of people who live in their RVs and other vehicles, many of them families, reject an attempt by the. mayor of San Francisco to criminalize them and force them into homelessness.
In this interview with the People's Tribune, Abla Abdelkader, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine in Chicago, describes the repression facing pro-Palestine students and the common interests that most Americans have in the fights for peace and social justice.
Bernie Sanders unveils resolutions to block US arms sales to Israel in what is said to be the first time in U.S. history a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel has been made.
Press Conference, Speak Out and Prayer Ceremony, Monday September 24, 23rd Street and Northgate, Oakland, CA organized by formerly homeless, advocates and caregivers for the unhoused.
Research of professors at Wayne State University identify group of Black voters in Detroit who are critical for Kamala Harris to win Michigan. Cost of water is key issue.
Wood Street Commons — with their motto of “Homeless Helping Homeless” — is a group of unhoused people from West Oakland, who work in solidarity with homeless communities in other cities.
Springfield remains at the center of a political firestorm after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his running mate Sen. JD Vance, and other prominent Republicans spread unproven rumors and racist smears about Haitian migrants.
Calling the border “broken” and “in crisis,” in a media-driven storm foments a hysteria that treats migrants and refugees as criminals or an enemy, justifying repression targeting them.
Without a cease-fire, Israel "could end up exterminating almost the entire population in Gaza over the next couple of years," said the U.N. special rapporteur.
Eagle Pass, TX, border activist Amerika Garcia Grewal is part of a coalition that has been protesting militarization of the border and its impact on the local community since 2017.
In August, the city of Sacramento made good on their threats to break up Camp Resolution, a self-sustaining RV community that had endured for 17 months. A majority of its residents were women, over 55, many disabled. Hear their stories.
The writer is outraged at four more persons killed in a school shooting. She also explains her outrage that the 14 year old child who killed four people and wounded others will be treated as an adult in the criminal justice system.
To continue the fight for democracy, defeat Project 2025.
What is Project 2025? The Heritage Foundation, a far right think tank, has compiled a massive...
A discussion of the immigration divide; the experiences and faith that have historically clothed Black Americans in empathy for others, and why Immigration today is a world citizen issue and certainly a Black issue.
Sweeps kill! As history repeats itself the city and county of Sacramento are going to allow a sweep at Camp Resolution, home to many unhoused people who live there and care for one another.
Outrage is growing over the DNC leadership’s refusal to allow even one Palestinian-American to address the Convention from its main stage, in an echo of the 1964 Democratic convention.
Trump and his Project 2025 backers envision mass deportations of immigrants if Trump is elected. Author Sarah Towle explores the real cruelty that would be involved in such deportations.
Mike Brown Sr. releases butterflies after four and a half minutes of silence to honor the four and a half hours Mike Brown Jr.’s body was left on the ground after he was shot on August 9, 2014.
The Poor People’s Army, a national group of poor and homeless people with a history of staging nonviolent protests, faces pressure from Chicago officials to stay away from DNC.
The 2024 elections are probably the most consequential in our lifetimes. Defeating Trump and Project 2025 will give the millions who are fighting for a new society a little more maneuvering room to wage their struggles.
States are using their budgetary power to punish communities that don’t push people off the street, including places that have more unhoused people than shelter beds, and to arrest people who don’t have a safe space to go to.
The Wood Street Commons, a community of unhoused residents in West Oakland, is calling for immediate action to address the State’s homelessness crisis.
A tribute to Eddie Canales, a great advocate for humanity in the South Texas border region, and founder and director of the South Texas Human Rights Center (STHRC), who died July 31, 2024.
Forty-five American physicians and nurses sent an open letter to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Jill Biden about the carnage they saw while working in Gaza.
San Francisco begins brutal sweeps against people on the streets and their belongings, whether housing is available or not; a city with some of the highest rents in the nation.
A discussion on speaking strategically for an agenda that stands in contrast to corporate collusion, poverty and endless wars, that gives people something to believe in.
One deputy in Sonya Massey’s murder was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct. Read the story and see the video.
Wood Street Commons community in Oakland is struggling to ensure housing as a human right in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling and the governor's order criminalizing homelesssness.
Black father killed outside Milwaukee's Hyatt Regency Hotel. He was held down and beaten with batons by four security personnell, saying he couldn't breathe.
In an appearance on Democracy Now! July 17, writer Jean Guerrero refuted some of the lies told about immigrants at the Republican National Convention on July 16.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak to Congress on July 24. Protests are planned that oppose his visit and to demand his arrest as a war criminal.
57 percent of unhoused women report domestic violence as their immediate cause of homelessness. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an Oregon law could further limit their options
Recent Supreme Court decisions have opened the floodgates to allow corporate interests, in the name of profit, to dismantle the system of federal regulation that protects our rights and wellbeing.
Climate change and extreme weather is a real thing. This is evidenced by the fact that extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and more intense.
On July 2, the U.S. Supreme Court formally declared that former President Trump is above the law. Yes, we can end up with a felon, a liar, and a criminal for president. But on a grander scale, ruling puts Trump and future presidents above the law – leading us toward a dictatorship.
Join a campaign to combat the mainstream lies and shine a moral light on the truth: that no human being is illegal, and seeking asylum is a human right.
A movement is growing against the latest “legalized” atrocity on the most vulnerable, in governments, among advocates, ordinary people, and most importantly, by organized and individual homeless people. As said in the homeless movement, “We only get what we are organized to take!”
The right-wing Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, billed as a policy playbook for a second Trump administration, includes provisions that would demolish the existing immigration system and set the stage for mass deportations.
Criminalizing the homeless for sleeping in public spaces when having no other option does not violate the cruel and unusual punishment clause of U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment, according to new ruling.
The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival hosted a march in Wash., DC, to uplift the needs of the over 135 million poor and low-wage workers across the U.S.
Camp Resolution, the self-governing encampment for unhoused Sacramento residents, received a notice on March 28 for its nearly one hundred members to vacate by...
June 14, 2024
Interview with General Dogon of the Los Angeles Community Action Network by Cathleen Williams, Homeward Street Journal
General Dogon is an organizer at...
Rebuilding the U.S. immigration system to be functional and humane requires dismissing harmful myths and inflammatory rhetoric in favor of truth and facts.
Community groups, fighting since 2012 to reopen 12 mental health clinics shuttered under former Mayor Emmanuel, joined the Chicago mayor’s office to announce the reopening of Roseland Mental Health Center.
University of California academic workers represented by UAW 4811 are striking. They say the UC system has failed to protect their freedom to speak and failed to keep them safe from police brutality during recent campus protests.
The UCSC rally saw Palestinian flags, UAW picket signs, and chants such as "Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation"; and "Disclose, divest."
The Supreme Court’s decision in the case out of southern Oregon, expected in June, will broadly impact how local governments write homelessness policy in the United States.
Florida homeless advocate discusses new anti-homeless laws in Florida, and elsewhere, criminalizing those who have to shelter, including upcoming Supreme Court rulings that could impact the nation.
The UAW union representing about 3,000 graduate student workers at USC filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school to end campus militarization and drop charges against students and faculty.
Helen Benedict, a Columbia University journalism professor, describes how the right wing has used accusations of anti-semitism against campus protests to distract attention from the death toll in Gaza.
Photos by David Bacon of Strawberry workers parading through Santa Maria on a May Day march, demanding a living wage. Most are indigenous Mixtec migrants from Oaxaca and southern Mexico.
The violent arrest of Emory University Prof. Caroline Fohlin April 25 in Atlanta shows the degree to which democracy is being trampled as resistance to the Gaza genocide grows.
Voters in Enid, OK recalled a city council member who was a former organizer for a white supremacist organization after he failed to distance himself from connections to white supremacist groups.
A larger-than-life figure, Flint Michigan's Eric Mays was dubbed “the voice”, not only for his deep baritone, but for his relentless pursuit of social justice.
Actions are taking place in the following cities: San Francisco (Bay Area), CA; Los Angeles, CA; Sacramento, CA; Portland, OR; Medford, OR; Missoula, MT; Seattle, WA; Denver, CO
Earth Day is a reminder that Mother Earth pleads with us to care for her. The youth are listening, holding a global climate strike April 19. Although we are still far from reaching net zero emissions by 2050, it's time to be assertive with our world leaders for change will give our grandchildren a healthy Mother Earth and create a world of peace.
Our current society loses 295,000 people each year to poverty, which is more people than by homicide, gun violence, diabetes, or obesity but the corporate media does not talk about that.
The U.S. government should stop Texas' anti-immigrant campaign, says border activist Fernando Garcia. We need more welcoming centers at the southern border, not more militarization, he adds.
A coalition of current and former San Francisco officials and civic organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in advance of...
Sacramento homeless and supporters rally at the state capitol in anticipation of a case before the U.S Supreme Cout that could criminalize sleeping outside even when cities have no beds or housing for people.
Six men who were working filling potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge are presumed dead. Two bodies were found trapped in a submerged vehicle in the river. The six men, immigrant workers who had lived in the area for years, are among thousands of immigrant workers who help keep the Baltimore area functioning.
The movement against Texas’ SB4 law continues, undeterred by a highly contested U.S. Supreme Court ruling clearing the way for the law allowing Texas police to arrest and deport people they “suspect” are in Texas illegally.
Home is a place where we go ….A destination. That destination does not need to be physical …. home is a space. Home is a place with family ….community support strength and the ability to feel secure in your fight where you stand.
San Francisco is banning overnight parking on Bernal Heights Blvd., endangering homes of RV dwellers. Residents are protesting their impending eviction.
Millions of women have been standing up to fight, but now, all women are needed to engage in the movement. Organize, support women, strike, protect our freedoms, our rights, our mutual vision of health, peace, and love.
Outrage is mounting here and globally for immediate cease-fire in Gaza. A significant percentage of Democrats are voting "uncommitted,” but the Biden administration is not stopping U.S. from providing bombs that kill Palestinian children.
The following is a March 11, 2024 press release from La Resistencia about the hunger strikes, attempted suicides, and death at the Northwest Detention...
Hundreds of protesters block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech to call for ceasefire and end to U.S funding for Israel's assault on Gaza.
For International Women’s Month we honor Dora Rodriguez, migrant survivor and Director of Salvavision, an organization providing support to asylum seekers and migrants. Dora exemplifies women’s contribution to peace and a better world.
In 2023, 68,440 Chicagoans experienced houselessness, lived on the streets, in shelters, or doubled-up. Bring Chicago Home was born out of the growing need to address the crisis in a real and meaningful way where people get housed and stay housed
The systemic causes of family homelessness are not the families’ fault— it’s mainly a lack of affordable housing, economic problems, and our nation’s relentless punishing of families.
Prop 1 Would gut local mental health services and further criminalize the unhoused. The following is an excerpt from a voting guide prepared by Kris Rehl, a writer and organizer with LA Street Care, and was lightly edited for length.
Congresswoman Tlaib introduces bill to stop politicians from funnelling billions of American tax dollars to same defense contractors many of them are invested in and taking campaign donations from.
San Francisco’s centrally located Tenderloin area is about 25 blocks flanked by Union Square and Civic Center areas. The mayor’s reelection campaign aims to please the billionaire donors by punishing the thousands of unhoused living in this area and across the city, rather than provide people with housing.
What may be the final hearings in Julian Assange's effort to halt his extradition to the U.S. are under way. The U.S. is engaged in criminalizing things that journalists do all the time, and this is a real threat to democracy.
Every time Black Americans have advanced, there has been a democratizing effect for everyone, and every time the powerful have decided to turn back the clock on democracy, they start by attacking the rights of Blacks. We see this today.
From slavery, to organizing the first Black union-the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, and to their current workforce, Blacks continue to fight for a One Fair Wage.
Nearly two dozen campaigners with the Sunrise Movement were arrested after protesting at President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign headquarters, issuing warnings that crucial votes from young people will be lost unless he takes bold climate action and ends his support for Israel’s massacre in Gaza.
The Supreme Court will decide whether it should be illegal to arrest and cite unhoused people for unauthorized lodging without offering immediate available shelter.
Israeli forces have killed over 10,000 children in roughly 100 days of Israel's assault into Gaza, as Save the Children reported, or about 100 children per day.
The state of Texas and the federal government squander billions militarizing the border with Mexico, when this money could be used to take care of the needs of both immigrants and U.S. residents alike.
A Salvadorian migrant who nearly died crossing through the Arizona desert on foot speaks of the need to tell the stories of migrants to get people to recognize the needs and human rights of immigrants.
To most people, I’m invisible. Just another nameless Black man blending into the urban background. People avoid making eye contact as they walk past me on the sidewalk.
Witness at the Border held a conference in January in Ajo, Arizona, to assess the situation facing migrants and refugees and to discuss what the future holds for the immigration rights movement.
Al Jazeera’s update to its "Know Their Names" project identifies some of the thousands of Palestinian children killed so far in Israeli attacks on Gaza. It lists children from infants to 17-year-olds and the children are sorted by age.
Dozens of unhoused, disoriented, disabled Chicago residents will die. Hundreds will get frostbite and/or hypothermia. The city must open warming senters 24/7.
A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a beacon of hope, a driving force behind the civil rights movement, for racial equality, and for his contributions to the Labor Movement.
Murdered in Memphis years ago, Dr. King’s legacy lives on today — in the efforts of all those continuing the fight he waged against systemic racism, militarism, and economic inequality.
U.S. Congress members who called for peace in Palestine are being targeted for defeat in 2024 by well-funded political action committees. Now the Congress members are rallying voters to their cause.
Brittany Watts, 33, was charged with a felony in Ohio after police searched her toilet after she suffered a miscarriage. Doctors are pushing the prosecutor to drop charges.
A memorial was held for those who died in Santa Cruz streets unhoused, the most expensive rental market in the country. Hear voices of both sadness and hope.
Poet Gregory Pond read this poem at a memorial for the world-celebrated revolutionary poet Jack Hirschman’s 90th birthday in San Francisco. Jack died in 2021. He took his message of transformation and brotherhood around the globe. His great heart was open to all, from the panhandler on the corner to his peers in the world of international poetry and struggle.
Homeless and supporters stand together on this winter solstice night mourning the unhoused who have died on our streets. The memorial reminds us of the cruel reality that some of us are unhoused, living outside. Their voices must be at the forefront of the fight to end homelessness.
Wood Street End-of-Year Letter 2023!
Wood Street Commons
Season’s Greetings Wood Street Allies, Friends, and Family,
It’s hard to believe that we are quickly approaching the end...
Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International call for Israel to be investigated for war crimes in targeting journalists, after a Reuters investigation conclusively found that its journalist was killed by an Israeli tank shell fired on him and others.
Thanks to the Benton Harbor Community Water Council and Rev Edward Pinkney, Benton Harbor’s water system is now providing safe water to its residents.. All the lead service lines have been replaced. But now Benton Harbor faces another drinking water crisis—the water, now safe to drink, is unaffordable.
Twenty nine poor Texas border counties are designated medically underserved. Residents lack access to primary care services, sites, or providers to meet their medical needs. There is an effort to change that.
The U.N. climate summit ended with nations pledging to transition away from fossil fuels, but the final text fails to explicitly call for a phaseout of fossil fuels, language sought by over 100 countries.
From January 12-15, 2024, the Witness at the Border immigrant rights group is sponsoring a Workshop for Justice/Taller por la Justicia in Ajo, Arizona to reflect on the fight for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers and where we go from here. The registration deadline is December 15.
Chicago voters will decide whether to increase the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT) on home sales of over $1 million, creating a dedicated source of funding for preventing and ending homelessness in Chicago.
Despite Texas Gov. Abbott's pledge to continue the battle, opponents of 4-foot-wide orange spherical buoys—which span 1,000 feet of the Rio Grande River—celebrated the appeals court decision to remove them.
The UAW International Union has voted to join the call for a ceasefire. "The UAW International is calling for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Israel and Palestine so that we can get to the work of building a lasting peace, building social justice and building a global community of solidarity."
Some Chicagoans are angry at the migrants for, in their view, draining our resources. It is understandable why people are frustrated, however, migrants are not the austerity imposers. Profit-making corporations leave Chicagoans with food deserts, underfunded schools, shuttered mental health clinics, and over 68,000 Chicagoans without housing. There should be enough for everybody. Our elected officials do not fund enough resources for the public.
With almost 10 years of the crisis, having dealt with death, health challenges, Legionella, children’s social emotional trauma along with learning disabilities — the failure of the judicial system for the people of Flint is unforgivable. Flint residents will not give up on being made whole.
Labor actions, the struggle in the Middle East, the fight of the homeless, migrants, refugees and others, are fronts in a struggle breaking out in many forms all over the country and world.
The number of people displaced by climate disasters, conflict, and violence continues to reach unprecedented levels. Vulnerable communities and countries under attack from wars for corporate ownership of resources are living with the worst impacts.
A federal appeals court on Nov. 20 ruled that only the U.S. Department of Justice can bring lawsuits under Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a decision that—if upheld—would deprive private citizens and advocacy groups of the ability to file legal challenges to discriminatory election practices.
By a decisive 56.6% to 43.4% margin, Ohio voters won the constitutional right to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions." This victory for reproductive rights was one of several won in November.
The U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices issued a scathing dissent this week as the tribunal's right-wing supermajority rejected the appeal of an Illinois inmate with mental illness imprisoned in solitary confinement without access to fresh air for three straight years.
AFSC staff and partners served thousands of meals through the border wall, clothed thousands weekly, and alleviated the pain, uncertainty, and fear for many. While elected officials hesitate, the community mobilizes.
Forty-two journalists and media workers have been killed since October 7th. Independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who produced the award-winning documentary 'The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh,' asks where is the global response? And where is the journalist outcry to their colleagues killed in Gaza?
Biden and the congressional majority won't impose a ceasefire on Israel because Israel was created in part on behalf of American and European corporations and billionaires to further their interests in the Middle East.
Freedom of speech is under attack throughout the United States, with those who criticize the seige of Gaza facing retribution at schools and workplaces.
The Biden administration will break all records for paying border contractors. At the same time, the administration announced it would waive 26 laws protecting people, including the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, to put up a new section of border wall in Starr County, Texas.
The latest warriors to save Atlanta's Weelaunee forest and stop ‘Cop City’ are four elder women who believe people should decide the fate of the forest, not the Mayor, Atlanta City Council, or the Atlanta Police Foundation. A petition for a public vote was signed by 116,000 people.
Despite attempts to silence them, hundreds of thousands of people have been marching across the world to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and that the U.S. cut off financial and military support to Israel.
CA Senate Bill 1338 created a mental health court. A court-appointed conservator would make health care decisions and control one’s medication and treatment — at an involuntary stay in a psychiatric facility. Could this be the housing promised by Governor Newsom?
The pandemic paused redeterminations for Medicaid in March 2020. All states were to resume the eligibility process on April 1. Since then, the State of Mississippi dropped 18,710 children from Medicaid; more are likely to come.
Sacramento California has 22,000 unhoused people on the streets. This is the reality people live and die in. Sacramento Homeless Union leader asks, “Can we create a place we can all thrive and be healthy together?”
Summer Lee says Republicans' plan to exploit a horrific war to help billionaire donors cheat on taxes would cost taxpayers $90 billion, enough to end hunger, homelessness, student debt, and more.
Amid escalating Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians, millions around the world are demanding a ceasefire. The people of the U.S. have a crucial role to play in pushing for a ceasefire as a first step toward a real peace.
The Red Cross refused to help homeless families burnt out of the hotel they stayed at, which caused them to lose everything, because the motel was not a permanent residence.
Activists in Jackson, MS are citing a provision under the Safe Drinking Water Act that gives residents and community groups like them the right to intervene and partner with the government in enforcing the Act’s requirements.
New podcast gives perspectives of Indigenous communities from around the world about the consequences we all reckon with of a global, industrial society built on growth, extraction, and colonialism.
The Border Patrol's San Diego sector is violating Customs and Border Protection's national standards by once again holding hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants in open-air detention areas.
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.
A shocking abandonment amid abundance is the state of the poor in this country. Will we condemn millions of us to cruel and unnecessary poverty, while feeding the drive to authoritarianism or will we lift poverty and so strengthen the very foundation of our democracy?
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...
While the media focus on Trump as posing the central threat to democracy, the drive toward a dictatorship in the country has proceeded rapidly in the last couple of years on Biden’s watch, and mostly at the state level, along with a growing resistance to it.
UAW President Shawn Fain addresses why the expansion of the strike and the growing support globally and nationally in two venues. Workers are fighting to get their fair share at a time when the profits of automakers are soaring. The challenge is where we're going to go as a country.
75,000 people marched on the U.N. headquarters. A demand was for President Biden to “end fossil fuels.” Financial institutions financing fossil fuel projects were targeted with 149 arrests.
New York City municipal retirees are fighting attempts to strip them of their traditional Medicare benefits and push them into a privatized Medicare Advantage plan — a struggle that mirrors similar battles being fought by retirees in cities across the country against the privatization of traditional Medicare.
It has now been over a month since the gruesome incident that caused the death of Christine Chavez, a houseless woman, and there are more questions than answers at this point.
Declaring that “it’s time to stand up for the working class,” UAW President Shawn Fain speaks about the historic “Stand Up Strike” where for the first time the UAW struck all Big Three automakers at once. Worker wages, benefits and quality of life declined for decades, while automakers’ profits have skyrocketed.
The Texas governor bused more than 13,000 migrants to Chicago. Many came without shoes. Chicago women — many who have themselves suffered displacement —are leading aid efforts and unity, with over 200 partnerships. Federal action is demanded.
The attack on what remains of a free press in America is escalating. Defending the First Amendment right to speak and publish is critical to defending and expanding democracy.
Six million people have been stripped of Medicaid coverage in the last several months, creating what one healthcare activist and researcher described as "the largest concentration of health insurance loss in American history." It’s happening in both red and blue states.
This article reposted from the Atlanta Community Press Collective describes the Georgia Attorney General's attempt to stifle free speech by indicting opponents of Cop City in Atlanta.
San Francisco lost its appeal challenging an injunction prohibiting the city from enforcing penal codes such as the ban on sleeping on the streets, as the City has continued to violate unhoused residents’ rights, destroying their property while clearing camps on the streets.
UAW member Sean Crawford gives a Labor Day speech at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Detroit, MI. He addresses labor history, the issues surrounding the upcoming contract and unity.
Luz Melissa Cortes Nieto had the opportunity to attend a study abroad program dedicated to DREAMERS across the U.S., like herself. She interviews Dreamers she met during her travels.
In recent months, it's come to light that dozens of asylum seekers have been held outside in dangerous heat at the Ajo, Arizona, Border Patrol Station. Melissa del Bosque of The Border Chronicle traveled to Ajo to talk with local residents and activists who are monitoring and protesting the situation.
A white supremacist walked into a Dollar Store in Jacksonville, FL, and killed three people. Speakers discuss the role Gov. DeSantis has played in creating the climate for such killings, and that all people must come together to stop the hate.
Every year, from 30,000 to 60,000 Americans die from lack of healthcare. Affordability is the main reason. Insurance is no guarantee of protection. People avoid seeing a doctor for fear of another bill they can’t afford. Others ration medication to save money. The author discusses a solution: Medicare for All.
Eduardo Castro was loved by many for his simple ways. A Vietnam veteran, he was active in many groups, including Veterans for Peace, Deported Veterans, Brown Beret de Fresno, Poor People’s Campaign, California Central Valley Journey for Justice. He rarely said no to a request for support. He wore many shoes and will be dearly missed.
Crystal Sanchez, president of the Sacramento Homeless Union, grew up in Sacramento. Formerly homeless herself, she brings insight into the homeless and housing crisis, urging us to come together and discuss plans to end homelessness by ensuring everybody has a chance to be heard and work together for a solution.
Protest in Enid, Oklahoma over electing Judd Blevins to represent them on the Enid City Commission. Blevins has been accused of being an Oklahoma organizer for a white nationalist group.
Ozempic is for long-term use. After some significant weight loss occurs in about two years, financial assistance will be exhausted, regular insurance won’t cover it due to its cost, and then what? Novo Nordisk, producer of Ozempic, made a gross profit of $22.244B for the 12 months ending March 31, 2023.
In Braxton, Mississippi on January 24, 2023 six white police officers raided a home and tortured, tasered, sexually abused two Black men, shooting one in the mouth. The six police just pled guilty to torture. The two men speak about their fight for justice.
The article outlines many things President Biden can do to unlock his executive powers and drastically cut fossil fuel emissions by calling for a ‘real’ Climate Emergency.
Given the deadly heat, workers and some officials are urging Biden to accelerate a federal OSHA standard to prevent heat-related work injuries and illnesses.
The deceased woman’s family and people who saw her shortly before she died claim she was sleeping in dry grass prior to being run over by a large tractor pulling a powerful mower. The father is asking for an investigation.
In this article, the author points to some of the latest examples of the climate emergency, and warns that Trump and his followers represent the most extreme version of climate change deniers.
Chrystul Kizer, a sex trafficking victim who at the age of 17, killed the man abusing and selling her for sex. She is now 23. In July, 2023, a new ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court offers hope for her acquittal.
In July, advocate Curtis Harris testified before the Chicago Health and Human Relations Committee about the mental health services he needs. He speaks about his lived experience of mental illness on the autism spectrum.
A court-appointed conservator would make financial and health care decisions and control a patient’s medication and treatment. Where is the housing promised by Gov. Newsom when he announced his CARE Court plan?
A lawsuit against protesters of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) was dropped by Roanoke County, Virginia. The three self-described Old Folks blocked the pipeline access road for 15 hours in 2021. Lawyers called the County’s charges a First Amendment violation.
Attacks are intensifying around issues of reproduction, healthcare, maternal care, and now gender identity. Women, trans people and children’s lives are at stake. Poor women and youth are particularly hurt, but the laws potentially threaten all pregnant and gender-diverse people.
The first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S. — the result of 16 youth suing the Montana government for promoting and supporting fossil fuels that dangerously warm up the planet — concluded June 23
San Francisco is concentrating homeless arrests in areas where lots of people live on the streets. However, a new study by UCSF, found the leading cause of homelessness was overwhelmingly the crushingly high rents and unaffordable housing, and lack of meaningful help getting rehoused once housing is lost, despite millions of dollars spent on “homeless services” (mainly shelters and policing).
Two Black women speak about the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. The women’s comments dispel some of the lies and myths about affirmative action, the affect it will have on African Americans and people of color, and the negative impact a lack of diversity will have on us all.
A Texas state trooper’s claims that superiors ordered officers at the border to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water has sparked a state investigation.
Threatening to transfer a child in need of support and services to a dangerous maximum-security adult prison, like Angola Penitentiary, represents a complete failure by the state of Louisiana to provide rehabilitation to children. The juvenile justice system is skewed toward punitive justice; find out what we can do about it.
Friends offer warm remembrances of Joey Pace who died of fentanyl poisoning. Joey, a Special Forces veteran, was a years-long volunteer for Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs. The community had been reeling from recent deaths. And a total of 90 unhoused died in Santa Cruz in 2022.
More than 11,000 immigrants have been sent to Chicago by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott since last year. In a spirit of caring, Chicago voted to allocate $51 million to care for migrants through the end of June. Chicago officials have demanded that the Illinois governor act to stop Abbott from using vulnerable people as political pawns.
The push to build the planned $90 million corporate-funded militarized police training facility in a forest near Atlanta tells us a lot about what the movement for progressive change is up against, both in Atlanta and nationwide.
The climate disaster is breeding conflict — from open war between nation-states to abuse of migrants at borders to hate and physical assaults in our own cities to state violence against climate activists.
Ongoing protests are mounting in opposition to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which Congress recently gave the go ahead to via the debt ceiling deal. Appalachians vow to not let the pipeline be built.
Homeless Poet Linda Stevens presents her poetry, saying "I'm too old to go back to work, I don't have benefits . . . why don't cities have a help system? What can we do to get this world to wake up and help the unhoused? If we don't fight back, we're all going to die!"
Protesters at a news conference, many speaking Spanish, called Texas HB 2127 the “law that kills” and that it will leave lawn crews, construction workers and others who labor outdoors at the mercy of their employers. "Believe me, we are dying . . . when they take away our water and our [break] time,” said one worker.
Food is a human right. Yet over 34 million Americans — and those numbers are growing every day — are hungry, including 1 in 8 children. Why is anyone, let alone children, going hungry when there’s plenty of food in supermarkets across the country? And why are people who share food with hungry people being ticketed and fined?
The dangers and costs of the Ukraine war are immense in terms of threats to humanity and the huge sums of money diverted into military spending and away from spending on human needs.
Dr. Ann Lopez, PhD, founder and executive director of the Center for Farmworker Families (CFF), speaks with the People’s Tribune during a monthly distribution of food, clothes and household goods in Watsonville, CA organized by the Center and other non-profit groups and volunteers.
Read and sign an open letter to the President of the U.S., to Congress and to all people of this Republic who claim to be on the side of love, truth and justice on building the nation that's never yet been.
Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers extend their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino, CA. over low pay and dangerous working conditions.
The People's Tribune recently interviewed two farmworker women from Pájaro, California, who described how farmworker families in the area are still hurting months after the March floods devastated Pájaro.
Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law restrictions adopted in 1890 by white supremacists to prevent Black people convicted of certain crimes to vote will remain since the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted the law's history in a dissent.
The Foundation for Government Accountability, which aims to make ballot initiatives harder to pass, is being bankrolled by Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein.
Cameron Samuels (Center) started a movement against censorship in Katy,Texas and students are standing strong. They honored them for Banned Books Week as Youth Honorary Chair for distributing banned books and packing school board meetings. Young people call on the nation to not be silent and defend their rights because they feel no others will.
Housing insecurities affect about 83% of Peralta Community College Students. About 14% of students nationwide self-report experiencing homelessness in the past year. Students are asked to speak out at the Peralta Board of Trustee Meeting June 27.
Las Vegas buses have security guards to make sure people don't fall asleep on busses, which are sometimes the only place the homeless can shut their eyes without worrying about being robbed or harmed.
The three-day Moral Poverty Action Poor People’s Congress will sound the alarm that poverty equals death. It brings together poor and low-wealth people and faith leaders to strategize on ending poverty and to ensure poverty is on the nation’s agenda heading into the 2024 elections
In the Julian Assange case, the freedom to publish and read the truth is on the line, along with democracy. President Biden can either drop the U.S. case against Assange, or side with the enemies of democracy.
As we celebrate Juneteenth 2023, we should remember that the constant struggle of those who have been denied their rights – especially African Americans, given the history of the U.S. – has been key to helping advance the struggle for a real democracy for all of us.
The author is a disabled writer who has a lot to say about disability justice and other things. She says that when others around her don’t wear a mask, they are effectively telling her: Your life is not worth this small inconvenience. I do not care about you. I do not care about other vulnerable people.
Texas’ abortion laws are some of the most restrictive in the country. Now new laws criminalizing supporters of the fight for women’s rights are being passed. At the same time, people from all walks of life are joining the fight for women’s rights, and democracy itself.
Montana will not take $10 million in funding for summer food programs that would have helped feed hungry children across the state, all because the paperwork was just too much for the state.
As Todd Miller demonstrates in this article, though Title 42 has ended, the Border-Industrial Complex continues to ensure that the borderlands will remain one of the most militarized and surveilled places on Earth.
A week of climate action began on June 8, following the debt-ceiling agreement, signed into law by Pres. Biden, which included approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and weakening the National Environmental Policy Act. The demand is for President Biden to honor his promise to be the climate president and end the era of fossil fuels.
Thousands lined up at an Atlanta City Council meeting to voice their opposition to the construction of a massive police training facility known as Cop City.
After 40 years, the system is still doing exactly what it was designed to do: manage and minimize the presence of homeless people. It was NEVER intended to address homelessness in any real way.
Texas has filed more anti-trans legislation than any state. Legislators from both parties are destroying the childhoods of trans kids by denying them the gender-affirming health care they rely on to feel whole and genuine.
Hip Hop Congress, Inc.—a leader “spreading Hip Hop cultural awareness and creative exchange to uplift individuals and communities” around the world— announces their 10th National Convening & 2023 Family Reunion
Police SWAT team raided the Atlanta Solidarity Fund and arrested three people who had been raising money to bail out protesters opposed to the construction of a police training facility known as Cop City.
The federal government spent $20.5 billion overpaying private insurers for Medicare Advantage last year, and endangering the overall financial stability of Medicare.
The final debt ceiling agreement will harm vulnerable people and the planet by imposing new work requirements on aid recipients and approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Nearly 40 progressives in Congress voted against it.
Many people are understandably concerned about the size of the national debt, but this country has billions of dollars in debt not because of social programs. It’s because billions of dollars is spent on endless wars, and because of the massive tax cuts for billionaires approved in recent years.
Eight-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol Custody. Our current system relies upon deterrence, not protecting. How many more deaths will we allow in the name of securing our borders?
After 22 years working for Walmart, a worker says she nor the other 46% of coworkers can’t afford to retire with zero in the company retirement account. Yet Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has more than $169 million in his. Many execs get monthly retirement checks worth more than most workers annual pay.
The recent bank failures – and the government bank bailouts – raise serious questions. Where is the bailout for the people? And why do we keep perpetuating a failing bank system?
Fentanyl is a killer drug. Both Democrats and Republicans often associate smuggling as done by migrants coming across the U.S/Mexico border. Why are elected officials blaming migrants when facts show that it is U.S. citizens getting arrested for drug trafficking?
Black homeless street artist Jordan Neely, 30, walking through a NYC subway car saying he was hungry and thirsty, was held in a choke hold until his death. Widespread protests finally resulted in manslaughter charges being brought against his perpetrator.
Congress and the President bypassed the people, courts and Constitution to finish the Mountain Valley pipeline through passage of the debt ceiling act. The author says every person available must be willing to put their foot down - directly in its path.
In the 1937 Memorial Day massacre police were called out by Republic Steel to do violence against a campaign to unionize the steel industry. Today the fight for justice and democracy continues for all who’ve been killed by police – on picket lines or in neighborhoods.
As a historic debt default looms, a new report says the majority of this year’s federal discretionary funds were used for militarized programs, urging gov't to re-prioritize spending to serve human needs.
Bernie Sanders and 10 other Senators call for President Biden to invoke his 14th Amendment authority to avert a debt default and GOP’s demand to cut aid programs.
The Border Patrol for months has been detaining migrants for days at a time at the border between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California, in what amounts to an open-air prison, where the migrant men, women and children have suffered degrading, cruel and inhumane treatment.
As summer rolls around, one group of motel-dwellers will feel the heat the most — families and individuals who’ve lost housing. Motels/hotels welcome tourists in summer, so they want to get rid of the “riff-raff”. . .
Seven sheriff's deputies and three hospital workers are indicted on murder charges for killing a shackled Black man by piling on him and pinning him to the ground for 11 minutes in a Virginia mental health hospital.
On National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day speakers at Minnesota State University Moorhead join panel discussion to help raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons and violence against Native women and girls.
Former San Jose Police Association Executive Director faces federal charges for running an international drug ring. She was released without bail and local law officials have been relatively quiet on the alleged charges despite its size and scope. Writer Raymond Goins asks - why is she treated differently?
Please join us May 11, 2023, at 10 a.m. Pacific, Noon Central time, for a webinar on how efforts by the U.S. and Mexican governments to deter migration are harming people on both sides of the border.
New tactics in climate movement in UK mobilizes thousands in fight for bottom-up pressure to hold governments accountable for inadequate climate pledges and for policies commensurate with climate science.
Nancy Faulstich, director of Regeneración-Pajaro Valley Climate Action, discusses the climate disaster in the agricultural town of Pajaro, California and the importance of enough people joining climate actions and working collectively.
View photo essay by the renowned photo journalist David Bacon of the unhoused people who live in the Wood Street community in Oakland, CA. They have been facing the city’s earth movers with metal jaws destroying the homes and belongings of the residents.
While the window for avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of climate change narrows, the global banking sector continues to funnel huge sums each year into fossil fuels to the tune of $673 billion last year.
Fentanyl is the number one killer of 18- to 45-year-olds in this country. Solving the narcotics crisis means not only treatment and prevention, but ensuring all basic needs are met and treating everyone as a valuable, contributing member of society. This is a group effort and where we should put our money and effort.
Tennessee resident writes letter to governor expressing her outrage at his refusal to pass meaningful legislation for gun reform, for allowing elected officials to be stripped of their position, and for doing nothing for the poor, pledging to vote accordingly.
People are horrified and outraged that our rights are being stripped by dangerous new laws in Texas and other states. Medical professionals and women’s organizations are discussing law, morality and whether to treat women where it may be illegal and there’s a serious threat to life or health. This is about more than abortion rights. A broad movement for freedom and democracy is underway.
The People's Tribune interviewed Dr. Ann Lopez of the Center for Farmworker Families regarding the disgraceful way farmworker families are treated along California's central coast. She talks about how farmworkers suffer from racism, agribusiness exploitation, and an uncaring government, especially in the wake of the recent floods in Pajaro, and what her organization does to help farmworkers. She also calls for reform of the entire industrial agricultural system.
Residents say it has been a tense week with heavy police presence at the Wood Street Commons community in Oakland, CA where the City is destroying a long-standing camp of the unhoused violently, without respect for residents rights, lives or property.
The Biden administration approved the Willow Project. This oil reserve, in Alaska, will be extracted for about 30 years; and expected to deliver $8 to $17 billion in revenue. It will release about 9.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and also be built nearby Indigenous people’s land.
SAN JOSE, CA– On Friday, April 21 at 11:30 am, Students Against Sweeps will hold a
press conference discuss the City’s plans to
address homelessness, and human rights issue.
Farmworker housing is in crisis in rural CA, as in almost every agricultural state. In 2021, grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley still sleep in cars during the harvest. The author tells why.
Mississippi’s history and current events are instructive—and even predictive—for the rest of the country, especially in relationship to how racism and conservatism ultimately deprives everyone.
OAKLAND, CA - On Monday, April 10, the police of Oakland, along with clean-up crew were at 1707 Wood Street to start evicting residents of Wood Street Commons.
Jacob Merlin Apodaca was attacked while in police custody. Since his death his sisters have been demanding transparency and justice from Merced officials regarding their brother’s death.
A nurse at a San Diego hospital describes the medical and human rights crisis that results from the 30-foot border wall killing and injuring immigrants who fall while trying to scale the wall.
On April 1, Camp Resolution, a self-run community of tents and vehicle dwellings of about 50 people on a fenced city-owned lot in Sacramento CA, celebrated a victory.
The City of Oakland , CA has begun demolishing the Wood Street Commons encampment of the unhoused, the City's largest camp. The residents wow to continue their fight for housing
In a direct attack on democracy, one of three democratically elected TN representatives who stood up for students fighting for gun control has been expelled by the corporate funded Republicans.Two more face expulsion.
The EPA is no longer transparent. Industries pay big bucks for lobbyists to pressure and pay off legislators. The same legislators pressure governmental agencies to turn their heads on our marginalized communities. East Palestine, Ohio is protesting, collaborating, networking, organizing, and taking action.
For the first time, the membership of the UAW got to vote directly for its International Leadership, defeating the establishment Caucus who ran the union for years.
This tragedy, like the many others that have become a normal feature of our immigration and asylum systems, will continue to happen if policymakers are unwilling to transition to rights-centered policies to address international migration.
Interview with visual artist and social justice activist Monica Trinidad of Chicago’s Artists for Brandon Johnson about why Brandon Johnson should be supported; and why Johnson is really a people's candidate.
The contest is between Brandon Johnson, a native Chicagoan with concrete plans to address Chicago issues faced, and Paul Vallas, a privatizer with a proven track record of decimating public schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans.
Our only realistic path away from having to bail [banks] out over and over again is to nationalise large parts of the banking system. They should be run as publicly owned utilities.
Alicia Kuhl, president of the Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless, describes how she and her three children became homeless in the past, and how the homeless are stigmatized by false narratives put out by public officials and others.
Read excerpts from the acceptance speech of Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson following the city's February 28 election. Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas will face each other in a run-off election on April 4, 2023.
City of Santa Cruz refuses requests to open empty public buildings for 24 hours a day during deadly storms. The city also threatened to arrest a group sharing meals next to a city garage, leaving people to eat outside in the downpour.
Residents of Wood Street Commons in Oakland, CA ask public to help stop City’s eviction of the mutual aid community they built. Creating community helps solve homelessness.
Water warriors from Flint, Michigan connect with people in East Palestine, Ohio, helping to get samples of toxic material, and sharing lessons of the Flint fight for justice, reparations from the damages, clean water and a clean environment.
Atlanta neighborhoods, clergy, environmental and many other groups and activists joined Stop Cop City actions to save Atlanta forest from destruction for proposed police academy. Events were held in 38 cities and supported by international environmental groups.
Atlanta area resident from the majority Black neighborhood adjacent to the Atlanta forest speaks about what’s behind the struggle to Stop Cop City, and recent events.
The Western and Southwestern U.S. are gripped by the worst drought for these regions in at least the last 1200 years, and climate scientists attribute this to the climate emergency. The situation is now being compounded in California by atmospheric rivers, flooding and fires.
The U.S. Treasury Department will exhaust its ability to pay its bills unless the current $31.4 trillion cap on borrowing is raised or suspended. A gigantic, bloated military budget and massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires has created the crisis. The debt limit has to be raised with expansion, not any cuts, to programs that benefit the poor, hungry, homeless, and disabled.
A woman in South Carolina was arrested and charged this month for allegedly taking abortion pills in 2021. Police didn’t obtain the warrant for her arrest until after “Dobbs.”
The collapse of a makeshift dam in East Palestine, Ohio, raises new fears that contaminated soil from the train derailment may seep into homes or businesses.
As the war continues, it's producing huge profits for U.S. oil companies and arms makers while threatening all of us with nuclear war. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are hungry as massive military spending is consuming resources we need.
In Sacramento, Oakland, in cities across the West Coast and in other places, unhoused residents have banded together and built self-governing settlements. Their struggle also shows how the broader community supports these encampments as a common project.
Police agencies in militarized gear, armed with lethal weapons, raided a music festival in a public park within the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta during the fifth Week of Action to protect the Weelaunee (Atlanta) Forest and stop ‘Cop City’
Any water investment firm bought $20 million worth of land, aiming to buy up Colorado River water rights to make huge profits. The Colorado River supplies water to 40 million people throughout the west.
After Anastasio Hernández Rojas was beaten to death by U.S. Border Patrol agents in 2010, his family ultimately had to take the case to an international human rights body to seek justice. This is the first case of its kind.
As emergency measures enacted in 2020 are allowed to expire, millions who had gained access to Medicaid are about to lose it. Millions are also losing access to enhanced food stamp benefits.
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, for the first time in U.S. history, Chicagoans will elect
three district council members in each of the 22 police districts. These positions were created to hold the police accountable
General Dogon, homeless organizer in Los Angeles' 'Skid Row' community, reports on efforts to oppose LA's city-wide ordinance 41.18, which makes 20 percent of the city off-limits to the homeless.
Pointing out that "Black history is American history," Prof. Kelly Harris gives an overview of some of the state legislation pending that would censor or prevent the teaching of Black history and discusses the importance of a comprehensive understanding of American history.
After Ohio's toxic nightmare, an alliance of rail workers argues for public ownership of the industry, stating that "private and inadequately regulated industry is incapable of doing the job."
The press conference revealed that Black women and women of color in leadership positions, especially those who challenge existing centers of wealth and power in support of the needs of the impoverished, receive far more threats than other public figures.
A number of organizations sent a letter to members of Congress to reject the politics of fear and hate and vote no on the “Border Safety and Security Act.”
Texas’ statewide electrical grid failed two years ago, leading to the deaths of hundreds. It is still not fixed, and Texans are now suffering from power losses in the current ice storm.
The co-founder of Food not Bombs writes about his recent arrest for providing food to the hungry during the California storms and new charges related to his effort to house people during the Pandemic.
Roy Sterling Trout, based in Tucson, AZ tells his story of being homeless for most of his adult life, for 29 years. He advocates for the homeless, and produces podcasts that give a voice to the unhoused.
We, the people, are in a fight for our lives, and we cannot let up. The struggle against corporate dictatorship and for democracy, peace, prosperity and equality will continue and grow, as it must. We will go through some dark times, but we keep our eyes on the prize . . . .
This election gives Chicago’s voters a great way to send a message. It provides a practical way for voters to ask candidates what they will actually do to guarantee their demands, which include affordable housing, public education, immigrant rights, and ending police brutality.
Police killed 1,183 people in 2022, the highest number in a single year in the past decade. There were only 12 days last year without a police killing.
The author argues that priorities must be structured on what is best for the 99%, not for the 1%. Billions of tax dollars are ready to purchase tanks, aircraft, etc., while poverty and police killings in America rise.
Musician Woody Guthrie was outraged by the callous indifference of news stories after the plane crash of 1948. The 27 men and one woman who were passengers, were unnamed, dismissed as “deportees,” who died in the crash. Out of Guthrie's anger came a song – “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).”
Forest defenders refuse to let this murder of one of their own stop them from protesting building of largest militarized police training center for urban warfare in the country.
People mourned, cried, and supported each other at one of many remembrances of Tortugita, the forest defender killed by police, reaffirming a commitment to public safety free of police and to "Stop Cop City."
Pres. Biden expanded the Trump-era Title 42 public health order, which prevents migrants from certain countries from using their legal right to make asylum claims in the U.S. It endangers the lives of migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haïti, México, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Venezuela who will now be expelled when they cross into the U.S. between ports of entry.
California’s 172,000 Homeless face two storms: natural disaster and govt Indifference Yet enough vacant housing exists in SF and LA to house all of California's unhoused.
The oil and gas industry has lit a fuse on the Permian Basin carbon bomb that threatens any hope of a livable future . . . When Presidents Biden and Obrador meet, they must commit to ending new oil and gas development in the Permian Basin and secure a just transition for fossil fuel workers.
Hundreds of people became houseless as sheriffs with guns drawn knocked on each room in a hotel complex, telling occupants they had four hours to get out, per the District Attorney Coty Wamp.
Carolyn Milligan, a dedicated revolutionary who persevered through great suffering and difficulties, was outraged at how our society ignores people who need help the most; she insisted they should get help because they are entitled to it as human beings. And she envisioned and fought for a society that would guarantee it.
A democratic society means that everyone, including the poor, has a say in how our lives are lived and workplaces organized. It’s a society in which the homeless aren’t criminalized, the health of workers is protected, and people are treated with dignity by a government of their choice.
Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. said they or a family member delayed medical care last year due to the prohibitively high cost of treatment under the nation's for-profit healthcare model. We need Medicare for All says Sen Bernie Sanders.
The People’s Tribune opens its pages to those who are struggling to survive in an America in crisis, so you can share your stories in your voice, along with your visions of a society and world that cares for everyone.
Jared DeFigh, a former resident of the Wood Street encampment in Oakland, CA discusses his current life at one of the city’s Tuff Shed [tiny homes community.] He also makes a proposal to save what is left of the city’s destruction of Wood Street encampment.
Some participants in the recently completed Journey for Justice along the US-Mexico border describe what moved them to make the 2,200 mile journey from Texas to California.
It must have been about 1988 when our young blond daughter Aviva had been chosen for the role of the Virgin Mary in the holiday pageant of San Jose, her day care school.
Veterans for Peace want urgent diplomacy to end Ukraine war, not more U.S. weapons and endless war, nor a nuclear war. Spend the billions for climate, jobs, healthcare, housing, not weapons manufacturers and war profiteers.
The writer speaks to a mother outside her tent about the meaning of
the season of giving and sharing, and meditates on our need for each
other, now and all year.
UC Davis PhD student and UAW union member discusses the significance of the UC student worker worker strike, the demands, particularly of the lowest paid workers the settlement process now underway.
A sweep of a camp in San Jose, CA proceeded after several unhoused people had already died due to the weather. Supporters tried to keep people warm with tents/tarps/blankets, but now they are in a nearby "no re-encampment zone", and in danger of losing those few belongings when they get swept from there as well.
The wealthy countries need to take responsibility for being the world’s biggest polluters. Poverty-stricken countries don’t have the infrastructure or financial help for climate catastrophes. The protests are a way to get people to notice the urgent cry of our Mother Earth. There is still hope and momentum for this fight to be won.
Andrea Rudnik, a co-founder of a volunteer organization that assists migrants and refugees in Brownsville, TX, told the People's Tribune her group is helping 400 to 500 people every day.
Striking UC graduate student workers are willingly getting arrested in acts of civil disobedience, viewing the strategy as a way to escalate their work stoppage, now in its fifth week. A main demand is raises that reflect the cost-of-living in California, one of the most expensive states to live in.
Oakland school board candidates who voiced opposition to school closures won the recent school board election. They will join current board members to form a new board majority that will have the power to prevent Oakland school closures.
Chicago City Colleges Adult Education program is vital to education and life-long learning for diverse student populations yet the program faces cuts. Together, students, teachers, and community allies will bring education justice to our communities.
Members of the Witness at the Border group and others are traveling the length of the US-Mexico border from Texas to California Dec. 3-18, 2022. This story and photo are from a Dec. 14 Facebook post by Joshua Rubin, founder of Witness at the Border who says, “The wall is the physical manifestation of the blind eye we turn to those that the conquest has robbed and deprived.”
Approximately 800 people including 75 or so school-age kids have been evicted, left houseless, from a hotel outside Chatanooga in 4-hour shuffle out of their rooms. People are wondering if developers are after the property.
Around 600,000 gallons of Canadian crude tars sands oil, called the world's dirtiest and most environmentally destructive form of oil, spewed December 7 from the Keystone 1 pipeline into a Kansas creek that feeds a watershed providing drinking water for 800,000 people.
See photos of Witness at the Border’s Journey for Justice, a 2,200-mile pilgrimage along the length of the US-Mexico border. Dozens from all over the country will commemorate those who died at the US-Mexico border – 2022 was a record year, 856 deaths as of October 22 – and highlight the injustice of our immigration policies.
The Journey for Justice, which begins on December 2, will caravan from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, to witness the truth behind the border wall of lies, and to share it with the public.
Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in the largest strike of academic workers in U.S. history. A major demand of graduate workers and 61 percent of postdocs is being rent-burdened. Some pay 30% and others more than 50% of their gross income on housing costs.
Following a massive healthcare protest in Madrid in mid-November, primary-level physicians in will strike against the deterioration of health care on November 21. Health workers are fighting problems burdening primary care services and work overload.
The shootings at Club Q, one more bit of truth that it’s time to stand up against hate. History shows that in times of crisis such attacks are used to pit people against one another.
The November 8th election continues to resonant with more lessons each day. From new anti-democracy groups and denial of rights, to jailing women for an abortion, to voter suppression, either the people act to control our future or the corporations will.
Sacramento voters, misinformed and misled, passed an ordinance to outlaw being unhoused and living outside, doing nothing to address housing needs. The dwellers are resisting. Meanwhile giant corporations and the war industry receives lavish subsidies with public funds.
In the recent elections, millions stood up for democracy, human rights, justice and equality, and millions voted for a government that guarantees the well-being of the people and not corporations and billionaires. The people suffered some losses, to be sure, and we still have a fight ahead of us, but there were a lot of victories as well.
Supporters of Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, express great remorse at her loss to the far-right Governor Brian Kemp. He signed the 2021 voter suppression bill aimed especially at the suppression of the Black vote.
The 10th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was celebrated this year. In October, a federal appeals court affirmed a 2021 lower court ruling that DACA was illegal, putting DACA’s continued existence in doubt.
The majority of arrested women have been involved in crimes by their significant other or mistreated by them. Once imprisoned, women face more abuse. Prisons also dissolve the family; over 1.25 million children are currently separated from incarcerated parents. The author argues that the system must be dismantled and government must protect everyone.
As the dreaded forklift moved in, crushing tents and campers' belongings at the Benchlands, a lone woman sets up a food service station for houseless people.
Absent from coverage despite its priority for many voters is housing. Yet half of Americans struggle with housing. Real estate industry groups spent over $187 million nationally during this election cycle.
Following weeks of organizing by KC Tenants Power, Kansas City voters passed a voter resolution authorizing a $50 million bond for deeply affordable housing. The bond is the largest commitment to housing in the City’s history.
More than 50% of our income taxes are spent on the Pentagon. Even a 10% cut in the military budget ($74 Billion) could: create jobs, affordable housing, schools, childcare and community health centers, sustainable energy projects, and clean drinking water facilities, end homelessness, and more.
A victory for the movement against police brutality was won in a lawsuit against the City of Detroit. The settlement means that a federal court will rule that the City of Detroit and the Detroit Police Department violated the constitutional rights of protestors during the George Floyd uprising of 2020.
This statement from the Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice at Sacramento State deals with the implications of the racist remarks made in private by three Los Angeles City Council members.
Democracy itself and whether we will have a government that meets the people's needs are on the ballot in 2022, and we will have to continue fighting after the elections.
Witness at the Border is organizing a 2,200-mile border pilgrimage from Brownsville, Texas to San Ysidro, California in early December to spotlight the brutality and immorality of US immigration policy.
October 29, 2022, marks the 1000th day that Friendship Park in San Diego/Tijuana has been closed. The fight to reopen this historic binational meeting place on the US-Mexico border continues.
As the effort of corporations to privatize our water, causing prices to rise even higher and water quality to further decline in many cases, people throughout the country are standing up to corporate power. People are coming together, demanding that government, local, state and federal, protect their right to clean and affordable water as a human right.
Chicago City College teachers and staff picket every City College demanding adequate compensation considering inflation, affordable health insurance for part-time professionals, and other necessities.
Javier Cazares, whose daughter Jacklyn was killed in the school shootings at Uvalde, TX, last May, is running for Uvalde county commissioner as a write-in candidate.
Read this article to find out what to do to secure your vote. The provisional ballot system has allowed for votes, especially of low-income persons of color, to be thrown out. An estimated 4 to 10 million voters might be purged this year, particularly Blacks, Indigenous peoples, Latinos, students and the poor.
The Flint community is angry but not surprised at what feels like Groundhog Day as it relates to injustice for Flint. This month, charges against seven defendants in the water disaster were thrown out by the courts.
The fight for clean water as a public good is gathering strength nationally. Hear voices from the Poor People’s Campaign in Jackson, Mississippi, where people have been suffering from government neglect of basic services like water for decades.
It is shameful that Governors DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey play politics with the lives of people seeking asylum and who are extremely vulnerable to abuse. Their political base may applaud these dangerous theatrics that could provoke more horrific acts of violence, but that shouldn’t absolve them of the responsibility and culpability they share in inciting such acts of violence.
In the early 1900s, the US government carried out a wholesale assault against American socialists, and this was among the factors that caused serious and lasting setbacks in the efforts to enact reforms like universal health care. Historically, both here and abroad, significant advances in health and welfare have often been spearheaded by socialist parties
Many Mississippi families in need are denied assistance because funds targeted for the poor support things like pet projects of millionaire athletes, new volleyball courts, or sending affluent individuals to luxury rehab facilities.
Oakland and Sacramento unhoused people occupy a lot in Sacramento, calling on state officials to support the rights of unhoused people to permanent housing.
The following is a statement from Earth Justice, See the original statement at: bit.ly/3yijWVI — The Editors
“Today, the Supreme Court heard a case that...
Like Woody Guthrie, the American people today are once again calling out the fascists, and organizing to fight against fascism and for the rights and needs of every one of us.
Hundreds of national and grassroots groups made a victory for climate and against fossil fuel expansion possible by working together for a livable future for the planet.
In a shock to many Americans, the U.S. ranks 41st in the United Nations’ latest annual ranking of nations, which includes the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.
On August 9th Martha Escudero addressed a crowd of city residents preparing to enter the Los Angeles City Council to protest a law, LAMC 4118, that would expand areas in the city to 20% of city land where sitting, sleeping, or lying is a crime.
Liz Theoharis, Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign discusses why it is time for us to fight for a comprehensive, intersectional, bottom-up approach to the injustices that continually unfold around us.
These are the words of General Gordon Baker on Labor Day, September 5, 2004. General Baker, who died in 2014, was a beloved internationally known labor leader and Detroit auto worker. He loved and fought for the working class.
Howard Schultz is CEO of Starbucks, and behind the company's notorious union busting. Over the last decade his wealth has increased by about $640,000 a day on average.
The message must be delivered loudly to the Biden/Harris Administration that disabled people are in jeopardy due to leftover Trump policies and must be addressed.
Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife discusses her findings and a success story after touring neighborhoods to ensure that Oakland communities are clean and safe for everyone.
Jazmine, a young massage therapist is homeless, living in a large encampment after she became gravely ill and couldn't work. She tells her story, warning that it could happen to anyone.
VICTORY!!! Organizing WORKS! After Erin got a $999 bill for blood work from her insurance provider, she worked with other activists to confront the company, Ambetter, and get the bill reduced to $30. But the fight against a for-profit healthcare system is far from over.
Ex-prisoners, told they have the right to vote, are dragged from their homes in handcuffs, by Florida Gov. DeSantis’ election police. All they ever wanted to do was participate in democracy.
Plaintiffs argued that the city should stop evictions and build permanent housing for anyone regardless of income. They say the settlement is a compromise in a system that does not protect their interests; the fight continues.
In a major health concern, a new study indicates that kids born near fracking sites are 2-3 Times More Likely to Develop Leukemia. Fracking threatens every person on the planet, directly or indirectly. It should banned entirely.
Over 4,000 workers gathered in Chicago in June at the first Labor Notes conference in four years. The state of the labor movement exists on new terrain.
The news out of Texas is bleak. But if the people of Uvalde can rise up and question social norms despite their pain and loss, there is hope for a brighter tomorrow
PreambleNo one should go unhomed.There is plenty.If we work toward balance,There is enough.Balance does not occur without struggle.If you were ever a child who...
Hear voices of homeless campers in Santa Cruz about their planned evictions, alongside the City’s misuse of $14 million in funds that were to help the homeless.
Hear testimony from rally at Los Angeles City Hall, as the city council approves an expansion of L.A. Municipal Code 41.18, which prohibits sitting, sleeping or lying on the sidewalk, which means greater criminalization of poor people.
In a court victory, Leticia Vasquez Wilson, who has served on the Central Basin Municipal Water District for 10 years, representing Southeast Los Angeles communities, has won her right to free speech. When she alerted her community about the contamination in their water supply, Water District privatizers, bought and paid for by private water interests, attempted to silence her.
Friendship Park, a historic meeting place for separated families on the border between San Diego and Tijuana, is in danger of being closed. Join us Aug. 11, 2022, for a virtual panel discussion on efforts to save the park.
Let us imagine a world where laborers, scientists, and politicians across the world blow the trumpet of nuclear disarmament, where we stop, look at each other and sigh, and see that none of us want this anymore, to be under threat of nuclear extinction. The patient work of disarming the arsenals then begins.
The DACA program was created in 2015 only after immense pressure from youth due to the massIve amount of deportations under the Obama administration. DACA has allowed more immigrants opportunities but leaves out an enormous amount of immigrants. It is time we shift the focus to demanding protection for all undocumented immigrants.
Santa Cruz, CA, plans to evict the Benchlands Camp of hundreds of unhoused people. Even when provided with millions of dollars from the state and federal governments, the city, in one of the wealthiest places on Earth, can't even offer dignified housing for people in need.
This virtual event will offer perspective on how harmful extractive industries are part of the larger system of imperialism that is destroying our people and the planet. It will focus in on indigenous communities and issues in the Philippines and show how their struggles are connected to ours here in the US.
An $813 billion proposal for “national defense,” was made by the Biden administration in March for the military-industrial complex. This when the greatest risks to the safety of Americans and rest of world are not military. Covid took 1 million people in the US, and the fires, floods, and heat waves caused by climate change impact tens of millions.
People's Tribune would like to publish your story about your life or death fight, and how you or your group are coming together in a fight for your needs and a society that cares for us all.
San Joaquin Valley communities in California are going without water in the midst of record heat, and this is particularly affecting low-income people.
SAN JOSE, CA — More and more young and progressive candidates who are fighting for affordable housing, equal comprehensive health care, quality education for all, and to reimagine public safety, are winning in California.
The March on Washington was a phenomenal event that brought together people from all 50 states who work for a more just society. It brought the issues of 140 million poor and low wealth people to the nations’ seat of political power.
“there is SO MUCH power and brilliance in femme bodies and brains. we are power despite what they try to strip from us . . . our future sees femme energy as our liberator. that there is hope.”
The Supreme Court’s grim decision in the Dobbs case overturning Roe signals the validation of a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation. The multi-decade campaign to reverse Roe v. Wade has always been about building a political movement to seize and wield political power.
Turning our schools into fortresses and arming teachers is not a solution to mass shootings in schools. Hardening our schools implies hardening our hearts and minds and ceding more power to the police.
Charges have been dropped against Michigan officials, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, for their role in the poisoning of the people of Flint. The community demands justice.
The Uvalde massacre occurred in an existing, de facto war zone. The border security apparatus created by elected officials—Republicans and Democrats—has converted South Texas communities into a real and symbolic theater, complete with armed agents and heavy weapons, to project an image of toughness and power.
Outrage is growing in Akron, Ohio, after police officers killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, on June 27 after what was supposed to be a stop for traffic and equipment violations. Walker suffered more than 60 gunshot wounds.
If anyone doubted that American democracy – however partial and imperfect – is in danger, the stunning revelations of the Jan. 6 hearings and the recent series of court rulings are a loud wake-up call.
Friendship Park, on the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego, is a historic location where families separated by the border have been able to come and visit one another through the border fence. Now Biden's plans to continue Trump's border wall may effectively close the U.S. side of the park to the public.
Women, men and huge numbers of youth are in the streets across the country in uncompromising fight for women’s rights and for government to act in the people’s interests. After centuries of oppression and fighting for equal rights, women are letting the powerful know: “We won’t go back.”
On May 28, Reverend Edward Pinkney and the Benton Harbor Community Water Council hosted "Occupy the PGA," protesting the corporate takeover of the predominantly...
The deaths of the 53 people who perished near San Antonio June 27 and the deaths of the thousands of other migrants who have died trying to cross the border over the years are the result of an unjust immigration system that denies the humanity of migrants.
A group of half a dozen families from Parker Elementary in Oakland, CA have occupied the school until OUSD reverses its decision to close it. Jasionna spoke eloquently at the school board meeting where students demanded the school board reopen the school.
A 32-year-old homeless woman in Knoxville was arrested and charged under Tennessee's new felony law that criminalizes homelessness. Photo/hardknoxwire.com
As we celebrate Juneteenth 2022, it’s important to reflect on the connection between the struggle of Black Americans to secure their rights and freedom, and the struggle to protect and expand democracy in America today. The two go hand in hand.
The right wing poured tens of millions of dollars into TV ads attacking progressive candidates and causes. There were also victories won at the ballot box by the movement for justice.
People in the Pilsen community in Chicago protest the closing of the local CVS pharmacy. CVS stores are especially sparse in black, brown, and less affluent neighborhoods.
Billionaires and corporate interests, bankroll recall of San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin who prosecuted criminal acts such as wage theft, worked to reform the justice system and hold police accountable when they break the law.
A March For Our Lives demanding action to end gun violence is being held June 11, 2022, in Washington D.C. and more than 300 other cities across the country.
When a group of moms found out that their children’s school would be permanently closed, they made a promise to each other: They would try everything in their power to keep Parker, a 96-year-old East Oakland school, operating.
LaTosha Brown and US Rep. Nikema Williams address voter suppression in Georgia and the urgency of using our vote to get the power to insure our communities are taken care of.
The Zooming to the Border Coalition, which includes the People's Tribune and Tribuno del Pueblo, is sponsoring a panel discussion June 7 via Zoom on the situation facing Central American refugees.
The killings in Buffalo were one more in a horrifying string of mass shootings, and these murders once again make clear that Americans must unite against white supremacy.
The assault on women’s rights is part and parcel of the wholesale assault on democracy that has been under way for years and has reached a crescendo in the last two years with the attack on the right to vote.
Luis J. Rodriguez: "We articulated the seeds of a movement for shared well-being. I don’t know what we’ll call this, but we’ll continue along these lines as we mobilize and organize for a new California. "
The stage is now set for an epic battle, with Starbucks and its anti-union law firm on one side and the Starbucks workers and their union on the other.
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.
Important political primaries will take place in the next weeks and months. Will billionaires determine the results of the mid-term elections? Or will grassroots candidates mobilize the discontent brewing in this country?
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.
This is a turning point for humanity, for better or worse — either we stop following the lead of corporations and billionaires and put the people of the world first, or we descend into the abyss of another world war and destroy ourselves.
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.
Man is imprisoned for a petty larceny involving $1. His struggle inside against a racist system of incarceration lands him in solitary confinement for 22 years.
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.
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.
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.
A Sacramento resolution to suspend the towing of people's vehicle homes — unless 'alternative shelter' is offered — is seen as toothless by advocates who want the underlying causes of homelessness addressed, and by others as an excuse to demonize their houseless neighbors.
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.
The People’s Tribune’s Bob Lee interviews Belden “Noonie Man” Batiste, a New Orleans activist and mayoral candidate, about the situation in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
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.
The system proclaims: “Everybody back to school. Do not let your child fall behind. The schools are safe.”
The Wrong Direction
CHICAGO, IL — During this...
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...
A private equity firm wants to build a luxury high-rise building in a low-income community's hospital parking lot, leaving fear that he hospital will be closed.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 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.
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. ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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…
The Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately hitting communities that have historically suffered from racism and unequal treatment, including African Americans, ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Lifting up the names of loved ones lost to violence, Indigenous women are leading a powerful international coalition to stop violence against Indigenous women. ...
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.
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 ...
On January 14, residents of Flint confronted the County School Board for failure to dispatch needed Special Education funds to the long suffering, poisoned ...
In 2017, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental advocacy group, was among plaintiffs who won a successful lawsuit ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
I think the protest is beautiful. The energy level is beautiful. The amount of community support that we’re getting from Canada, from union brothers and sisters from ...
What is your opinion of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention centers? ICE’s agenda is to keep immigrants from doing their daily activities, whether ...
In 2014, corporate money bought Bruce Rauner the office of governor in the very troubled state of Illinois. Rauner’s pro-business, anti-union agenda and his refusal to raise revenues ...
No place is safe to sleep in Vegas. If you're not gambling, you have no business being here . . . I've been thrown outa casinos, buses, laundromats—but to jail for sleeping in a hospital waiting room?
America is heading for a showdown between the corporations and the American people. Corporate owner Warren Buffett gave notice in 2006 when he said,...
Society is going through epochal changes. We live in a time of revolutionary transition from an economy based on securing a living through working for wages to one based on robotics, which makes human labor unnecessary ...
President Trump’s proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency would nearly eliminate all regional cleanup programs, including those for the Great ...
This just in: The Oscebla Township Planning Commission just denied the water permit for Nestlés. Evidently, the (growing) push back from activists all over the state ...
Without water, there is no life. So, we do the things we do— these crazy water protectors—for the plants, for the animals, for the future generations. ’Cause we understand ...
Fiesta Flea Market is classified as a commercial vending establishment for sellers. The site includes almost 100 storage units which are used as living quarters as well as for sellers in a Texas community ...
To some people, "the community" means "the people who live here" and to others it means "the people who pay to live here." To me, a community is not a group of people ...
By Chuck Nelson, interviewed by Sandy Reid
People’s Tribune: Chuck, what is going on with the miner’s benefits?
Chuck Nelson: Back in 1946, Truman said if...
May Day signifies a very important moment for the working class. It’s a time to examine our experience and put forward a program and vision of what needs to be done ...
Bruce Taylor is one of the biggest growers in California. Never a great friend of the workers whose labor has made his fortune, he told the AgTech Innovation Forum in ...
Everyone is aching for the kind of America we want and against what Trump and the class he represents need. Trump is not alone, he represents a class that is organized ...
One of Trump’s first acts as president was to green-light the Dakota Access Pipeline, threatening the drinking water of millions of people. For months,...
If you are elderly, chronically ill, disabled, retired or just plain poor this question —what and who is government for—should now be on your mind. President ...
The destruction of our public school system in favor of privatized corporate run schools began long before Trump, under both Republican and Democratic ...
The legislative defeat of the American Health Care Act unleashes the path to a real solution for guaranteed healthcare for all. Defense of Medicaid remains ...
In Berkeley, CA, a plan to put homeless people into a camp that resembles a refugee or prison camp, with fence and guard shack, has outraged the homeless and ...
I first ended up homeless when I had to move out of an elderly man's house who allowed me to live there in exchange for ten hours of work a week. I was a ...
Housing is not a reality. How many years do you have to wait? So, until then, you are a target. No stability at all. Keep your gear close. They are coming for you. No ...
April, 2017 marks the third year commemoration of the poisoning of the water and the people of Flint. As a tribute to their monumental struggle, which has put the ...
Paula Swearengin, a coal miner’s daughter, and uncompromising leader in the fight for clean water and air in Appalachia, spoke with Senator Bernie Sanders ...
In a 2010 interview with Larry King, the famous scientist Stephen Hawking said, “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity.” ...
May Day signifies a very important moment for the working class. It’s a time to examine our experience and put forward a program and vision of what needs to be done ...
The 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive in our country’s history. This is no surprise, given the economic, moral, and political crisis we face ...
On a recent trip to the northern part of Florida and in discussions with co-workers following the elections, I listened to the worries of workers who sit on the edge ...
I put my heart, soul, spirit and HOPES in Bernie Sanders. HOPE that we could restore the wrongs. HOPE, that together, we could take back our government, ...
Renee Davis, a pregnant 23 year-old mother of 3 small children 2, 3, and 5 years old, who suffered from depression, was shot dead by police in her home on ...
Grant Township, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, has been fighting the energy industry since 2013 in an effort to prevent the creation of fracking wastewater ...
Last year, I moved into one of three buildings for low-and fixed-income seniors, owned and operated at that time by Presbyterian Homes* (a non-profit company ...
More than 500 clergy and faith leaders from across the country converged at Standing Rock, in support of the Sioux people and in solidarity with water ...
Despite California having the first law in the U.S. declaring water a human right, the situation is growing worse as the state enters the 5th year of drought. And it is the worst for ...
“We are losing about 4,000 people a year from the impact of mountain top removal coal mining. My daughter, who is only 22, has lost four friends to cancer. Her best friend ...
People’s Tribune correspondents Brett Jelinek, Diana Zwinak and Adam Gottlieb travelled to Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux lead the ...
Visionaries and organizers worldwide met at the invitation of the Vatican to review, then offer proposals that addressed issues such as poverty and lack of clean water ...
Housing insecurity is at an all-time high. Gentrification in our major cities is spreading a cloud of doom over once stable communities. Small homeowners can’t afford the ...
One-year ago, gentrification developer, Brehon Capital LLC, Paul Callero and Scott Holloway, purchased a 12-unit building at 1606-10 N. Harding Ave. in Chicago’s Humboldt ...
Recently, ‘First They Came for the Homeless’ was approached by Dan McMullen, Berkeley City Commissioner for the Disabled People's Outdoor Project. Berkeley's one-stop ...
Eric Garcetti, the Mayor of Los Angeles has instituted Project H.O.P.E, a thinly veiled attack on the homeless population of Los Angeles, the largest in the country. Masquerading ...
My name is Ted Quant. I am here to speak in support of the ordinance to end the policy of keeping people in jail on non-violent municipal charges simply because they are ...
A worker is above all a producer. The workers produce all of the wealth in the possession of the billionaire corporate class. The corporate class are parasites, as are the judges ...
Rebecca Fritz, with one of her children, is sounding the alarm about fascism. She fights poverty every day, trying to raise a family on her own. She joined the bus ...
There is an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is a photo of the “wall” at the US-Mexican border, where family members on the US side speak through ...
The question before us is: what kind of new society will replace this dying system? Will it be a police state that suppresses our struggle for survival and protects the property and wealth of the corporate class? Or will it be a cooperative society ...
“We are losing about 4,000 people a year from the impact of mountain top removal coal mining. My daughter, who is only 22, has lost four friends to cancer. Her best friend died ...
For too long, corporate polluters have put the profits before human lives in Michigan. The corporation US Ecology has been seeking permission from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality ...
My heart has been heavy for weeks now as I visualize first-hand the tragedies of this war waged upon the people. But I am not the only one. The people are agitated as ...
While Congress and State officials continue to hold meetings, hearings and investigations, Flint residents still live their lives using bottled water and sink filters while coping with health challenges ...
Stigma 101: the mark of disgrace that sets a person apart. To comprehend what this looks like to an observer, picture a middle-aged woman shabbily clad who laughs ...
This special feature section, "In Defense of Flint," is a partnership between The People’s Tribune of Chicago and Caravel in response to the contamination of the city of Flint's water supply. Many of the poems here were published in April 2016 as a special insert to The People's Tribune for National Poetry Month.
According to a famous story, car manufacturer Henry Ford and labor leader Walter Reuther toured a new automated engine production plant during the mid-1950s....
McDonalds has announced they will open 25,000 robot-run restaurants. Amazon is replacing human stock pickers in its massive warehouses with robots. We’re living in revolutionary times. As robotics and computerization transform all existing industries ...
On April 21, five individuals known as ‘The Frisco Five’ began a hunger strike at the Mission Police Station in San Francisco. They were protesting the string of police ...
This society is dying right before our eyes. Capitalism has advanced to the stage where human labor is becoming obsolete. The micro-chip processor, introduced into ...
I got a chance to do something last month that made me want to tell everyone about it. There was a bill brought forth to a Senate committee, SB 876, the ...
I need to break people’s hearts. I need to share with them the cruel horror of the marsh. It is the coldest, windiest, wettest place around here and yet this is where ...
The People’s Tribune devotes much of its coverage to homelessness, its cause, the solution and a vision of the new society where every single person...
Walking door to door in Flint, MI, to ask residents about their need for water, or water filters, or access to health care exposed the absolute horror ...
“The City of Flint, Michigan paid Veolia, the largest private operator of municipal water and sewer systems in the U.S., $40,000 to conduct an analysis of its water system ...
When the “Emergency Manager” for Detroit Public Schools (DPS), Steven Rhodes, announced there were insufficient funds to continue paying teachers what they are ...
On May 16, arriving in a packed van, a group of women protesters stage a die in upon the steps of the Flint Water plant. The Flint water crisis has generated an ...
My name is Aaron Stinson for all you that don’t know me or may have not seen me. I have the highest lead level recorded in Genesee County. I was tested February 7 ...
“As registered nurses, we are compelled to advocate for all our patients, whether at the bedside or in our neighborhoods and communities. To that end ...
Underneath the growing division of society into the super rich and the super poor is an ideology that goes by a lot of names—“lean” or “agile” to name two. That ...
Born out of the Civil War struggles against slavery, “Juneteenth” (June 19th), has always been a time to celebrate what’s been won and to soberly assess what’s ahead ...
CHICAGO, IL — A spectre haunts the Americas, a spectre composed of millions of artivists who have united to rescue communities from the attacks of the corporative dictatorship that destroys us with its death doctrine.
Independent journalist Mike Rhodes has been involved in homeless issues in Fresno, California since 2002. His tenacity as an investigative reporter has ...
You will never ever see me associating with Michael Jordan or Lebron James: they believe in the system, the establishment. They’re rich. I’m poor. But I ...
The dismantling of democracy is wreaking havoc in Michigan. A corporate dictator law passed in 2011 authorizes the governor to dispatch Emergency Managers ...
A battle is unfolding in America. The workers are fighting for life itself— for food, water, shelter, healthcare, and education against a corporate class...
Tent cities are popping up everywhere. Uncaring city governments tear them down as they go up. Homelessness illustrates the decay of an economic system ...
Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI was among the first to speak out against the state’s dictator law which allowed for Whirlpool to take over the town’s prime ...
‘It is a real honor to be in the room with all of you. I have one thing to say: it’s the power of documentation. Document injustices in your community ...
Concerned citizens of Springfield, Massachusetts, are trying to help our people who have been affected by the British Petroleum (B.P.) oil spill in ...
On March 2, the Board of Trustees at John A. Logan Community College in Carterville, Illinois, voted to lay off 55 employees in an effort to resolve ...
On this page we present the voices of those in Flint, Detroit, and Benton Harbor, Michigan, and across the nation, who are waging a determined struggle ...
In the face of government inaction, individuals, organizations, unions, doctors and many others are rallying in the defense of the people of Flint. Here are some ...
The poisoning of the people of Flint, Michigan—especially the children—with lead and other toxins in the drinking water is just the latest ugly example...
Homelessness is on the rise in America. In Los Angeles, 15,000 become homeless monthly. No longer relegated to primarily urban centers, the homeless population...
Last spring Freddie Gray died in Baltimore Police custody. Freddie Gray came from a part of Baltimore called Sandtown. Here one-third of the housing units ...
When March, 2016 arrives, Illinois may still be holding back the $500 million supposed to be allocated to Chicago’s public schools. Negotiations between the ...
Today I observed a 10-year-old little boy with his mother praying on his knees at the Romney Building for justice in Flint, MI. Has he been lead poisoned or subject to some ...
This is an interview with Marian Kramer, one of the Homrich 9 water warriors in Detroit, MI, arrested for disorderly conduct while blocking city trucks setting out to ...
During police sweeps you have a few minutes to save your belongings if you are lucky. Cities have no intention of preserving or keeping it for you. The intention is to purposely ...
Last night, Dec. 20, 2015, I spent what can only be called the night from Hell [at the homeless protest in front of Sacramento City Hall]. Even with a tarp over and under ...
If the capitalists do not need to hire you, they will not provide your loved ones with mental health treatment services. They will not resolve your domestic troubles ...
I hope this letter reaches you all in the best of health and spirits. As you all probably heard, we SHU prisoners have reached a legal agreement with our captors, and as a ...
The United States boasts the highest prison population in the world. The government constantly installs new, larger prisons to fill with “criminals” indicted for committing ...
African American History Month 2016 finds society becoming more polarized around wealth and poverty as the economy continues to replace workers with automated production ...
There’s a difference between dreams and visions in the political sense. A dream doesn’t have any foundation, it’s fantastic glory… For example, every Wednesday night I buy ...
Over New Year’s, we drove from Chicago to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (near Canada) to visit Rev. Edward Pinkney. Isolated in a prison that looks like a 19th century castle ...
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King shared a prophetic speech to millions of people called, "I Have A Dream." In it, he quoted the Old Testament Prophet Amos: "But let justice ...
Defender of the poor and a political prisoner—Rev. Pinkney sounded the alarm early on about the threat of the iron fist of the emergency manager system of corporate ...
On Dec. 15, 2014 two people were actually sentenced by the Berrien County courts—Rev. Edward Pinkney, who was railroaded, and his wife, Dorothy. The first thing I take issue ...
The crisis that is flowing through the streets of Flint, MI has galvanized the soul of the country in a way that we are all encouraged yet overwhelmed by the response to this ...
“I come from a long line of coalminers. My grandfather died of black lung. My dad died of cancer and black lung. My stepfather died of heart disease and black lung. ...
It is not a choice made, this birth. It is the direct result of the implantation of injustices, fertilized by greed and unconcern, that impregnates certain ...
In July of 2014, nine protesters were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct as they blocked Homrich trucks hired by the city from leaving their ...
“The thought of people being put out of their homes because the water has been cut off and it's been cut off illegally is very emotional to me.” — Val Washington, Flint ...
For two weeks a group of homeless have occupied City Hall in protest of the new anti-homeless laws. We protest for equal rights, equal protection, and ...
Tenants and members of the homeless community protested early in the morning outside the hearing of the California Senate Committee on Transportation and ...
Hi everyone. I'm Rick and I live in Clearwater Florida. Homelessness is not necessarily what you think or what you've been led to believe. I was your classic middle class ...
College attendees have become history’s new proletariat—their famous hammers and sickles now traded for exorbitantly priced text books and greasy spatulas. ...
The recent publicity around the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police has again focused a spotlight on the campaign of terror the police are waging ...
I am a high school student in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Even back in middle school, I have always been aware of police on my ...
“The United States IS a nation of immigrants. The colonization of America was the result of revolutionary changes taking place in the methods of producing the necessities ...
“I was four-years-old when my parents moved to Benton Harbor’s countryside. When we moved to the city, I saw a different side to Benton Harbor. I remember walking ...
Once the robots began replacing workers in factories and poverty began to spread, the corporations began to impose fascism to contain the workers and guarantee ...
The crisis that is flowing through the streets of Flint, MI has galvanized the soul of the country in a way that we are all encouraged yet overwhelmed by the ...
Six Baltimore police officers were indicted on charges connected to the death of Freddie Gray. Freddie’s treatment before he was put in the police van was ...
Thinking about lessons I’ve learned over the last eight years and, I ask, “Why do I care and fight so much?” I’ve been labeled an everything you can think of, ...
Tamir Rice, 12 years old, was shot and killed by police within seconds after police arrived at a park in Cleveland, Ohio. Deven Guilford, 17, was shot seven ...
Such testimony was heard repeatedly at the Oakland-wide Anti-Displacement Forum, “Speak Out to Stay Put”, held on October 17. Over 400 people joined together ...
Members of the public recently lined up to testify before the Berkeley City Council at a hearing on the Berkeley Police Department’s desire to acquire tasers as ...
Michael Clift [‘Pirate Mike’], homeless veteran, member of Veterans for Peace and founding member of OccupySF, was struck and killed October 30 on a Texas highway ...
Homeless residents all over Los Angeles woke up on June 16 to the realization that their possessions, if left on the street for more than 24 hours, could be ...
The city of Flint has eroded public trust and violated the social contract between the residents and their government. The continued inaction of the ...
An ominous specter is haunting Chicago Public Schools (CPS) this fall and winter, the specter of scandals, budget cuts and layoffs. The latest shoe to drop ...
“ROLL TIDE ROLL” is the clarion call in Alabama to cheer on the University of Alabama football team. But due to budget cuts in Alabama’s general fund ...
I grew up here in this area southeast, L.A., in Bell, California. At a very early age in sixth grade I was getting bused. My bus went through South Central ...
All of us value health, but not all of us have to think about it every day. In this article I argue that the recent Illinois state budget impasse is/was deeply ...
Twelve people—teachers, parents, grandparents—began a hunger strike in early August to get Chicago Public Schools to re-open Walter Dyett High School ...
Some have asked what my vision, as a Christian is, for a just society. So, for what it is worth, here it is: Well for one, Acts 2 described an egalitarian society, in the early Church, where resources were shared equally to each according to their needs, ...
Friends, families, and supporters of inmates incarcerated in the Santa Clara County Jail here rallied on September 4 to protest the brutal murder of ...
People in San Jose, California and elsewhere in the Silicon Valley area have erupted in a surge of organizing activity around skyrocketing rents and ...
By Geo Errol Jennings, President, Russell Woods Neighborhood Association
Please understand why coming together is important! The NAACP is not doing it. The churches are...
Strangling in the muck of history.
He leans against the tavern wall.
And silently gazes across the Avenue.
Where watchdogs of property.
With vulture eyes and shotguns
With a small stick he worked the grains of wheat
out of the cracks between the rotten boards
of the boxcar floor flying through the Depression
and built a little mountain of them in his palm,
The attack on immigrants in America is relentless, as the articles in this issue of the paper illustrate. We must draw a line now. It is not possible—and our rulers are well aware—to have a ...
The state of Texas is already practicing Donald Trump’s and other candidates’ propositions to deny citizenship to U.S. born children whose parents are ...
Trump’s latest call for pogroms against about 12 million people, including “anchor babies” who are half this amount, and deporting all undocumented ...
Despite claims by city and state officials that the water supply in Flint is safe to drink, independent expert tests conclusively show that city’s drinking ...
After months of demonstrations, public forums and court challenges, residents of Flint, Michigan, are emboldened by a court decision in their quest ...
Help get the People’s Tribune out to homeless organizations and places where the homeless gather!
Homelessness is a stark example of the degeneration of an...
The other day on my way home, three kids were selling bottled water for a dollar to the drivers stopped at the light at the corner of Mack & I-75. That is not unusual ...
People’s Tribune correspondent Adam Gottlieb interviews Damon Williams, co-director and founding member of The #LetUsBreathe Collective in Chicago, IL. This is part of a...
I want to attend Chicago’s Moral Monday March, but I cannot because I am going to be in a Cook County courtroom to support two teenagers accused of retail theft. They had no food ...
Who holds power in America and how did they get it? The 1 percent. Mostly they bought it by using their money in ways that made them famous or wealthier. ...
Class is a division in society based on the method by which the society produces the things people need to survive. Since class society began, there have been owning and
Homelessness is a stark example of the degeneration of an economic system based on the private property of a billionaire owning class. Automation is replacing workers ...
One thing we know for certain here in Southern Illinois is that times are hard! Good paying jobs have all but disappeared. Part-time minimum wage and ...
“In 2012 the city stopped sending out water bills. Now residents are getting water bills for thousands of dollars. The bills are attached to your property ...
Illinois, and particularly Chicago, are notorious for their brazen addiction to wealth, corruption and waste. Meanwhile, there are now over 20,000 homeless students in Chicago Public Schools ...
Wages can consist of your paycheck, your profit sharing check and the cost of medical insurance for you and the family. They can also consist of the medical ...
As American citizens we have proudly worn a subliminal badge of honor elevating our "freedom" to that of a black American Express Card which we can ...
Rev. Edward Pinkney, convicted without evidence of changing dates on petitions in a recall election of corporate-backed Mayor James Hightower, is filing a motion to be ...
The tragic proof of climate change was seen during historic rains and flooding in Houston, Texas in May. The rising water of Brays Bayou surged to nearly road level ...
Unable to further disregard the growing mass reaction to police violence, spreading poverty and deepening social crisis, the ruling class has taken the tactical...
San Jose ended 2014 with problems that mirrored the rest of the country. In the midst of the Ferguson protests, San Jose Police Officer Philip White ...
“When I look at the automation and robotics in our factories, it was that double edged sword. The folks that were running those machines were being killed/worn out because of the repetitive stress and heavy parts. ...
Giving new meaning to “Justice Delayed, Justice Denied,” Flint's Emergency Manager recently announced the formation of a water 'advisory committee' to bring “solutions” ...
As fundamental economic changes unwind in Detroit, measures created to harm the poorest section of working families are offered that challenge the basic laws of humanity ...
Under Michigan’s Emergency Manager law, the city of Flint is run from Lansing, the state capital. Flint’s city council, mayor, and charter have no power. Residents have no voice. All local ...
Fast Food worker strikes are sweeping the nation. City after city documents the impact of minimum wage workers taking a stand. The fight for fifteen movement, funded ...
While the Detroit water shutoffs drew international condemnation from the United Nations and shamed the city’s unelected Emergency Manager into allowing a temporary moratorium ...
Another giant has fallen. Dr. William H. Watkins, life long proletarian revolutionary intellectual, died the evening of August 5th 2014. Comrade Watkins was, for thirty-five years, a contributor ..
With tape over their mouths, members of the Democracy Defense League, held a silent protest in the Lobby of the Flint City Hall to challenge yet another assault on any semblance of ...
As the People’s Tribune was going to press, we received word that, after a prolonged illness, Comrade General Baker had died. As an internationally known and respected ...
The not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin has made clear the raw and growing disconnect between the humane and moral foundation of justice and the hard, cold immorality of some of the laws of the land. This verdict compels the American people ...
On July 4, 1776, during the American Revolution, the Second Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies approved the Declaration of Independence. While we are...
On May 25 — Stop Monsanto Day — as worldwide actions were taking place, those of us in San Diego mounted one of our most successful actions since the First Occupy Assembly ...
World War III is beginning. It is starting in the Middle East. The war being waged against Syria by the US and its allies is in fact a proxy war between the US on the one hand and Russia and China on the other ...
The up and coming generation "Z" is totally based in robotics and electronics and have been raised on pixels. They were born into laptops, iPads, smartphones, texting, Facebook, Twitter, etc ...
When I heard Jim Kirk, Editor in chiefof the Chicago Sun-Times, say the entire photography department was being eliminated I looked to my hero, my mentor, my friend John H. White ...
Horizontal hydraulic fracturing will now be allowed in Illinois as the much touted regulatory bill passed the legislature. This is despite the tireless efforts of health and community opposition ...
The sledgehammer came down on the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on May 22: the school board voted to close 49 schools, “turn around” another five, and “co-locate” 11 more schools ...
Laura Garcia, editor of the Tribuno del Pueblo, had the privilege of talking with Father Alejandro Solalinde who headed a Caravan through the U.S. to denounce the brutality suffered by migrants ...
We must say no to the dictator and slave master, Whirlpool. They are destroying the city of Benton Harbor by stealing land and by driving the people completely out of the city to build a ...
Students, parents, teachers and supporters have held several protests to stop the closing of Oakman Elementary Orthopedic School which specializes in teaching children with ...
As Detroit continues to be one of the "poster child" cities of corporate America’s exercise of total control, each day presents another challenge to basic rights. Democracy in Michigan was ...
I was one of the many homeowners, now an x-homeowner, who has battled with Bank of America and Fannie Mae since 2005 when the housing market began to crash ...
On June 10 the Green Shadow Cabinet released an urgent call for resistance to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a massive new free trade agreement currently being ...
The need for the constitutional amendment against ‘corporate personhood’ advocated by Move to Amend was demonstrated clearly by a recent vote in the U.S. Senate. On the eve of the late-May ...
One of the largest May First immigrant-and-labor-rights marches in the country was in San Jose, California this year. As many as 20,000 people marched the three miles from ...
In recent months we have seen unprecedented demonstrations by fast food workers, retail workers, and other low-wage workers. These struggles are spread out across...
On May 18, a group of marchers set out from Philadelphia, PA to march on the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC. “What are the most dire issues we face?” asked march organizers ...
Our sisters and brothers who are Central and South American migrants are cruelly slaughtered when they head for the United States. First, they are massacured when crossing the southern border into Mexico ...
“The village is almost without people,” an elderly woman told a reporter in tiny San Jeronimo Solola, Oaxaca, earlier this year. “Many houses are empty. The fathers and the sons have gone ...
“Almost one hundred and one years ago, on September the 22nd, 1862, to be exact, a great and noble American, Abraham Lincoln, signed an executive order, which was to take effect ...
Detroit’s Emergency Manager, Kevyn Orr, has made his first report. The trends that caused the Detroit decline include a population decline of 250,000 from 2000-2010, declining tax revenues, a vast geographical space ...
The public school system in America is being gradually eliminated. Is it because it is the last area whereby corporations can create for-profit schools and the fact that our minority ...
On May 3, President Obama proclaimed May 5-11 National Charter School Week. The Chicago Tribune noted that this was an affront to Obama’s supporters in the teachers’ ...
The National Network in Action, a civil and human rights organization, the Mexican-American Political Association, the Fresno Brown Berets and New Light for New Life Church ...
If you’re one of countless people with no friend or family member with a basement or garage to store your stuff when you have to make an unexpected move (disaster, foreclosure, domestic ...
On April 11, advocates, health professionals, and community members came out in support of immediately expanding California's health care access under the Affordable Care Act ...
The Extraction Industry will not stop trying to find ways to deliver their toxic Dilbit product to Gulf Coast Refineries.
The Upper Gulf Coast has long been known as America’s Energy ...
The letter below, written on April 3, 2013, is part of national Veterans for Peace (VFP) campaign to educate people about the danger of drone technology. “VFP is a global organization of military ...
On March 12, activists and organizers throughout the Los Angeles area gathered to participate in El Camino College's 1st Annual Social Justice Fair. The fair was organized by students Robert DeWitz and ...
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Title 24 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Section§966.4 Lease requirements, Part (l)(5)(iii) Eviction for criminal Activity ...
Every American ought to have the right to vote and their vote should mean something. Everyone ought to have the right to clean air and clean water, to integrity and transparency in a democracy ...
Undocumented workers are among the most exploited, low-wage workers in the U.S. They are forced to live in constant fear of deportation, isolated in the shadows of mainstream American society. This isolation of the immigrant worker is directed at
As if we’d been soaked in a bucket of ice cold water, Detroiters and residents of surrounding communities have been shaken and shocked as we witness first-hand what a total State takeover looks ...
The ability to provide care for the poor has met the reality of the market place. The Medicaid HMO plans are the sole providers for care in Michigan. The guidelines for patients to qualify for Federal Medicaid fee for service payments are arbitrary and extremely difficult to figure out. Some of the Medicaid plans are designed to create ...
2012 Green Party presidential candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala honored Earth Day by announcing formation of a new opposition “Green Shadow Cabinet.” The purpose of the cabinet is to ...
Against a backdrop of horns and marching bands, thousands of teachers, parents and students streamed into Daley Plaza in Chicago on March 27. Chanting...
Corporations have been legal people for nearly 127 years, slowly but surely gaining more and more rights under our Constitution and through our legal...
Despite a record breaking 16% voter turnout on March 5, there was a clear winner: Special Interest/Corporate- sponsored candidates in most of the races for Mayor, City Council, Los Angeles ...
The creation of a new form of government, which was adopted by the Michigan Legislature and recently enacted by Governor Rick Snyder, begs the question, “What is a representative government?” The independent act of hiring “Emergency Managers” ...
Illinois’ “best in the nation” fracking regulatory bill has been stalled due to an amendment. This amendment number 3 would require a licensed, union water-well drill operator, on site at all times, while drilling ...
The Whirlpool Corporation has unveiled a plan to completely gentrify downtown Benton Harbor, Michigan. This is being accomplished with the aid of the new Emergency Manager, Tony Saunders ...
The corporate mouthpieces are telling us that “entitlement” programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid must be cut to reduce the federal budget deficit....
Budget cuts have slashed college workforces and denied hundreds of thousands of students the seats they worked for. Yet some faculty and staff leaders...
Interview with John Gonzalez Jr.
For the People’s Tribune, Sandy Perry interviewed John Gonzalez Jr., who was recently elected Treasurer of the Philadelphia Green Party....
The Illinois Green Party nominated LeAlan Jones in December 2012 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois' 2nd Congressional District shortly...
On October 1, 2012, Michigan's Governor Snyder, through Maura D. Corrigan, his Director of the Department of Human Services (DHS), has implemented a new...
Disparity is all around us, pocketed by great bunkers of wealth. Fortified swimming pools and Rolls Royces share the same intersections as shopping cart...
A movement of movements is re-uniting across the globe to say “ENOUGH!” to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—an international proposal being pushed by the Obama...
Rev. Edward Pinkney, bhbanco.org
The majority of the African-American people in Michigan are under the fascist newEmergency Manager law. But we are all threatened by...
