"[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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dozens of unhoused, disoriented, disabled Chicago residents will die. Hundreds will get frostbite and/or hypothermia. The city must open warming senters 24/7.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 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.
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.
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.
San Joaquin Valley communities in California are going without water in the midst of record heat, and this is particularly affecting low-income people.
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.
On May 28, Reverend Edward Pinkney and the Benton Harbor Community Water Council hosted "Occupy the PGA," protesting the corporate takeover of the predominantly...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
America is heading for a showdown between the corporations and the American people. Corporate owner Warren Buffett gave notice in 2006 when he said,...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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.” ...
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, ...
Grant Township, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, has been fighting the energy industry since 2013 in an effort to prevent the creation of fracking wastewater ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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...
‘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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The city of Flint has eroded public trust and violated the social contract between the residents and their government. The continued inaction of the ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
After several tumultuous years, Joseph Harris, the Emergency Financial Manager in Benton Harbor, Michigan, is finally gone. He was a total failure. Joseph Harris...
DETROIT—As Michigan sizzles—its cities of Pontiac, Saginaw, Flint, and Detroit burn. These cities represent, along with others, the face of industry—past. Gone are the...
A statewide bus tour, letters to the editor, TV ads, big donors, and more, did not keep Michigan’s Governor Snyder from suffering a stunning defeat on November 6 ...
The water fight is heating up again in Michigan. The state, which is the representative of corporate interests, is now trying to take over the Highland Park and Detroit ...
