by Kathy Powers
April 30, 2018
NO SERVICE HERE
Where will we go
To get our food stamps?Where will we go?Follow the rules.
Where can we go to?Where is...
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.
driving to workwith the window downhot breath of an angry Godspewing in my face,
I feel condemned without evenbeing judged,the heat is a ubiquitous, tangible...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Mississippi FedEx driver suffered emotional distress after forced to work same route after alleging being shot at by two white men, according to lawsuit.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The Chicago GardenBy Kathy Powers
On April FourthThe poll gates openedOnto fragrant landscapesOf life-giving blooms.
Hopes for the houselessStuck up some shoots;Reasons for livingSmiled over...
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 . . . .
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On May 28, Reverend Edward Pinkney and the Benton Harbor Community Water Council hosted "Occupy the PGA," protesting the corporate takeover of the predominantly...
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
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.
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.
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.
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. "
People’s Candidates Challenge Corporate Parties
The ruling class will attempt to do what they have always done: derail or push the movement off course from its final destination. But, the will of the people is to have an economy and government that are both finally of, for and by the people, and we will not be deterred.
After several tumultuous years, Joseph Harris, the Emergency Financial Manager in Benton Harbor, Michigan, is finally gone. He was a total failure. Joseph Harris...
HOUSTON—For almost a year, Martina Grifaldo and Monica Rodriguez, President and Vice President respectively of Alianza Mexicana, an organization formed by Mexican origin residents...
In November, Walmart workers at the La Quinta store joined the historic wave of Black Friday actions that took place at over 1,200 Walmart stores in cities across the ...
Standing outside an Atlanta Kroger grocery store, food advocate Steven Wing reads lyrics to a crowd of protestors and curious shoppers. “If you’re gonna play God with ...
Last fall’s presidential election was all about the economy, specifically how to create good-paying jobs. But the candidates ignored the elephant in the room—the increasingly ...
Billie Holiday sang in 1939: “Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root.” Recently, suspicious deaths of African-American men have ...
Rev. Edward Pinkney is in prison for fighting Whirlpool Corporation'stakeover of Benton Harbor, MI. PHOTO/FACEBOOK
Editor’s Note: In a miscarriage of justice the likes of...
By Rev. Edward Pinkney
It is our constitutional duty as American citizens to hold our elected officials accountable for their words, actions and inaction of...
