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Healthcare
Couple Seeks Accountability After Mom In Active Labor Discharged
A Black couple from Illinois was discharged from an Indiana hospital while the mother was in active labor, forcing a roadside birth.
Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana
In U.S. media, even progressive media, we pay little attention to what happens to people when they're deported. Many are dumped through the border gate, have no home to go to and live on the streets in cities like Tijuana.
Homelessness and Housing
No Tows Without Homes
At the same time that advocates for San Francisco’s vehicle-dwelling residents charged the City to protect RV and large vehicle residents from displacement by a parking enforcement program, City workers were removing trailers about five miles away.
Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
‘Jesus Is Being Tear Gassed At Broadview’
The struggle to close the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago where deportees are held under torturous, inhumane conditions includes clergy who are part of a movement of religious leaders opposed to the assault on immigrants.
Democracy
No Kings Rallies Show the Fight Is On!
No Kings Day showed the rising awareness of people to how dangerous the situation is, that everyone’s rights, living standards, and democracy itself is in danger. Millions are mobilizing in diverse ways to confront the situation.
Politics and Elections
White House Demands Return of Food Stamps Distributed In November
This month the White House demanded that Food Stamps distributed to eligible people must be retrieved because the distribution was "unauthorized."
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Homelessness and Housing
End Homelessness Now!
Today, more people are a paycheck away from the streets. Homelessness is a death sentence for many and an appalling absurdity in this richest, most powerful nation in the world. People everywhere are demanding their rights, including housing.
Environment, Climate, Water
Climate Activists Demand Mich. Governor Stop Line 5
Climate Activists Confront Governor Whitmer Over Line 5 Tunnel Permit at Awards Ceremony for deflecting on Enbridge's Experimental Tunnel Project Threatening the Great Lakes.
Healthcare
The End-of-Life Options Act is a Lie!
Illinois Senate Bill 1950, the End-of-Life Options Act, was approved by the House in May, 2025. Advocates say Illinois must strengthen healthcare access, not expand pathways to premature death, and that Governor JB Pritzker can veto the Act.
Labor
The Unforgivable Failure: What Amber Czech’s Death Demands of Us
Amber’s death demands that we protect one another fiercely. Demands that we rebuild our workplaces into places where every worker—especially those newly entering the trades—can thrive without fear. Demands that we do better.
Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Where Resistance Lives: Illinois’ Stand for Justice and Immigrant Rights
Illinoians have fearlessly fought back against the Trump administration's efforts to terrorize immigrants and those who are fighting to defend their rights.
Food Insecurity
Food Insecurity, First Hand
Tonight I checked my EBT application on my smartphone, and found that my account had its usual starting balance for the month of $122.00. But the continuing federal government shutdown had delayed that payment to me, as well as millions of others across the nation as needy or needier than I.
Politics and Elections
Progressive Nevada Candidates Aim to Continue Mamdani Trend
Several state legislature candidates in Nevada plan to continue the trend of the Mamdani mayoral campaign in NYC with a focus on affordability and fighting for the working class.
Homelessness and Housing
Freedom is Fundamental: Resisting the New ‘Poor Farms’
Today’s powerful billionaire class is moving ever more rapidly toward imprisonment of the poor, initiating “a sweeping campaign to make homelessness itself a crime."
Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees
Undocumented Immigrants in Fear During Operation Midway Blitz
"I am scared. I’m scared for myself, my parents, my tios and tias, my whole family. We’re all vulnerable,” writes a Chicagoan about the terror of Operation Midway Blitz. "We're all vulnerable."
Democracy
‘People Want Gov’t and Democrats To Stand Up,’ says Chicago Mayor
Chicago Mayor says his takeawy from the November electons is that people want Democrats to stand up for working people and make ultra rich pay their fair share.
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Democracy
Mayor, Evanston, IL: ‘My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t’
Amid federal ICE raids in Chicagoland, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement, saying ICE agents have invaded his city and are beating people up for no reason.
“No Kings” Protests Set to Sweep US Even as Trump Increases Attacks on Activists
Republicans are already smearing the protesters, but their intimidation tactics are out of touch with reality.
Student Walk Out for Palestine at Wayne State University
"The kids are gonna save us all. They have so much heart and they gave me so much hope," says Detroit-based photojournalist Valerie Jean at Wayne State University's 2nd Annual Student Walkout for Palestine.
A Salute to Chicagoans Resisting ICE
The resistance to the ICE invasion is characterized by people recognizing their common humanity and coming together. What is especially heartening are the small acts by individuals giving their neighbors rides to work, groceries taking their children to school.
Chicago Mayor Signs Executive Order to Protect Constitutional Rights of Chicagoans
Chicago mayor signs order prohibiting use of city properties for ICE enforcement. The order comes after ICE violated Chicagoans’ rights, and because of the federal government threats of militarized activity.
Emmy-Winning Journalist Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest
Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities, says the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Homelessness and Housing
Advocates Warn of Utah ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless
An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a “pilot” to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”
The Struggle on Skid Row: Stephanie’s Story
Stephanie Williams is long known as the “Queen of Skid Row.” After she saw the police kill an unarmed homeless Black man in his tent, she became a voice for the community, showing how the City terrorizes the homeless, while fighting for housing as a right for all.
‘Just Kill Em’: Fox News Host Endorses Giving Homeless ‘Lethal Injection’
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is facing calls to resign after suggesting that the state should execute homeless people who decline help during a live broadcast.
Homelessness Kills: Heather Lee, Rest in Power
Heather’s testimonial highlighted injustices and cruelty toward unhoused people
Pushing People into a Really Bad System Will End Really Badly
President Trump's executive order fuses drug use and homelessness, ignoring that homelessness can cause or exacerbate substance use because people use drugs to cope with pain. Forced institutional settings rather than housing will not help the ill or unhoused.
Families Zapped by Utility Bills: Is Homelessness Next?
Utility bills — shut-off notices that will, if unaddressed, lead to a loss of an address, aka homelessness. Moms have all adamantly professed that returning to homelessness is NOT AN OPTION!
Health Care
Who Gets to Control Women’s Pregnancy
The Trump administration seeks to restrict birth control, abolish abortion, police pregnancies of particularly poor white women and women of color, and to exclude reproduction among women of color.
Over 400 People Charged With “Pregnancy-Related Crimes” Since “Dobbs”
A new report finds that hundreds of people have been charged with so-called “pregnancy-related crimes” following the Supreme Court’s overturn of abortion protections.
How Anti-Abortion Policies Devastate Poor Women
Forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term is a public health issue. Women denied abortions report worse overall health for years afterwards.
‘Respect Us a Little,’ Las Vegas Medical Workers Picket Hospital
Workers picketed outside Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas to raise awareness for their continued struggle while executives make millions.
Democratic Socialist Announces Candidacy for Nevada State Assembly
Democratic Socialist Tyler Cavey promises to fight for healthcare, education, and affordability when he announced his candidacy for Nevada's state legislature in August.
Still Healing
After in ICU and trauma stepdown unit following life threatening accident causing broken ribs, punctured lung, pelvis fractures, fluids in lung lining, and more, patient received insurance denial for air ambulance services of $93,000, declaring it wasn’t medically necessary.
Environment, Climate and Water
Save the Tijuana River Valley Community Garden
The community is organizing to save the largest community garden in South San Diego, the Tijuana River Valley Community Garden.
Slovenia’s President Tells UN: ‘We Must Stop the Genocide’
Nataša Pirc Musar, president of Slovenia, speaks about stopping the Gaza genocide, climate, respecting international law and other critical issues to the UN General Assembly. Videos of other international leaders are included.
Why Did Flash Floods in Texas Bring Such Death & Destruction?
Some lives could have been saved with better local warnings in the recent flood in TX, but federal government cuts to FEMA, National Weather Service and NOAA are leaving communities ill-prepared for disasters.
Nevada Town Halls Respond to Elected Officials’ Plans to Develop Public Lands
Local organizations gather and inform community that their federal representatives are planning to sell and develop more of Nevada’s public lands.
Is FREE Electricity in our Future?
Electricity should be a right, free to all. Yet, for-profit energy companies set prices to maximize profits to shareholders, even when users can’t afford the prices and suffer shutoffs.
‘We Need Urgent Global Climate Action’
Eighty-nine percent of people worldwide want their governments to do more to address the global climate crisis. Conference on tipping points says situation is urgent. Meanwhile U.S. govt does more to boost fossil fuel forms of energy.
Women
Gaza Women’s Reproductive Health Endangered
Amidst the siege imposed by Israel, an estimated 690,000 menstruating women in Gaza are prevented from getting sanitary pads. Some women and girls are taking pills to delay periods. This all is creating serious health issues in Gaza.
Woman Miscarries, Ends up in Jail For 5 Months
A Texas woman who had a miscarriage in a restaurant bathroom was jailed for five months. Her story was falsely presented to the public as an act by an uncaring woman who ‘flushed her baby down the toilet.’ The truth is a far different story.
Mother’s Day, 2025: Arise Women of This Day for Peace
Julia Ward Howe, [a 19th century abolitionist], commenting on the after effects of the Civil War was one of the first to issue a statement about what Mothers really wanted, and that was peace.
How Much Longer Must Mothers in Gaza Fear Losing Their Children?
Again and again, mothers in Gaza have been forced to gather their children’s broken bodies from beneath the rubble.
Medicaid Cuts Could Devastate Access to Reproductive Care and Contraception
Medicaid cuts would disproportionately affect women of reproductive age, threatening access to birth control, maternity care, and other health services.
Trump Administration Attacks Public Health: Freezes $35 Million in Title X Funding
Ending Title X funding in eight states is just the beginning. Gutting America’s family planning program is an attack on reproductive health care, poor people and an attempt to dismantle public health.
Migrants and Refugees
Chicagoans Call Out ICE and Home Depot in Defense of Day Laborers
Community residents, union members, and elected officials gathered outside a Home Depot in Chicago to ask for solidarity with Day Laborers facing daily threats of ICE raids, and for Home Depot to take a stand against the raids.
Day of the Dead Vigils Pay Tribute to Those Who have Died in ICE Custody
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a respected Mexican tradition celebrated on November 1 and 2, honors those who have passed away. In recent years, Day of the Dead celebrations have honored those who have died in ICE custody.
ICE Fears Put Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies at Risk
Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for the health of pregnant immigrants, and the health of their pregnancies. This story was originally reported by 19thnews.org.
ICE Zip-Ties Children During Raid on Chicago Apartments
During a military-style raid on an apartment block in Chicago Sept. 30, ICE agents used flash-bang grenades, blew apartment doors off their hinges and zip-tied children.
A Salute to Chicagoans Fighting ICE
A salute to Chicagoans fighting ICE and to the food delivery worker on a bicycle who outrode ICE agents after they tried to kidnap him on the streets of downtown Chicago.
Over 60 Lawmakers Launch Investigation Into Trump Administration’s Disappearances
Some Democrats in Congress have announced they are investigating the Trump administration’s practice of disappearing immigrants to other countries.
Education
Chicago Teachers Union Says: Trump, Stay Out of Our City
Chicago Teachers Union rejects any unlawful federal occupation of their city, while welcoming federal leadership that fully funds public education, restores SNAP, and expands Medicaid to healthcare for all.
Harvard University Stands Up to Illegal Federal Government Actions
Read letter by Harvard President Alan M. Garner, about the University's stance on the Federal government's illegal actions to force Harvard to give up the school's academic independence and academic freedom.
White School Officer Pepper-sprayed and Kneed Black Beaumont, TX Student, Complaint says. Will Feds Act?
A 6-second video, recorded by a teacher and reviewed by the Texas Observer, shows an officer grabbing a student’s hair, kneeing her in the face, and knocking the 100-pound girl on her back.
April 17 Day of Action on 150+ Campuses Targets Trump Attack on Higher Education
"Higher education is under siege. As faculty, students, and campus workers, we must have the courage to resist."
Homeless, Low-Income Families, Rely on Public Schools; And They’re Under Attack
The privatization drive means dismantling public schools. Money is shifted out of the public school system into exclusionary, discriminatory private school systems. And homeless kids and families are the first to be hit.
Education and Real Estate: A Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?
Education and real estate may seem like separate topics, but are instead inextricably linked for many reasons.
Labor
Service Workers Union Endorses Nevada Assembly Candidate
Union endorsed candidate for Nevada’s State Assembly vows to fight for workers’ rights, affordable healthcare, affordable housing, and lowering the cost of living in the state.
‘One Day it’s Going to Be You,’ Union Leader Pledges Resistance
Immigrants and workers’ unions are two of the Trump administration’s primary targets, but the president of Nevada’s branch of the SEIU said her union won’t back down.
Labor Unions Join Resistance To Attacks on Immigrant Community
Local unions are taking leadership by negotiating language into their agreements prohibiting ICE from entering workplaces.
Nebraska Farmers Describe Trump’s Impact
Farmers from Neligh, Nebraska speak on Trump’s policy to round up farmworkers, the effect of the tariffs on farmers, and the resistance.
UAW President Denounces Trump Budget as ‘Betrayal’ of Working Class
UAW President says Trump budget hollows out rights and dignify of labor, shifting power further to billionaire class who get even more tax breaks.
Juneteenth and the Forgotten Diversity of Appalachia
Appalachia has always been more diverse than we realize. Labor history shows Black, white, immigrant, native-born workers finding solidarity in the mines that fought corporate control.
Police, Prisons and the Justice System
Nearly 80% of Americans Think Immigration is Good, Gallup Poll Shows
The eight-point increase in support for giving immigrants living in the U.S. illegally the chance to become U.S. citizens reflects increased support from all party groups according to Gallop poll.
Chicago is Ready: Sanctuary Cities under Attack
Congress members from Chicago visited the Broadview Holding Center to conduct oversight of victims kidnapped by ICE agents in immigration raids that have been happening in Chicago.
Teen Violently Arrested Trying to Stop Mother’s ICE ‘Kidnapping’
More than two dozen community members formed a human chain to try to stop immigration agents who take the woman and her 16 year old daughter.
‘Who Was Officer?’: Family Still Seeks Answers From Jackson Police a Year After Son’s Burial
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.
Texas National Guard Firing Pepper Spray Projectiles at Migrants
Texas National Guard has repeatedly fired pepper spray projectiles at arriving migrants, including women and children.
‘I Am Outraged, and You Should Be Too!’
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.