Under Trump, we've seen a surge in political memes. Memes can numb us to the mistreatment of people here and in other countries. "Enjoy the memes you find funny, but be aware of the broader impact they can have," says the author.
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.
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!
An uprising is growing as the government tries to impose a dictatorship. Chicago resistance leaders recently offered their thoughts in public remarks made at demonstrations and press conferences.
Over 150 community members turned out recently to protest the opening of a new 2,500-bed ICE detention facility in California City, CA, operated by CoreCivic. It will be the largest ICE detention facility in California.
Angelinos, suffering from the profit over people economy, continue to rebuild after the fires and to protest immigration raids, while also experiencing joy in such difficult times.
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.
Joshua Rubin of Witness at the Border describes his recent experience bearing witness outside Florida's brutal 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant detention center, which may soon be closing as the result of a lawsuit.
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.
This family is fighting against the city towing the WRONG RV home. It ended with a trip to the ER after the father suffered a medical emergency. This is what's really happening at Columbus Park.
Dr. Melody Glenn discusses the misinformation and politicization that is not based in fact of opioid overdose and the argument that because fentanyl is coming from Mexico, it’s coming through the border.
A photojournalist says why it is impossible for her to maintain a relationship with Reuters "given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant worker, was freed from detention in Tennessee Aug. 22 and then re-arrested by ICE on Aug. 25 in Maryland. The Trump administration is trying to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda.
Democratic Socialist Tyler Cavey promises to fight for healthcare, education, and affordability when he announced his candidacy for Nevada's state legislature in August.
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.
(Inspired by Shel Silverstein)
There is a place where inclusion ends
A place before community begins,
Where the sun burns crimson bright,
And those discarded rest at night.
From the San Jose CA Frontlines: Stop the sweeps. Unhoused people want a safe place to stay. All people should be respected, shown compassion, understanding.
On Aug. 22, the world's top authority on hunger crises officially declared that a catastrophe-level famine in Gaza exists—a humanitarian disaster engineered by Israel's relentless blockade of food aid and other life-saving supplies.
More families face homelessness as rents rise and food programs aand other social safety nets are cut. With the potential for tens of thousands more people forced onto the streets, could people be forced "far away" from the cities as Trump suggests?
Sports aren’t just entertainment. They’re community. They’re identity. They’re part of our stories. But when locked behind paywalls, those stories fade.
Republican officials ram through gerrymandered maps, proving the system is doing what it was built to do: protect white political power and erase Black and Latino Texans from decision-making.
Trump's claims about crime in the capital city are misleading. Protesters want millions to stand up, saying he's going to go to other cities and do the same if not stopped.
Gerry Condon, former president of Veterans for Peace, makes the case that we are now closer to nuclear war than ever, and that the U.S. is primarily responsible.
Making Suffering Invisible
David Teague
This isn’t just bad policy—it’s the first real step toward American fascism.
The White House just ended harm reduction, shut down housing-first...
Housing First works. Utah’s program proved it: over 90% of people remained housed, and the state saved money compared to criminalizing poverty. It costs less to help than it does to punish.
Founder of an Austin justice group speaks about how everyday people jump into dangerous situations to save anybody in weather and other catastrophes while the TX Governor debates who was to blame.
The true number of dead and missing in Gaza may be around 500,000. Another 500,000 face starvation. Palestinians say if there is to be peace, it must begin with respect for their voices, their rights and their humanity.
“Your Profit Is Our Pain”
Count the dollars that you make
From each tent that you forsake—
Eighty bucks per empty bed
While we sleep on concrete, dead.
Your...
“Your Profit Is Our Pain”
Count the dollars that you make
From each tent that you forsake—
Eighty bucks per empty bed
While we sleep on concrete, dead.
Your...
Green Diamond Projects and Poor Magazine announce the Bay Area screening of their powerful movie created by houseless and formerly houseless people, based on a play by tiny gray-garcia
A long-time resident of the Venice area of Los Angeles, once an affordable haven for free spirits, meditates on the damage done by gentrification, destruction of the area’s character, displacement and homelessness
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma joined Florida tribes in protesting "Alligator Alcatraz. The tribe says it insults their ancestral homeland and threatens ecosystem.
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.
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.
Winners and losers: The greatest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history cut Medicaid, SNAP, and other necessities to give massive tax breaks to billionaires.
This planned webinar exploring how people across the country are fighting mass deportations, originally scheduled for July 17, has been postponed. More information will be posted when a new date has been set.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, has struck a nerve by voicing the demands of those who are struggling to survive as the cost of living continues to rise.
A statement on the passage of the largest reduction in health care and food assistance in American history, and testimony as to its unconscionable, cruel and deadly consequences to those millions who will be hurt. The bill is a giveaway to the billionaire class that slashes programs people need to stay alive.
Winners and losers: The greatest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history cut Medicaid, SNAP, and other necessities to give massive tax breaks to billionaires.
Homeless Union leader Crystal Sanchez in an open letter to the nation calls out the federal government’s attacks on the most vulnerable – the houseless, immigrants, ‘minority’, poor and working class communities – as violations of the Constitution’s promise of equal protection, and calls for the people to resist its tyranny.
You slash Medicaid, you’re swinging an axe at the heart of our rural hospitals, community clinics, doctors and nurses — and every family that depends on a job for a living. It’s not too late to raise hell.
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.
Several recent Facebook reels show how ICE is ramping up its campaign of terror against immigrants, citizens and protestors alike as the effort to create a police state continues and resistance grows. One creator speaks to the significance of Haitians now being targeted.
Over 60 people, including grandmas in wheelchairs, were arrested in the U.S. Senate Rotunda in a nonviolent protest against cuts like Medicaid and the SNAP food program in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Budget Bill.”
The Statue of Liberty was heard talking recently. She was wondering how to return to France since the …’send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses seeking freedom’… message was no longer important.
The US's immoral and illegal attack on Iran threatens the whole world with war. The American people have a special responsibility to come out into the streets and rein in the US government, which has become a rogue state.
Families who live in their RVs rallied along with advocates at San Francisco City Hall and gave eloquent testimony inside against a 2-hour parking limit on oversized vehicles being proposed by the mayor that would result in their homes being towed and men, women and children being thrown into the street.
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.
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones addressed Black graduates at Harvard University, telling them that "we are about to see unleashed upon us an America that we have not had to live in. And we have to win this battle."
The Laney College Poor People’s Campaign holds teach-in called “Billionaires vs The People: A Community Conversation on What We Can Do For Change In Our Communities”.
blacks on the block
By Gregory Pond
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they created race
when they came to lay claim
then justify the trading
of humans as slaves
before we were blacks on the...
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.
Millions of people – estimates range from 11 million to 12 million – took to the streets in protests across the U.S. on June 14 in a direct response to President Donald Trump’s regime, unifying under the message that also named the day’s protest movement: No Kings.
City Of Angels
By Raymond Nat Turner
“There is no power greater than
a community discovering what it
cares about.” – Margaret Wheatley
City Of Angels where
Camouflaged kidnappers; Fascist...
Every City, One Fire
By David Teague
Minneapolis just laid the blueprint.
They didn’t flinch.
They didn’t fold.
They surrounded an entire ICE raiding crew and stood their ground.
Not...
The federal government's war on Los Angeles is a war on the American people. The ultimate aim of the attack on immigrants is to impose a dictatorship on us all.
Crystal Sanchez, President of the Sacramento Homeless Union, gave this talk at a Poor People’s Campaign ‘Moral Monday,’ part of the 2025 campaign against the budget cuts that destroys lives.
The GOP is slashing health care funding at the federal level. Abandoning a public commitment to universal health care didn't help Democrats win the 2024 election and won't help in 2028.
Community and labor allies reached out to thousands of San Antonio's voters, and predominantly Black and Latino households often ignored by campaigns, powering Gina Ortiz Jones to victory.
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.
Tomorrow, June 6th, 2pm at the Washington DC National Mall just north of the Smithsonian National Space and Air Museum, veterans and military families from across the country will gather for the Unite for Veterans Rally, to defend the values and promises made to those who served.
This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise.
As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine, U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations launched a 40-day “Fast for Gaza.”
Agents, some in full tactical gear, arrested restaurant workers while patrons were dining. Neighbors and patrons spontaneously protested, pushing ICE agents to retreat from their community.
A 19-year-old Georgia college student threatened with deportation was released on bond from ICE detention. Her case is making many in a district where 70% of voters voted for Trump saddened and outraged.
In this interview with Democracy Now, Journalist Maria Hinojosa describes her recent interview in an ICE detention center in Colorado with jailed immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra.
Veterans for Peace say wars will not end, – and nuclear war will not be averted – unless there is a sea-change in the thinking of the U.S. people and our political leaders.
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.
Outrage is rising against Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that would give massive tax breaks to the rich while slashing Medicaid, nutrition, and clean energy. Some say 14 million people could lose health coverage.
A poem about life on Skid Row, where every step forward feels like coming home, for in the struggle, there’s a beauty to behold In the streets of Skid Row.
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.
Realtors pour money into Nevada legislature and buy off representatives that are supposed to represent us, say protesters fighting for rent stabilization.
Excessive military spending has bankrupted the country and eaten up money we need for human needs. What's more, the billionaires' reliance on war as a foreign policy instrument threatens to destroy the world.
There's lots of noise about “bringing jobs back to America,” especially from Trump and others trying to sell working people a dream that doesn’t hold up to logic.
As California Governor Gavin Newsom directs cities to destroy homeless encampments, people are asking “Where do we go?” Resistance and vision is rising to build caring communities from the bottom up.
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.
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.
