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.
International Worker’s Day is celebrated on May 1st around the world. Today, the entire U.S. working class, of which immigrants comprise an integral part, is under attack. The defense of immigrants is vital to the defense of the entire working class.
Brooklyn, NY - Witness at the Border has joined with over 30 immigration advocacy and support organizations to launch the Blue Triangle Solidarity campaign.
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.
People with disabilities, and those with other needs for government programs, fear the cuts and possible ending to social programs they rely on to live and to help others.
Author Jose Antonio Vargas (Left) interviews Francine Lipman, William S. Boyd Professor of Law at UNLV, about tax dollars undocumented immigrants contribute and the devastating impact of ICE and IRS collaboration on immigrants and the economy.
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Medicaid cuts would disproportionately affect women of reproductive age, threatening access to birth control, maternity care, and other health services.
Maureen Taylor of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization reflects on her visit to the Vatican in 2016 to discuss Detroit water shut-offs and poverty, which included a special, exclusive audience with the Pope Francis and other activists.
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Pope Francis, in his Easter speech, appealed to those in positions of political responsibility to not yield to the logic of fear, but rather, to use resources to help the needy, fight hunger, and encourage peace, instead of sowing seeds of death.
The Frontera Federation launched in March as a new non-profit dedicated to upholding human rights and building resilient communities along the border in the face of hyper-militarization in both the United States and Mexico.
The speakers for an April 22 webinar on the resistance to mass deportations have been announced. See the speaker biographies and registration information.
Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame selects 11 journalists in its 2025 class. See speech from one of the 11, Daymon J. Hartley, who has contributed photos from the front lines to the People's Tribune for decades.
On April 22, the Zooming to the Border Coalition, which includes the People's Tribune and Tribuno del Pueblo, will hold a webinar titled Zooming to the Resistance Against Mass Deportations. A group of activists will share their experiences in resisting the government's assault on immigrants.
MI State Rep. Dylan Wegela tells protesters to prevent people like Trump from coming to power we have to fight for people, not corporations. And to win, Democrats cannot be complicit in the oligarchy.
Las Vegas protesters bore different messages: freedom of speech, women’s rights, racial equality, among many other causes. But attendees all united around the demand to stop Trump, his regime, and the billionaires who reap the benefits from their damage.
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.
View the new film that indicts the U.S. Immigration system, "Borderland: The Line Within" for free until March 31 at 7pm Eastern. A National Immigrant Solidarity Rally will be held online on that date.
People want a society that takes care of everyone. The billionaires and corporations who run the U.S. need a dictatorship to control people while they loot the public treasury, slash and privatize public programs and cut jobs.
Trump's latest executive order seeks to strip the collective bargaining rights from federal government workers, threatening workers, unions, freedom of speech.
Our elected officials seem unable or unwilling to keep the financial vultures out of Altadena. We can only win if we fight together to ensure our future.
This winter in Chicago at least nine people died due to hypothermia. No one should freeze to death in winter or in summer. We all can be part of insuring no one else does.
As thousands remain homeless and vulnerable to the negative effects of global warming, Trump is doubling down on opening new leases to fossil fuel corporations.
Workers deliver services like Medicaid and food stamps to people who need them, but say poor conditions at the Illinois DHS offices make this difficult.
Seniors share horror stories of receiving notification from their bank that the SSA requested and withdrew money from their bank for benefits paid after the supposed death of their spouse. “Musk and Trump are breaking Social Security to turn it over to Wall Street,” says an advocacy group.
West Virginia people devastated by the flooding are crying out for help from the Trump administration. They speak on whether FEMA should be abolished, as Trump is proposing.
The story of homelessness in America is woven deep into the fabric of our nation's history, starting long before the modern image of people sleeping on city sidewalks.
There was no media coverage and it was swept under the rug! A predator was terrorizing and killing people, and because they were unhoused it apparently didn’t matter.
"The crowd in front of so-called Vallejo City Hall joined me in a scream, a cry, a wail for another houseless relative's life stolen by the violence of sweeping us like we are trash . . . "
The machinery of mass deportation has been set up in a nightmarish fashion. It is meant to be impossible to stop — or to appear that way. But, like any machine, it can be brought to a halt, when understood.
University faculty call on everyone, on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia graduate detained by ICE, to organize on behalf of those who are today's targets, supporting academic freedom and free expression before it is too late.
When the Trump administration goes after trans people, they’re picking the pocket of American workers, fleecing seniors, undermining unions. It’s part of the politics of division.” Defending LGBTQ+ people from harm is in the best interests of all of us.
We the People elect our government to prioritize the interests of our community rather than for their gain and agenda. It is time to mobilize, organize, and participate in the struggle. The Tribuno del Pueblo and People’s Tribune are here for you!
Artists focused on culture jamming and activism hold an event to encourage people to get active in their communities on some of the many issues affecting many people.
Lawmakers in nine states have or are working to introduce bills to allow homicide charges against people suspected of having an abortion. Six of those states all have the death penalty for homicide.
Black History Month 2025 is taking place in the midst of a vicious campaign by the Trump administration to incite hatred against African Americans and other people of color. From colonial times until the present, the attacks on the working class as a whole have always started as attacks on Black workers.
The Laken Riley Act criminalizes immigrant communities, and it's disheartening to see that it passed with bipartisan support from lawmakers who claim to serve marginalized communities, writes a resident of California's Central Valley.
Gregory Hodge gives a hopeful speech at a MLK Day celebration about the challenges of this critical moment, and asking each of us how we will measure up.
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.
San Francisco, CA. On February 11, homeless families and their allies rallied and marched to San Francisco City Hall, demanding more affordable housing and...
While the Trump/Musk attack on federal agencies is broad-based and will impact people in all walks of life, poor and unhoused communities – disproportionately people of color – are being specially targeted.
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.
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.
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.
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,
