Republished from Invisible People
More Than 100,000 Seniors Are Unhoused on Any Given Night Thanks to Failing Safety Nets and a Lack of Housing Solutions.
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The author describes how her family was forced to migrate from Mexico to the U.S. after the North American Free Trade Agreement destabilized Mexico's economy.
Human rights defenders underscore links between the decolonization struggles of Native Americans and Palestinians, and call out the hypocrisy of the U.S. providing military aid for Israel as it wages a war on Gaza while touting rights for Native Americans.
All of us suffer when our country mistreats immigrants, migrants and refugees. Abusing immigrants and limiting their rights sets the stage for denying everyone’s rights.
Defeat Trump and Project 2025. But this is not an endorsement of the Democratic Party. The people have been driven back by both parties, and the people will have to fight to build a real democracy, regardless. Forward Ever, Backward Never.
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!
Using fear and misinformation to manipulate California voters, the Yes on 36 campaign is based on lies: claiming crime is increasing when it is down; claiming 36 will get more people into drug treatment, when it will DECREASE funding, forcing people who want treatment to prison instead; providing zero dollars for housing and millions for prisons and jails.
US doctors who visited Gaza tell Biden, Harris they've never seen such horrific injuries, on such a massive scale, with so few resources, that our bombs are cutting down women and children, and that a ceasefire must be imposed.
I’m Crystal President of Sacramento Homeless Union, on the Board of the California Homeless Union Statewide Council, and an Executive Board member of the...
Despite the lurid headlines about immigrants and crime, many researchers have found there is no connection between increased immigration and crime rates.
Grassroots organizations filed a lawsuit against Georgia's cruel abortion laws, and the county judge took a firm stand on the side of justice, writing in his ruling that “liberty in Georgia" includes "the power of a woman to control her own body . . . and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”
Hundreds of people who live in their RVs and other vehicles, many of them families, reject an attempt by the. mayor of San Francisco to criminalize them and force them into homelessness.
In this interview with the People's Tribune, Abla Abdelkader, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine in Chicago, describes the repression facing pro-Palestine students and the common interests that most Americans have in the fights for peace and social justice.
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...
Bernie Sanders unveils resolutions to block US arms sales to Israel in what is said to be the first time in U.S. history a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel has been made.
Press Conference, Speak Out and Prayer Ceremony, Monday September 24, 23rd Street and Northgate, Oakland, CA organized by formerly homeless, advocates and caregivers for the unhoused.
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.
Wood Street Commons — with their motto of “Homeless Helping Homeless” — is a group of unhoused people from West Oakland, who work in solidarity with homeless communities in other cities.
Springfield remains at the center of a political firestorm after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his running mate Sen. JD Vance, and other prominent Republicans spread unproven rumors and racist smears about Haitian migrants.
Calling the border “broken” and “in crisis,” in a media-driven storm foments a hysteria that treats migrants and refugees as criminals or an enemy, justifying repression targeting them.
Without a cease-fire, Israel "could end up exterminating almost the entire population in Gaza over the next couple of years," said the U.N. special rapporteur.
Eagle Pass, TX, border activist Amerika Garcia Grewal is part of a coalition that has been protesting militarization of the border and its impact on the local community since 2017.
In August, the city of Sacramento made good on their threats to break up Camp Resolution, a self-sustaining RV community that had endured for 17 months. A majority of its residents were women, over 55, many disabled. Hear their stories.
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.
To continue the fight for democracy, defeat Project 2025.
What is Project 2025? The Heritage Foundation, a far right think tank, has compiled a massive...
A discussion of the immigration divide; the experiences and faith that have historically clothed Black Americans in empathy for others, and why Immigration today is a world citizen issue and certainly a Black issue.
Sweeps kill! As history repeats itself the city and county of Sacramento are going to allow a sweep at Camp Resolution, home to many unhoused people who live there and care for one another.
Outrage is growing over the DNC leadership’s refusal to allow even one Palestinian-American to address the Convention from its main stage, in an echo of the 1964 Democratic convention.
Trump and his Project 2025 backers envision mass deportations of immigrants if Trump is elected. Author Sarah Towle explores the real cruelty that would be involved in such deportations.
Mike Brown Sr. releases butterflies after four and a half minutes of silence to honor the four and a half hours Mike Brown Jr.’s body was left on the ground after he was shot on August 9, 2014.
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.
The 2024 elections are probably the most consequential in our lifetimes. Defeating Trump and Project 2025 will give the millions who are fighting for a new society a little more maneuvering room to wage their struggles.
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...
