LA County residents are being blindsided by proposals that may drain massive amounts of electricity and water. In Monterey Park, a single facility would use more power than the entire city.
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Parents who are legally applying for US asylum were prevented from getting emergency medical care for...
An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas with around 1,000 immigrants— many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go.”
Thousands of kids have been booked into ICE detention in the past year, and former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
ICE is responsible for killing Alex Pretti, a union ICU nurse, a person who cared deeply for others. Accountability is non-negotiable. We owe him the truth — and the courage to act on it.
On Jan. 20, a group of Minnesota physicians representing various hospitals and different specialties held a press conference at the state Capitol in St. Paul to denounce the presence of ICE agents in hospitals and the horrific impact the ICE raids are having on patients and healthcare workers.
A broad coalition of Minneapolis labor unions and community organizations is calling for a general strike January 23 to force federal immigration agents to leave their city.
Minneapolis is a crisis of our Constitution, federal overreach, militarized enforcement, erosion of civil liberties, democracy, morals, and of faith communities. Join the collective effort.
Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old mother of three, poet, writer, U.S. citizen, and volunteer legal observer — was killed by an ICE agent during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis, January 7.
This year ICE has sent more immigrant children into the federal shelter system than in the previous four years combined. Forced family separation is a crime under international law.
Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act against Minnesota's ICE protesters. The editorial board of the Minnesota Star Tribune described the city as being “under siege” by the federal government.
People in Chicago had been pushing for months for a public hearing on whether the Chicago police have been cooperating with ICE raids in Chicago. The hearing was finally held Jan. 8.
In Tucson, Arizona, I.C.E. raided two Taco Giro restaurants which escalated into agents firing pepper spray into a crowd, including Congressmember Adelita Grijalva.
The People's Tribune joins people across the US and the world in denouncing the US attack on Venezuela. Unity, collaboration and coordinated actions, strikes and assemblies are necessary to rein in the US.
When working people unite across industries, choosing solidarity over division, the story of labor changes—not just for a contract cycle, but for the nation’s economic and political direction.
Public health has been on the skids for years, perhaps as long as humans needed help to survive. Now public health is becoming almost non-existent. The Trump administration is playing with fire!
Cities, counties, states, and our federal government seem hellbent on persecuting the most vulnerable among us, those without homes. Even kids get swept up into this needless persecution, too.
The US attacks on Venezuela are illegal and immoral, and so is all the other military, economic and political pressure that has been put on Venezuela since 1998. None of this benefits the people of Venezuela or the American people.
Nevada’s legislature failed to pass rent control. Many say the real estate lobby is to blame. New candidates promise to deliver on past year's failures.
Witness at the Border issued this statement "in the spirit of observances throughout the U.S and the world of International Human Rights Day on December 10 and International Migrants Day on December 18," and in defense "of the universal right to freedom of movement in search of a dignified life."
In Springfield, a city transformed by Haitian immigrants, Casey Rollins says she feels like the “town crier” warning of a looming family separations crisis.
Data centers, driven by AI, are growing around the country. Communities fear their massive energy/water consumption, increased electricity costs, and pollution while big tech profits.
The presence of supporters at a person's "check in" with Immigration authorities, and other community responses to immigrant abuse, helps insure rules are followed.
The most powerful White House staffer, Stephen Miller, has written or edited every executive order Trump has put into place. Many question his legal tactics and ability to continue spreading his white supremacist ideology. Many of his initiatives are in court.
Takeout
Julie Rogers
walking to the restaurant:
someone heaped in a blanket
on the sidewalk next
to a wheelchair
this person could reach
the metal frame, pull it over
and hold on...
The separation of immigrant families at the border was barred by the 2023 settlement of a lawsuit, but the Trump administration has found a way to brutally reimpose family separations, by moving the practice away from the border and doing it through the ongoing ICE raids.
The November, 2025 election was a win for the workers, renters, the forgotten, and dreamers. It wasn't just about beating the far-right. It was also about rejecting the stale Democratic politics that too often bends to corporate donors and Wall Street.
five stood
Gregory Pond
hidden from news and social media eyes
five stood under sweatshirt hoods, cold and homeless
around a dying trashcan fire
that offered little warmth
in the...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Illinoians have fearlessly fought back against the Trump administration's efforts to terrorize immigrants and those who are fighting to defend their rights.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
