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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Amongst the alleyways where dreams go to...
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,
The US public response to the murder speaks volumes about Americans’ widespread disgust with a profit-driven health care system that leaves so many destitute or simply dead, says Jacobin.
Sacramento CA: California has a different kind of plague. Billions of dollars have come down to end this crisis, but the resources never make it to the people.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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.
Read the speech delivered by a student at the student walkout at MSU two days after the Presidential election. Thousands of students nationwide walked out to protest Donald Trump's election and his policies on the same day.
Pedro Rios, who runs the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S. Mexico Border Program, speaks about what to expect on the Borderlands with Donald Trump.
Thousands of groups and millions of people are beginning to reach out to one another to resist the Trump agenda. Regardless of who we voted for, we the people, have a common interest in seeing to it that all our families are well taken care of, that all children are well educated and have a future, and that we have a society free of climate disaster, racism, bigotry and inequality.
"Many Americans roused to action by their government’s complicity in Gaza’s destruction have no personal connection to Palestine or Israel. Their motive is not ethnic or religious. It is moral."
Adriana Jasso, the program coordinator for the U.S./Mexico Border Program of the American Friends Service Committee, describes her experience of helping immigrants at the border wall every day for the past year.
"[The student nationwide] walkouts represent a call to action for both parties," said Sunrise Youth Movement, a group that advocates for political action on climate change.
'There are no winners here, because we are all bound by our nation’s refusal to confront its own soul. This fight is not over; it’s only beginning,' says Director of Los Angeles Skid Row organization, LA CAN.
Those of us who have a history of being on the front lines knew this moment was coming and we’re telling ourselves it is not the time to fatigue out! We know either way it lands, that it’s in our laps and we need all boots on the ground.
For the third year, a group of former Wood Street encampment residents bicycled some 80 miles from Oakland to Sacramento in a show of solidarity with unhoused Californians.
Nevaeh Crain cried in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Vomiting and feverish at her baby shower, the teen went to two different emergency rooms, returning home, worse than before. Pregnant women have become untouchables.
UAW President Shawm Fain rallies voters in support of Kamala Harris, calling her the only pro-worker candidate for president, and that she is committed to fighting Trump's NAFTA.
Californians have an opportunity in Tuesday’s election to pass a ballot measure that will address the high cost of housing, which is one of the top grievances among the state’s voters. Proposition 33 will allow cities and counties to implement rent control ordinances.
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.
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April 30, 2018
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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.
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States are using their budgetary power to punish communities that don’t push people off the street, including places that have more unhoused people than shelter beds, and to arrest people who don’t have a safe space to go to.
The Wood Street Commons, a community of unhoused residents in West Oakland, is calling for immediate action to address the State’s homelessness crisis.
A tribute to Eddie Canales, a great advocate for humanity in the South Texas border region, and founder and director of the South Texas Human Rights Center (STHRC), who died July 31, 2024.
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Forty-five American physicians and nurses sent an open letter to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Jill Biden about the carnage they saw while working in Gaza.
San Francisco begins brutal sweeps against people on the streets and their belongings, whether housing is available or not; a city with some of the highest rents in the nation.
A discussion on speaking strategically for an agenda that stands in contrast to corporate collusion, poverty and endless wars, that gives people something to believe in.
One deputy in Sonya Massey’s murder was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct. Read the story and see the video.
Wood Street Commons community in Oakland is struggling to ensure housing as a human right in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling and the governor's order criminalizing homelesssness.
Black father killed outside Milwaukee's Hyatt Regency Hotel. He was held down and beaten with batons by four security personnell, saying he couldn't breathe.
In an appearance on Democracy Now! July 17, writer Jean Guerrero refuted some of the lies told about immigrants at the Republican National Convention on July 16.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak to Congress on July 24. Protests are planned that oppose his visit and to demand his arrest as a war criminal.
57 percent of unhoused women report domestic violence as their immediate cause of homelessness. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an Oregon law could further limit their options
Recent Supreme Court decisions have opened the floodgates to allow corporate interests, in the name of profit, to dismantle the system of federal regulation that protects our rights and wellbeing.
Climate change and extreme weather is a real thing. This is evidenced by the fact that extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and more intense.
On July 2, the U.S. Supreme Court formally declared that former President Trump is above the law. Yes, we can end up with a felon, a liar, and a criminal for president. But on a grander scale, ruling puts Trump and future presidents above the law – leading us toward a dictatorship.
Join a campaign to combat the mainstream lies and shine a moral light on the truth: that no human being is illegal, and seeking asylum is a human right.
A movement is growing against the latest “legalized” atrocity on the most vulnerable, in governments, among advocates, ordinary people, and most importantly, by organized and individual homeless people. As said in the homeless movement, “We only get what we are organized to take!”
The right-wing Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, billed as a policy playbook for a second Trump administration, includes provisions that would demolish the existing immigration system and set the stage for mass deportations.
Criminalizing the homeless for sleeping in public spaces when having no other option does not violate the cruel and unusual punishment clause of U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment, according to new ruling.
The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival hosted a march in Wash., DC, to uplift the needs of the over 135 million poor and low-wage workers across the U.S.
Camp Resolution, the self-governing encampment for unhoused Sacramento residents, received a notice on March 28 for its nearly one hundred members to vacate by...
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Interview with General Dogon of the Los Angeles Community Action Network by Cathleen Williams, Homeward Street Journal
General Dogon is an organizer at...
Rebuilding the U.S. immigration system to be functional and humane requires dismissing harmful myths and inflammatory rhetoric in favor of truth and facts.
Community groups, fighting since 2012 to reopen 12 mental health clinics shuttered under former Mayor Emmanuel, joined the Chicago mayor’s office to announce the reopening of Roseland Mental Health Center.
University of California academic workers represented by UAW 4811 are striking. They say the UC system has failed to protect their freedom to speak and failed to keep them safe from police brutality during recent campus protests.
The UCSC rally saw Palestinian flags, UAW picket signs, and chants such as "Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation"; and "Disclose, divest."
The Supreme Court’s decision in the case out of southern Oregon, expected in June, will broadly impact how local governments write homelessness policy in the United States.
Florida homeless advocate discusses new anti-homeless laws in Florida, and elsewhere, criminalizing those who have to shelter, including upcoming Supreme Court rulings that could impact the nation.
The UAW union representing about 3,000 graduate student workers at USC filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school to end campus militarization and drop charges against students and faculty.
Helen Benedict, a Columbia University journalism professor, describes how the right wing has used accusations of anti-semitism against campus protests to distract attention from the death toll in Gaza.
Photos by David Bacon of Strawberry workers parading through Santa Maria on a May Day march, demanding a living wage. Most are indigenous Mixtec migrants from Oaxaca and southern Mexico.
The violent arrest of Emory University Prof. Caroline Fohlin April 25 in Atlanta shows the degree to which democracy is being trampled as resistance to the Gaza genocide grows.
Voters in Enid, OK recalled a city council member who was a former organizer for a white supremacist organization after he failed to distance himself from connections to white supremacist groups.
A larger-than-life figure, Flint Michigan's Eric Mays was dubbed “the voice”, not only for his deep baritone, but for his relentless pursuit of social justice.
Actions are taking place in the following cities: San Francisco (Bay Area), CA; Los Angeles, CA; Sacramento, CA; Portland, OR; Medford, OR; Missoula, MT; Seattle, WA; Denver, CO
Earth Day is a reminder that Mother Earth pleads with us to care for her. The youth are listening, holding a global climate strike April 19. Although we are still far from reaching net zero emissions by 2050, it's time to be assertive with our world leaders for change will give our grandchildren a healthy Mother Earth and create a world of peace.
Our current society loses 295,000 people each year to poverty, which is more people than by homicide, gun violence, diabetes, or obesity but the corporate media does not talk about that.
The U.S. government should stop Texas' anti-immigrant campaign, says border activist Fernando Garcia. We need more welcoming centers at the southern border, not more militarization, he adds.
A coalition of current and former San Francisco officials and civic organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in advance of...
Sacramento homeless and supporters rally at the state capitol in anticipation of a case before the U.S Supreme Cout that could criminalize sleeping outside even when cities have no beds or housing for people.
Six men who were working filling potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge are presumed dead. Two bodies were found trapped in a submerged vehicle in the river. The six men, immigrant workers who had lived in the area for years, are among thousands of immigrant workers who help keep the Baltimore area functioning.
The movement against Texas’ SB4 law continues, undeterred by a highly contested U.S. Supreme Court ruling clearing the way for the law allowing Texas police to arrest and deport people they “suspect” are in Texas illegally.
Home is a place where we go ….A destination. That destination does not need to be physical …. home is a space. Home is a place with family ….community support strength and the ability to feel secure in your fight where you stand.
San Francisco is banning overnight parking on Bernal Heights Blvd., endangering homes of RV dwellers. Residents are protesting their impending eviction.
Millions of women have been standing up to fight, but now, all women are needed to engage in the movement. Organize, support women, strike, protect our freedoms, our rights, our mutual vision of health, peace, and love.
Outrage is mounting here and globally for immediate cease-fire in Gaza. A significant percentage of Democrats are voting "uncommitted,” but the Biden administration is not stopping U.S. from providing bombs that kill Palestinian children.
The following is a March 11, 2024 press release from La Resistencia about the hunger strikes, attempted suicides, and death at the Northwest Detention...
Hundreds of protesters block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech to call for ceasefire and end to U.S funding for Israel's assault on Gaza.
For International Women’s Month we honor Dora Rodriguez, migrant survivor and Director of Salvavision, an organization providing support to asylum seekers and migrants. Dora exemplifies women’s contribution to peace and a better world.
In 2023, 68,440 Chicagoans experienced houselessness, lived on the streets, in shelters, or doubled-up. Bring Chicago Home was born out of the growing need to address the crisis in a real and meaningful way where people get housed and stay housed
The systemic causes of family homelessness are not the families’ fault— it’s mainly a lack of affordable housing, economic problems, and our nation’s relentless punishing of families.
Prop 1 Would gut local mental health services and further criminalize the unhoused. The following is an excerpt from a voting guide prepared by Kris Rehl, a writer and organizer with LA Street Care, and was lightly edited for length.
Congresswoman Tlaib introduces bill to stop politicians from funnelling billions of American tax dollars to same defense contractors many of them are invested in and taking campaign donations from.
San Francisco’s centrally located Tenderloin area is about 25 blocks flanked by Union Square and Civic Center areas. The mayor’s reelection campaign aims to please the billionaire donors by punishing the thousands of unhoused living in this area and across the city, rather than provide people with housing.
What may be the final hearings in Julian Assange's effort to halt his extradition to the U.S. are under way. The U.S. is engaged in criminalizing things that journalists do all the time, and this is a real threat to democracy.
Every time Black Americans have advanced, there has been a democratizing effect for everyone, and every time the powerful have decided to turn back the clock on democracy, they start by attacking the rights of Blacks. We see this today.
From slavery, to organizing the first Black union-the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, and to their current workforce, Blacks continue to fight for a One Fair Wage.
Nearly two dozen campaigners with the Sunrise Movement were arrested after protesting at President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign headquarters, issuing warnings that crucial votes from young people will be lost unless he takes bold climate action and ends his support for Israel’s massacre in Gaza.
The Supreme Court will decide whether it should be illegal to arrest and cite unhoused people for unauthorized lodging without offering immediate available shelter.
Israeli forces have killed over 10,000 children in roughly 100 days of Israel's assault into Gaza, as Save the Children reported, or about 100 children per day.
The state of Texas and the federal government squander billions militarizing the border with Mexico, when this money could be used to take care of the needs of both immigrants and U.S. residents alike.
A Salvadorian migrant who nearly died crossing through the Arizona desert on foot speaks of the need to tell the stories of migrants to get people to recognize the needs and human rights of immigrants.
To most people, I’m invisible. Just another nameless Black man blending into the urban background. People avoid making eye contact as they walk past me on the sidewalk.
Witness at the Border held a conference in January in Ajo, Arizona, to assess the situation facing migrants and refugees and to discuss what the future holds for the immigration rights movement.
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Al Jazeera’s update to its "Know Their Names" project identifies some of the thousands of Palestinian children killed so far in Israeli attacks on Gaza. It lists children from infants to 17-year-olds and the children are sorted by age.
Dozens of unhoused, disoriented, disabled Chicago residents will die. Hundreds will get frostbite and/or hypothermia. The city must open warming senters 24/7.
A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a beacon of hope, a driving force behind the civil rights movement, for racial equality, and for his contributions to the Labor Movement.
Murdered in Memphis years ago, Dr. King’s legacy lives on today — in the efforts of all those continuing the fight he waged against systemic racism, militarism, and economic inequality.
U.S. Congress members who called for peace in Palestine are being targeted for defeat in 2024 by well-funded political action committees. Now the Congress members are rallying voters to their cause.
Brittany Watts, 33, was charged with a felony in Ohio after police searched her toilet after she suffered a miscarriage. Doctors are pushing the prosecutor to drop charges.
A memorial was held for those who died in Santa Cruz streets unhoused, the most expensive rental market in the country. Hear voices of both sadness and hope.
Poet Gregory Pond read this poem at a memorial for the world-celebrated revolutionary poet Jack Hirschman’s 90th birthday in San Francisco. Jack died in 2021. He took his message of transformation and brotherhood around the globe. His great heart was open to all, from the panhandler on the corner to his peers in the world of international poetry and struggle.
Homeless and supporters stand together on this winter solstice night mourning the unhoused who have died on our streets. The memorial reminds us of the cruel reality that some of us are unhoused, living outside. Their voices must be at the forefront of the fight to end homelessness.
Wood Street End-of-Year Letter 2023!
Wood Street Commons
Season’s Greetings Wood Street Allies, Friends, and Family,
It’s hard to believe that we are quickly approaching the end...
Human Rights Watch & Amnesty International call for Israel to be investigated for war crimes in targeting journalists, after a Reuters investigation conclusively found that its journalist was killed by an Israeli tank shell fired on him and others.
Thanks to the Benton Harbor Community Water Council and Rev Edward Pinkney, Benton Harbor’s water system is now providing safe water to its residents.. All the lead service lines have been replaced. But now Benton Harbor faces another drinking water crisis—the water, now safe to drink, is unaffordable.
A Mississippi FedEx driver suffered emotional distress after forced to work same route after alleging being shot at by two white men, according to lawsuit.
Twenty nine poor Texas border counties are designated medically underserved. Residents lack access to primary care services, sites, or providers to meet their medical needs. There is an effort to change that.
The U.N. climate summit ended with nations pledging to transition away from fossil fuels, but the final text fails to explicitly call for a phaseout of fossil fuels, language sought by over 100 countries.
From January 12-15, 2024, the Witness at the Border immigrant rights group is sponsoring a Workshop for Justice/Taller por la Justicia in Ajo, Arizona to reflect on the fight for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers and where we go from here. The registration deadline is December 15.
Chicago voters will decide whether to increase the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT) on home sales of over $1 million, creating a dedicated source of funding for preventing and ending homelessness in Chicago.
Despite Texas Gov. Abbott's pledge to continue the battle, opponents of 4-foot-wide orange spherical buoys—which span 1,000 feet of the Rio Grande River—celebrated the appeals court decision to remove them.
The UAW International Union has voted to join the call for a ceasefire. "The UAW International is calling for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Israel and Palestine so that we can get to the work of building a lasting peace, building social justice and building a global community of solidarity."
Some Chicagoans are angry at the migrants for, in their view, draining our resources. It is understandable why people are frustrated, however, migrants are not the austerity imposers. Profit-making corporations leave Chicagoans with food deserts, underfunded schools, shuttered mental health clinics, and over 68,000 Chicagoans without housing. There should be enough for everybody. Our elected officials do not fund enough resources for the public.
With almost 10 years of the crisis, having dealt with death, health challenges, Legionella, children’s social emotional trauma along with learning disabilities — the failure of the judicial system for the people of Flint is unforgivable. Flint residents will not give up on being made whole.
Labor actions, the struggle in the Middle East, the fight of the homeless, migrants, refugees and others, are fronts in a struggle breaking out in many forms all over the country and world.
The number of people displaced by climate disasters, conflict, and violence continues to reach unprecedented levels. Vulnerable communities and countries under attack from wars for corporate ownership of resources are living with the worst impacts.
Civil Disobedience as Literature- a Review of Dissent: an anthology to end war and capitalism, edited by Mark Lipman, Vagabond, 2023
That we exist in...
A federal appeals court on Nov. 20 ruled that only the U.S. Department of Justice can bring lawsuits under Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a decision that—if upheld—would deprive private citizens and advocacy groups of the ability to file legal challenges to discriminatory election practices.
By a decisive 56.6% to 43.4% margin, Ohio voters won the constitutional right to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions." This victory for reproductive rights was one of several won in November.
The U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices issued a scathing dissent this week as the tribunal's right-wing supermajority rejected the appeal of an Illinois inmate with mental illness imprisoned in solitary confinement without access to fresh air for three straight years.
AFSC staff and partners served thousands of meals through the border wall, clothed thousands weekly, and alleviated the pain, uncertainty, and fear for many. While elected officials hesitate, the community mobilizes.
Forty-two journalists and media workers have been killed since October 7th. Independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who produced the award-winning documentary 'The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh,' asks where is the global response? And where is the journalist outcry to their colleagues killed in Gaza?
Biden and the congressional majority won't impose a ceasefire on Israel because Israel was created in part on behalf of American and European corporations and billionaires to further their interests in the Middle East.
Freedom of speech is under attack throughout the United States, with those who criticize the seige of Gaza facing retribution at schools and workplaces.
The Biden administration will break all records for paying border contractors. At the same time, the administration announced it would waive 26 laws protecting people, including the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, to put up a new section of border wall in Starr County, Texas.
The latest warriors to save Atlanta's Weelaunee forest and stop ‘Cop City’ are four elder women who believe people should decide the fate of the forest, not the Mayor, Atlanta City Council, or the Atlanta Police Foundation. A petition for a public vote was signed by 116,000 people.
Despite attempts to silence them, hundreds of thousands of people have been marching across the world to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and that the U.S. cut off financial and military support to Israel.
CA Senate Bill 1338 created a mental health court. A court-appointed conservator would make health care decisions and control one’s medication and treatment — at an involuntary stay in a psychiatric facility. Could this be the housing promised by Governor Newsom?
The pandemic paused redeterminations for Medicaid in March 2020. All states were to resume the eligibility process on April 1. Since then, the State of Mississippi dropped 18,710 children from Medicaid; more are likely to come.
Sacramento California has 22,000 unhoused people on the streets. This is the reality people live and die in. Sacramento Homeless Union leader asks, “Can we create a place we can all thrive and be healthy together?”
Summer Lee says Republicans' plan to exploit a horrific war to help billionaire donors cheat on taxes would cost taxpayers $90 billion, enough to end hunger, homelessness, student debt, and more.
Amid escalating Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians, millions around the world are demanding a ceasefire. The people of the U.S. have a crucial role to play in pushing for a ceasefire as a first step toward a real peace.
Who?D.L. Lang
Who will be leftto care for the elderlyafter all the doctorshave donned uniforms?
Who be left in your congregationafter you have deceivedyour faithful adherentsinto...
The Red Cross refused to help homeless families burnt out of the hotel they stayed at, which caused them to lose everything, because the motel was not a permanent residence.
Activists in Jackson, MS are citing a provision under the Safe Drinking Water Act that gives residents and community groups like them the right to intervene and partner with the government in enforcing the Act’s requirements.
New podcast gives perspectives of Indigenous communities from around the world about the consequences we all reckon with of a global, industrial society built on growth, extraction, and colonialism.
The Border Patrol's San Diego sector is violating Customs and Border Protection's national standards by once again holding hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants in open-air detention areas.
Young homeless person in Oakland, California tells the story of the cause of homelessness, being homeless and solutions the cities can undertake to help homeless youth.
A shocking abandonment amid abundance is the state of the poor in this country. Will we condemn millions of us to cruel and unnecessary poverty, while feeding the drive to authoritarianism or will we lift poverty and so strengthen the very foundation of our democracy?
Editor's Note: This article was contributed from the Laney College Chapter, Poor People's Campaign
Being homeless at the end of my high school senior year...
While the media focus on Trump as posing the central threat to democracy, the drive toward a dictatorship in the country has proceeded rapidly in the last couple of years on Biden’s watch, and mostly at the state level, along with a growing resistance to it.
UAW President Shawn Fain addresses why the expansion of the strike and the growing support globally and nationally in two venues. Workers are fighting to get their fair share at a time when the profits of automakers are soaring. The challenge is where we're going to go as a country.
75,000 people marched on the U.N. headquarters. A demand was for President Biden to “end fossil fuels.” Financial institutions financing fossil fuel projects were targeted with 149 arrests.
New York City municipal retirees are fighting attempts to strip them of their traditional Medicare benefits and push them into a privatized Medicare Advantage plan — a struggle that mirrors similar battles being fought by retirees in cities across the country against the privatization of traditional Medicare.
It has now been over a month since the gruesome incident that caused the death of Christine Chavez, a houseless woman, and there are more questions than answers at this point.
Declaring that “it’s time to stand up for the working class,” UAW President Shawn Fain speaks about the historic “Stand Up Strike” where for the first time the UAW struck all Big Three automakers at once. Worker wages, benefits and quality of life declined for decades, while automakers’ profits have skyrocketed.
The Texas governor bused more than 13,000 migrants to Chicago. Many came without shoes. Chicago women — many who have themselves suffered displacement —are leading aid efforts and unity, with over 200 partnerships. Federal action is demanded.
The attack on what remains of a free press in America is escalating. Defending the First Amendment right to speak and publish is critical to defending and expanding democracy.
Six million people have been stripped of Medicaid coverage in the last several months, creating what one healthcare activist and researcher described as "the largest concentration of health insurance loss in American history." It’s happening in both red and blue states.
This article reposted from the Atlanta Community Press Collective describes the Georgia Attorney General's attempt to stifle free speech by indicting opponents of Cop City in Atlanta.
San Francisco lost its appeal challenging an injunction prohibiting the city from enforcing penal codes such as the ban on sleeping on the streets, as the City has continued to violate unhoused residents’ rights, destroying their property while clearing camps on the streets.
UAW member Sean Crawford gives a Labor Day speech at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Detroit, MI. He addresses labor history, the issues surrounding the upcoming contract and unity.
Luz Melissa Cortes Nieto had the opportunity to attend a study abroad program dedicated to DREAMERS across the U.S., like herself. She interviews Dreamers she met during her travels.
In recent months, it's come to light that dozens of asylum seekers have been held outside in dangerous heat at the Ajo, Arizona, Border Patrol Station. Melissa del Bosque of The Border Chronicle traveled to Ajo to talk with local residents and activists who are monitoring and protesting the situation.
A white supremacist walked into a Dollar Store in Jacksonville, FL, and killed three people. Speakers discuss the role Gov. DeSantis has played in creating the climate for such killings, and that all people must come together to stop the hate.
Every year, from 30,000 to 60,000 Americans die from lack of healthcare. Affordability is the main reason. Insurance is no guarantee of protection. People avoid seeing a doctor for fear of another bill they can’t afford. Others ration medication to save money. The author discusses a solution: Medicare for All.
Eduardo Castro was loved by many for his simple ways. A Vietnam veteran, he was active in many groups, including Veterans for Peace, Deported Veterans, Brown Beret de Fresno, Poor People’s Campaign, California Central Valley Journey for Justice. He rarely said no to a request for support. He wore many shoes and will be dearly missed.
Crystal Sanchez, president of the Sacramento Homeless Union, grew up in Sacramento. Formerly homeless herself, she brings insight into the homeless and housing crisis, urging us to come together and discuss plans to end homelessness by ensuring everybody has a chance to be heard and work together for a solution.
Protest in Enid, Oklahoma over electing Judd Blevins to represent them on the Enid City Commission. Blevins has been accused of being an Oklahoma organizer for a white nationalist group.
Don't Cop OutBy James Norman
I don't use the word unhoused,which pretends it's something weare sorting out.
maybe this linguistic choice has todo with the lack...
Ozempic is for long-term use. After some significant weight loss occurs in about two years, financial assistance will be exhausted, regular insurance won’t cover it due to its cost, and then what? Novo Nordisk, producer of Ozempic, made a gross profit of $22.244B for the 12 months ending March 31, 2023.
In Braxton, Mississippi on January 24, 2023 six white police officers raided a home and tortured, tasered, sexually abused two Black men, shooting one in the mouth. The six police just pled guilty to torture. The two men speak about their fight for justice.
The article outlines many things President Biden can do to unlock his executive powers and drastically cut fossil fuel emissions by calling for a ‘real’ Climate Emergency.
Given the deadly heat, workers and some officials are urging Biden to accelerate a federal OSHA standard to prevent heat-related work injuries and illnesses.
The deceased woman’s family and people who saw her shortly before she died claim she was sleeping in dry grass prior to being run over by a large tractor pulling a powerful mower. The father is asking for an investigation.
In this article, the author points to some of the latest examples of the climate emergency, and warns that Trump and his followers represent the most extreme version of climate change deniers.
Chrystul Kizer, a sex trafficking victim who at the age of 17, killed the man abusing and selling her for sex. She is now 23. In July, 2023, a new ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court offers hope for her acquittal.
In July, advocate Curtis Harris testified before the Chicago Health and Human Relations Committee about the mental health services he needs. He speaks about his lived experience of mental illness on the autism spectrum.
A court-appointed conservator would make financial and health care decisions and control a patient’s medication and treatment. Where is the housing promised by Gov. Newsom when he announced his CARE Court plan?
A lawsuit against protesters of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) was dropped by Roanoke County, Virginia. The three self-described Old Folks blocked the pipeline access road for 15 hours in 2021. Lawyers called the County’s charges a First Amendment violation.
Attacks are intensifying around issues of reproduction, healthcare, maternal care, and now gender identity. Women, trans people and children’s lives are at stake. Poor women and youth are particularly hurt, but the laws potentially threaten all pregnant and gender-diverse people.
The first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S. — the result of 16 youth suing the Montana government for promoting and supporting fossil fuels that dangerously warm up the planet — concluded June 23
San Francisco is concentrating homeless arrests in areas where lots of people live on the streets. However, a new study by UCSF, found the leading cause of homelessness was overwhelmingly the crushingly high rents and unaffordable housing, and lack of meaningful help getting rehoused once housing is lost, despite millions of dollars spent on “homeless services” (mainly shelters and policing).
Two Black women speak about the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. The women’s comments dispel some of the lies and myths about affirmative action, the affect it will have on African Americans and people of color, and the negative impact a lack of diversity will have on us all.
A Texas state trooper’s claims that superiors ordered officers at the border to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water has sparked a state investigation.
Threatening to transfer a child in need of support and services to a dangerous maximum-security adult prison, like Angola Penitentiary, represents a complete failure by the state of Louisiana to provide rehabilitation to children. The juvenile justice system is skewed toward punitive justice; find out what we can do about it.
Friends offer warm remembrances of Joey Pace who died of fentanyl poisoning. Joey, a Special Forces veteran, was a years-long volunteer for Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs. The community had been reeling from recent deaths. And a total of 90 unhoused died in Santa Cruz in 2022.
More than 11,000 immigrants have been sent to Chicago by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott since last year. In a spirit of caring, Chicago voted to allocate $51 million to care for migrants through the end of June. Chicago officials have demanded that the Illinois governor act to stop Abbott from using vulnerable people as political pawns.
The push to build the planned $90 million corporate-funded militarized police training facility in a forest near Atlanta tells us a lot about what the movement for progressive change is up against, both in Atlanta and nationwide.
The climate disaster is breeding conflict — from open war between nation-states to abuse of migrants at borders to hate and physical assaults in our own cities to state violence against climate activists.
Ongoing protests are mounting in opposition to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which Congress recently gave the go ahead to via the debt ceiling deal. Appalachians vow to not let the pipeline be built.
Homeless Poet Linda Stevens presents her poetry, saying "I'm too old to go back to work, I don't have benefits . . . why don't cities have a help system? What can we do to get this world to wake up and help the unhoused? If we don't fight back, we're all going to die!"
Protesters at a news conference, many speaking Spanish, called Texas HB 2127 the “law that kills” and that it will leave lawn crews, construction workers and others who labor outdoors at the mercy of their employers. "Believe me, we are dying . . . when they take away our water and our [break] time,” said one worker.
Food is a human right. Yet over 34 million Americans — and those numbers are growing every day — are hungry, including 1 in 8 children. Why is anyone, let alone children, going hungry when there’s plenty of food in supermarkets across the country? And why are people who share food with hungry people being ticketed and fined?
The dangers and costs of the Ukraine war are immense in terms of threats to humanity and the huge sums of money diverted into military spending and away from spending on human needs.
Dr. Ann Lopez, PhD, founder and executive director of the Center for Farmworker Families (CFF), speaks with the People’s Tribune during a monthly distribution of food, clothes and household goods in Watsonville, CA organized by the Center and other non-profit groups and volunteers.
Read and sign an open letter to the President of the U.S., to Congress and to all people of this Republic who claim to be on the side of love, truth and justice on building the nation that's never yet been.
Striking Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers extend their picket line to an Amazon warehouse in San Bernardino, CA. over low pay and dangerous working conditions.
The People's Tribune recently interviewed two farmworker women from Pájaro, California, who described how farmworker families in the area are still hurting months after the March floods devastated Pájaro.
Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era voting law restrictions adopted in 1890 by white supremacists to prevent Black people convicted of certain crimes to vote will remain since the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted the law's history in a dissent.
The Foundation for Government Accountability, which aims to make ballot initiatives harder to pass, is being bankrolled by Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein.
Cameron Samuels (Center) started a movement against censorship in Katy,Texas and students are standing strong. They honored them for Banned Books Week as Youth Honorary Chair for distributing banned books and packing school board meetings. Young people call on the nation to not be silent and defend their rights because they feel no others will.
Housing insecurities affect about 83% of Peralta Community College Students. About 14% of students nationwide self-report experiencing homelessness in the past year. Students are asked to speak out at the Peralta Board of Trustee Meeting June 27.
Las Vegas buses have security guards to make sure people don't fall asleep on busses, which are sometimes the only place the homeless can shut their eyes without worrying about being robbed or harmed.
The three-day Moral Poverty Action Poor People’s Congress will sound the alarm that poverty equals death. It brings together poor and low-wealth people and faith leaders to strategize on ending poverty and to ensure poverty is on the nation’s agenda heading into the 2024 elections
In the Julian Assange case, the freedom to publish and read the truth is on the line, along with democracy. President Biden can either drop the U.S. case against Assange, or side with the enemies of democracy.
Razor wire like “freedom”Was designed to rip the assesOf the poor and underclasses.
Razor wire outshines napalmAllays all anxiety and doubtThe affluent kept safe the...
As we celebrate Juneteenth 2023, we should remember that the constant struggle of those who have been denied their rights – especially African Americans, given the history of the U.S. – has been key to helping advance the struggle for a real democracy for all of us.
The author is a disabled writer who has a lot to say about disability justice and other things. She says that when others around her don’t wear a mask, they are effectively telling her: Your life is not worth this small inconvenience. I do not care about you. I do not care about other vulnerable people.
Texas’ abortion laws are some of the most restrictive in the country. Now new laws criminalizing supporters of the fight for women’s rights are being passed. At the same time, people from all walks of life are joining the fight for women’s rights, and democracy itself.
Montana will not take $10 million in funding for summer food programs that would have helped feed hungry children across the state, all because the paperwork was just too much for the state.
As Todd Miller demonstrates in this article, though Title 42 has ended, the Border-Industrial Complex continues to ensure that the borderlands will remain one of the most militarized and surveilled places on Earth.
A week of climate action began on June 8, following the debt-ceiling agreement, signed into law by Pres. Biden, which included approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and weakening the National Environmental Policy Act. The demand is for President Biden to honor his promise to be the climate president and end the era of fossil fuels.
Thousands lined up at an Atlanta City Council meeting to voice their opposition to the construction of a massive police training facility known as Cop City.
After 40 years, the system is still doing exactly what it was designed to do: manage and minimize the presence of homeless people. It was NEVER intended to address homelessness in any real way.
Texas has filed more anti-trans legislation than any state. Legislators from both parties are destroying the childhoods of trans kids by denying them the gender-affirming health care they rely on to feel whole and genuine.
Hip Hop Congress, Inc.—a leader “spreading Hip Hop cultural awareness and creative exchange to uplift individuals and communities” around the world— announces their 10th National Convening & 2023 Family Reunion
Police SWAT team raided the Atlanta Solidarity Fund and arrested three people who had been raising money to bail out protesters opposed to the construction of a police training facility known as Cop City.
The federal government spent $20.5 billion overpaying private insurers for Medicare Advantage last year, and endangering the overall financial stability of Medicare.
The final debt ceiling agreement will harm vulnerable people and the planet by imposing new work requirements on aid recipients and approving the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Nearly 40 progressives in Congress voted against it.
Many people are understandably concerned about the size of the national debt, but this country has billions of dollars in debt not because of social programs. It’s because billions of dollars is spent on endless wars, and because of the massive tax cuts for billionaires approved in recent years.
Eight-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol Custody. Our current system relies upon deterrence, not protecting. How many more deaths will we allow in the name of securing our borders?
After 22 years working for Walmart, a worker says she nor the other 46% of coworkers can’t afford to retire with zero in the company retirement account. Yet Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has more than $169 million in his. Many execs get monthly retirement checks worth more than most workers annual pay.
The recent bank failures – and the government bank bailouts – raise serious questions. Where is the bailout for the people? And why do we keep perpetuating a failing bank system?
Fentanyl is a killer drug. Both Democrats and Republicans often associate smuggling as done by migrants coming across the U.S/Mexico border. Why are elected officials blaming migrants when facts show that it is U.S. citizens getting arrested for drug trafficking?
Black homeless street artist Jordan Neely, 30, walking through a NYC subway car saying he was hungry and thirsty, was held in a choke hold until his death. Widespread protests finally resulted in manslaughter charges being brought against his perpetrator.
Congress and the President bypassed the people, courts and Constitution to finish the Mountain Valley pipeline through passage of the debt ceiling act. The author says every person available must be willing to put their foot down - directly in its path.
In the 1937 Memorial Day massacre police were called out by Republic Steel to do violence against a campaign to unionize the steel industry. Today the fight for justice and democracy continues for all who’ve been killed by police – on picket lines or in neighborhoods.
The Chicago GardenBy Kathy Powers
On April FourthThe poll gates openedOnto fragrant landscapesOf life-giving blooms.
Hopes for the houselessStuck up some shoots;Reasons for livingSmiled over...
As a historic debt default looms, a new report says the majority of this year’s federal discretionary funds were used for militarized programs, urging gov't to re-prioritize spending to serve human needs.
Bernie Sanders and 10 other Senators call for President Biden to invoke his 14th Amendment authority to avert a debt default and GOP’s demand to cut aid programs.
The Border Patrol for months has been detaining migrants for days at a time at the border between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, California, in what amounts to an open-air prison, where the migrant men, women and children have suffered degrading, cruel and inhumane treatment.
Holy Week 2023
By Adam Gottlieb
On the full moon in April80 years since Warsaw40 since Harold WashingtonIn the middle of Ramadan
On the night before PassoverWe...
As summer rolls around, one group of motel-dwellers will feel the heat the most — families and individuals who’ve lost housing. Motels/hotels welcome tourists in summer, so they want to get rid of the “riff-raff”. . .
Seven sheriff's deputies and three hospital workers are indicted on murder charges for killing a shackled Black man by piling on him and pinning him to the ground for 11 minutes in a Virginia mental health hospital.
On National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day speakers at Minnesota State University Moorhead join panel discussion to help raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons and violence against Native women and girls.
Former San Jose Police Association Executive Director faces federal charges for running an international drug ring. She was released without bail and local law officials have been relatively quiet on the alleged charges despite its size and scope. Writer Raymond Goins asks - why is she treated differently?
Please join us May 11, 2023, at 10 a.m. Pacific, Noon Central time, for a webinar on how efforts by the U.S. and Mexican governments to deter migration are harming people on both sides of the border.
New tactics in climate movement in UK mobilizes thousands in fight for bottom-up pressure to hold governments accountable for inadequate climate pledges and for policies commensurate with climate science.
Nancy Faulstich, director of Regeneración-Pajaro Valley Climate Action, discusses the climate disaster in the agricultural town of Pajaro, California and the importance of enough people joining climate actions and working collectively.
View photo essay by the renowned photo journalist David Bacon of the unhoused people who live in the Wood Street community in Oakland, CA. They have been facing the city’s earth movers with metal jaws destroying the homes and belongings of the residents.
While the window for avoiding the most catastrophic consequences of climate change narrows, the global banking sector continues to funnel huge sums each year into fossil fuels to the tune of $673 billion last year.
Fentanyl is the number one killer of 18- to 45-year-olds in this country. Solving the narcotics crisis means not only treatment and prevention, but ensuring all basic needs are met and treating everyone as a valuable, contributing member of society. This is a group effort and where we should put our money and effort.
Tennessee resident writes letter to governor expressing her outrage at his refusal to pass meaningful legislation for gun reform, for allowing elected officials to be stripped of their position, and for doing nothing for the poor, pledging to vote accordingly.
People are horrified and outraged that our rights are being stripped by dangerous new laws in Texas and other states. Medical professionals and women’s organizations are discussing law, morality and whether to treat women where it may be illegal and there’s a serious threat to life or health. This is about more than abortion rights. A broad movement for freedom and democracy is underway.
The People's Tribune interviewed Dr. Ann Lopez of the Center for Farmworker Families regarding the disgraceful way farmworker families are treated along California's central coast. She talks about how farmworkers suffer from racism, agribusiness exploitation, and an uncaring government, especially in the wake of the recent floods in Pajaro, and what her organization does to help farmworkers. She also calls for reform of the entire industrial agricultural system.
Residents say it has been a tense week with heavy police presence at the Wood Street Commons community in Oakland, CA where the City is destroying a long-standing camp of the unhoused violently, without respect for residents rights, lives or property.
The Biden administration approved the Willow Project. This oil reserve, in Alaska, will be extracted for about 30 years; and expected to deliver $8 to $17 billion in revenue. It will release about 9.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and also be built nearby Indigenous people’s land.
SAN JOSE, CA– On Friday, April 21 at 11:30 am, Students Against Sweeps will hold a
press conference discuss the City’s plans to
address homelessness, and human rights issue.
Farmworker housing is in crisis in rural CA, as in almost every agricultural state. In 2021, grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley still sleep in cars during the harvest. The author tells why.
Mississippi’s history and current events are instructive—and even predictive—for the rest of the country, especially in relationship to how racism and conservatism ultimately deprives everyone.
OAKLAND, CA - On Monday, April 10, the police of Oakland, along with clean-up crew were at 1707 Wood Street to start evicting residents of Wood Street Commons.
Jacob Merlin Apodaca was attacked while in police custody. Since his death his sisters have been demanding transparency and justice from Merced officials regarding their brother’s death.
A nurse at a San Diego hospital describes the medical and human rights crisis that results from the 30-foot border wall killing and injuring immigrants who fall while trying to scale the wall.
On April 1, Camp Resolution, a self-run community of tents and vehicle dwellings of about 50 people on a fenced city-owned lot in Sacramento CA, celebrated a victory.
The City of Oakland , CA has begun demolishing the Wood Street Commons encampment of the unhoused, the City's largest camp. The residents wow to continue their fight for housing
In a direct attack on democracy, one of three democratically elected TN representatives who stood up for students fighting for gun control has been expelled by the corporate funded Republicans.Two more face expulsion.
The EPA is no longer transparent. Industries pay big bucks for lobbyists to pressure and pay off legislators. The same legislators pressure governmental agencies to turn their heads on our marginalized communities. East Palestine, Ohio is protesting, collaborating, networking, organizing, and taking action.
For the first time, the membership of the UAW got to vote directly for its International Leadership, defeating the establishment Caucus who ran the union for years.
This tragedy, like the many others that have become a normal feature of our immigration and asylum systems, will continue to happen if policymakers are unwilling to transition to rights-centered policies to address international migration.
Interview with visual artist and social justice activist Monica Trinidad of Chicago’s Artists for Brandon Johnson about why Brandon Johnson should be supported; and why Johnson is really a people's candidate.
The contest is between Brandon Johnson, a native Chicagoan with concrete plans to address Chicago issues faced, and Paul Vallas, a privatizer with a proven track record of decimating public schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans.
Our only realistic path away from having to bail [banks] out over and over again is to nationalise large parts of the banking system. They should be run as publicly owned utilities.
Alicia Kuhl, president of the Santa Cruz Union of the Homeless, describes how she and her three children became homeless in the past, and how the homeless are stigmatized by false narratives put out by public officials and others.
Read excerpts from the acceptance speech of Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson following the city's February 28 election. Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas will face each other in a run-off election on April 4, 2023.
City of Santa Cruz refuses requests to open empty public buildings for 24 hours a day during deadly storms. The city also threatened to arrest a group sharing meals next to a city garage, leaving people to eat outside in the downpour.
Residents of Wood Street Commons in Oakland, CA ask public to help stop City’s eviction of the mutual aid community they built. Creating community helps solve homelessness.
Water warriors from Flint, Michigan connect with people in East Palestine, Ohio, helping to get samples of toxic material, and sharing lessons of the Flint fight for justice, reparations from the damages, clean water and a clean environment.
Atlanta neighborhoods, clergy, environmental and many other groups and activists joined Stop Cop City actions to save Atlanta forest from destruction for proposed police academy. Events were held in 38 cities and supported by international environmental groups.
Atlanta area resident from the majority Black neighborhood adjacent to the Atlanta forest speaks about what’s behind the struggle to Stop Cop City, and recent events.
The Western and Southwestern U.S. are gripped by the worst drought for these regions in at least the last 1200 years, and climate scientists attribute this to the climate emergency. The situation is now being compounded in California by atmospheric rivers, flooding and fires.
The U.S. Treasury Department will exhaust its ability to pay its bills unless the current $31.4 trillion cap on borrowing is raised or suspended. A gigantic, bloated military budget and massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires has created the crisis. The debt limit has to be raised with expansion, not any cuts, to programs that benefit the poor, hungry, homeless, and disabled.
A woman in South Carolina was arrested and charged this month for allegedly taking abortion pills in 2021. Police didn’t obtain the warrant for her arrest until after “Dobbs.”
The collapse of a makeshift dam in East Palestine, Ohio, raises new fears that contaminated soil from the train derailment may seep into homes or businesses.
As the war continues, it's producing huge profits for U.S. oil companies and arms makers while threatening all of us with nuclear war. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are hungry as massive military spending is consuming resources we need.
In Sacramento, Oakland, in cities across the West Coast and in other places, unhoused residents have banded together and built self-governing settlements. Their struggle also shows how the broader community supports these encampments as a common project.
Police agencies in militarized gear, armed with lethal weapons, raided a music festival in a public park within the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta during the fifth Week of Action to protect the Weelaunee (Atlanta) Forest and stop ‘Cop City’
Any water investment firm bought $20 million worth of land, aiming to buy up Colorado River water rights to make huge profits. The Colorado River supplies water to 40 million people throughout the west.
After Anastasio Hernández Rojas was beaten to death by U.S. Border Patrol agents in 2010, his family ultimately had to take the case to an international human rights body to seek justice. This is the first case of its kind.
As emergency measures enacted in 2020 are allowed to expire, millions who had gained access to Medicaid are about to lose it. Millions are also losing access to enhanced food stamp benefits.
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, for the first time in U.S. history, Chicagoans will elect
three district council members in each of the 22 police districts. These positions were created to hold the police accountable
General Dogon, homeless organizer in Los Angeles' 'Skid Row' community, reports on efforts to oppose LA's city-wide ordinance 41.18, which makes 20 percent of the city off-limits to the homeless.
Pointing out that "Black history is American history," Prof. Kelly Harris gives an overview of some of the state legislation pending that would censor or prevent the teaching of Black history and discusses the importance of a comprehensive understanding of American history.
After Ohio's toxic nightmare, an alliance of rail workers argues for public ownership of the industry, stating that "private and inadequately regulated industry is incapable of doing the job."
The press conference revealed that Black women and women of color in leadership positions, especially those who challenge existing centers of wealth and power in support of the needs of the impoverished, receive far more threats than other public figures.
Poor Jesusat midnight mass, the pope proclaimed“God is poor, let charity be reborn”but doesn’t he already knowthe savior of which he speaksalready sleeps on...
A number of organizations sent a letter to members of Congress to reject the politics of fear and hate and vote no on the “Border Safety and Security Act.”
Texas’ statewide electrical grid failed two years ago, leading to the deaths of hundreds. It is still not fixed, and Texans are now suffering from power losses in the current ice storm.
The co-founder of Food not Bombs writes about his recent arrest for providing food to the hungry during the California storms and new charges related to his effort to house people during the Pandemic.
Roy Sterling Trout, based in Tucson, AZ tells his story of being homeless for most of his adult life, for 29 years. He advocates for the homeless, and produces podcasts that give a voice to the unhoused.
We, the people, are in a fight for our lives, and we cannot let up. The struggle against corporate dictatorship and for democracy, peace, prosperity and equality will continue and grow, as it must. We will go through some dark times, but we keep our eyes on the prize . . . .
This election gives Chicago’s voters a great way to send a message. It provides a practical way for voters to ask candidates what they will actually do to guarantee their demands, which include affordable housing, public education, immigrant rights, and ending police brutality.
Police killed 1,183 people in 2022, the highest number in a single year in the past decade. There were only 12 days last year without a police killing.
The author argues that priorities must be structured on what is best for the 99%, not for the 1%. Billions of tax dollars are ready to purchase tanks, aircraft, etc., while poverty and police killings in America rise.
Musician Woody Guthrie was outraged by the callous indifference of news stories after the plane crash of 1948. The 27 men and one woman who were passengers, were unnamed, dismissed as “deportees,” who died in the crash. Out of Guthrie's anger came a song – “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).”
Forest defenders refuse to let this murder of one of their own stop them from protesting building of largest militarized police training center for urban warfare in the country.
People mourned, cried, and supported each other at one of many remembrances of Tortugita, the forest defender killed by police, reaffirming a commitment to public safety free of police and to "Stop Cop City."
Pres. Biden expanded the Trump-era Title 42 public health order, which prevents migrants from certain countries from using their legal right to make asylum claims in the U.S. It endangers the lives of migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haïti, México, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Venezuela who will now be expelled when they cross into the U.S. between ports of entry.
California’s 172,000 Homeless face two storms: natural disaster and govt Indifference Yet enough vacant housing exists in SF and LA to house all of California's unhoused.
The oil and gas industry has lit a fuse on the Permian Basin carbon bomb that threatens any hope of a livable future . . . When Presidents Biden and Obrador meet, they must commit to ending new oil and gas development in the Permian Basin and secure a just transition for fossil fuel workers.
Hundreds of people became houseless as sheriffs with guns drawn knocked on each room in a hotel complex, telling occupants they had four hours to get out, per the District Attorney Coty Wamp.
Carolyn Milligan, a dedicated revolutionary who persevered through great suffering and difficulties, was outraged at how our society ignores people who need help the most; she insisted they should get help because they are entitled to it as human beings. And she envisioned and fought for a society that would guarantee it.
A democratic society means that everyone, including the poor, has a say in how our lives are lived and workplaces organized. It’s a society in which the homeless aren’t criminalized, the health of workers is protected, and people are treated with dignity by a government of their choice.
Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. said they or a family member delayed medical care last year due to the prohibitively high cost of treatment under the nation's for-profit healthcare model. We need Medicare for All says Sen Bernie Sanders.
The People’s Tribune opens its pages to those who are struggling to survive in an America in crisis, so you can share your stories in your voice, along with your visions of a society and world that cares for everyone.
Jared DeFigh, a former resident of the Wood Street encampment in Oakland, CA discusses his current life at one of the city’s Tuff Shed [tiny homes community.] He also makes a proposal to save what is left of the city’s destruction of Wood Street encampment.
Some participants in the recently completed Journey for Justice along the US-Mexico border describe what moved them to make the 2,200 mile journey from Texas to California.
It must have been about 1988 when our young blond daughter Aviva had been chosen for the role of the Virgin Mary in the holiday pageant of San Jose, her day care school.
Veterans for Peace want urgent diplomacy to end Ukraine war, not more U.S. weapons and endless war, nor a nuclear war. Spend the billions for climate, jobs, healthcare, housing, not weapons manufacturers and war profiteers.
The writer speaks to a mother outside her tent about the meaning of
the season of giving and sharing, and meditates on our need for each
other, now and all year.
UC Davis PhD student and UAW union member discusses the significance of the UC student worker worker strike, the demands, particularly of the lowest paid workers the settlement process now underway.
A sweep of a camp in San Jose, CA proceeded after several unhoused people had already died due to the weather. Supporters tried to keep people warm with tents/tarps/blankets, but now they are in a nearby "no re-encampment zone", and in danger of losing those few belongings when they get swept from there as well.
The wealthy countries need to take responsibility for being the world’s biggest polluters. Poverty-stricken countries don’t have the infrastructure or financial help for climate catastrophes. The protests are a way to get people to notice the urgent cry of our Mother Earth. There is still hope and momentum for this fight to be won.
Andrea Rudnik, a co-founder of a volunteer organization that assists migrants and refugees in Brownsville, TX, told the People's Tribune her group is helping 400 to 500 people every day.
Striking UC graduate student workers are willingly getting arrested in acts of civil disobedience, viewing the strategy as a way to escalate their work stoppage, now in its fifth week. A main demand is raises that reflect the cost-of-living in California, one of the most expensive states to live in.
Oakland school board candidates who voiced opposition to school closures won the recent school board election. They will join current board members to form a new board majority that will have the power to prevent Oakland school closures.
Chicago City Colleges Adult Education program is vital to education and life-long learning for diverse student populations yet the program faces cuts. Together, students, teachers, and community allies will bring education justice to our communities.
Members of the Witness at the Border group and others are traveling the length of the US-Mexico border from Texas to California Dec. 3-18, 2022. This story and photo are from a Dec. 14 Facebook post by Joshua Rubin, founder of Witness at the Border who says, “The wall is the physical manifestation of the blind eye we turn to those that the conquest has robbed and deprived.”
Approximately 800 people including 75 or so school-age kids have been evicted, left houseless, from a hotel outside Chatanooga in 4-hour shuffle out of their rooms. People are wondering if developers are after the property.
Around 600,000 gallons of Canadian crude tars sands oil, called the world's dirtiest and most environmentally destructive form of oil, spewed December 7 from the Keystone 1 pipeline into a Kansas creek that feeds a watershed providing drinking water for 800,000 people.
See photos of Witness at the Border’s Journey for Justice, a 2,200-mile pilgrimage along the length of the US-Mexico border. Dozens from all over the country will commemorate those who died at the US-Mexico border – 2022 was a record year, 856 deaths as of October 22 – and highlight the injustice of our immigration policies.
The Journey for Justice, which begins on December 2, will caravan from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, to witness the truth behind the border wall of lies, and to share it with the public.
Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in the largest strike of academic workers in U.S. history. A major demand of graduate workers and 61 percent of postdocs is being rent-burdened. Some pay 30% and others more than 50% of their gross income on housing costs.
Following a massive healthcare protest in Madrid in mid-November, primary-level physicians in will strike against the deterioration of health care on November 21. Health workers are fighting problems burdening primary care services and work overload.
The shootings at Club Q, one more bit of truth that it’s time to stand up against hate. History shows that in times of crisis such attacks are used to pit people against one another.
The November 8th election continues to resonant with more lessons each day. From new anti-democracy groups and denial of rights, to jailing women for an abortion, to voter suppression, either the people act to control our future or the corporations will.
Sacramento voters, misinformed and misled, passed an ordinance to outlaw being unhoused and living outside, doing nothing to address housing needs. The dwellers are resisting. Meanwhile giant corporations and the war industry receives lavish subsidies with public funds.
In the recent elections, millions stood up for democracy, human rights, justice and equality, and millions voted for a government that guarantees the well-being of the people and not corporations and billionaires. The people suffered some losses, to be sure, and we still have a fight ahead of us, but there were a lot of victories as well.
Supporters of Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, express great remorse at her loss to the far-right Governor Brian Kemp. He signed the 2021 voter suppression bill aimed especially at the suppression of the Black vote.
The 10th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was celebrated this year. In October, a federal appeals court affirmed a 2021 lower court ruling that DACA was illegal, putting DACA’s continued existence in doubt.
The majority of arrested women have been involved in crimes by their significant other or mistreated by them. Once imprisoned, women face more abuse. Prisons also dissolve the family; over 1.25 million children are currently separated from incarcerated parents. The author argues that the system must be dismantled and government must protect everyone.
As the dreaded forklift moved in, crushing tents and campers' belongings at the Benchlands, a lone woman sets up a food service station for houseless people.
Absent from coverage despite its priority for many voters is housing. Yet half of Americans struggle with housing. Real estate industry groups spent over $187 million nationally during this election cycle.
Following weeks of organizing by KC Tenants Power, Kansas City voters passed a voter resolution authorizing a $50 million bond for deeply affordable housing. The bond is the largest commitment to housing in the City’s history.
More than 50% of our income taxes are spent on the Pentagon. Even a 10% cut in the military budget ($74 Billion) could: create jobs, affordable housing, schools, childcare and community health centers, sustainable energy projects, and clean drinking water facilities, end homelessness, and more.
A victory for the movement against police brutality was won in a lawsuit against the City of Detroit. The settlement means that a federal court will rule that the City of Detroit and the Detroit Police Department violated the constitutional rights of protestors during the George Floyd uprising of 2020.
This statement from the Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice at Sacramento State deals with the implications of the racist remarks made in private by three Los Angeles City Council members.
Democracy itself and whether we will have a government that meets the people's needs are on the ballot in 2022, and we will have to continue fighting after the elections.
Witness at the Border is organizing a 2,200-mile border pilgrimage from Brownsville, Texas to San Ysidro, California in early December to spotlight the brutality and immorality of US immigration policy.
October 29, 2022, marks the 1000th day that Friendship Park in San Diego/Tijuana has been closed. The fight to reopen this historic binational meeting place on the US-Mexico border continues.
As the effort of corporations to privatize our water, causing prices to rise even higher and water quality to further decline in many cases, people throughout the country are standing up to corporate power. People are coming together, demanding that government, local, state and federal, protect their right to clean and affordable water as a human right.
Chicago City College teachers and staff picket every City College demanding adequate compensation considering inflation, affordable health insurance for part-time professionals, and other necessities.
Javier Cazares, whose daughter Jacklyn was killed in the school shootings at Uvalde, TX, last May, is running for Uvalde county commissioner as a write-in candidate.
Read this article to find out what to do to secure your vote. The provisional ballot system has allowed for votes, especially of low-income persons of color, to be thrown out. An estimated 4 to 10 million voters might be purged this year, particularly Blacks, Indigenous peoples, Latinos, students and the poor.
The Flint community is angry but not surprised at what feels like Groundhog Day as it relates to injustice for Flint. This month, charges against seven defendants in the water disaster were thrown out by the courts.
The fight for clean water as a public good is gathering strength nationally. Hear voices from the Poor People’s Campaign in Jackson, Mississippi, where people have been suffering from government neglect of basic services like water for decades.
It is shameful that Governors DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey play politics with the lives of people seeking asylum and who are extremely vulnerable to abuse. Their political base may applaud these dangerous theatrics that could provoke more horrific acts of violence, but that shouldn’t absolve them of the responsibility and culpability they share in inciting such acts of violence.
In the early 1900s, the US government carried out a wholesale assault against American socialists, and this was among the factors that caused serious and lasting setbacks in the efforts to enact reforms like universal health care. Historically, both here and abroad, significant advances in health and welfare have often been spearheaded by socialist parties
Many Mississippi families in need are denied assistance because funds targeted for the poor support things like pet projects of millionaire athletes, new volleyball courts, or sending affluent individuals to luxury rehab facilities.
Oakland and Sacramento unhoused people occupy a lot in Sacramento, calling on state officials to support the rights of unhoused people to permanent housing.
The following is a statement from Earth Justice, See the original statement at: bit.ly/3yijWVI — The Editors
“Today, the Supreme Court heard a case that...
Like Woody Guthrie, the American people today are once again calling out the fascists, and organizing to fight against fascism and for the rights and needs of every one of us.
Hundreds of national and grassroots groups made a victory for climate and against fossil fuel expansion possible by working together for a livable future for the planet.
In a shock to many Americans, the U.S. ranks 41st in the United Nations’ latest annual ranking of nations, which includes the absence of poverty and hunger, good health and education, gender equality, clean air and water, and reduced inequality.
On August 9th Martha Escudero addressed a crowd of city residents preparing to enter the Los Angeles City Council to protest a law, LAMC 4118, that would expand areas in the city to 20% of city land where sitting, sleeping, or lying is a crime.
Liz Theoharis, Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign discusses why it is time for us to fight for a comprehensive, intersectional, bottom-up approach to the injustices that continually unfold around us.
These are the words of General Gordon Baker on Labor Day, September 5, 2004. General Baker, who died in 2014, was a beloved internationally known labor leader and Detroit auto worker. He loved and fought for the working class.
Howard Schultz is CEO of Starbucks, and behind the company's notorious union busting. Over the last decade his wealth has increased by about $640,000 a day on average.
The message must be delivered loudly to the Biden/Harris Administration that disabled people are in jeopardy due to leftover Trump policies and must be addressed.
Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife discusses her findings and a success story after touring neighborhoods to ensure that Oakland communities are clean and safe for everyone.
Jazmine, a young massage therapist is homeless, living in a large encampment after she became gravely ill and couldn't work. She tells her story, warning that it could happen to anyone.
VICTORY!!! Organizing WORKS! After Erin got a $999 bill for blood work from her insurance provider, she worked with other activists to confront the company, Ambetter, and get the bill reduced to $30. But the fight against a for-profit healthcare system is far from over.
Ex-prisoners, told they have the right to vote, are dragged from their homes in handcuffs, by Florida Gov. DeSantis’ election police. All they ever wanted to do was participate in democracy.
Plaintiffs argued that the city should stop evictions and build permanent housing for anyone regardless of income. They say the settlement is a compromise in a system that does not protect their interests; the fight continues.
In a major health concern, a new study indicates that kids born near fracking sites are 2-3 Times More Likely to Develop Leukemia. Fracking threatens every person on the planet, directly or indirectly. It should banned entirely.
Over 4,000 workers gathered in Chicago in June at the first Labor Notes conference in four years. The state of the labor movement exists on new terrain.
The news out of Texas is bleak. But if the people of Uvalde can rise up and question social norms despite their pain and loss, there is hope for a brighter tomorrow
PreambleNo one should go unhomed.There is plenty.If we work toward balance,There is enough.Balance does not occur without struggle.If you were ever a child who...
Hear voices of homeless campers in Santa Cruz about their planned evictions, alongside the City’s misuse of $14 million in funds that were to help the homeless.
Hear testimony from rally at Los Angeles City Hall, as the city council approves an expansion of L.A. Municipal Code 41.18, which prohibits sitting, sleeping or lying on the sidewalk, which means greater criminalization of poor people.
In a court victory, Leticia Vasquez Wilson, who has served on the Central Basin Municipal Water District for 10 years, representing Southeast Los Angeles communities, has won her right to free speech. When she alerted her community about the contamination in their water supply, Water District privatizers, bought and paid for by private water interests, attempted to silence her.
Friendship Park, a historic meeting place for separated families on the border between San Diego and Tijuana, is in danger of being closed. Join us Aug. 11, 2022, for a virtual panel discussion on efforts to save the park.
Let us imagine a world where laborers, scientists, and politicians across the world blow the trumpet of nuclear disarmament, where we stop, look at each other and sigh, and see that none of us want this anymore, to be under threat of nuclear extinction. The patient work of disarming the arsenals then begins.
The DACA program was created in 2015 only after immense pressure from youth due to the massIve amount of deportations under the Obama administration. DACA has allowed more immigrants opportunities but leaves out an enormous amount of immigrants. It is time we shift the focus to demanding protection for all undocumented immigrants.
Santa Cruz, CA, plans to evict the Benchlands Camp of hundreds of unhoused people. Even when provided with millions of dollars from the state and federal governments, the city, in one of the wealthiest places on Earth, can't even offer dignified housing for people in need.
This virtual event will offer perspective on how harmful extractive industries are part of the larger system of imperialism that is destroying our people and the planet. It will focus in on indigenous communities and issues in the Philippines and show how their struggles are connected to ours here in the US.
An $813 billion proposal for “national defense,” was made by the Biden administration in March for the military-industrial complex. This when the greatest risks to the safety of Americans and rest of world are not military. Covid took 1 million people in the US, and the fires, floods, and heat waves caused by climate change impact tens of millions.
People's Tribune would like to publish your story about your life or death fight, and how you or your group are coming together in a fight for your needs and a society that cares for us all.
San Joaquin Valley communities in California are going without water in the midst of record heat, and this is particularly affecting low-income people.
SAN JOSE, CA — More and more young and progressive candidates who are fighting for affordable housing, equal comprehensive health care, quality education for all, and to reimagine public safety, are winning in California.
The March on Washington was a phenomenal event that brought together people from all 50 states who work for a more just society. It brought the issues of 140 million poor and low wealth people to the nations’ seat of political power.
“there is SO MUCH power and brilliance in femme bodies and brains. we are power despite what they try to strip from us . . . our future sees femme energy as our liberator. that there is hope.”
The Supreme Court’s grim decision in the Dobbs case overturning Roe signals the validation of a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation. The multi-decade campaign to reverse Roe v. Wade has always been about building a political movement to seize and wield political power.
Turning our schools into fortresses and arming teachers is not a solution to mass shootings in schools. Hardening our schools implies hardening our hearts and minds and ceding more power to the police.
Charges have been dropped against Michigan officials, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, for their role in the poisoning of the people of Flint. The community demands justice.
The Uvalde massacre occurred in an existing, de facto war zone. The border security apparatus created by elected officials—Republicans and Democrats—has converted South Texas communities into a real and symbolic theater, complete with armed agents and heavy weapons, to project an image of toughness and power.
Outrage is growing in Akron, Ohio, after police officers killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, on June 27 after what was supposed to be a stop for traffic and equipment violations. Walker suffered more than 60 gunshot wounds.
If anyone doubted that American democracy – however partial and imperfect – is in danger, the stunning revelations of the Jan. 6 hearings and the recent series of court rulings are a loud wake-up call.
Friendship Park, on the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego, is a historic location where families separated by the border have been able to come and visit one another through the border fence. Now Biden's plans to continue Trump's border wall may effectively close the U.S. side of the park to the public.
Women, men and huge numbers of youth are in the streets across the country in uncompromising fight for women’s rights and for government to act in the people’s interests. After centuries of oppression and fighting for equal rights, women are letting the powerful know: “We won’t go back.”
On May 28, Reverend Edward Pinkney and the Benton Harbor Community Water Council hosted "Occupy the PGA," protesting the corporate takeover of the predominantly...
The deaths of the 53 people who perished near San Antonio June 27 and the deaths of the thousands of other migrants who have died trying to cross the border over the years are the result of an unjust immigration system that denies the humanity of migrants.
A group of half a dozen families from Parker Elementary in Oakland, CA have occupied the school until OUSD reverses its decision to close it. Jasionna spoke eloquently at the school board meeting where students demanded the school board reopen the school.
A 32-year-old homeless woman in Knoxville was arrested and charged under Tennessee's new felony law that criminalizes homelessness. Photo/hardknoxwire.com
As we celebrate Juneteenth 2022, it’s important to reflect on the connection between the struggle of Black Americans to secure their rights and freedom, and the struggle to protect and expand democracy in America today. The two go hand in hand.
The right wing poured tens of millions of dollars into TV ads attacking progressive candidates and causes. There were also victories won at the ballot box by the movement for justice.
People in the Pilsen community in Chicago protest the closing of the local CVS pharmacy. CVS stores are especially sparse in black, brown, and less affluent neighborhoods.
Billionaires and corporate interests, bankroll recall of San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin who prosecuted criminal acts such as wage theft, worked to reform the justice system and hold police accountable when they break the law.
A March For Our Lives demanding action to end gun violence is being held June 11, 2022, in Washington D.C. and more than 300 other cities across the country.
When a group of moms found out that their children’s school would be permanently closed, they made a promise to each other: They would try everything in their power to keep Parker, a 96-year-old East Oakland school, operating.
Dear Editor,
I have one request to you and all the legislative leaders.
Stop opining and pontificating about gun violence.
Just play a repeated loop of the...
Millions of people in the US, including many people with disabilities, would be lifted out of poverty by the passage of Medicare for All.
You want to talk to me about heartbreak?heartbreak well it's heartbreaking what happenedand keeps happening what happened in Texaswhat happened in Buffalo it's heartbreaking...
LaTosha Brown and US Rep. Nikema Williams address voter suppression in Georgia and the urgency of using our vote to get the power to insure our communities are taken care of.
The Zooming to the Border Coalition, which includes the People's Tribune and Tribuno del Pueblo, is sponsoring a panel discussion June 7 via Zoom on the situation facing Central American refugees.
The killings in Buffalo were one more in a horrifying string of mass shootings, and these murders once again make clear that Americans must unite against white supremacy.
The assault on women’s rights is part and parcel of the wholesale assault on democracy that has been under way for years and has reached a crescendo in the last two years with the attack on the right to vote.
Luis J. Rodriguez: "We articulated the seeds of a movement for shared well-being. I don’t know what we’ll call this, but we’ll continue along these lines as we mobilize and organize for a new California. "
The stage is now set for an epic battle, with Starbucks and its anti-union law firm on one side and the Starbucks workers and their union on the other.
End game – to incarcerate the unhoused who have experienced the violence of being stigmatized for mental health and substance use, both of which are results of state-inflicted violence on poor communities of color.
Joy Bunton, a public health activist, shares her testimony from a rally held by The People’s Response Network to COVID on April 24, 2022, at a COVID vaccination in Chicago’s Little Village.
The Biden administration has unnecessarily—and often unlawfully—jailed tens of thousands of asylum-seekers, many of whom have suffered “severe” physical and psychological abuse and discrimination, according to a report published April 21.
A walk out of students at Huntington High School in West Virginia took place on February 9, 2022 after their school opened its door to a Christian revivalist minister.
Important political primaries will take place in the next weeks and months. Will billionaires determine the results of the mid-term elections? Or will grassroots candidates mobilize the discontent brewing in this country?
It appears that the powerful and well-heeled forces of corporate America are once again targeting the Reverend Edward Pinkney, president of the grassroots Benton Harbor Community Water Council, for the “crime” of standing up for the poor, the elderly, and the children by providing people with safe drinking water.
The road to reach the better world of our imagination may be long. And there are many obstacles in our way. But our north star is clear. It is time for America to guarantee comprehensive, affordable health care to all. The best way to do that is By enacting Medicare for All.
This is a turning point for humanity, for better or worse — either we stop following the lead of corporations and billionaires and put the people of the world first, or we descend into the abyss of another world war and destroy ourselves.
Al was a wonderful friend and comrade who devoted his life to the fight for a society that respects and provides for the rights and well-being of the common working-class people, here and globally.
Man is imprisoned for a petty larceny involving $1. His struggle inside against a racist system of incarceration lands him in solitary confinement for 22 years.
Whether we’ll have a corporate dictatorship is now a question of how hard the American people are willing to fight for democracy. If we don’t defend the right to vote, in particular, it will be that much harder to win any of the battles we are involved in.
People’s Tribune brings you its first print edition since the pandemic set in, and discusses how readers can help get the urgent message of the growing movement out to people.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, here are the voices of some of the many women leaders standing for a true democracy in America and against the encroachment of a corporate-run dictatorship of billionaires.
Workers at more than 100 Starbucks locations in 26 states have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for union elections. The company responded with an aggressive anti-union campaign, but public support for the defiant Starbucks workers grows.
The Border Patrol killed another migrant along the southern border in Arizona in February, and once again there are questions about the integrity of the investigation into the killing.
The ex-Chicago police officer spent only three years in prison for killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald with 16 gunshots in October 2014. He is out now.
A bill to guarantee equal universal health care for all Californians regardless of income, em-ployment, or immigration status, by eliminating profiteering in the health care industry did not pass despite tremendous popular support. The fight continues.
Youth voted for President Biden for him to be the best president ever on climate because it’s “our generation and our lives at risk,” says a leader of the Sunrise Movement.
Group fighting to get lead and other toxins out of a town’s drinking water say they had a hard time getting straight answers from the EPA about whether their water is safe to drink.
For the people of Ukraine and Russia who don’t stand
to profit from this war.
Heroes are born from dirt and struggle
They bleed red through interconnected veins
Women have been fighting for equality on so many levels. How long has it been since women’s lib first opened doors to Women’s Rights? And now the attack on voting rights! We have to keep up the fight!
The point of attack against the voting rights legislation is the rights of people of color, but the object of the attack is everyone’s rights, it is democracy itself.
Residents of a tent community near the Los Angeles harbor mourn the death, and celebrate the brave life, of one of their own — one of an increasing number of lives lost to the city's streets this past year.
Voices throughout the country are sounding the alarm that democracy as we’ve known it is in grave danger. Voter suppression laws targeting African Americans and other minorities have passed in 19 states. No one is untouched if the right to vote is destroyed.
A resident-run community of small homes, with heat and light, on 'beautiful' grounds, is being planned by grassroots organizers in Oakland, CA, as a model of autonomy and stability.
Mass struggles by parents, educators, and students for safe schools took center stage in a global fight to stop the pandemic. In Chicago, schools are overcrowded, poorly ventilated, dirty; some even without soap. Students are walking out in protest around the globe.
At least 27 journalists were killed in 2021, with India and Mexico topping the list of countries with the most media worker deaths. Of the total – which rose by three since early December – 21 were singled out for murder in retaliation for their reporting.
LAPD bullets pierced the wall of a store dressing room and killed a 14-year-old girl. The family wants justice. LAPD officers shot at least 37 people in 2021, killing 17—more than either of the last two years.
The son of farmworkers dedicates his essay to the retirees who cannot stop working: “May their lives inspire the rest of us to fight for a more just and humane society.”
Imagine a New California for Shared Well-being, Then Let’s Build It! My name is Luis J. Rodriguez. I’m running for governor of California. . . I’m for a complete shift in how we imagine and implement governance in this state.
At the core of the history of Puerto Ricans is their fight for independence – personal and collective, alongside a commitment to solidarity with the just struggles of people everywhere.
Manufacturers of the most widely sought vaccines — Pfizer and Moderna — have refused to share patents and know-how. Facing a surge of the Omicron virus, the peoples of the world must escalate the fight to save lives.
Today, as powerful forces move to deprive millions of the right to vote, we should remember the bitter struggle it took to win that right. The only way to preserve the right to vote today is to return to the mass action that brought it into being.
We stopped printing temporarily because of the Pandemic and focused our effort on-line. Now some of our readers have asked us to restart a print edition to reach people at rallies and events, and we need your help!
A Sacramento resolution to suspend the towing of people's vehicle homes — unless 'alternative shelter' is offered — is seen as toothless by advocates who want the underlying causes of homelessness addressed, and by others as an excuse to demonize their houseless neighbors.
There is a growing, far-right movement that is committed to destroying what is left of American democracy and imposing a dictatorship, but there is another movement now in the streets defending democracy, and it must be expanded so it can win.
The majority of the people want and need the Build Back Better and Voting Rights bills passed, but the agendas of the corporate Democrats and Republicans are dictated by billionaires. Massive popular pressure is needed to get these bills pushed through.
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A campsite of unhoused people by the San Lorenzo River was flooded by torrential rains. The city of Santa Cruz pushed people out of the city to the camp site, and then later had police block them from moving to a safer location to escape the flood.
Sacramento coalitions and homeless union protested the devastating destruction of the only homes many unhoused people have. Tagging hundreds of vehicles, the City then towed cars and RV’s that stayed parked because their unhoused owners did not have the money to get them running, even as storms brought freezing rain.
Responding to a mean and unconstitutional ban against panhandling by the city of West Palm Beach, homeless people and their supporters rallied to protest and defy the law, which was struck down as a violation of free speech.
Nearly 600 people have died this year
On the streets of San Francisco
Pandemic, fentanyl and other drug overdoses
Simple neglect, mental illness, abandonment
Even tragically been set on fire while sleeping
This statement on behalf of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement notes that the tragedy that occurred in Chiapas, Mexico, Dec. 9, reflects a general pattern of vulnerability and persecution of migrants in transit through Mexican territory. The statement also refers to an upcoming virtual forum planned for January 2022.
Over one billion people have some form of disability. Imagine being trapped in your 6th floor apartment for days because the elevator doesn’t work. Or being yelled at because “you aren’t working fast enough.” Lack of accommodation for our disabilities is intolerable. Send your story to the People’s Tribune!
Chicago medical doctor and community activist discusses what President Biden needs to say and do about the pandemic but won’t. This includes the urgent need for a massive emergency increase in federal funding to health departments, schools, etc., increased production of safe masks and billions in international aid.
The pharmaceutical firms’ monopoly control over how many vaccines and treatments are made has to be suspended on an emergency basis. This is necessary to get the supplies needed to end the pandemic.
Discussion with Michael Mann, distinguished professor and director of Earth System Science Center, about why we see an increase in massive tornado outbreaks, and why they will continue and become more extreme examples of climate change.
The rich are buying up the housing and working class people can’t afford to buy houses anymore. The wealthiest 10% of Americans now hold more than 13 times the wealth of half of the nation. The pandemic saw the steepest increase in billionaires’ wealth in history.
Story highlights the first successful union organizing victory at a Starbucks store, in Buffalo, New York, along with information about the profits and union busting tactics of giant corporations that fight to keep unions out.
On December 6 Arizona college students began a hunger strike, demanding that Congress pass the voting rights bills as part of the fight for democracy. As word got out, young people from many other states joined their White House protest. Hear their voices.
Mainstream media have declared that the Democrats losing the Virginia governor’s race means the Democratic Party should isolate progressives and be more “moderate” in...
At the United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow (known as the #COP26 conference), Vanessa Nakate, a 24-year-old climate activist from Uganda, warned that, “Commitments...
As this is being written, President Biden has signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) into law. Now progressive lawmakers and...
Razor wire like “freedom”
Was designed to rip the arses
Of the poor and underclasses.
Razor wire outshines napalm
Allays all anxiety and doubt
The affluent kept safe the indigent kept out.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by our sister publication, the Tribuno del Puelo at www.tribunodelpueblo.org/
While we were all surprised by 15,000 Haitian...
Editor’s Note: As this edition of the People’s Tribune was being posted, the verdict had just been rendered in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial. The...
Thank you for acknowledging this letter. As an incarcerated person of a continuous three decades, and from an intersectionality of marginalized groups, I wanted...
Editor’s note: This article by Chas Moore, Executive Director of the Austin Justice Coalition was originally published at www.AustinJustice.org and is reprinted here with...
This article was published in the Tribuno del Pueblo at http://www.tribunodelpueblo.org/2021/10/two-paths-forward-division-war-and-misery-or-cooperation-with-one-another-and-harmony-with-mother-earth/
Times such as these sorely try women’s and men’s souls: Chaos, division, hate, police killings,...
A call for everyone to speak up and insist that the rights of the most vulnerable are not negotiated away in a mad rush to “compromise.” The people need the full $3.5 trillion bill to pass, at a minimum.
The central battlefield where the struggle between democracy and dictatorship is being waged is the electoral arena, including around the right to vote. Passing these bills won’t mark the end of the struggle, but it will be a needed victory in the long fight that lies ahead.
Climate protests took place over a five-day period beginning on October 11 in Washington, D.C., to demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency and stop approving fossil fuel projects.
Silas Neeland from the White Earth Reservation speaks at the People vs. Fossil Fuels protest about the fight to shut down Line 3 and urges the fighters to not back down to police.
The People’s Tribune’s Bob Lee interviews Belden “Noonie Man” Batiste, a New Orleans activist and mayoral candidate, about the situation in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
Law enforcement officials in Texas found the remains of a man assumed to be a migrant who was found hanging from a tree 80 miles from the state’s border with Mexico.
After four years of being targeted by Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) for her work to dismantle the enforcement agency, immigrant rights defender and organizer Maru Mora Villalpando has been granted prosecutorial discretion by the Department of Homeland Security.
Antonio, an 11-year-old Chicago Public School student reports his personal story of what happened inside his school during the COVID pandemic, what it felt like to him and a common-sense call to action that is needed today to save lives.
Read some of the stories of how people are organizing to defend themselves and their fellows.’ We must support all efforts. House everyone as a human right.
Humanity lay dismembered
In knitted satchels
Strewn along pavement
Thrown from the buildings
Families kicked out,
their apartments removed
No body-parking on grass
Homes broken like sleep
An acclaimed author on homelessness raises the alarm about Idaho, a state with not only record Covid deaths and infections, but also with a brutal housing crisis.
Four million march to support abortion rights. Eighty-five percent of the marches were organized by new grassroots activists that have been true for every Women’s March. Organizers are activated and they aren’t going away! Women’s right to choose is a fundamental right and central to any democracy.
Last night they pushed away hope
They slapped decency in the face
Deep oh deep in the heart of Texas
They opened the door
They struck up
The rotting band of death
And the devil
The world and the movement for social transformation has suffered the loss of one of its great lights and souls with the passing of the revolutionary visionary poet and organizer Jack Hirschman.
Members of the Bakery Workers Local 3G in Battle Creek, Michigan picket the Kellogg cereal plant. Workers at all four U.S. cereal plants are on strike.
An appeal to President Biden’s sense of morality, human dignity and as a fellow Catholic regarding the urgency of treating migrants at the border humanely.
In advance of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled to begin Nov. 1 in Glasgow, Scotland, three working groups consisting of 230...
Editor’s note: Corporate water has been taking away the public's control of water for decades. A webinar on water privatization with community speakers...
Editor’s note: Below Sandy Reid of the People's Tribune interviews Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI, a small largely African American town, about...
Editors note: Let’s stop the water privatization plan. Communities need an infrastructure package that provides real money, not privatization scams with public-private partnerships and asset...
SACRAMENTO, CA — The California Homeless Union and its local affiliate, the Sacramento Homeless Union, strongly oppose Mayor Steinberg’s “Master Siting Plan to Address...
The following is from a Facebook post from Elena Herrada in Detroit. She is a ‘counter narrator, mother, grandmother and shameless heckler. Radio host...
The system proclaims: “Everybody back to school. Do not let your child fall behind. The schools are safe.”
The Wrong Direction
CHICAGO, IL — During this...
In 2020, the People’s Tribune and our sister bilingual publication, El Tribuno del Pueblo launched “The People-to-People Fact-Finding Delegation to the Border” in collaboration...
Central American families expelled from US to Mexico-Guatemala border.The governments of the region must clarify terms of agreement.August 11, 2021 Tapachula, Chiapas, México
On August...
Attention Justice Warriors!
The recent COVID-19 relief package (America Rescue Plan 2021) signed into law in March of this year offers opportunities for those on...
A private equity firm wants to build a luxury high-rise building in a low-income community's hospital parking lot, leaving fear that he hospital will be closed.
Maria Elena Martinez, editorial board member of the Tribuno de Pueblo, interviews Kenia Torres-Alcocer, Co-Director of Unión de Vecinos and Co-Director TriChair of the...
BREAKING: TransCanada (aka TC Energy) announced the Keystone XL pipeline *TERMINATED!*
“Without a determined group of farmers, ranchers and tribes, KXL would have been in...
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the Tribuno del Pueblo, sister publication to the People’s Tribune.
We are currently living in the midst...
Juneteenth has finally received the official recognition it deserves.
While such recognition is long overdue, Juneteenth this year must also be a time to look...
CHICAGO, IL — There is a simple, cost-effective solution readily available to get us herd immunity that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot refuses to implement...
AUSTIN, TX — Last Saturday we marched on Matt Mackowiak’s office, the genocide-supporting Republican strategist behind Prop B and Save Austin Now.
We first rallied...
As this is written, people across America and the world are demanding that Israel stop its brutal oppression of the Palestinians.
In a recent article...
Before the brave, before the proud builders and workers,I say I want the wide American earth,Its beautiful rivers and long valleys and fertile plains,Its...
Rights group United We Dream warned April 27 that unless he takes immediate steps to improve his administration's treatment of immigrants, President Joe Biden...
The statement below is from Project South in Atlanta.
On March 16, in the Atlanta area, we witnessed the calculated targeting and racist mass murder...
Excerpts below are from a press statement by Red Canary Song, a grassroots collective of Asian and Migrant sex workers, organizing transnationally.
“In the wake...
Editor’s note: Excerpts below are from comments made by community defenders at George Floyd Square (GFS) in Minneapolis, a space of protest and autonomous...
“I stay up nights apologizing to George Floyd,” 18-year-old Darnella Fraizer said through tears from the witness stand today. “It’s not what I should...
Homeless Union demands rights of the homeless be respected
CHICAGO, IL — Me becoming homeless was because I was in a domestic violence relationship, so...
Like you ILove love, life, the sweet smellOf things, the sky-blueLandscape of January days.
And my blood boils upAnd I laugh through eyesThat have known...
Michigan Poor People's Campaign Seeks Justice
The statement below is from the Michigan Poor People’s Campaign.
We demand restorative justice for Flint in the wake of...
People’s Tribune Water Discussion Webinar Series
The People's Tribune water discussion group presented a webinar on water titled "Water Is Life: An Indigenous Perspective"on March...
By the Editors
In a recent article in Common Dreams, Jessica Corbett described how U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to social media March 30 about...
Women's liberation is humanity'sInternational Women’s Day March 8
We are women always. We take care of humanity. We are called to serve again. We learn...
Excerpts below are from union organizers who spoke with democracynow.org about the union drive at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. It the union wins, it...
Cathy Talbott of the People’s Tribune interviewed a nurse who wishes to remain anonymous who worked for the Florida Department of Corrections before the...
KANSAS CITY, MO — On Thursday, January 28, the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County resumed evictions after a two-week moratorium. The Courts scheduled 152 eviction hearings for the day.
The People’s Tribune mourns the loss of street minister and revolutionary organizer Rev. Bruce Wright, a frequent contributor to its pages from the front...
Below are excerpts from an article by Keri Blakinger, published by The Marshall Project.
“Prisoners are defecating in paper bags and overflowing toilets, there aren’t...
The Biden administration recently announced that it plans to reopen a detention center for migrant children in Homestead, Florida—essentially imprisoning children who have come...
Below are voices from some of the many individuals and groups who helped make the Georgia victory possible.
"The victories of Senators-elect Jon Ossoff and...
As Covid-19 continues to ravage the country, with the highest death count ever, overwhelming the healthcare system, destroying jobs and the families dependent on...
Cathy Talbott of the People’s Tribune interviewed Trisha Springstead, R.N., Panacea, Florida, on her experiences working with Covid-19 patients in today's failing healthcare system....
Deanna Miller Berry, fighter, advocate, activist and people’s mayoral candidate in Denmark, SC tells the People’s Tribune why she is running.
I run because I...
SAN DIEGO, CA – In December, the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) US-Mexico Border Program released “Countering ICE’s Abusive Practices with Community Resiliency: Testimonies...
The same courage and mobilization displayed in the defeat of Trump in November must now be deployed to demand that government address the burning issues the country faces during this brutal winter.
Kim Foxx was reelected as Cook County State’s Attorney, bringing a strong message of social justice. Foxx, an African American woman who grew up in ...
Police in Alamance County in North Carolina pepper-sprayed a peaceful get-out-the-vote march October 31, including children and elderly people, on the ...
A crowd of close to 100 community activists and residents marched down Ashland near 67th Street, while cars honked in support, during GoodKids MadCity ...
Inez, Kentucky, nestled in the hills and hollers of eastern Kentucky's coal fields in Martin County, was chosen by the United Nations to host world ...
Rev. Edward Pinkney: “The mayor said the water was great. He didn’t know I was testing. It came back that the water was undrinkable with lead and other ...
These testimonies are from interviews by the advocacy group Services Not Sweeps, in response to brutal encampment sweeps in targeted areas all over ...
The view from the U.S.-Mexico border is both a damning portrait of national policies, and an inspiring vision of community struggle and resilience. ...
What little that’s left of American democracy could soon be destroyed. Millions of Americans sense this. They are heartbroken by the 210,000 needless coronavirus...
President Trump’s refusal to take responsibility for either the more than 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus or the cost of his special medical treatment...
In her book, Dismazed and Driven: My Look at Family Homelessness in America, Diane Nilan hit the road in 2005 to chronicle stories of family homelessness with a focus on children.
The government’s response to the pandemic and poverty has not been enough. The people need things like income, housing and health care now. Instead the ...
On September 1, in the midst of the pandemic, the limited federal eviction moratorium ended, setting millions of renters and mortgage-payers up for losing...
“Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world. “In fidelity and ...
The People's Tribune hosts ongoing discussions with many of our communities, urban, rural and Native, across the country fawater crises. In bringing together
We stand on the brink.
Democracy in America is in danger of being destroyed.
President Trump has dispatched federal agents to several cities where they have...
“I saw on TV men wearing combat fatigues. ... abducting people from the streets of Portland, putting them in unmarked vans. ... I wanted to speak to ...
Among concerns about the growing pandemic, tensions between the U.S., and its international allies and domestic unrest, the upcoming election has taken ...
Homeless mother and president of the Santa Cruz Homeless Union, Alicia Kuhl officially officially announced her bid for Santa Cruz City Council on August 5 ...
Cori Bush is a nurse, community activist, a mother and pastor who has dedicated her life to advocate for progress. She is running for US Congress in ...
We’re calling it a rent strike, but let’s be clear on our slogan: Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay. Twenty million people are facing eviction due to COVID19, and they’re ...
The situation of my family is critical. The company where my husband worked went out of business due to the pandemic. My mom is too old to work, my ...
Pastor Errol Victor was railroaded to jail under the Louisiana Jim Crow 10/2 Law, which made it possible to convict with 10 out of 12 jurors in criminal ...
As Trump and his minion, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, call for reopening schools, claiming the science should not stand in the way and threatening ...
Employer health care doesn’t work. If you lose your job, you lose your right to health care. Everyone knows someone who has lost health care or has ...
This is a cultural project on refugee children organized by Chicago artists, where people read the stories of the children in banners and reflect on how ...
The centuries-long fight to make America a real democracy continues to revolve around the struggle of Black Americans in particular to have their lives and rights respected.
Water quality is important to all, and to Benton Harbor, the city of no return. We made it a high priority in the city's continued effort to test for lead ...
This is Mississippi's deadliest dirtiest secret ever. These cancer numbers are from the National Health Statistics. Madison County is No. 1 for breast ...
In the 1980’s, half of all retail in the United States was in smaller independent stores. By 2020, that percentage was less than one fourth. With the predicted ...
Derek Chauvin’s cold stare said everything. His nine minutes of relentless cruelty crystallized centuries of wrong. America exploded in righteous anger and will never be the same. The extraordinarily broad response to the ...
A president who fails to lead during the pandemic ravaging the country. Who spreads harmful disinformation and whips up ugly, divisive hatred. Who refuses...
“Daddy changed the world,” said Gianna, George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter.” Gianna’s mother, solidarityRoxie Washington said, “He will never see her grow up, graduate, ...
[Police] have opened fire with rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, pepper balls and have used nightsticks and shields to attack the working press ...
Paris Thomas was a vibrant teenager, but at the age of 14 he started dropping his pencil, comb, and food. He started to struggle in school with his studies. ...
"The reason the buildings are. … burning [is] because the people here in Minnesota are saying to the people of New York, to the people of California ...
Millions of renters are facing the possibility of becoming unhoused as the crisis has left them jobless and unable to pay rent. The limited federal, state and ...
Without government action, a wave of evictions is coming. Millions were struggling to get housed or stay housed before the crisis, and the problem is ...
As U.S. deaths from COVID19 escalate past 107,000 and unemployment climbs above 43 million, people are asking why our government is not doing more to ...
Varshini Prakash, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, talks about the need to both defeat Trump and stay in the streets to build support for the Green New Deal.
As the Illinois Single-Payer Coalition says, “We know that the roots of the [Covid-19] emergency stem from a deeper and much longer-term crisis—that of ...
During a Senate hearing on coronavirus measures May 12, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put U.S. health officials on the spot about whether a Covid-19 vaccine ...
I had been with the company since 2015. I opened up three major buildings, with my last location at Staten Island. In early March I started to raise health ...
McDonald's workers went on a one-day strike in 20 cities in May, over inadequate Covid-19 protections. Scores of McDonald's workers have Covid-19 and ...
The coronavirus’s impact on the Navajo Nation has pushed the tribe’s public health system to its limits. Decades of negligence and billions of dollars ...
With Covid-19, access to safe affordable water when under quarantine is a hardship. Yet, recently, the City decided to start shutting off everyone’s water ...
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is building a generationally transformative digital gathering called the Mass Poor People’s ...
