EDITORIAL: The Impeachment of President Trump
From the Editors | Issue: January 2020
What is at stake is whom government serves. Is it Wall Street and corporations? or is it humanity?
Education
Let’s fight like hell for the USA we want!
From the Editors | Issue: October | November 2019
Our country has crossed a point of no return. It is either worsening division, fascist repression and killings or we unite based on what we have in common.
A historic moment in México: the election of López Obrador
María de la Luz Arriaga | Issue: September | October 2018
The triumph of AMLO is the triumph of social movements, which for the last 30 years have been fighting for change in the country from the left.
Milwaukee substitute teachers in a hunger strike
Interview by People’s Tribune/Tribuno del Pueblo | Issue: June | July 2018
Editor’s note: Alex Brower, Substitute Teacher President, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA) is interviewed below by the People’s Tribune/Tribuno del Pueblo on Day 12 of hunger strike. He began his hunger strike on May 3. People’s Tribune / Tribuno del Pueblo: Alex, tell our readers why you are on a hunger strike. Alex Brower: Right […]
Students march to stop public education funding cuts in Puerto Rico
Alex Cohen | Issue: June | July 2018
LOUIS, MO – Today I marched with students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) to a place where the federal fiscal control board signed off on plans to cut funding for public education, and close campuses and schools across the island. Once the march reached the convention hall two rows of police formed behind […]
Teachers wave strike: A turning point
Richard Monje | Issue: June | July 2018
A striking Oklahoma teacher called the mushrooming struggle around public education “a turning point.” She is right. And it’s a turning point about more than education. This year we have seen sweeping, rolling statewide strikes by teachers that began in West Virginia and spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arizona, with stirrings in […]
In the hard struggle of revolution
Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: June | July 2018
We are in a worldwide revolution that dwarfs the American Revolution of 1776. Despite the din and chatter of sex scandals, probes of foreign meddling in our elections, saber-rattling over North Korea, trade wars with China, destabilization of the Middle East and support of murderous regimes around the world, the relentless attack on our […]
The youth are showing us the way
from the Editors | Issue: April | May 2018
TRAVESTY OF YET ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING The travesty of yet another mass shooting, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has riveted the attention of the nation, not just by the extent of the carnage – 17 lives lost – but also by the unexpected and unstoppable response of that […]
Toward the Chicago Poor People’s Conference in 2018
From the editors | Issue: February | March 2018
Basing ourselves in the long history for justice and on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, we announce our plan to build citywide organizations in Chicago around the following five-point basic agenda. These five points are not meant to fully represent all our areas of concern, but they serve as a unifying beginning […]
La Promesa de Libertad Liberty’s Promise
Juan-Carlos Pérez – Interdisciplinary Visual Artist | Issue: February | March 2018
CHICAGO – For the past 15 years, I’ve been working with disenfranchised communities that lacked the resources to bring the arts into their school environment. When I come in to work with schools, no project is ever the same. For example, with “La Promesa de Libertad/Liberty’s Promise”, the majority of the student population happened […]
Lisbeth Mateo: A Dreamer is sworn in as an attorney
Maríaelena Martínez | Issue: September | October 2017
Lisbeth Mateo a dreamer was recently sworn in as an attorney buy California State Senate President, Kevin de Leon. Lisbeth is one of a handful of undocumented attorneys. As a young student at Santa Monica College in 2002 she remembers walking around campus thinking she must be the only one without papers. The CA […]
When will a humane decision be made?
Gloria M. Sandoval | Issue: September | October 2017
Immigrants are not footballs! On July 20, two U.S. senators, a Republican and a Democrat, introduced the DREAM Act of 2017 which would create a pathway to citizenship for thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as young children. There have been many bipartisan attempts at passing the DREAM Act. Not to […]
The root of the problem
Tribuno Del Pueblo | Issue: July 2017
With all the scandal and controversy surrounding President Trump’s first months in office, talk of war and terrorist attacks abroad, and state sponsored vicious attacks on the defenseless here at home — it is easy to get lost in the details. As a consequence, we don’t see what is underlying the rapidly changing political […]
What will P.R.O.M.E.S.A. impose on Puerto Rico?
Pedro Angel Rivera | Issue: May | June 2016
Financial crisis and un-payable debt headings have become the ideological media propaganda regarding the social and economic problems that cage Puerto Ricans within our colonial archipelago. According to the most recent reports, the notorious International Monetary Fund, a financial henchman against indebted countries throughout the world, Puerto Rico should look at itself in the […]
The Forces behind the 2016 Presidential Elections
from the Editors | Issue: May | June 2016
There is a revolution going on not only in the United States, but all over the world. The revolution and changes in the economy are influencing the capitalists and their politics in the United States and abroad. We are seeing changes that we have never witnessed before: increase of extremely wealthy, corporate individuals while […]
The Revival in Philly (US Social Forum)
Alex Suarez | Issue: August | September 2015
TAMPA, FL —Meeting with Immortal Technique, and Rebel Diaz, may have been the highlight of a trip I took from Florida to Philadelphia to be at this summer’s US Social Forum; after however my encounter with them was brief. When you meet them, you see they are activists just like you. I met many […]
Another World is Possible, Another System is Necessary
Rachel Mazzaro and Galen Tyler | Issue: June | July 2015
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Mark your calendars! The Third U.S. Social Forum (USSF) will be taking place from June 24 to 28, 2015. This year, organizations and activists will convene in Philadelphia, PA, Jackson, MS, and San Jose, CA to build stronger relationships, collaborations, and social movements across fronts of struggle for political understanding and strategic […]
In Chicago: A Movement not a Moment
Richard Monje | Issue: April | May 2015
CHICAGO, IL — On February 24, the workers won, and money lost. Against all odds, the workers stood firm and forced a runoff election. Neither the endorsements of President Obama and Luis Gutierrez, a war chest of over a $15 million did not help Rahm Emmanuel the contending candidate or deter the people from […]
The Rise of Civil Disobedience: Why?
John Slaughter | Issue: June | July 2014
In North Carolina a growing movement has arisen to confront a government and political structure that are standing in the way of the people receiving even the most basic necessities of life. In the course of their protests and demands for justice and a moral society, over 900 were arrested. These acts of civil […]
Leader of “Bad Ass Moms” Speaks Out
Leslie Willis | Issue: June | July 2014
CHICAGO, IL—“How can you celebrate anything when you kill schools and over-test our children… Stop threatening students and teachers, stop over-testing and closing schools… stop making it rain with our tax dollars!” These words took aim at Mayor Rahm Emmanuel at a public event on March 4 to celebrate Chicago’s 177th birthday. Rousemary Vega, […]