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.
