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The People's Tribune is devoted to the proposition that an economic system that can't or won't feed, clothe and house its people ought to be and will be changed.
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Editorial
Nationalize water!
Michigan teachers are outraged that children are coming to school in the morning thirsty for water and without being bathed. In the once thriving industrial Rust Belt--and in cities and towns throughout America--more and more families are unable to pay water's skyrocketing price. In a Massachusetts town, water is going up 91 percent. In Detroit, 45,000 homes had their water shut off for lack of payment. Water is the most plentiful natural resource on earth and a human right. Why can't everyone have it?
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Cover Story This drawing by Lauren Alexander was inspired by an incident reported in the Merced Sun Star. In Firebaugh, California, on April 4, unmarked Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans forced a school bus driver to stop. He noticed agents were carrying guns and he let them on the bus. They removed three children and put them in a van. The driver, worried about the children, followed them to a residence where he saw agents handcuffing people who appeared to be the students' parents and taking them away.
The Future of Labor
A glimpse at the future facing the American working class is indeed frightening. The constant improvement of machinery, which once gave American workers an edge over the rest of the world, is today forcing them into greater, more intractable poverty. Electronic, wage-less production and globalization is forcing the American worker to join in the international "race to the bottom."
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'My vision is of a different society,' says Benton Harbor woman
Vision of a new public education system
Hunger strikers protest proposed immigration law
51 Arrests in Merced County put our morality to the test
Sunshine and a new voice that won't go away
Immigrants: Their fight is our fight
Spirit of '37: Workers stand up for rights by sitting down
Delphi Bankruptcy and GM Restructuring: A Call for Bold New Independent Strategy from All of Labor
Price of gas skyrockets; Nationalize the oil companies
Latino immigrants and the African Americans
A 241 mile Quest for Peace: From Tijuana to San Francisco
Lansing students voice opposition to Nazis
In Benton Harbor it's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
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