Housing is the Cure for Homelessness

"From the Pages" - July Cover Story of the People's Tribune

In the movie “99 Homes,” real estate shark Rick Carver relays this message to an evicted suburban homeowner: “America doesn’t bail out the losers. America was built by bailing out the winners, by rigging a nation of the winners, for the winners, by the winners. .”

Since the foreclosure crisis began, 5.5 million homes have been lost nationwide. And the crisis isn’t over. But it is Michigan that clearly illustrates that this crisis cannot be resolved without a radical break with a social system that guarantees necessities like homes only to those who can pay.

Once the industrial capital of the world, today new labor-replacing technology in the form of robots and computers is destroying the industrial economy and the society built around it. Hundreds of thousands have lost their so-called ‘middle-class’ jobs that in the past supported a stable tax base.

Michigan’s Emergency Manager System, put in place by corporate backers, guarantees billions of dollars to corporations and turns over public assets to private interests. Meanwhile, formerly productive workers and their families fight for their human rights to housing and water. They join a growing class of workers worldwide who cannot compete with robots and computers.

Homeless in San Francisco

“From the Streets”, a series of podcast of personal experiences

Presented here is the personal experience of Julianna Cheng as she speaks about her experiences of homelessness in San Francisco at SF Coalition on Homeless, A launching party of their study on the homelessness titled 'Punishing the Poorest' on June 18, 2015 Find the this publishation @ http://www.cohsf.org/Punishing.pdf

I never thought it could happen to me. I came from a hard working but also privileged family; and I was taught that if I got my education, and did what I was supposed to do, this would never happen to me. Until I came to San Francisco, and it DID happen to me.

Interview with Immortal Technique

“From the Heart” a series of Podcasts of Revolutionary Cultural.

Here presented from our friends Revolutionary Radio Road Shows, WTAN, 1340 am, Clearwater Fla. We have an interview with Immortal Technique a widely recognized revolutionary Hip Hop artist from New York Ciy. In a live interview at the recent US Social Forum taking place in Philadelphia, June 25, 2015,

Listen to a wide ranging discussion of current events, revolutionary politics, the creative process, the role Hip Hop in society and the state of music industry.

Police Violence - Baltimore Freddie Gray Died in Police Custody

From the Pages - May 2015

BALTIMORE, MD — Freddie Gray died on April 19, after being violently subdued, and then subjected to one of the Baltimore Police Department’s infamous “rough rides.” The Freddie Gray case is different only because many people witnessed and recorded his arrest. You could hear him pleading for medical assistance as he was cuffed and thrown into a police van. Forty-five minutes later he was unconscious with a severed spinal cord. Hispanics and whites are also receiving Baltimore police clubs and bullets. Those who want Justice for Freddie Gray are learning several lessons. We need an organization that will represent us all.

Program, From the Pages.

Less than four miles from the intersection where Mike Brown was killed—a ten-minute drive down Florissant Ave—is the Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, where Dred Scott is buried. Visitors have left pennies on his grave—Lincoln faces up—for good luck.

Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in 1846. Over the course of a decade his case made its way up from local Missouri courts to the Supreme Court, which ruled that Scott, as a slave, “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” The court also moved to expand slavery throughout the nation, catalyzing the American Civil War.

Program from the Page:

CHICAGO IL — Dorothy Holmes wants to know why. Why, on October 12, 2014, did a Chicago Police detective, George Hernandez, fire seven shots at the back of her son, Ronald “After Chicago Police gunned down her son, she says: ‘I’m holding them accountable for his murder. Johnson was unarmed and had no criminal record. He was 25 years old with five kids

We unite with grieving mothers who, like Dorothy Holmes, hold the police accountable for their attacks on our liberty and our lives. We must fight against these attacks with the understanding that this system must and will be replaced with a new society built on justice for all.

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Campaign to Reprint THE FUTURE IS UP TO US by Nelson Peery's

From Speakers for a New America

Even thirteen years after its initial release, The Future Is Up To Us is more timely than ever—yet it is out of print. We want to reprint Future for a new generation of revolutionaries that has joined the movement, and we need your help to do it.

The Future Is Up to Us contains many insights, some great personal stories, and vividly conveys the author's heartfelt certainty that the human race can do away with exploitation, creating a new world where everyone can lead a happy, fulfilling life. When The Future Is Up to Us first came out, it was read and discussed by many people involved in the fight for a new society. It sparked some lively debates and made people think. We need more debate and more critical thinking in this country today. You can help make that happen.

From the Past

This is a rebroadcast of a historic speech presented to commemorate the first year anniversary of the passing of General G. Baker II, born September 6, 1941— passing away on May 18, 2014.

General G. Baker II was an internationally known and respected revolutionary, labour and community leader. He fought to organize the demands of the exploited into a vision. He fought to organize the fighters around that vision. He fought for a movement guided by the vision of a new world of peace and freedom.

His vision was of the working class reaching out to take each others hand, to come together arm-in-arm, to march shoulder-to shoulder, regardless of our sex, age, and shades of our skin, to ignore all those who attempt to divide us; to combine with all who side with their class; and to pursue our own class interest.

What the ruling class, fears most is General Baker’s vision guiding the movement of the exploited: the fight for an economic system that meets the needs of the people.

From Our Friends;

An interview with Larry Pinkney and Claire McClinton discussing the dictatorial Emergence Manager law pa436, its effects in Michigan and beyond

and its relationship to the corporate attack on Rev. EdwardPinkney.

From the Pages:

The conditions for class unity are maturing. Automation is economically pushing society toward an irrepressible conflict. Commonly shared poverty and the permanent denial of the necessities of life by the owning class are giving rise to common demands. Whether you are Black and protesting in Ferguson or white, on welfare in Appalachia, the demand is the same for food, housing, health care, etc. None of these demands can be met without a cooperative society where social production is owned publicly and distributed according to need. The next step in that direction is for the new section of workers to become conscious of themselves as members of a class and unite on that basis.