National – Page 56 – People's World

Poor People’s Campaign to senators: ‘Don’t filibuster democracy’

April 6, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Rev. Barber and supporters take the campaign to the nation’s capital.

Corporations gave over $50M to voting restriction supporters

April 5, 2021 By Brian Slodysko

But if leaders of the nation’s most prominent companies are going to reject lawmakers who support restrictive voting measures, they will have to abruptly reverse course.

Gerald Reed freed after 31 years of wrongful imprisonment

April 2, 2021 By John Bachtell

He was one of hundreds of African Americans tortured by Chicago police into making a false confessions.

Justice bills progressing in California legislature

April 1, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

One bill would allow any registered voter to run for sheriff.

There is a migrant crisis, but where and why?

March 31, 2021 By Emile Schepers

Exploitative policies of the U.S., beginning with the infamous Monroe Doctrine, resulted in the unlivable conditions in many of the countries from which immigrants come to the U.S.