NewPeople is the peace and justice newspaper of Pittsburgh and the Tri-state area, and is published 11 times a year. It fills the voids left by the mainstream media reflecting the reality of progressive, alternative politics locally, nationally and globally.
As a publication of the Thomas Merton Center, the paper reports on the issues of war, poverty, racism and oppression, raising the moral questions involved in the non-violent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. The NewPeople acts as an organizing tool and communiqué for Thomas Merton Center members and the activist community at large.
By NEIL COSGROVE When Blake Strode, Executive Director of 2018 Merton Award winner ArchCity Defenders (ACD), saw the list of the 45 previous awardees, he felt something like “impostor syndrome.” Did his […]
BY JOYCE ROTHERMEL It was December 10, 1968 when Thomas Merton was found dead in his lodgings at a conference center in Bangkok, Thailand. Fr. Louis, his religious name, had just […]
By BETTE MCDEVITT If you stop in or call the Merton Center on a Friday morning, you’ll meet or speak with Lois Goldstein, a long time member and volunteer. Lois came to […]
BY MOLLY RUSH Tweets, lies, furious outbursts, bragging: daily fodder for the news coverage that obscures the real story: the long-term damage to government departments and programs. Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk […]
Thanks to all who supported and participated in this year’s Encuentro at the US-Mexico border, November 16-18. In 2016 School of the Americas Watch moved their annual witness from Ft. Benning, Georgia […]
BY MIKE STOUT When it comes to hypocrisy, the US military and national security establishments know no bounds. And once again, USW labor and human rights lawyer and author Dan Kovalik has […]
BY JOYCE ROTHERMEL Do you care about facts and find it hard to know when the media is presenting the truth? Well, you are very fortunate if you know about and are […]
By JOYCE ROTHERMEL Over the past year or so, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for nationals of Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, […]
By JIM MCCARVILLE In the months since a searing Grand Jury Report on clergy sexual abuse was released, Catholics throughout western Pennsylvania have been contemplating the causes, the cures, the pain created, […]
By KEVIN HAYES This is an invitation to Catholics— practicing, former, wavering, and progressive — who are dealing with the clergy abuse tragedy in the Catholic Church, the upheaval of merging parishes, […]
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