NewPeople Newspaper
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.
State Legislators Avoid Responsibility for Higher Education
By Neil Cosgrove Here’s the awful truth: a significant, at times decisive, set of Pennsylvania legislators don’t believe their state has an obligation to provide affordable higher education to its less affluent […]
Prospects for a Unified Korea
By Michael Drohan The division of the Korean Peninsula into two Koreas is a tragedy of external meddling in the Korean affairs. Imperial messing in the Peninsula began at the end of […]
Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign Protests PNC’s Annual Shareholder Meeting
By The Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign (Photo Caption: PNC shareholders protest nuclear investments on April 24th. (Photo: Bette McDevitt) On Thursday, April 24th at 10 AM, the Stop Banking the Bomb campaign […]
The Myth of a System
By Paul Cech There seems to be a belief in the myth of a system where society can handle all that comes its way in a fashion reminiscent of a Rube Goldberg […]
White Supremacy and the 2nd Amendment
By Michael Drohan Review of book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, City Lights Books, 2018. This wonderful peoples’ history by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz follows her earlier book […]
Sixth Annual Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition Forum
By Mary Dawn Edwards (Photo Caption: Speakers Ibrahim Mohamed Ishaq, Eric Cohen, Andrew Burnett and Brian Adeba lead the discussion at the Sixth Annual PDEC Forum. (Photo: Chelsey Engel) The Sixth Annual PDEC […]
Not Your Model Minority: Organizing Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Workers
By Kim Dinh (Photo Caption: TMC Board Member Antonia Domingo and Penn Plaza Action’s Judy Suh display APALA’s banner.) 2018 May Day Celebration – Pittsburgh, PA. As immigrants and workers in Pittsburgh gathered […]
Letter From the Director
By Gabriel McMorland I’m grateful for the work the Thomas Merton Center has been able to do in 2018. We helped workers win back more than $10,000 in stolen wages in the […]
In Memory of Fr. Eugene Lauer
By Joyce Rothermel On May 20, TMC member Fr. Gene Lauer passed away at age 82. A priest of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, he was a scholar, theologian, author, popular pastoral […]
