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The Black Panthers at 60: You can jail a revolutionary, but not the revolution
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- The Black Panthers at 60: You can jail a revolutionary, but not the revolution
- Runtime
- 18:43
- Date posted
- 4 hours ago
- Description
- In the second half of this insightful conversation, former political prisoner Mansa Musa joins Black Panther Party archivist and photographer Billy X Jennings to examine the pivotal 1971 FBI office break-in by antiwar activists. The stolen documents exposed COINTELPRO—the federal government's covert operation to surveil, infiltrate, and dismantle radical political movements. Despite state-sponsored efforts to suppress the organization, the Panthers’ legacy survives through modern social movements, culture, politics, and communal socialism. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, who worked closely alongside the Panthers on their early survival programs, brings deep personal insight into their lasting community impact. Published in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, this feature continues our series on the BPP's enduring role in social justice.
Production/Post-production: Cameron Granadino
#blackpanthers #cointelpro #fbi #hueynewton
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- Tom Morello on Music, People Power, and Fighting Fascism
- Runtime
- 10:32
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- In this exclusive interview, @tommorellomusic, legendary musician and activist, speaks about rocking out and fighting fascism with music and labor journalist Kim Kelly backstage at the "once in forever" Power to the People Festival in Maryland on Oct. 3, 2026.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Music, courage, and resisting fascism
0:58 Reaching fans who don’t follow politics
2:22 Why artists are afraid to speak out
4:09 Bringing resistance beyond the festival
5:10 Why resistance needs joy
6:37 Organizing beyond Election Day
7:58 Economic power of the labor movement
8:47 Why wait until 2028 for a general strike?
9:02 What Tom Morello is reading
#tommorello #powertothepeople #labormovement #generalstrike
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Title
- WATCH: Here's how Trump may try to Steal the Election
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- Title
- Long Island Audit was warned! Will the Feds start indicting cop watchers!?
- Runtime
- 57:02
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- In this special episode of the Police Accountability Report, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis begin an investigation into the allegations that cop watcher SeanPaul Reyes @LongIslandAudit is being surveilled by law enforcement and may potentially be at the center of an indictment to make an example of cop watching community.
Production: Taya Graham, Stephen Janis
Post-production: David Hebden
#policeaccountabilityreport #longislandaudit #copwatch #firstamendment #federalgovernment #attorneygeneral #suffolk #policeunion #pba #toddblanche
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- She Witnessed ICE in Minneapolis. Then They Came for her Home Town.
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- On September 4th, neighbors and community members in Frederick, Maryland, were brutally beaten with batons and dragged by ICE agents across the pavement after locking arms while trying to stop ICE from forcefully entering a neighbor's home.
The assault came 48 hours after residents of the Taskers Chance community in Frederick noticed an intimidating surge of ICE presence in their neighborhood. They began to mobilize in response, taking notes and filming the ICE officers' actions. One of those neighbors was Reverend Michelle Beadle, an ordained clergywoman and Frederick County resident, who answered that call to bear witness to ICE. Beadle said she immediately noticed that the agents changed their behavior.
Social Reporter Ryan Johnson spoke with Rev. Michelle Beadle about her experiences witnessing ICE in Minnesota and the similar intimidation tactics and brutality they brought to her own neighborhood.
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- Epstein, Election Interference Top Concerns in PA Battleground Race
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- TRNN journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis are on the ground in the 7th district of Pennsylvania, one of the key battlegrounds for control of the House.
They interviewed Sharlene Rochard and PA-07 Congressional candidate Bob Brooks about the Epstein bus, a moving repository of all the Epstein files. Brooks says the Epstein files have been a major issue in his district and that they will have genuine sway with voters during the elections.
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- Title
- The Black Panthers at 60: A through line of resistance from the South to California
- Runtime
- 19:50
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa interviews archivist, photographer, and veteran Black Panther Party member Billy X Jennings.
Joining the Party at age 17 after relocating from Hobson City, Alabama, to Oakland, Jennings managed BPP offices and served as bodyguard to Huey P. Newton. During Bobby Seale’s 1973 Oakland mayoral run, Jennings helped spearhead an unprecedented electoral effort: "…an organizing event on the highest level the parties had ever been. I mean, the party is known for organizing, but to go into electoral politics and do what we did for a first time basis, it changed over. Even though Bobby lost that election, it changed openly because it opened up so many doors. Part of his job was to kick down doors because we were the Vanguard."
Today, Jennings operates the official Black Panther Party Alumni website and leads political education initiatives across the Bay Area for the Party’s 60th Anniversary.
Produc...
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- Disabled in Gaza: "My Life is Gone"
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- In Gaza, everyone is struggling to survive. But for people with disabilities, that struggle is multiplied to unimaginable degrees. In this TRNN documentary report, we take you inside the refugee tent cities of Khan Yunis and into the lives of Rabab Nawfal and Suha Maqat, both wheelchair users who were champion athletes before Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on Gaza.
Editor’s Note: This documentary report was filmed in Gaza City three weeks before the ceasefire in Gaza was shakily implemented beginning on October 10, 2025. Since the “ceasefire” began, Israeli forces have killed over 1,300 Palestinians, including 301 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
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- The Real Crisis for Men Is Capitalism w/ Mark Anthony Neal
- Runtime
- 7:33
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- From the heinous crimes of the Epstein class to the Cornell 7, from the toxic cultures of the “manosphere” to the increase of antisocial relationships with online pornography and AI bots, we need to talk about what is going on with men in our society. We speak with renowned scholar, author, and commentator Dr. Mark Anthony Neal about his new book “Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood,” and about the ways capitalism damages everyone and trains boys to become monstrous men.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#father #masculinity #book
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- Mahmoud Khalil on holding his child for the first time during ice detention
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- After being abducted by plainclothes ICE agents from his New York apartment building in March of 2025 and locked away in immigration jail for 104 days, Mahmoud Khalil has been freed and reunited with his family. But Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student who was heavily involved in the student-led justice for Palestine movement, is still being targeted by the Trump administration and still faces the possibility of deportation. In this exclusive interview, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with Khalil to speak about his new book, “No Land to Stand On,” and his continuing fight for freedom and justice.
Special thanks to the Parkway Theater in Baltimore, Maryland, and Red Emma’s Cooperative Bookstore and Coffeehouse for hosting and helping to facilitate this interview.
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- Marc Steiner: A life standing for free speech | Ep. 8
- Runtime
- 1:18:16
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- Existence is struggle,” says Marc Steiner. “It always has been, and always will be.”
In this podcast series, we’ve looked at the attacks on free speech rights today in the United States. We looked at the history and how movements and organizations have stood up for and exercised free speech in their work. We looked at how social media, AI, and disinformation are undermining our free speech, and at how people are responding in the United States and abroad.
In the final episode of this series, we’re focusing on what free speech means within the context of the life of one person who has been through it all — co-host Marc Steiner. He turned 80 earlier this year.
In this episode, Michael Fox sits down with Marc to discuss all of these incredible layers of his life, from fighting civil rights and community organizing to underground newspapers, street theater, education, and journalism. What do they all mean for him, how do they all add up...
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- Can This Independent Mass. Governor Candidate Rally it's 67% Unenrolled Electorate
- Runtime
- 40:34
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- In this episode of Rattling the Bars, the midterms edition, we take you to the Commonwealth, where Andrea James—abolitionist, author, and organizer—is currently running for governor of Massachusetts. The countdown to November 3 is officially underway. Debates are scheduled for October, but independent and third-party candidates are being excluded from participating.
Andrea James has led national campaigns to reunite families by demanding clemency from high-level officials for incarcerated women and men. Now, she is running for governor with a platform focused on rent stabilization, lower energy costs, free childcare and stopping the construction of a new $360M women’s prison.
Production/Post-production: Cameron Granadino
#massachusetts #election #independent
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- "Resistance Is Our Only Option": Mahmoud Khalil speaks
- Runtime
- 14:31
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- After being abducted by plainclothes ICE agents from his New York apartment building in March of 2025 and locked away in immigration jail for 104 days, Mahmoud Khalil has been freed and reunited with his family. But Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student who was heavily involved in the student-led justice for Palestine movement, is still being targeted by the Trump administration and still faces the possibility of deportation. In this exclusive interview, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with Khalil to speak about his new book, “No Land to Stand On,” and his continuing fight for freedom and justice.
Special thanks to the Parkway Theater in Baltimore, Maryland, and Red Emma's Cooperative Bookstore and Coffeehouse for hosting and helping to facilitate this interview.
Post-Production: David Hebden
#news #books #palestine #immigration
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- Adamstown Residents SPEAK OUT Against Amazon Data Center Construction 500 Feet From Their Homes
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a hyperscale data center campus construction company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, has been building a 2.2 million-square-foot data center campus in Frederick County, Maryland, to host cloud and AI workloads. The company is building three separate data centers on the campus, including Bauxite III for Amazon Web Services.
The massive campus was built on the site of a demolished aluminum industrial plant for East Alcoa, which placed the land under an environmental covenant, meaning the state restricts activities on sites where environmental contamination remains.
Hillary Gonzalez, an eco-poet and data center activist, spoke with neighbors living 500 feet from the data center, who said that Rowan Digital Infrastructure violated the environmental covenant by moving contaminated dirt on public roads. Gonzalez also spoke with residents about the noise and light pollution resulting from the construction.
Editor’s Note...
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- ICE Brings Terror and Violence to Maryland
- Runtime
- 12:23
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- Residents are shaken and demanding answers after ICE agents terrorized a quiet, suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, earlier this month. On September 4, federal agents swarmed the Tasker’s Chance neighborhood in West Frederick, invaded the home of one family, and eventually left without making any arrests. ICE agents were filmed beating peaceful protestors and menacingly driving their unmarked cars onto sidewalks and private property while local police officers stood by and watched. In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you to the very spot in Frederick where these terrifying events transpired, and we speak with an eyewitness who saw everything.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#maryland #ice #police
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- Thousands march to UN headquarters to protest israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visit
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- BREAKING: On Sept. 24, thousands gathered to march from Bryant Park to the United Nations to protest the arrival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in United States and his participation in the UN General Assembly during an ongong genocide in Gaza.
Earlier in the afternoon, Code Pink reported that over 100 people were arrested during a Jewish Voice for Peace New York-organized protest outside of the United Nations General Assembly, including actors and activists Hannah Einbeinder, Susan Sarandon, and Chelsea Manning and NY-13 Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier and sitting NYC Councilman Chi Ossè.
The march, organized by Palestinian Youth Movement @palestinianyouthmovement and endorsed by over ten progressive organizations including Code Pink, Global Sumud , and Democratic Socialists of America has brought together organizers, young activists, and public figures who all demand sanctions against Israel, an arms and energy embargo, and a free Pa...
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- “Purge Palantir!” Big Tech and Big Brother are invading US healthcare system, nurses say
- Runtime
- 12:07
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Union nurses are sounding the alarm that Big Tech and Big Brother are invading a US healthcare system that was already in crisis.
On August 27, registered nurses, patients, and community allies rallied and stopped traffic in cities around the US to demand that hospitals and elected officials cut all ties with artificial intelligence giant Palantir. We speak with registered nurses and members of National Nurses United, the largest union of nurses in the US, about their “Purge Palantir!” campaign and the ways Big Tech is already changing healthcare as we know it.
Host: Maximillian Alvarez
Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#tech #healthcare #nurse
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- DSA leads the blue wave — will it bend to the thin blue line?
- Runtime
- 32:59
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- What will a DSA-led state look like — will it back defund and community control of police, or bow to the powers that block affordability? Lawrence Grandpre, political commentator for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, explores this question in his recent Baltimore Times article, "The Dangers of 'Law and Order' Leftism: Toward a Black Power Public Safety," asking whether DSA will embrace the outmoded Law and Order politics that fueled America's prison boom. As officials like AOC and Mamdani backtrack on defunding police — one of the biggest carceral drains on housing, healthcare, and education funding — Grandpre sits down with former political prisoner and Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa to unpack these contradictions ahead of the midterms, where Democrats hope to retake the House and Senate. Tune in for an unflinching look at the Left's relationship to the state and to law and order.
Production/Post-production: Cameron Granadino
#dsa #bluewave #democrats...
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- WATCH: We Asked Rep. Pramila JayapalAbout How her Bill Could Shut Down for-Profit Detention Centers
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Rep. Pramila Jayapal spoke to the Real News Network on September 16 to highlight what is being done to shut down for-profit detention centers and horrific conditions in ICE detention facilities during a press conference on justice for detained immigrants. Investigative journalist Taya Graham pressed the congresswoman on what the Justice for Detained Immigrants Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Jayapal, would actually do if passed.
Rep. Jayapal told Graham that the bill would help shutter for-profit detention centers and said she and the activists behind her do not believe that people should be held these detention centers and treated like criminals.
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- Baltimore Residents FURIOUS over Controversial Data Center Bill
- Runtime
- 19:30
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- BALTIMORE, MD: Baltimore currently has a moratorium on new data center development, but a proposed City Council bill has residents nervous that the door is creaking open for data centers to come into the city—and that City Council views this as “inevitable.”
Council Bill 26-0174, sponsored by City Councilmember Phylicia Porter, would require new data center projects in Baltimore to go through a conditional use approval process that includes a health equity assessment. Residents opposed to the bill say that while the bill may be well intentioned, they want a full data center ban, not stricter guidelines for data centers operating in Baltimore.
In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you inside the August 27 Baltimore City Planning Commission public hearing on Council Bill 26-0174.
Editor’s Note: Council Bill 26-0174 (data centers) will get another public hearing in front of the Baltimore City Council’s Land Use & Transportation Commit...
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- Gaza’s Disabled Left Behind: “All Our Dreams Are Gone”
- Runtime
- 9:58
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- In Gaza, everyone is struggling to survive. But for people with disabilities, that struggle is multiplied to unimaginable degrees. In this TRNN documentary report, we take you inside the refugee tent cities of Khan Yunis and into the lives of Rabab Nawfal and Suha Maqat, both wheelchair users who were champion athletes before Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on Gaza.
Editor’s Note: This documentary report was filmed in Gaza City three weeks before the ceasefire in Gaza was shakily implemented beginning on October 10, 2025. Since the “ceasefire” began, Israeli forces have killed over 1,300 Palestinians, including 301 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Credits:
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
#documentary #war #disability
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- Title
- Dave Zirin on the Legacy of Howard Zinn
- Runtime
- 44:42
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and fundamentalist politicians. In 2020, President Trump called out Zinn by name from the White House lawn, smearing Zinn’s work as “propaganda… that tries to make students ashamed of their own history.” So, who was Howard Zinn? And why are his critics so determined to keep his work from the public?
In this live event, hosted at Red Emma’s Cooperative Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Baltimore, Maryland, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with author and TRNN contributor Dave Zirin about his latest book, “The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.”
Studio Production / Post-Production: David Hebden
#book #history #howardzinn
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- Medea Benjamin on Ending War in Iran and Republican Adherance to Trump
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Ahead of a vote to end the war in Iran in the U.S. House of Representatives on the evening of Sept. 16, TRNN journalist Taya Graham attended Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s “Ending Forever Wars Press Conference” in Washington, D.C., and spoke with activist and cofounder Medea Benjamin about Republican adherence to Trump’s Iran war
Rep. Jayapal spoke about the need to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force enacted after the September 11th attacks and its current impacts, and called for serious debates and congressional authorization over war enactment.
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- Exonerated Prisoner Ransom Watkins Speaks on Life after 36 Years Behind Bars
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- Title
- Courtney Teasley: The Legal Powerhouse Working to Break the Cycle of Incarceration
- Runtime
- 27:48
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- After running a historic campaign to unseat a criminal court judge for the first time in Nashville, Courtney Teasley @blacklawgirl created the legal education company emeffen to inform working-class communities about their civil rights. From combating police abuse to supporting vulnerable populations targeted by the criminal justice system, Teasley is a business and legal powerhouse redirecting people toward civic engagement and political-economic acumen. In this heartfelt interview, Mansa Musa and Courtney Teasley discuss grounded community organizing and political education that subverts the carceral system's goal of turning citizens into captives.
#massincarceration #nashville
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- ICE Agents Beat Frederick Protesters After Fearsome Two-Day Presence in Neighborhood
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- On September 4th, ICE agents inside the Taskers Chance neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, beat protestors with batons. They dragged them on concrete as they broke up a barricade of protestors attempting to stop the agency from entering a home.
The agents maintained a two-day presence in the neighborhood, instilling fear among residents and causing some to stay home from work. Protesters organized in response and confronted the agents on Friday night.
The agents recklessly drove their vehicles on sidewalks and nearly hit protesters in some videos shared with The Real News Network. Photos shared also revealed that some ICE vehicles had obscured license plates.
As protesters locked arms in an attempt to stop ICE agents from forcefully entering, they were pushed and beaten to the ground, dragged, and beaten with batons. An eyewitness said the protestors suffered injuries, including scratches and a possible concussion. ICE entered the home and did...
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- Long Island Audit SPEAKS OUT After YouTube Demonetizes his Channel
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- Title
- After 5 years behind bars, cop watcher Eric Brandt breaks his silence.
- Runtime
- 45:45
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- After five years behind bars and in Colorado's correctional system, controversial cop watcher Eric Brandt is free.
In his first interview following his release, Brandt joins the Police Accountability Report to talk candidly about prison, the sentence that changed his life, his regrets, the supporters who stood by him and whether he still believes in the movement that made him one of America's most notorious police accountability activists.
Brandt also reflects on his role in helping establish the right to film police in the 10th Circuit and answers a question his critics have been asking for years: did Eric Brandt go too far?
Love him or hate him, this is a side of Eric Brandt few people have seen...
Please watch this exclusive interview with Police Accountability Report hosts Taya Graham and Stephen Janis.
#1A ##firstamendment #copwatch #auditors #ericbrandt #policeaccountabiityreport #prison #lifebehindbars #FilmThePolice #Cri...
- Title
- Why is YouTube Demonetizing So Many Cop Watchers? LIVE debate: w/Rights Crispy/Long Island Audit
- Runtime
- 1:09:29
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Something strange is happening to the cop-watching community on YouTube. First Amendment auditors and cop watchers with audiences ranging from thousands to more than a million subscribers say their channels have suddenly been demonetized.
What is going on??
In this urgent livestream, we'll speak with copwatchers and First Amendment activists Rights Crispy and Long Island Audit and discuss who's behind this demonetization wave!
@longislandaudit @rightscrispy
Please join us live and make your voice part of the show!!!
#copwatch #police #news
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- WATCH: The Only Video You'll Need to Understand Trump's Meddling in the Brazil Election
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his campaign for a fourth and final term before thousands of supporters in São Bernardo do Campo, promising to keep fighting poverty and investing in Brazil's future. His challenger: Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, running in place of his father, former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest after being convicted of attempting a coup. US President Donald Trump has backed the Bolsonaros with tariffs, visa revocations, and open pressure — what experts call a new era of US dominance over Latin America.
Journalist Michael Fox reports from São Paulo, with voices from Lula's campaign launch, evangelical Bolsonaro supporters on the streets of São Paulo, and foreign relations professor Igor Fuser.
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- Why Are So Many Cop Watchers Being Demonetized by YouTube?
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Something strange is happening to the cop-watching community on YouTube.
First Amendment auditors and cop watchers with audiences ranging from thousands to more than a million subscribers say their channels have suddenly been demonetized.
The obvious explanation might be YouTube's enforcement against repetitive, mass-produced or AI-generated content. But the creators we're investigating aren't AI channels. They're filming police, publishing encounters with public officials and, in some cases, using body-camera footage.
So what is happening?
Is this ordinary YouTube enforcement affecting many different kinds of creators or is the cop-watching/First Amendment auditing community being disproportionately affected?
There are other developments we're examining, including new laws restricting how closely people can record police and increasingly contentious battles between police unions and cop watchers.
We currently have no evidence that law enforcement, p...
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- Baltimore Community Surprises 74-Year-Old Man Who Was Brutally Beaten With Mutual Aid Check.
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Some positive news in these dark times. Communities in West Baltimore have been shocked and outraged after a local elder was attacked and brutally beaten by six teenagers in the parking lot of the 7-11 on Liberty Heights Avenue earlier this summer.
The elder, 74-year-old resident and former Black Panther Ade Oba Tokunbo, was hospitalized and suffered severe injuries. But in response to this horrific attack, community members and organizations are stepping up to help. Recently, outside Baba Ade’s house, Editor-In-Chief Maximillian Alvarez filmed the moment when members of Clarion Call Baltimore and the group We Our Us checked up on Baba Ade and presented him with a check to help pay his medical bills...
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- New Community Museum Honors the Legacy of Eddie Conway and the Black Panthers
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- 16:21
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- 1 month ago
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- Author and community organizer Dominque Conway has transformed a house at the epicenter of the 2015 Baltimore uprising into "Eddie’s Front Porch," a people’s museum dedicated to preserving the remarkable legacy of her late husband, Eddie Conway. To mark the opening of the museum, this special episode of Rattling the Bars features host Mansa Musa sitting down with Dominque to discuss the project and Eddie's enduring impact.
The conversation also highlights perspectives from formerly incarcerated organizers who worked alongside Eddie inside Maryland prisons and are now building community power on the ground in West Baltimore. Together, they share powerful stories celebrating the man, the myth, and the legend behind the movement.
#baltimore #blackpanthers
Credits:
Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-production: Cameron Granadino
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- David Sirota: "Corruption is Why the Working Class is Being Immiserated in the United States"
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- 1:17
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- 1 month ago
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- Her baby was evacuated from Al-Shifa under fire. It took nearly 3 years to hold him again.
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- 6:19
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- When Israeli forces besieged Al-Shifa Hospital in November 2023, eight premature babies in incubators were evacuated to Egypt under fire. One of them was Joud. His mother, Fatima Dakkeh, spent the next two years and eight months searching for him and fighting to bring him home.
Fatima tells the story of giving birth just months before October 7, losing contact with her son during the first Israeli raid on Al-Shifa, learning a year later that he was alive in Egypt, and a bittersweet reunion with a child who no longer recognized her.
According to the International Rescue Committee, at least 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied or separated from their parents. For many families, there will be no reunion.
Credits:
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
#gaza #israelpalestineconflict #israel #alshifahospital
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- Baltimoreans BLAST Data Centers at City Planning Commission Hearing
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- 1:42:02
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- BALTIMORE, MD: On August 27, Baltimore City residents and community members packed the room during a City Planning Commission hearing on City Council Bill 26-0174. Sponsors of the bill say it would create strong regulations and protections for when data centers come to Baltimore, but residents opposing the bill say they want a total data center ban in Baltimore and that Bill 26-0174 would open the pathway for new data centers to be built in the city. @therealnews filmed the entire meeting so you can see for yourself.
Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: David Hebden
#baltimore #datacenter #localnews
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- How to Get Obscenely Rich while losing to Trump, The Democrats' Failures Explained
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- David Sirota joins Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to expose the enormous financial incentives shaping Democratic politics and why political consultants can accumulate “generational wealth” even when their candidates lose.
Sirota explains how consultants profit from massive television-ad purchases, how billionaire-funded super PACs influence the candidates and policies voters are offered, and how the language of “moderation” and “electability” is used to undermine progressive and populist challengers.
We examine the consequences of legalized political corruption: Washington’s silence on America’s healthcare crisis, the widening gulf between voters and their representatives, and the 50-year campaign to transform elections into auctions while concentrating power in the presidency.
David Sirota is the founder of the investigative news organization The Lever, a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders, an Oscar-nominated co-creator of the ...
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- Trump Threats Overshadow Brazil's Presidential Election
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- 9:16
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his campaign for a fourth and final term before thousands of supporters in São Bernardo do Campo, promising to keep fighting poverty and investing in Brazil's future. His challenger: Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, running in place of his father, former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest after being convicted of attempting a coup. US President Donald Trump has backed the Bolsonaros with tariffs, visa revocations, and open pressure — what experts call a new era of US dominance over Latin America.
Michael Fox reports from São Paulo, with voices from Lula's campaign launch, evangelical Bolsonaro supporters on the streets of São Paulo, and foreign relations professor Igor Fuser.
#brazil #lula #bolsonaro #trump
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- David Sirota: How to Get Obscenely Rich while losing to Trump, The Democrats' Failures Explained
- Runtime
- 39:15
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- David Sirota joins Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to expose the enormous financial incentives shaping Democratic politics and why political consultants can accumulate “generational wealth” even when their candidates lose.
Sirota explains how consultants profit from massive television-ad purchases, how billionaire-funded super PACs influence the candidates and policies voters are offered, and how the language of “moderation” and “electability” is used to undermine progressive and populist challengers.
We examine the consequences of legalized political corruption: Washington’s silence on America’s healthcare crisis, the widening gulf between voters and their representatives, and the 50-year campaign to transform elections into auctions while concentrating power in the presidency.
David Sirota is the founder of the investigative news organization The Lever, a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders, an Oscar-nominated co-creator of the ...
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- Beyond the Wire | Boots on the Ground: Community-Led Safety Panel
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- 1:29:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- On August 8th at the Real News Studio, a screening of the new documentary Beyond the Wire—directed by filmmaker Dr. S. Rasheem—was followed by a panel discussion featuring seasoned conflict mediation organizers from the film. The participants explored their grassroots efforts to challenge the corporate media establishment’s heavy emphasis on crime—which drives city policy and the local economy—and redefine Baltimore’s historical present as a city of abolition.
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- Indiana Residents are Fighting to Survive. Why isn't this Getting More Coverage?
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP GARY INDIANA:
Donate to the official Gary/NWI Relief Fund: https://legacyfdn.org/blog/2026/08/20/garyrecovery/
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After a deadly “derecho” storm and flash floods slammed the midwest in early August, downing trees and power lines, tens of thousands of residents in and around Gary, Indiana have been surviving without power for 12 days and counting. According to the Associated Press, “Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said 68,000 customers were still without power as of Thursday morning, the majority of them in Lake County beside the Illinois border.
The utility said it has restored power to 306,500 others since Aug. 11. But power is not expected to be fully restored until Tuesday [Aug. 25] in some places, including Gary.” In this urgent episode of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with a panel of residents and...
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- Indiana Residents Are Fighting to Survive. Why isn't This Getting More Coverage?
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- 8:15
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- After a deadly “derecho” storm and flash floods slammed the Midwest in early August, downing trees and power lines, tens of thousands of residents in and around Gary, Indiana, have been surviving without power for 12 days and counting. According to the Associated Press, “Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said 68,000 customers were still without power as of Thursday morning, the majority of them in Lake County beside the Illinois border.
The utility said it has restored power to 306,500 others since Aug. 11. But power is not expected to be fully restored until Tuesday [Aug. 25] in some places, including Gary.” In this urgent video, we speak with two residents and community leaders about the ongoing blackout in Gary and the conditions that led to this avoidable national tragedy.
Guests include: Freida Graves, Project Director at the faith-based nonprofit Families Anchored in Total Harmony (FAITH) CDC; and Reverend John Jackson, Pastor of Trinity United...
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- British Petroleum Wages War on Its US Workers as Oil Profits Explode
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- 13:01
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- For the last five months, oil giant British Petroleum (BP) has locked 800 workers out of their jobs at a crude oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana. The facility, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, is BP’s last unionized oil refinery in the United States. BP says it is pursuing “modernized job structures, training, and upskilling,” but workers and their union—United Steelworkers Local 7-1—say that the company has not bargained in good faith, that its contract proposals pose blatant existential threats to workers’ jobs, pay, and collective bargaining rights, and that the company is illegally trying to crush the union out of existence with the lockout.
We speak with three locked-out workers at the BP oil refinery in Whiting: Eric Schultz, president of USW Local 7-1; Leno Miller, assistant griever for USW Local 7-1; Tim Powell, a 19-year member of USW Local 7-1, and a volunteer for the lockout assistance committee.
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- The Moment Corporate Media Gave Israel The Greenlight to Commit Genocide in Gaza
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- On October 17th, 2023, an Israeli shelling of the Al-Ahli Hospital killed over 250 Palestinians camped outside the facility seeking medical treatment. What Israel would do next to shift the narrative on the bombing changed how corporate media would cover the Gaza genocide for good. In this video, Adam Johnson, journalist and author of “How to Sell a Genocide,” out now by Pluto Press, breaks down the moment Israel shifted corporate media’s narrative on the Gaza genocide.
What should have been a rallying point to end the mass killing turned into the biggest PR victory for Israel of the entire genocide. Israel blamed an errant Palestinian rocket and accused corporate media of blood libel after they pointed to the country dropping 99.99% of the bombs on Gaza for the blame.
After the bombing, corporate media outlets like The New York Times and CNN shifted their policies and would wait until Israel took responsibility for the bombings. This resulted in passive...
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- From Black Power to Hip Hop: Mopreme Shakur’s "This Thug's Life"
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- 21:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- How are Hip Hop and Black Liberation connected? In this special Black August edition of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa sits down with artist, producer, and "Panther Cub" Mopreme Shakur on the rooftop of a hotel in the nation's capital. Together, they explore Shakur’s memoir, This Thug's Life, tracing the trajectory from the rise and fall of Black Power to the birth of Hip Hop through the eyes of the son of a Panther and the stepbrother of a legend.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#hiphop #politics #black
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- Mainstream Media LIED About the Genocide in Gaza. Here is the Data to Prove it.
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- This is the only video you’ll need to see the proof of the mainstream media’s Pro-Israel bias and complicity during the Gaza genocide. Writer and journalist Adam Johnson dug through over 12,000 articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN.com, Politico, Axios, USA Today, and 5,000 TV segments to find a disturbing pattern of the mainstream media’s use of emotive words that favored Israelis and demonized Palestinians.
Johnson discovered that the mainstream media often used emotive words like “massacre”, “slaughter”, “barbaric”, or “savage”, to describe the killing of Israeli’s on October 7th, but those words were rarely ever used to describe Israeli violence, even though Palestinians were “killed at a rate of 70:1.”
“Somehow, Israel managed to kill at least 12,000 children during the first year of genocide and never once, according to The New York Times and Washington Post, committed a ‘slaughter’ or a ‘massacre’...
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- Real Public Safety Means More Community, Not Cages
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- 23:43
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Effective public safety policy is founded on preventing crime and repairing harm, but these are not the foundations of America’s reactionary criminal justice establishment. This week on Rattling the Bars, we host a roundtable discussion about the DC Justice Lab’s 2026 Public Safety Policy Agenda, which has been endorsed by 30 progressive organizations working directly with system-impacted individuals, and about criminal justice reforms that would ensure safer communities through restorative justice, not draconian punishment.
Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
#politics #dc #crimenews
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- GOP push “tough-on-crime” policies in DC, re-entry advocates say they will only increase recidivism
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- In part two of our series on conservative attempts to use D.C. as a testing ground for harsh criminal justice policies, Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa sits down with Chelsea Canterbury and Eric Franklin of Voices for a Second Chance. They discuss the danger of proposed measures—including charging 14-year-olds as adults, increasing mandatory minimums, repealing the Second Look Act, and reinstating cash bail—and explain why doubling down on mass incarceration won’t make the city safer.
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- Media education, regulation, and organizing against Big Tech in Europe | Ep. 7
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- 1:18:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Disinformation is impacting our lives. Much of it is being pushed by unregulated Silicon Valley tech companies and their billionaire owners. But people in Europe are pushing back.
In this episode, Michael Fox goes to Spain, to look at how members of the Spanish far right have been inspired by Charlie Kirk. Then we look at grassroots organizing against Big Tech in Ireland, media education initiatives in Finland, and European measures regulating Big Tech.
“This has now been a topic of discussion very much in Europe,” says Finnish educator Saara Salomaa. “Should we actually trust any US tech companies, or should we try to get rid of US tech companies as soon as possible?”
Michael is joined in the episode by Laura Flanders. She is the host of Laura Flanders and Friends on public television — formerly known as the Laura Flanders show.
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- Baltimore Stands up Against Planned AI Data Centers Around the City
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Maryland residents and grassroots organizers fighting data centers from Baltimore City to Charles County rallied in front of Baltimore City Hall, demanding the City @baltimore and Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore put people first instead of the development of data centers.
Hillary Gonzalez, an organizer for grassroots organization Sacred Parks and Waterways, fought back against the narrative that data centers are inevitable and said that the fight against data centers will determine what kind of city Baltimore will become.
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