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France's elections: Can the NFP hold its ground against the right? | The Marc Steiner Show
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- France's elections: Can the NFP hold its ground against the right? | The Marc Steiner Show
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- 2 years ago
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- The twists and turns of France's recent election have ended with a surprise majority for the New Popular Front, a hastily cobbled together left coalition running the gamut from the Communists to the Greens. The NFP's unexpected triumph turned the early success of the far-right National Rally in the first round of the election on its head. But the right in France is far from defeated, and whether the NFP can hold its ground, or expand its influence from here, remains to be seen. Axel Persson, general secretary of the CGT Railway Workers Union in Trappes, joins The Marc Steiner Show for a postmortem of the election, the challenges that remain ahead for the French left, and what lessons can be learned by observers from around the world.
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- Education, freedom, and prison abolition w/Dominque Conway | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 years ago
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- One of the most persistent myths about the US prison system is that the system of mass incarceration helps deter and change harmful behavior. Yet according to the federal government's own statistics, more than 80 percent of formerly incarcerated people will be arrested within a decade after their release. The astronomical rate of recidivism reflects two realities: the prison system targets people for political reasons, and fails to address the roots of social problems. Dominque Conway joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her experience leading prison-based mentorship programs behind bars, and how she and others have used political education as a tool to not only address social problems, but transform people into active agents of change within their communities.
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- Floods drown Brazil. What happens to the poor? w/Mike Fox
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- “Southern Brazil is facing its worst climate tragedy ever," Latin-America-based journalist Michael Fox wrote from Brazil for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in early May. "Unprecedented floods have impacted 1.4 million people and forced more than 160,000 people from their homes... The images are shocking. Downtown Porto Alegre, the capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, is underwater... On May 2, a dam collapsed, unleashing an over 6-foot-high wave and worsening flooding in the area... Although the tragedy is a natural disaster, experts have pointed out that the lack of preparedness on the part of state and local officials may have contributed to the devastation. According to one report, Porto Alegre slashed funds for flooding prevention over the last three years and didn’t spend a cent on it in 2023.”
In this episode, we talk with Mike about his reporting trip to Southern Brazil, the devastation he witnessed firsthand, and the con...
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- Israel is 'fake,' 'like Disney World'—Jen Perelman's run for Congress | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Jen Perelman challenged incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz once before for Florida's 25th congressional seat in the 2022 Democratic primary. Now, Perelman is back, and this time her staunch anti-Zionism is front and center in her campaign to unseat Wasserman Schultz, one of the most dedicated Zionists in Congress. Perelman sits down with The Marc Steiner Show for a tell-all interview, covering everything from her personal journey out of Zionism, to her plans to be a loud and proud "outlier" in Congress if elected.
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- 'Palestine Remembers': Help make this documentary come to life
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- 2 years ago
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- Memory, too, is part of Palestinian resistance. Memories of stolen land, of the horrors they have survived, and of the martyrs are an intimate part of Palestinians' lives. Ross Domoney—who’s produced a series of films on the West Bank for TRNN—has now teamed up with Urban geographer Antonis Vradis. The duo, who produce films for Shadowgraph media are now embarking on a new project to document memory in the Palestinian resistance. Domoney and Vradis speak about their new project, and what led them to it.
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Produced by Ross Domoney, Nadia Péridot, and Antonis Vradis
Filmed and edited by Ross Domoney
Shadowgraph can be found on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrcZi2utpNdMYWSqJORf8CA
Link to short film 'Like a mini Gaza': https://therealnews.com/like-a-mini-gaza-idf-raid-on-nur-shams-causes-worst-west-bank-de...
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- Baltimore St. Agnes nurses demand safe staffing from billion-dollar employers
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- 2 years ago
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- On the morning of Thursday, June 20, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally outside the hospital to raise awareness of their efforts to secure a first contract and to show management that they’re not backing down from their core demands for safe staffing and an operational model that puts patients and patient care first. "St. Agnes nurses are calling on Ascension to accept their proposals to improve safe staffing and, subsequently, nurse retention," a press release from National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) stated. "Nearly 20 percent of nurses at St. Agnes began employment at the hospital after January 1 of this year. Meanwhile, just over a third of nurses have more than four years of experience at the hospital... The Catholic hospital system is one of the largest in the country with 140 hospitals in 19 states and also one of the wealthiest, with cash reserves, an investment company, and a private equity operation w...
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- Supervised release: The dystopian punishment you've never heard of
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- 2 years ago
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- If you are convicted of a federal crime, you are not eligible for parole in most cases. Instead, the judge can give you an additional sentence of "supervised release" after you serve your prison term. Learn more about this draconian punishment tactic and how it works to keep the mass incarceration system running on this week's episode of Rattling the Bars
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- SOAS student encampment protests uni's complicity in Gaza genocide
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- 2 years ago
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- The student intifada has reached the UK. At the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), students set up an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, taking particular aim at the university's investments in companies that produce white phosphorus. The Real News reports from London, speaking directly with student organizers calling out their school's complicity in genocide.
Producers: Ross Domoney and Nadia Péridot
Presenter: Nadia Péridot
Videography and Editing: Ross Domoney
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- Double punishment—the truth about supervised release w/Jabari Zakiya | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 years ago
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- It's been 40 years since supervised release was first introduced into the federal court system by the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act. Supervised release, which replaced federal parole and probation, is a secondary sentence judges can impose that only comes into effect once people have already served their time in prison. The legality of the widespread use of supervised release, not to mention its overall constitutionality, is highly controversial. Jabari Zakiya joins Rattling the Bars to make the case for the abolition of supervised release.
Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino
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- The Biden-Trump presidential debate train wreck w/Adam H. Johnson and Marc Steiner
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- There's no mincing words—the first presidential debate was a travesty of the highest order. The leading story is President Joe Biden's horrendous performance and the political crisis it's sparked among the Democrats. But the failure of the media, not to mention former President Donald Trump's antics, should also be called out. TRNN contributor Adam H. Johnson joins Mel Buer and Marc Steiner for a postmortem on the debate, and, from the way it's looking, American democracy itself.
Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: David Hebden
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- The War on Weed Continues in West Virginia
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- 2 years ago
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- Police violently raided his camper, but the cover up is even more shocking | PAR
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Two years ago, Michigan-based cannabis entrepreneur Cody Cecil’s camper van broke down in Milton, West Virginia. As he was awaiting repairs, Cecil was confronted by Milton police at his door. Despite appearing without a warrant, police demanded entry into the camper van. During the subsequent raid, police smashed Cecil’s window and confiscated eight hemp plants. Cecil now faces a 10-year sentence. Meanwhile, Cabell County, which Milton is located in, just announced a development deal with the billion-dollar cannabis company Trulieve, which is expected to build a grow facility in the planned HADCO Business Park, a new economic initiative being funded by millions in local taxpayer money. The Real News has previously investigated use of public founds in Milton, where coal baron Jeff Hoops scored a $15 million TIF (Tax Increment Financing) deal for the beleaguered Grand Patrician Hotel project. Police Accountability Report returns to the case of Cody Cecil and the questionable use of p...
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- The Black Panther imprisoned by Maryland for 54 years, Tahaka Gaither | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 years ago
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- For the past 54 years, Thomas 'Tahaka' Gaither has lived behind bars as a political prisoner. A former member of the Black Panther Party Baltimore Chapter, Gaither was a close associate of 'Marshall' Eddie Conway Jr., who spent his last years as host of Rattling the Bars. Although Gaither was released on parole decades ago, he was forced to return to prison in the late 1990s when Gov. Glendering revoked parole for anyone who had received a life sentence. Tahaka Gaither and his daughter, Tara, return to Rattling the Bars to discuss his life, their family's shared struggle to release Tahaka and live on in spite of the prison system, and what Tahaka's incarceration has meant for generations of his family.
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- Life for Gaza's children during Israel's genocide
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Israel's genocide in Gaza is a genocide of children. Prior to last October, nearly half the population of Gaza were children. The official death toll, now regarded by many to be a severe undercount, accounts for more than 15,000 children killed by Israeli forces in the past eight months. For the majority of children who have survived, life will never be the same. Displacement, martyrdom of family members, and the exigencies of daily survival have placed a tremendous burden on these children's shoulders. The Real News reports from Gaza.
Videographer: Ruwaida Amer
Producer: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
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- Baltimore says enough: Protest against deadly coal trains choking city
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- 2 years ago
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- On June 10, in the working-class community of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, over 50 residents, activists, and supporters from around the city marched through the streets of Curtis Bay to hold CSX Transportation accountable for polluting their community, homes, and bodies with toxic coal dust. Even after an expansive scientific study co-sponsored by the Community of Curtis Bay Association, the South Baltimore Community Land Trust, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, and the Maryland Department of Environment confirmed the presence of coal dust in the air of the South Baltimore community of Curtis Bay, CSX has denied culpability and called the study “materially flawed.” Residents say they’re fed up with the company refusing to take responsibility for the coal dust, and with the city government for ignoring their cries for help for years, and they’re not going to stay quiet.
“We got to stand together for Curtis Bay, for South Baltimore,” one re...
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- Prison deprived me of my father—I want him back | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The prison system keeps millions of families from celebrating Father's Day together. For Alexia Pitter of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, separation from her father, Gasi Pitter, has been a lifelong reality. Kept from even embracing her father during prison visits as a child, Alexia's struggle to build and maintain a relationship with Gasi has required taking on the entire prison system. After believing for many years her father would never be released, Alexia is now fighting for her father's release. Rattling the Bars explores this story of a brave daughter's love, and one family's determination to resist.
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- 'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy (TRAILER)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A battle for the future of democracy is raging in Greg Abbott's Texas. In the summer of 2023, amid a deadly, record-breaking global heatwave, Republican Governor Abbott signed a bill that eliminated mandated water breaks for outdoor workers. When TRNN's Marc Steiner traveled to Texas to investigate this shocking story, he quickly learned that eliminating water breaks was just the tip of the iceberg. What House Bill 2127, known by opponents as the "Death Star Bill," actually does, and what it will actually mean for the people of Texas, is much more sinister. And people across the state, from unions and migrant justice groups to Democratic legislators and Republican Mayors, are pissed. In this special documentary report, "‘Death Star’ State: The GOP’s War on Democracy," Steiner reports from Austin and San Antonio on the state GOP's massive, authoritarian, corporate-serving power grab, stripping the people’s right to govern themselves and consolidating power in the Statehouse, the...
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- 'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy (DOCUMENTARY)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A battle for the future of democracy is raging in Greg Abbott's Texas. In the summer of 2023, amid a deadly, record-breaking global heatwave, Republican Governor Abbott signed a bill that eliminated mandated water breaks for outdoor workers. When TRNN's Marc Steiner traveled to Texas to investigate this shocking story, he quickly learned that eliminating water breaks was just the tip of the iceberg. What House Bill 2127, known by opponents as the "Death Star Bill," actually does, and what it will actually mean for the people of Texas, is much more sinister. And people across the state, from unions and migrant justice groups to Democratic legislators and Republican Mayors, are pissed. In this special documentary report, "‘Death Star’ State: The GOP’s War on Democracy," Steiner reports from Austin and San Antonio on the state GOP's massive, authoritarian, corporate-serving power grab, stripping the people’s right to govern themselves and consolidating power in the Statehouse, the...
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- The Trump trial: America's Weimar moment?
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Historian Rick Perlstein explains the parallels between the Trump phenomenon and Germany before the rise of the Nazis.
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- Could Kathy Hochul pardon Donald Trump?
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Historian Rick Perlstein muses on the likelihood of Trump actually going to prison—and notes it's probably more likely Democrats will stop this in a failed bid to reach across the aisle.
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- It's time to stop talking about the Trump trial: 'The court is not going to save us'
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- 2 years ago
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- Laura Flanders explains why the media circus surrounding Trump's trial distracts us from our real task: organizing for political power to achieve long-term change.
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- Growing up in Cuba under the US blockade w/Liz Oliva Fernández
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- For the past six years on this show, we've talked to working people from across the United States, from virtually every walk of life, about their lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles. But today, we’re going to talk about what it’s like to live and work in a country that has been designated a political enemy of US empire, a country that sits only 90 miles away from the US, a country that American politicians have resolved to strangle into oblivion for the past 60 years. In this episode, we speak with Liz Oliva Fernández from Cuba. Liz is an award-winning Cuban journalist with Belly of the Beast, an independent outlet covering Cuba and US-Cuba relations, and she is the presenter of two new documentaries, Hardliner on the Hudson and Uphill on the Hill. In addition to exposing the sinister interests behind, and the devastating real-world impacts of, the Cold War Cuban policy of Joe Biden’s administration, pushed by powerful hardliners like Senator Bob Menendez, former Chair of the pow...
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- The Trump trial & America's two-tiered justice system w/ Laura Flanders & Rick Perlstein
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Following his conviction on 34 felony counts, former President Donald Trump will be sentenced on July 11. While celebrated by many as an unprecedented example of legal accountability for elected officials, the Trump trial has also demonstrated a long-established truth: there are two justice systems in America—one for the rich, and one for the poor. Journalist @LauraFlandersAndFriends and historian Rick Perlstein join a special livestream discussion with the hosts of Police Accountability Report Taya Graham and Stephen Janis to discuss the inequality of the US criminal justice system, and how backlash to the trial could threaten the future of democracy.
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- Gang Unit Cops make a big mistake this is how they tried to cover it up #policeaccountabilityreport
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- 2 years ago
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- Jennifer Kretschman, a Sacramento school district social worker, was wrapping up her workday when she received a sudden, frantic call from her 17-year-old daughter. Kretschman’s daughter informed her that a black SUV with tinted windows was following her and her stepfather, Kretschman’s fiancé, Jacob Palkovic, on their drive home from school. Kretschman instructed her daughter and Palkovic to come meet her at her workplace, but it was too late. Shortly after the call ended, the unmarked SUV swerved in front of Palkovic’s car. Armed men poured out of the vehicle and pointed their guns at Palkovic and his stepdaughter. Tearing the two family members out of the car, the men failed to announce themselves as members of the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office’s Gang Suppression Unit. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of the Police Accountability Report speak with Kretschman to uncover why her family was arrested, and explore the myriad problems that come from specialized police units and the ...
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- AMLO, Sheinbaum, and the legacy and future of Mexico’s Morena | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The June 2 election of Claudia Sheinbaum made history for two reasons: Sheinbaum will be Mexico’s first woman president ever, and the progressive Morena party will now control the executive and both houses of the national legislature. Morena’s rise to power has brought an enormous historical shift to Mexico, which for more than a century prior was dominated by the conservative parties of the PRI and PAN. Elected on a strong anti-neoliberal platform, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador set the nationalization of key industries and poverty alleviation as key goals of his administration. Sheinbaum has now been tapped to build upon his legacy and advance the political project of Morena, which seeks to achieve a “Fourth Transformation” of Mexican society. But not all on Mexico’s left are satisfied with Morena, AMLO, or Sheinbaum, pointing out broken promises or perceived failures, and even betrayals, on questions of the environment, Indigenous rights, violence against...
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- Mass trauma and the prison system | Rattling the Bars
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- 2 years ago
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- The lived reality of the racist prison system can get lost in the swirl of facts and figures surrounding mass incarceration. Frigid cells in winters and sweltering conditions in summers; the volatility and capriciousness of hostile guards and correctional staff; food barely fit for human consumption; isolation from one's community and deprivation from the routines and small freedoms that made up one's identity prior to incarceration. The trauma of such an experience is undeniable, and extends far beyond prison walls—from overpoliced communities subjected to the constant presence of police surveillance and terror, to the families and relationships put under the strain of separation. Dr. Da'Mond Holt returns to Rattling the Bars for the final installment of a two-part interview, this time speaking with host Mansa Musa and his friend Lonnell Sligh, about their respective experiences behind bars, and the implications of the prison system as a deliberate system of mass trauma affecting Bl...
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- BREAKING: Thousands surround White House, demand Biden end support for Israel's war on Gaza
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On Saturday, June 8, thousands of anti-war activists unfurled a two-mile-long “people’s red line” around the White House in Washington, DC, to demand that the Biden Administration halt its support for Israel amid its 8-month assault on Gaza. Journalist and former TRNN reporter Jaisal Noor speaks with demonstrators on the ground in DC.
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- Cops dragged his child out of his car at gun point, what they did to justify it is shocking | PAR
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Jennifer Kretschman, a Sacramento school district social worker, was wrapping up her workday when she received a sudden, frantic call from her 17-year-old daughter. Kretschman's daughter informed her that a black SUV with tinted windows was following her and her stepfather, Kretschman's fiancée, Jacob Palkovic, on their drive home from school. Kretschman instructed her daughter and Palkovic to come meet her at her workplace, but it was too late. Shortly after the call ended, the unmarked SUV swerved in front of Palkovic's car. Armed men poured out of the vehicle and pointed their guns at Palkovic and his stepdaughter. Tearing the two family members out of the car, the men failed to announce themselves as members of the Sacramento Sheriff's Office's Gang Suppression Unit. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of the Police Accountability Report uncover why her family was arrested and explore the myriad problems that come from specialized police units and the police culture that makes them so d...
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- Israel exploits Palestinians in these dangerous factories
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- 2 years ago
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- In the town of Idhna in the West Bank, Palestinian youth labor in unregulated "e-waste" factories in the shadow of Israel's Apartheid Wall. Driven from their land, and denied opportunity and employment in Israeli society, these workers come to these jobs because they often have few other options. Many of the workers are highly educated, but unable to pursue their preferred careers due to the reality of living in an apartheid state. Most of the electronic waste comes from Israel, and Israeli businesses benefit immensely from being able to ship such waste to the West Bank to avoid paying taxes, exploit cheap labor, and then profit from the recycled precious metals extracted from the garbage. The Real News reports from Idhna, speaking directly to the workers in the town's e-waste recycling facilities.
Videography: Ahmad Al-Bazz
Interviewer: Sarah Abu Alrob
Producer and video editor: Ross Domoney
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- The People's Red Line: Surround the White House for Gaza w/Layan Fuleihan
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Close to nine months into the genocide in Gaza, the Biden administration shows no sign of stopping the flow of arms and aid to Israel. Earlier in May, Biden declared that he was drawing a 'red line': should Israel invade Rafah, the southernmost corner of the Gaza Strip where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian families have sheltered in tents for months, US assistance to Israel would end.
Over the Memorial Day weekend, Israel began a punishing assault on Rafah's tent cities, killing countless Palestinians with US-manufactured bombs. As horrific images of charred corpses and decapitated infants spread around the world, the Biden administration denied its red line had been crossed. Many have been left justifiably wondering what it will take for Washington to cease its support for the genocide. Organizers with the Shut it Down for Palestine Coalition have an answer: if Biden will not impose a red line, the people will.
On June 8th, tens of thousands of activists fro...
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- Toronto stands up to defend People's Circle for Palestine w/Samira Mohyeddin | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- On May 2, students at the University of Toronto organized under the banner of UofT Occupy for Palestine seized King's College Circle at the university's St. George Campus, establishing what has come to be known as the People's Circle for Palestine. The People's Circle has now held its ground for over a month, withstanding threats from university administrators, police, and counterprotestors. Students and faculty have transformed the liberated zone into a space for popular education and community empowerment—breaking down the false distinction between the academy and the surrounding society. This solidarity from the wider Toronto community has been essential, as workers, First Nations, and other sectors of society have converged at the People's Circle to lend their solidarity to the student struggle. Award-winning journalist Samira Mohyeddin joins The Marc Steiner Show to give a firsthand account of the student encampment at UofT, and how its reliance on community solidarity has made ...
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- Trauma expert explains Black historical oppression and mental health | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The oppression of Black people is more than just a historical or political question. The accumulated harms of centuries of slavery, segregation, mass incarceration, and racism in all forms have a psychological and medical effect, in addition to political and economic ones. Trauma, after all, describes the physical injury of the brain as a result of harmful experiences. At the scale of communities and generations, such trauma can be passed down and reproduced for decades, and even centuries. In the first of a two-part conversation, traumatologist Dr. Da'Mond Holt explains the medical reality of Black historical trauma, and what kinds of interventions and solutions are required to promote healing as a form of justice.
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- ‘Student Intifada’ livestream UMich, Purdue, Oxford (UK)
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this special livestream event, TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner sit down with Gaza solidarity encampment organizers from the University of Michigan, Purdue, and Oxford University in the UK to discuss the state of the international student movement in solidarity with Palestine and the violent efforts by state and Zionist forces to repress it.
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- A cop illegally took his car—then the community pushed back
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Shawn Bresnahan, a resident and local mechanic in Greenbrier, Arkansas, had his world turned upside down after repairing his car by hand and taking it down his street for a quick test drive. Due to a clerical error, Bresnahan had a suspended license at the time. Local cops were all too quick to take advantage of this by confronting and arresting Bresnahan on his own driveway. Not satisfied with publicly humiliating Bresnahan and placing him in handcuffs, the police also impounded Bresnahan’s $30,000 vehicle, a decision which Bresnahan says has cost him dearly. Stephen Janis and Taya Graham of the Police Accountability Report investigated the case as an illustrative example of the lack of accountability in small-town police departments. We wanted everyone who watches our reports and who cares about justice and fairness to know that we stay in touch with the people we interview, continue to support them, and, when we can, share their success—or, if necessary, help continue their figh...
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- Nicaragua, Reagan, and the Iran-Contra Affair | Under the Shadow, Ep 10, Part 2
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the early 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan launched a covert war to destroy the fledgling Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. It was brutal: Paramilitary war, CIA attacks, economic blockade, and more. It would wreak havoc on the country, killing tens of thousands and ravaging the economy. But an international solidarity movement stood up in response. And the Reagan government's hubris, and drive to fuel its war on Nicaragua, would break US laws and lead to a shocking scandal in Washington: Iran Contra.
In this episode, host Michael Fox walks back into the 1980s, to the US response to revolution in Nicaragua and to the international solidarity that pushed back. This is Part 2 of Episode 10.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened—a landmark of re...
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- An off-duty cop falsely accused him of drug dealing; what happened next was life-changing | PAR
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Jose Palomares, an off-duty cop, was moonlighting as a security guard at a homeless services center in Ft. Worth when a dispute arose over $20. Officer Palomares chose to intervene—immediately accusing the man who believed he'd had $20 stolen from him, of being a drug dealer. After calling in the drug dogs and conducting an illegal search, Palomares failed to find sufficient drugs to justify his accusation. Instead of letting the man go, Palomares then decided to pressure his arrestee into becoming an informant. Police Accountability Report discusses the shocking footage and what it tells us about the ways police wield their power against the poor.
Production: Taya Graham, Stephen Janis
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- Could climate change kill sports? w/Madeleine Orr | Edge of Sports
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It's been six years since the IPCC released its 2018 report warning that mean global temperatures would rise past 1.5 Celsius unless drastic action was taken by 2030. While climate change is already impacting all aspects of our lives, there is one area where relatively rapid and meaningful steps could be taken, but have yet to materialize: sports. Rising temperatures, seas, and emissions all call into question the sustainability of current sports practices. Can athletes continue to compete outdoors under current game conditions in scorching climates? What happens to athletes from island nations threatened by rising sea levels? How can mega-events like the Olympics and the carbon footprints left behind by associated construction and tourism continue to be justified? Professor Madeleine Orr joins Edge of Sports to discuss these questions and other topics addressed in her book, Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sports.
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- The Apache stronghold defending sacred Oak Flat land from a copper mine
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In the heart of the Arizona high desert lies a battle for the soul of the land. The ancient, sacred grounds of Apache Native territory are under threat from a looming giant — a massive copper mine that promises riches for the locals, and a pathway to the so-called green transition. But, as is often the case, it comes at a cost.
The San Carlos Apache tribe calls it Chi’chil Bildagoteel; English speakers call it Oak Flat. It sits on a mountainous plateau within a 17.3-kilometer oasis in the Tonto National Forest. Rio Tinto and BHP, two of the world’s biggest mining companies, have staked their claim here through a joint venture called Resolution Copper. For over 10 years they’ve been lobbying governments for the right to build a colossal mine that would cover roughly 7,000 acres of surface area, and extend more than a mile into the ground.
The only thing that stands in their way is the resistance of the Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit community organizati...
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- The American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier w/Ward Churchill | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Despite now spending 47 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Leonard Peltier continues to be denied parole by the federal government of the United States. Why has the US so obstinately refused to free Peltier, despite decades of international outcry? The answer lies in the threat posed by what Peltier represents—the demands of the Indigenous liberation movement for sovereignty and justice after centuries of US settler colonialism. Historian Ward Churchill joins Rattling the Bars for a discussion on Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement, COINTELPRO, and more.
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- 'Sacrifice Zone': Corporations made South Baltimore a dumping ground
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- “South Baltimore is a sacrifice zone,” Michael Middleton and Dr. Sacoby Wilson wrote in a guest commentary published in Maryland Matters this February. “The six communities that make up South Baltimore—Cherry Hill, Westport, Mt. Winans, Lakeland, Brooklyn, and Curtis Bay—rank in the top 3% of the state for environmental burden using a Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) screening tool. Curtis Bay, the highest in the state, is Maryland’s poster child for environmental injustice. Industrial areas near Curtis Bay house oil tanks, a wastewater treatment plant, chemical plants, landfills, the country’s largest medical waste incinerator, and more. Heavy diesel trucks frequent residential streets. The Wagner’s Point and Fairfield communities that were once Curtis Bay’s neighbors to the east are gone. Those residents accepted buyouts to leave between the 1980s and 2011 after a series of chemical spills and accidents.” In this episode, we continue our “Sacrificed...
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- Why the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution is still important today | Under the Shadow, Ep. 10, Part 1
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The 1979 Nicaraguan revolution that overthrew a brutal U.S.-backed dictator ushered in a wave of hope in the Central American country. The new Sandinista government launched literacy and healthcare campaigns, carried out land reform and promised to improve the lives of all. But the United States, under President Ronald Reagan, feared the dominos would fall across Central America, and they unleashed assault on the country: paramilitary war, CIA attacks, economic blockade, and much more.
In this episode, host Michael Fox walks back into the 1980s, to the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza and the beginning of both the Sandinista government and the U.S. response. This is Part 1 of Episode 10.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened —...
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- Sports betting is so much worse than you think w/Danny Funt | Edge of Sports
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Sports gambling's rapid takeover of the professional sports industry is arguably the most important development of our time in the world of athletics. The introduction of legal betting has created a powerful new source of temptation with corrosive effects on fans, players, owners, and ultimately the games themselves. Sports journalist Danny Funt joins Edge of Sports to discuss the phenomenon and his upcoming book on the subject.
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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- Vote Uncommitted’s plan to push Biden on Gaza ceasefire | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Across the country, Democrats are organizing campaigns to vote uncommitted in the primary elections. Yet the aims of this movement are to do more than simply register dissent against Biden's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. The Uncommitted Campaign will pick up delegates in every state and congressional district where more than 15% of voters cast an uncommitted primary ballot—creating the possibility of leverage within the party at the upcoming DNC. Vote Uncommitted organizers from the state of Maryland join The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the campaign and its implications for the election.
Studio / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- FreeHer! Biden's broken promises to incarcerated women | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- On April 24, activists from around the country converged on Washington for the 10th anniversary march of the FreeHer campaign, a national movement against the prison industrial complex, focused on the release of incarcerated women and girls. Despite campaign promises to free 100 women in his first 100 days in office, the Biden administration's record on clemency is among the worst in US history, granting clemency only 29 times in nearly four years—with 16 of these given on the day of the FreeHer march alone. Activists also called attention to the epidemic of sexual violence and abuse against prisoners by correctional staff. Rattling the Bars reports from the streets in DC, speaking directly with organizers and movement activists about their demands for Biden and their broader vision for liberation.
Videographer: Cameron Granadino
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- Inside the most destructive West Bank IDF raid in decades
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- While speaking to residents of Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank, TRNN reporters found themselves in the middle of the most destructive IDF raid since the Second Intifada. In this raid, Israeli troops killed 14 Palestinians and destroyed a neighborhood, including a local school. This video was co-produced with Shadowgraph Productions.
A message from the filmmakers:
Everything about this is normal.
This film and its matching gallery present both a historic and an ordinary event. Historic, because we inadvertently captured Israel’s largest military operation in the West Bank since the Second Intifada. And ordinary, because Palestinians are faced with operations of this kind, varying in their intensity, almost daily. In this sense, everything captured here is normal. All of it. The raids, the indiscriminate killings, the destruction of property and any infrastructure sustaining life, the collective punishment. This level of violence and pain, incomp...
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- 'Help us to get better': Life after prison | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Critics of the prison-industrial complex have long noted the system's failure to properly rehabilitate those who are locked away in its bowels. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous return to Rattling the Bars for the second part of a two-part interview on the reality facing prisoners in Maryland's only women's correctional facility.
Studio Production: David Hebden
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- "Student Intifada" livestream: Stanford, University of Michigan, Indiana University, & more
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Seven months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading across the US and beyond, hearkening back to the student protests of the ‘60s that played a pivotal role in ending the US war in Vietnam. In what is being called the “student intifada,” with over 100 encampments going up at different college and university campuses, students, faculty, grad students, and other campus community members are exercising civil disobedience, occupying space on campuses, defying brutal repression from administrators and police, combatting skewed and wildly lopsided narratives in corporate media, and pressuring their universities to “disclose and divest” their investments in companies and financial institutions connected to Israel. In this TRNN livestream, which will take place on Thurs, May 2, at noon ET, we will be speaking directly with encampment organizers/participants from the University of Michigan, the Indiana University, and Stanford University,...
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- Former A's Bruce Maxwell calls out Oakland A's owner John Fisher for Vegas move | Edge of Sports
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- After more than 50 years, the Oakland A's announced their departure from the city last year, leaving Oakland bereft of its sports teams after the flight of the Warriors in 2019 and the Raiders in 2020. To the dismay of fans, the A's plan to temporarily relocate to a minor league stadium in Sacramento before permanently moving to Las Vegas in the 2028 season. Former A's catcher Bruce Maxwell joins Edge of Sports to discuss the move, its impact on the local community and workers, and the trajectory of his own career and the place of the A's in his life story
Studio Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Taylor Hebden
Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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- Forget Labor Day, May Day is the true workers' holiday
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- From all of us at TRNN to all of you: Happy International Workers Day! To commemorate this sacred holiday, we are reposting this special crossover podcast on the radical history of May Day, hosted by the @SrslyWrong podcast, originally published on May 1, 2021. In this wide-ranging discussion, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins a panel to discuss the spirit and political roots of May Day, it's relevance to working-class struggles today, and how the US holiday of Labor Day was deliberately established over a century ago as a way to celebrate workers and the accomplishments of the labor movement without invoking the revolutionary spirit of May Day.
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- 'The university fears us': Inside University of Michigan's Gaza student encampment
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- At this very moment, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading throughout the country, with over 100 encampments going up at different college and university campuses around the country and around the world in protest of Israel’s US-funded genocidal war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In what is being called the “student intifada,” students, faculty, grad students, and other campus community members are exercising civil disobedience, occupying space on campuses, defying brutal repression from administrators and police, combatting skewed and wildly lopsided narratives in corporate media, and pressuring their universities to “disclose and divest” their investments in companies and financial institutions connected to Israel.
In this urgent podcast, we take you to the frontlines of struggle and speak directly with student and grad student organizers of the Gaza encampment at the University of Michigan’s flagship campus in Ann Arbor. As the Michig...
