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Why we won't have an episode tonight at 9pm
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- Why we won't have an episode tonight at 9pm
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- 3 years ago
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- I have to take the time to go through the many messages from people asking for help with their experiences of police brutality and misconduct. But I will also be working on an important episode coming up for you soon-
investigating another false DUI arrest and its devastating impact on this man's life. We will be back soon and I just want to thank each and every one of you who joined us for the livestream last week. I had so much fun getting to speak with you and I hope you did too! I am going to miss seeing you all in the livechat tonight. See you soon and as always, be safe out there!
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- Israel assassinated Shireen Abu Akleh | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh was covering an Israeli raid on Jenin Refugee Camp in her official capacity as a reporter for Al Jazeera on May 11, 2022, when an unnamed Israeli sniper fired a bullet into the thin space between the back of her helmet and her flak jacket, killing her. At the time, Abu-Akleh was fleeing Israeli gunfire directed towards her and other observing journalists, including Al Jazeera producer Ali Al-Samudi, who was wounded moments before Abu-Akleh's death.
One year later, Israeli military forces have issued an apology for killing Shireen Abu Akleh. This follows countless reports from journalist eyewitnesses, analyses by multiple international outlets, condemnation from world governments, and a joint investigation which determined Israeli forces deliberately targeted Abu Akleh. Israel's admission thus reflects a definitive loss of the narrative battle over the course of a full year rather a morally-directed decision. Al Jazeera Fron...
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- Working People Live: Making Baltimore a Union Town
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- 3 years ago
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- Join Maximillian Alvarez, Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network, for a special live edition of his podcast Working People, with guest co-host Rebekah Kirkman! They'll be talking with shop floor organizers responsible for a surge in recent union victories in Baltimore, highlighting the new strategies, new energy, and new challenges facing a rising generation of working people as they fight for justice in their workplaces.
Featuring rank and file workers from:
—Starbucks (Starbucks Workers United)
—Baltimore Museum of Art (AFSCME)
—Walters Art Museum (AFSCME)
—Johns Hopkins University (Teachers and Researchers United)
—MOM's Organic Markets Union (Teamsters)
—Baltimore Marriott Waterfront (Unite Here)
Working People, hosted by Maximillian Alvarez and produced in partnership with In These Times and The Real News Network, is a podcast about working-class lives in the 21st century. In every episod...
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- Marianne Williamson explains her 2024 presidential campaign
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- 3 years ago
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- The 2024 election season has begun, and while a second Trump vs. Biden showdown is expected by many, a number of challengers have emerged within the Democratic Party. One of them is Marianne Williamson—author of several self-help books, and former 2020 presidential candidate. Williamson joins TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez to explain what she's about, why she's running, and how she hopes to transform US politics through her candidacy.
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Post-Production: Adam Coley
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- Nayib Bukele's El Salvador: Gang crackdown or return to dictatorship?
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- 3 years ago
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- El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is a millennial social media sensation, who has ruled with an iron fist over the last year, instituting a state of exception and locking up 65,000 suspected gang members. For much of the country, his policies have been an overwhelming success, slashing crime rates like never seen. But, thousands of family members of the detained say their loved ones are innocent. On May 1, they led a huge International Workers Day march against the government. Their stories, and the signs they carry, are eerily reminiscent. In the 1970s and 80s, thirty thousand innocent civilians were detained, disappeared and murdered during El Salvador's armed internal conflict and under brutal US-backed authoritarian regimes. Today, many fear the return of dictatorship.
Production/Post-Production: Michael Fox
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- Why the UK is failing its NHS healthcare workers
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- 3 years ago
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- Several unions of National Health Service workers in the UK have rejected a 5 percent raise offer from the government and are continuing to picket and strike. Long a target of Tory austerity measures, NHS workers have been squeezed between budget cuts on one hand and spiking inflation on the other. The results have been catastrophic, not only for workers themselves, but for as well, given the quality of healthcare the system is able to deliver deteriorates as pressure on workers increases. "I'm not enabled by this system anymore, by the NHS, to take proper care of my patients," Bert Roman, a cancer nurse, told The Real News. With 47,000 nurses pushed from the profession by economic factors, most hospitals are trying to solve problems of understaffing by driving the remaining workers even harder. TRNN reports from picket lines in London.
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- Khader Adnan's matyrdom and Israel's abuse of Palestinians w/Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi| Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- The death of Khader Adnan in Israeli detention during a hunger strike on May 2 of this year sparked mourning worldwide and a general strike in occupied Palestine. The 45-year-old Adnan was on his 87th day of hunger strike while serving a sentence for his 12th arrest by the Israeli state at the time of his death. A baker by trade and a father to nine children, Adnan was the first Palestinian to die of hunger strike in an Israeli prison since 1992. As a spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Adnan first captured the world's attention when he launched a hunger strike from behind bars in 2011, sparking a global wave of solidarity actions. Israel has thus far refused to return the body of Adnan to his mourning widow and children. Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the life, activism, and martyrdom of Khader Adnan, and what his death reveals about the routine abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel.
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi is the founding Director and Senio...
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- The Puerto Ricans illegally occupying land to resist displacement
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- 3 years ago
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- In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, community groups throughout different parts of Puerto Rico have rescued vacant lands and transformed them into spaces for social and community development.
This story was supported by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and co-published with The Real News Network and 9 Millones.
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- Harriet Tubman and the battle for America's symbols w/Clarence Lusane | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The debate over America's symbols and monuments has sharpened with the growing mass movement for racial justice in the past decade. The lionization of slave-owners and genocidaires has been pointed out by many as in contradiction to the ideals of democracy and racial justice so often touted as national core values. In the midst of this debate, the decision by the US Treasury to place Harriet Tubman alongside Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2030 has incited controversy. Howard University professor of political science Clarence Lusane joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the Harriet Tubman dollar bill, and the stakes of the debate over national symbols in righting the historical wrongs of slavery and white supremacy.
Dr. Clarence Lusane is a full Professor, former Chairman of Howard University’s Department of Political Science, and current Director of the International Affairs program. He is an author, activist, scholar, lecturer, and journalist. His most re...
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- Cops keep making unjustified arrests, but these victims are fighting back...and winning!
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down some recent cases of bad arrests covered by PAR and share with viewers how our reporting has actually lead to progress. We also explore new ways of analyzing policing to explain why it continues to lead to suffering and bad outcomes in communities across the country.
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- WGA rep explains the Hollywood writers strike
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- 3 years ago
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- Hollywood writers represented by the Writers Guild of America, East, and the Writers Guild of America, West, are on strike for the first time since 2007-08. As Alex Press writes in Jacobin, "The WGA (West and East) called the strike just before midnight on May 1, with its leadership unanimously voting for a work stoppage after six weeks of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over a new three-year contract that covers some 11,500 film and television writers. Announcing its decision, the union said that the bargaining table responses of the AMPTP, which consists of Amazon, Apple, Discovery-Warner, Disney, NBC Universal, Netflix, Paramount, and Sony, had 'been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing.'" Even though overall production budgets have risen in the past decade, writer pay has declined, and the rise of streaming services has translated to lower residuals for writers, shorter paid work periods and more preca...
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- Staffers in Congress are sick and tired—they want a union!
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- 3 years ago
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- Behind every elected official in Congress, whether beloved or reviled, is an army of staffers and aides who do everything from writing bills to organizing meetings, politicking—and all too frequently, no shortage of objectively degrading tasks. Indeed, Capitol Hill is perpetually swirled by a storm of rumors of sneering Senators and capricious Congresspersons said to abuse their aides. Now, the staffers are striking back by attempting to unionize. In a recent letter to Senate leaders, the Congressional Workers Union called on Senators to pass a resolution recognizing the right of Congressional staffers to unionize. CWU representatives Courtney Rose Laudick and Taylor Marie Doggett sit down with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez to explain the working conditions faced by staffers on the Hill, and why they see their unionization drive as part of the broader workers' movement.
Taylor Marie Doggett is the Vice President of Communications for the Congressional Workers ...
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- Frente Polisario explains the Western Sahara struggle w/Amb. Sidi Omar
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- 3 years ago
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- The national liberation struggle of the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara has been ongoing for 50 years. Through the twists and turns of history, the people of Western Sahara have faced Spanish colonialism, the occupation of their territory by Mauritania and Morocco, and expulsion from their territory to refugee camps in Algeria. Despite this long struggle, Western Sahara's history and politics remain relatively unknown to many outsiders. Bill Fletcher Jr., a member of the TRNN Executive Board, speaks with Sidi Omar, the UN Ambassador of Frente Poliario, the political organization behind the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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- Police violence, gentrification, and racial capitalism w/Robin D. G. Kelley
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- 3 years ago
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- In 2001, Cincinnati police killed a 19-year-old Black man named Timothy Thomas, sparking an uprising that shook the city for four days. 19 years later, in the city of Minneapolis, local police officers killed George Floyd over an alleged counterfeit bill, catalyzing a nationwide rebellion. Much of the discourse surrounding racist police killings have focused on perceived flaws within the institution of policing itself, but explanations for the consistency and pervasiveness of police violence cannot be found within police departments alone. Police operate within a system of race and class-based segregation, wherein Black, Indigenous, and migrant poor people are rendered surplus populations marked for the extraction of revenues by the state in the form of fines and fees. The lives of George Floyd and Timothy Thomas themselves exemplify this in cruel relief. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez interviews historian Robin D. G. Kelley on the links between police killings and the system...
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- Why a 'Two-State Solution' in Israel/Palestine doesn't work | The Marc Steiner Show
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- 3 years ago
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- The debate on a just future to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine has often pivoted around the question of a two-state or one-state solution. In a recent article for Foreign Affairs, four longtime proponents of the two-state solution make the case for why such an approach is no longer viable. Despite whatever high-minded ideals may have once motivated the search for a two-state solution, such dreams have become glaringly disconnected from the day-to-day reality of Palestinians living under occupation. Co-authors Nathan J. Brown and Shibley Telhami join The Marc Steiner Show to discuss why they are moving away from the two-state approach, and what principles would need to undergird a just and politically feasible solution to the occupation of Palestine.
Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Shibley Telhami is the...
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- Why incarcerated people's perspectives matter w/Da'Shaun Harrison | Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- The call for prison abolition has been popularized over the last decade of popular movements against police violence, many of which have operated under the banner of Black Lives Matter. But what does abolition mean, and who gets to define it? Thus far, much of the conversation has been steered and curated by mainstream media. A new initiative from Scalawag Magazine tentatively titled 'Project Abolition' seeks to disrupt the dominant narrative by platforming voices from within prisons themselves. Scalawag Editor-At-Large Da'Shaun Harrison joins Rattling the Bars to explain Project Abolition.
Da'Shaun Harrison (they/them) is the Editor-At-Large of Scalawag Magazine. They are also the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness.
Production/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Why Colombians support Gustavo Petro, their new president
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- 3 years ago
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- The popular forces of Colombia have been at odds with the forces of their state for decades. Yet this year on May Day, crowds of people mobilized not in opposition to their government but in support of its labor reforms and efforts to produce a lasting peace. Swept into power last year in the aftermath of a popular uprising, President Gustavo Petro and Vice President Francia Márquez have prioritized an agenda to reform the country and build power for working people and oppressed groups such as Afro-Colombians and Indigenous peoples. While conservative elements continue to obstruct this agenda from within the state, the new administration is turning to popular mobilizations such as the ones on May Day to sustain momentum. TRNN reports on May Day from Cali, Colombia, one of the cities hit hardest by the crackdown against anti-government protests in 2021 by the previous Ivan Duque administration.
This story, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is part of The Real News...
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- Türkiye cracks down on May Day workers' protests ahead of election
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- 3 years ago
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- For years, the working class of Türkiye has been caught in the vice-grip of a global economic downturn and a government hostile to their interests. Now, with presidential elections coming up on May 14, speculation is rising that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could be unseated. On May Day, thousands of workers mobilized in Istanbul, limiting themselves to the outskirts of the city after more central locations were shut down in anticipation of protests. TRNN reports from Istanbul, speaking directly to union organizers, members of Parliament, and more on the condition of the Turkish working class and the prospects the upcoming election offers.
This story, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is part of The Real News Network’s 'Workers of the World' series, telling the stories of workers around the globe building collective power and redefining the future of work on their own terms: https://therealnews.com/workers-of-the-world
Producer: Daniel Thorpe
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- College used to be affordable. What happened? w/Ellen Schrecker | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- The 1960s were a decade of intellectual and political ferment on college campuses. Anti-war, feminist, and racial justice movements all found a foothold in higher education, with student activists often playing a pivotal role in social movements that extended far beyond the university. A crucial condition for the student radicalism of the time was the affordability of public higher education and the recent dissolution of barriers that prevented students of minoritized backgrounds from attending college. Today, these conditions have all but disappeared. Collectively, college graduates owe some $1.6 trillion in student debt. The most elite institutions have been cordoned off from students of working class backgrounds by astronomically high tuition fees. Even public universities demand staggering rates from their students. When did this change occur, and why? Retired professor of history Ellen Schrecker joins The Chris Hedges Report to explain the long assault on public, affordable higher...
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- A cop tased him over a tag light, then justified it with alarming charges | PAR
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- 3 years ago
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- David Michaud had just checked into a motel in Hot Springs, MT when he was approached by local police and ordered to present identification. After Michaud demanded to know why he was being questioned, a contentious exchange ensued that ended with police tasering Michaud multiple times. Michaud, who is Chamorro, was asked by officers whether he was "tribal" before being tasered and arrested. Police gave multiple and conflicting reasons for Michaud's treatment, from an alleged busted tail light to failing to present ID. Once they had Michaud detained, local authorities pressed DUI charges against him. Police Accountability Report investigates this case of police abuse of power and violence in small town Montana, speaking directly to David Michaud about his ordeal.
Production: Stephen Janis
Post-Production: Stephen Janis, Adam Coley
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- Here's why the GOP debt ceiling plan will cost you money | The Marc Steiner Show
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- 3 years ago
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- The debt ceiling debate is back. On May 1, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the US government could default on its debts as soon as June 1. The debt ceiling debate has been a perennial feature of American politics over the last two decades—ever since the national deficit began to balloon as an effect of the Bush Jr. administration's War on Terror and tax cuts for the wealthy. During the Obama years, Congressional sparring over the debt ceiling was a favored Republican tactic to obstruct their opposition's agenda. Under the Trump administration, the debt ceiling was suspended, allowing federal deficits to explode by some $7.8 trillion—$2 trillion of which went to tax cuts for big corporations and the wealthiest individuals alone. Now, the GOP has returned to its selective handwringing over the debt ceiling. And House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's latest plan, the Limit, Save, Grow Act, could have disastrous consequences for average people while once again lining the pockets of...
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- Temple Uni grad students WON their strike. Here's how they did it.
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- 3 years ago
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- On Jan. 31 of this year, the Temple University Graduate Students' Association (TUGSA) launched the first strike in their 25-year history. The decision to strike came as a result of years of organizing that largely began in 2020, after Temple's decision to force in-person classes in the fall of 2020 led to a completely preventable COVID-19 outbreak. Striking for 42 days, graduate student-workers faced cuts to their health insurance, threats to lose tuition remissions, and more. Nevertheless, TUGSA persevered, winning a new contract that raised wages and eliminated Temple's wage-tier system for graduate student-workers in different departments. Although the new contract doesn't meet TUGSA's maximal demands, the mettle and commitment displayed by student-worker organizers offers a bright spot with important lessons for the labor wave roiling academic institutions across the country. Vince Quiles, lead organizer of Home Depot United Philadelphia, interviews TUGSA strike captain Josh Stern ...
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- May Day and the Haymarket Massacre | Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, is celebrated around the world by labor unions, socialist parties, and anarchists. May Day's origins go back to the 1886 Haymarket Affair, when hundreds of thousands of US workers walked off the job, and 40,000 went on strike in Chicago for an eight-hour workday. Despite its origins, May Day is largely unknown in the US today. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the history of May Day, and how the persecution of organizers in the wake of the Haymarket Massacre highlights the importance of extending solidarity from the labor movement to the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino, David Hebden
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- 'This Is Not a War Story' explores the emotional wounds of war veterans | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- Content warning: suicide is a topic in this episode.
War in film is a staple genre in a tremendously lucrative industry. Hollywood inundates our culture with glamorous depictions of wars, both fictional and real. Yet the truth of America's forever wars, both for the countries invaded and veterans who return home, are rarely explored in depth in popular culture. This Is Not a War Story explores one part of the human toll of US wars through the lens of veterans who return with physical and mental wounds. Writer-director and star Talia Lugacy and actor Eli Wright join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the film. This is Not a War Story is available to stream and purchase on DVD.
Talia Lugacy is an independent film director, writer, and producer.
Eli Wright is a former Army combat medic who served in the Iraq War. He is now an artist who makes paper from military uniforms.
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- Parents of Jalen Randle, unarmed Black man killed by cop, remember their son
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- 3 years ago
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- On Apr. 27, 2022, Houston police officer Shane Privette shot and killed Jalen Randle within seconds of pulling him over. Body camera footage clearly shows that Jalen was shot before he had an opportunity to raise his hands in surrender. Jalen had a warrant out for his arrest at the time, but he was unarmed and made no threats to the arresting officers.
For months, city officials made no public moves regarding Jalen's case. But the Randle family was determined not to allow their son's death to be swept under the rug. After months of protests, a Grand Jury served an indictment against Officer Shane Privette. As of Apr. 26, 2023, the case is being handed over to a new Grand Jury after the previous one decided to take no action.
Jalen's parents, Warren Randle and Tiffany Rachal, speak with The Real News about their son's life and unjust death. They remember a young man whose caring spirit was evident from childhood, and reinforced in adulthood after becoming a fat...
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- Is it time to nationalize the railroads? Freight workers say yes
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- 3 years ago
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- The train derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio catapulted the degraded condition of the US's freight rail network into national consciousness. But workers have been sounding the alarm for years. Long hours, short staffs, poor sick leave, and dangerously extended trains have raised the risks inherent in railroad operations for workers and the public in order to fatten the profit margins of corporate rail carriers. While the Department of Transportation has called for stricter regulation in the wake of East Palestine and other recent disasters, rank-and-file workers say it's not enough. The problem is not simply one of inadequate regulation, but the power of private, profit-driven interests to shape what is ultimately public infrastructure. Thus comes the call to nationalize the railroads. But how might this be accomplished, and how effectively can it solve the problems plaguing the rail system today? Journalist and professor Kari Lyderson and former Railroad Workers United Genera...
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- UMich docks pay, calls cops on striking grad students | Working People
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- 3 years ago
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- Graduate student-workers at the University of Michigan are still on strike after hitting the picket line for the second time in three years at the end of March. In the time between the Fall 2020 and Winter 2023 strikes, according to the union, the gap between graduate workers' average pay and the cost of living in Ann Arbor has tripled. Facing a cost-of-living crisis and fighting for a slate of core demands—from a living wage and affordable childcare to better protections for international students, access to gender-affirming healthcare, and the creation of an unarmed, non-police emergency response unit on campus—graduate workers are not backing down. Meanwhile, University of Michigan President Santa Ono and the upper-level administration have continued with their attempts to break the strike through the courts and even had the cops called on striking graduates when they confronted Ono about UM's handling of the strike. In this mini-cast, a follow-up to our March 31 report at the b...
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- Kayla Denker speaks out against death threats, transphobic backlash
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- 3 years ago
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- Kayla Denker is a military veteran and a trained archaeologist who has worked in the private sector and for the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. She is also a trans woman living in America, and every day she navigates the difficult and increasingly dangerous terrain of living her life as an out trans person—estrangement from unaccepting family, hostile encounters in public, and a growing right-wing political crusade hellbent on scapegoating LGBTQ+ people as the ultimate evil and the source of society's ills, stripping them of their rights, and outwardly calling for the elimination of trans people from society.
Until recently, Kayla was working for the Forest Service, doing a job she loved. On March 5, however, after conservative commentator Michael Knowles openly proclaimed at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 4 that "transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely," Kayla posted a short video online featuring herself l...
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- 'This is war' fighting mass incarceration from inside prisons | Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/how-a-1970s-prisoner-organized-literacy-program-changed-marylands-penitentiaries
Marshall "Eddie" Conway was framed for the murder of a police officer and incarcerated for 44 years—but even behind bars, he continued to organize. In the early 1970s, Maryland's state prisons were overcrowded and lacked education opportunities for incarcerated people. As a form of intervention, Eddie organized a university-level education program with fellow prisoners known as "To Say Their Own Word." The program not only raised the level of literacy among inmates; it also forged stronger solidarity between prisoners, and catalyzed other organizing and transformation across Maryland's prison system. Former participants of To Say Their Own Word, Saleem El-Amin and Bruce Franklin, join Rattling the Bars for a look back on this project's impact.
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- Mexico's wind energy farms aren't as 'clean' as you think
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- 3 years ago
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- Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/wind-energy-in-mexico-is-not-as-clean-as-you-think
In March 2023, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Oaxaca, Mexico, to discuss U.S.-Mexico collaboration over renewable energy. It was announced that the United States would commit to invest in at least 10 new wind and solar parks in the region — already one of Latin America’s top wind power hot spots.
But there’s a problem. These wind farms there have been largely constructed and run by foreign transnational corporations. Residents say that while on the surface these wind turbines are generating clean energy, they have been disrespecting communal land rights, stiffing local residents money owed for renting their land, and refusing to benefit the local community with discounted or subsidized utility rates. There are also major concerns for the local environment.
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- Extinction Rebellion's Roger Hallam: It's not the climate, it's the system | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/the-system-is-not-moving-fast-enough
Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body of UN scientists, delivered a "final warning" to drastically cut global emissions in order to prevent the heating of the planet past 1.5 degrees Celsius. As the exponentially accelerating effects of the climate crisis have become more apparent in recent years, so too has activism to demand urgent action from governments. In the UK, a movement known as Extinction Rebellion (XR) first emerged in 2018, and then proliferated around the globe. XR has helped popularize the spread of civil disobedience tactics in the contemporary environmental movement. But what is the movement's theory of change? How does XR seek to proceed from direct action tactics to systems change on a timescale that matches the rapidly degrading state of our the earth's ecological systems? Roger Hallam, co-founder of XR...
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- What 17 years of railroad work taught me about corporate America
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- 3 years ago
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- Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/ive-been-a-train-conductor-for-17-years-corporate-greed-has-ruined-the-railroads
Bryan Mack is a second-generation railroad worker from Florence, South Carolina, with a Masters in Music Performance. Both Bryan and his father worked for CSX Transportation, each hiring out at times when there were statistically few Black employees or employees of color working on the railroads. For 17 years, Bryan has worked as a conductor for CSX; in that time, he has seen and experienced firsthand the worsening conditions as the industry has been taken over by greedy executives and upper-level managers hellbent on cutting costs and maximizing profits for their shareholders at the expense of workers, customers, and the public at large. As part of our continuing coverage of the crisis on the nation's railroad system, we talk with Bryan about his life and work on the railroads, and about the good, bad, and ugly parts of the industry t...
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- Cops raided his house without a warrant, how they justified it is scary
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- 3 years ago
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- The chilling raid of an early-onset dementia patient's home in Erie, PA by multiple law enforcement agencies evokes a larger pattern of police abuse against disabled people.
Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode of the Police Accountability Report!
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- Making a Killing: Anatomy of the Cincinnati Rebellion of 2001 w/Robin D.G. Kelley
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- 3 years ago
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- In a special 'George Floyd Memorial Lecture' hosted by the University of Houston, historian Robin D.G. Kelley draws links between the 2020 uprisings and the 2001 rebellion in Cincinnati against the police killing of Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old unarmed Black man.
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- How Brazil's MST fights for agrarian reform while battling hunger
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Hunger skyrocketed in Brazil during the tenure of former president Jair Bolsonaro. 33 million Brazilians, some 15% of the entire country, are now food insecure according to official statistics. As Brazil's poorest were abandoned to deal with the overlapping crises of COVID-19 and inflation, the MST, or Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, stepped in. With 20 million hectares of reclaimed land under their control across 1,200 municipalities, the MST possessed the necessary base of land and labor to effectively make a difference for millions of Brazilians. TRNN reports from the ground in Brazil to investigate how the largest social movement in the Americas is simultaneously eliminating hunger, seizing land for the tillers, and fighting for agrarian reform.
This story, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is part of The Real News Network’s Workers of the World series, telling the stories of workers around the globe building collective power and redefining the future ...
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- Texas is the future neofascists want | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/for-a-glimpse-of-americas-future-look-at-texas
Attacks on LGBTQ rights, abortion access, and movements for racial justice aren't exclusive to any one state in the union. But Texas is certainly a place where state officials and vigilantes are working hand-in-hand to bring about a dangerous new future. Texas-based journalists Andrea Grimes and Steven Monacelli join The Marc Steiner Show to explain where Texas is headed and how the left is fighting back.
Andrea Grimes is a writer, editor, and activist living in Austin, Texas. She frequently writes about Texas, politics, and reproductive justice. Her work has previously appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, DAME Magazine, Rewire News, The Texas Observer, and other publications.
Steven Monacelli is the Texas Observer's Special Investigative Correspondent, based in Dallas. His reporting has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, ...
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- To Say Their Own Word: Eddie Conway's prison organizing | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Even though he was framed for the killing of a local police officer, sentenced without a fair trial, and imprisoned for 44 years, former Black Panther and dearly departed TRNN Executive Producer Marshall “Eddie” Conway never stopped organizing. In 1980, while incarcerated himself as a political prisoner, Eddie helped organize a prisoners’ educational outreach program called “To Say Their Own Word,” which brought thinkers and scholars to Maryland Penitentiary to speak about topics like US fascism, capitalism, the prison-industrial complex, government surveillance, and many other issues that have become even more pressing today. Through their organizing work, Eddie and his fellow inmates were responsible for dramatically increasing literacy levels among prisoners inside the Maryland Penitentiary and transforming the lives of countless inmates.
This special edition of Rattling the Bars features a mini-documentary that lays out an oral history of the “To Say Their ...
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- 350,000 Teamsters are about to take on UPS
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/350000-teamsters-are-about-to-take-on-ups
Under the new leadership team led by General President Sean M. O'Brien, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are re-introducing themselves to the bosses and to the world as a fighting union, and they are gearing up for their biggest test yet: the impending negotiations of the IBT's contract with United Parcel Service (UPS). With UPS employing over 350,000 Teamster members around the country, theirs is the largest collective bargaining agreement in North America—and the current contract is set to expire on July 31. With national negotiations set to begin this month, Teamsters leaders are traveling to union locals around the country, mobilizing their members, and preparing UPS workers for a strike if a new contract is not reached on time. We attended an April 2 rally at Teamsters Local 25 in Boston (O'Brien's old local) and spoke with folks on the ground about this ne...
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- Haiti's Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier: Gang leader or revolutionary? | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/a-new-documentary-offers-a-different-look-at-haitis-jimmy-barbecue-cherizier
Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti's purported "gang problem." But who is Chérizier really? A new documentary series, Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising, offers a different view of Chérizier—not as the leader of a criminal enterprise, but as a political figure leading an armed revolutionary movement. Directors Dan Cohen and Kim Ives join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new project.
Read more about the social movements in Haiti opposing its local oligarchy here: https://therealnews.com/vijay-prashad-haitis-four-years-of-nonstop-protests-against-us-interference
You can watch the first episode of Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlgD5PozR5U
Dan Cohen is a journalist and co-producer of the...
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- What Union Pacific and the media aren't telling you about the Baker, CA, train derailment
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- This Feb., Norfolk Southern's train derailment catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio dragged the decrepit state of the US rail system into the national spotlight. A rash of other railroad catastrophes in recent weeks has only piled on questions about why and how the railroads have become so dangerous. With over 1,000 train derailments per year, the rate and net occurrence of rail disasters in the US far exceeds that of other wealthy countries. While the attention of the mainstream media and general public may be new, the issue of rail accidents and safety has been slowly simmering for years—and railroad workers' unions have long been at the forefront of the struggle to fix this problem. TRNN Associate Editor Mel Buer speaks with Michael Paul Lindsay, a locomotive engineer, Railroad Workers United organizer, and 17-year employee of Union Pacific about the state of US railroads, the link between train derailments and rail carriers' profit-seeking behavior, and what unions are trying to d...
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- Livestream: Worker Organizing, Repression & Trade Policy In the Philippines
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Learn about efforts to organize unions in US-linked call centers in the Philippines & the importance of ensuring that international trade policies uphold fundamental human rights.
The event, moderated by Maximillian Alvarez, Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network and Ryan Harvey, National Field Director for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, is part of organizing efforts for two upcoming rallies in the U.S. during negotiating meetings for the Biden’s administration’s largest trade initiative, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). Those meetings and rallies will take place in Detroit in May and in Seattle in August.
Wednesday's event is sponsored by the BPO Industry Employees’ Network (Philippines), International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (US), Communications Workers of America (US), Public Citizen (US), BAYAN USA (US), International League of Peoples’ Struggle - US, and The Real News Network.
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- Is DeSantis America's future? w/Anna Eskamani & Dream Defenders | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, "Florida" has become synonymous with attacks on LGBTQ rights, public schools, and unions. Yet this offensive isn't only driven by hatred and ideology. It's also about curbing the power of Florida's progressives—power that was building steadily before DeSantis came along. State House Rep. Anna Eskamani and Nailah Summers-Polite join The Marc Steiner Show to talk about Florida's recent trajectory and the prospects for a future progressive comeback.
Anna Vishkaee Eskamani is a member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 42nd District in Orange County.
Nailah Summers-Polite is the Co-Executive Director of Dream Defenders.
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/the-ron-desantis-counter-revolution-is-about-stopping-floridas-progressives
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- The US is guilty of genocide w/ Jalil Muntaqim | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- To read the transcript to this episode, go to: https://therealnews.com/jalil-muntaqim-the-time-to-end-prison-slavery-is-now
In 2021, the International Tribunal On US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples found the United States government guilty of genocide. The tribunal drew upon the legacy of the 1951 petition submitted to the United Nations by the Civil Rights Congress: "We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.” Jalil Muntaqim joins Rattling the Bars to discuss his life, the US's long history of genocide, the need for a New Afrikan independence movement in the US, and the strategy to internationalize this struggle beyond compromised institutions such as the United Nations.
To learn more about the Spirit of Mandela campaign to organize a People's Senate, click here: https://spiritofmandela.org/peoples-senate/
Jalil Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liber...
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- 'You're going to see more books get banned': The war on schools in Ron Desantis's Florida
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript and shownotes for this podcast: https://therealnews.com/youre-going-to-see-more-books-get-banned-floridas-war-on-public-schools
Things are getting very dark in Florida, and educators at all levels have found themselves on the frontlines of a reactionary political crusade led by Republican governor Ron DeSantis. "As the new semester began," Florida-based journalist Michael Sainato recently reported, "teachers throughout Florida were faced with new state laws strictly limiting curricula—prompting schools to remove droves of books from their classrooms and libraries for fear of being in violation of the draconian but opaque new laws. An already-chilling reality gripping the third most populous state is getting even chillier in the wake of controversial legislation such as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and the Stop Woke Act, which both went into effect in July 2022." What is it like teaching in DeSantis's Florida today? For those who haven't already fled...
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- COVID-19 isn't 'over'—but your Medicaid might be | The Chris Hedges Report w/ Dr. Margaret Flowers
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Biden administration is poised to allow the national emergency on COVID-19 to expire on May 11, 2023. Once that occurs, between 5 to 14 million Americans previously covered under Medicaid will lose their insurance.
Dr. Margaret Flowers joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the toll that COVID denialism will have on our society, and the generally outrageous state of US healthcare.
Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician and activist for single payer healthcare. She served as co-chair of the Green Party of the United States until 2020, and is currently an adviser to the board of Physicians for a National Health Program.
View the transcript here: https://therealnews.com/no-covid-19-isnt-over-but-millions-of-americans-medicaid-coverage-is-about-to-be
Studio: David Hebden, Adam Coley, Cameron Granadino
Post-Production: Adam Coley, Cameron Granadino
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- Live: Strikes at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, University of Michigan, & more
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- From strippers in North Hollywood to service workers in Atlanta and graduate students in Michigan, workers across sectors of the economy are taking direct action and fighting for what they deserve. But they are also facing retaliation, union busting, and even violence on the picket line. If we want to see the labor movement grow, we need to be there for workers when it counts the most, and we need to do whatever we can to make sure they win their fights.
In the latest worker solidarity livestream, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez will speak with a panel of workers about their respective strikes and struggles at the Star Garden Topless Bar in North Hollywood, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the University of Michigan, and more.
Links to strike/hardship funds:
- Stripper Strike NoHo linktree: https://linktr.ee/stripperstrikenoho
- Support Striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Workers: https://cwa-union.org/support-striking-pitts...
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- Israel can never be a democracy while occupying Palestine | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- As Israelis march en masse against Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial coup, many around the world are questioning why these protests did not materialize in defense of Palestinian land and life. For a special Passover installment of the "Not in Our Name" series, Rabbi Arik Ascherman joins The Marc Steiner Show to talk about the current protest movement in Israel and why democracy there cannot be attained without Palestinian liberation.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman is a Reform rabbi and executive director of the Israeli human rights organization Torat Tzedek-Torah of Justice. He is a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Rabbi David J. Forman Memorial Committee's Human Rights Award.
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- The American evangelical roots of Uganda's new anti-LGBTI law w/Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ugandan activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera explains how US evangelicals exported anti-LGBT politics to Uganda, which has now passed a sweeping law broadly criminalizing LGBTI people for the second time in a decade.
LGBTI stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex—this is the preferred acronym used in Uganda.
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is a founder of the LGBTI movement in Uganda, and the founder of Freedom & Roam Uganda, a prominent human rights organization that addresses discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people. Nabagasera opened Uganda's first gay bar and organized the country's first pride parade. She's also the first LGBTI rights activist to be awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, and additionally received the Right Livelihood Award for his activism in 2015. She currently resides in Massachusetts.
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- The Pendleton 2 story: 200 years for saving a life w/Too Black & Victoria Law | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Too Black and Victoria Law join Rattling the Bars to discuss the campaign to free the Pendleton 2.
The Pendleton 2 were sentenced to more than 200 years for leading a prison uprising to stop racist KKK-affiliated guards from killing a man in 1985. John "Balagoon" Cole and Christopher "Naeem" Trotter are still in prison 38 years later.
To learn more about the campaign to free the Pendleton 2, visit https://pendleton2.com
Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, host of The Black Myths Podcast on Black Power Media, and producer of The Last Dope Intellectual. Too Black is the communications director for the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2. He is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and can be reached at tooblack8808@gmail.com or @too_black_ on Twitter.
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender, and resistance. She’s the author of “Prisons Make Us Safer”: An...
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- Lori Grinker's photos capture history through portraits | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Lori Grinker was just an art school student when she was assigned to shoot a project on young boxers under the guidance of legendary trainer Cus D'Amato. It was through this project that she met a 13-year-old Mike Tyson, whose career would blossom at the same time as hers. Throughout her decades as a photographer, Grinker's work has spanned a range of historical topics, and often found political insight in deeply personal portraits. Lori Grinker joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss two of her books, Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict and Mike Tyson.
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Feature image photo: Lori Grinker/Contact Press Images
To read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/photographer-lori-grinkers-portraits-dont-just-capture-her-subjects-they-capture-history
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