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French national strikes against pension reforms continue despite police repression
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- French national strikes against pension reforms continue despite police repression
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- On January 31st, France saw widespread strikes as workers across the country took to the streets to protest against the government's proposed pension reforms.
Producer: T. Kelly
Videographer: Timothée Zourabichvili
Video editors: Timothée Zourabichvili & Leo Erhardt
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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...
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- Russiagate was a hoax w/Matt Taibbi | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- Journalist Matt Taibbi has revealed that the source of many of the claims of ongoing Russian disinformation during the Trump presidency, Hamilton 68, was itself a disinformation operation concocted by former US intelligence officials. Matt Taibbi joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his findings and dissect how legacy media, the public, and even Congress were taken along for the ride in the 'Russiagate' saga.
Matt Taibbi is a journalist, author, and co-host of the Useful Idiots podcast.
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- Cops Wanted to Shut Us Down—4 years later, We Are Still Here! w/ James Freeman, Lackluster, & more!
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- 3 years ago
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- Taya Graham and Stephen Janis mark four years of holding police accountable with a lively discussion on how law enforcement has evolved in the past four years, and the challenges of reporting on and investigating police misconduct. Stephen and Taya are joined by legendary cop watchers James Freeman, Lackluster, and Otto the watchdog.
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- Tory austerity, Ukraine War inflation behind UK postal workers' strike
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- 3 years ago
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- Massive mobilizations and strikes have been witnessed in the UK over the last couple of months against the Tory government for failing to tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis. Postal workers, railway workers, public service workers, barristers, dockers, garbage collectors, Amazon workers etc. have walked out and gone on strike to demand better pay and better working conditions. TRNN delves into the postal workers' strike and its roots in over a decade of Tory austerity measures. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.
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.
Producer: Alexander Morris
Videographer: Julia Schönheit, Alexander Morris
Video editor: Leo Erhardt
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- From Brazil to Peru, the far right is on the move in Latin America | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript of this episode: https://therealnews.com/from-brazil-to-peru-the-far-right-is-on-the-move-in-latin-america
Between former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo being removed from office and Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right supporters in Brazil storming the halls of government in a January 6-style coup attempt, the pitched battle for political power in Latin American states is intensifying more with each passing day. What is driving these insurgent rightwing movements across the continent? What international forces are connecting them, and how are they learning from and feeding each other? What must the response from the left, within and beyond government, be? This week on The Marc Steiner Show, as part of our ongoing collaboration with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), we bring you a new installment of our special series on “The Rise of the Right.” With a special focus on the latest political upheaval in Brazil and Peru, Marc speaks with...
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- Jeff Bezos fails to kill Amazon's union. Here's what's next.
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- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/the-nlrb-ruled-in-favor-of-amazon-union-organizers-whats-next
JFK8 worker-organizers Michelle Valentin Nieves, Jordan Flowers, and Gerald Bryson join TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez for a discussion on the fight to unionize Amazon thus far, and what lies ahead.
Editor's note (2/8/23): In the video, Michelle is identified as "Michelle Valentin" but should be identified as "Michelle Valentin Nieves."
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- Interview from prison: What an inhumane carceral system does to human psyches
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- 3 years ago
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- In this urgent, exclusive interview for Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Carla J. Simmons from inside the Georgia prison system, as well as Page Dukes of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Simmons, who has been incarcerated since 2004, recently published an article in Scalawag magazine on the irreparable psychological damage our inhumane system of mass incarceration inflicts on incarcerated people, prison staff, and the communities returning citizens re-enter upon their release. “There needs to be accountability for the psychological damage caused by incarceration as more and more members of society experience it, for longer periods of time,” Simmons writes. “If society upholds the pretense that jails and prisons act as a rehabilitative service, we must consider what condition these people will be in when they re-enter society.”
Read Carla Simmon's article for Scalawag, "Sentenced to Trauma: Inside the volatility and disorder of prison": https://scalawa...
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- Greece now has the highest energy costs in the EU. These workers are fighting back.
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- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript of this video: https://therealnews.com/greek-workers-resist-soaring-energy-prices-from-eu-imposed-privatization-and-ukraine-war
Thousands of Greek workers have mobilized against runaway energy and fuel prices in recent weeks. Although spiking fuel and energy prices are now a global phenomenon tied to inflation driven by corporate profiteering and blowback from failed sanctions against Russia, the crisis has been particularly acute for Greece due to EU-imposed privatization of its energy sector. TRNN reports from the ground as workers fight to increase stagnating wages in light of the cost of living crisis. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.
Producer: Christos Avramidis
Videography: Alexandros Litsardakis
Video editor: Leo Erhardt
Translation: Danai Maltezou
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- The dark truths WikiLeaks revealed w/Stefania Maurizi | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- From backroom deals between Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs to US covert operations in Haiti, Tunisia, Italy and beyond, WikiLeaks revealed the dark underbelly of US power. Author and journalist Stefania Maurizi joins The Chris Hedges Report to share her insider perspective on one of the century's biggest stories, as well as her encyclopedic knowledge of the horrific truths revealed in WikiLeaks' hundreds of thousands of leaked files.
Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist with Il Fatto Quotidiano, and the author of Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies.
Studio: Adam Coley, Cameron Granadino, David Hebden
Post-Production: David Hebden
Audio Post-Production: Tommy Harron
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- Cops discovered he was filing a complaint against them, then they struck back | PAR
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript of this episode: https://therealnews.com/cops-discovered-he-was-filing-a-complaint-against-them-then-they-struck-back
A Georgia man tried to file a complaint against law enforcement in Bulloch, GA, but found himself in handcuffs instead.
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- The real story of Rosa Parks | The Marc Steiner Show
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript of this episode: https://therealnews.com/rosa-parks-myth-civil-rights-movement-history
Rosa Parks's decades of activist experience have been overshadowed by a selective history of the Civl Rights Movement that ignores its roots in a longer, protracted struggle for justice. Biographer Jeanne Theoharis and documentarian Yoruba Richen join The Marc Steiner show to set the record straight on the many under-appreciated contributions of Rosa Parks.
Jeanne Theoharis is the author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and a professor of political science at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Yoruba Richen is a film director and producer, and the co-director of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. She is the director of the documentary program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism of the City of New York.
Studio/Post-Production: Adam Coley
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- The Great Salt Lake will dry up in 5 years unless Utah lawmakers act now
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A dire new report has sounded the alarm on the future of Utah's Great Salt Lake, which could vanish in as little as five years unless lawmakers in Utah take drastic action. Save Our Great Salt Lake cofounder and organizer Chandler Rosenberg joins TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez to explain the crisis facing Utah and what must be done to avert environmental and economic catastrophe.
Studio/Post-Production: Adam Coley
Read the transcript here: https://therealnews.com/without-drastic-action-the-great-salt-lake-could-dry-up-in-5-years
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- What it's like to be an ambulance driver in Rishi Sunak's UK
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Spiking inflation is generating a global cost of living crisis, and Britain is no exception. As workers across industries hit the picket lines to denounce privatization and demand action from the Tory government to raise wages, ambulance workers are now joining the fray—with a major strike action planned later in February. TRNN speaks directly with ambulance drivers and emergency medical personnel who say their real wages are falling as Downing Street's schemes to further privatize the National Health Service only continue. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.
Producer, videographer, and video editor: Ross Domoney
Read the transcript here: https://therealnews.com/uk-ambulance-drivers-join-cost-of-living-strike-wave-sweeping-britain
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- Panel: Solidarity with Ukraine from the Global South w/Bill Fletcher Jr.
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- TRNN board member Bill Fletcher Jr. convenes Ukrainian historian and social activist Vladyslav Starodubtsev, Syrian-American activist Ramah Kudaimi, and Rafael Bernabel of the Puerto Rican Senate to discuss solidarity with Ukraine from parts of the Global South. This panel was produced in partnership with Haymarket Books.
Studio/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Millions join national strike in France against Macron's pension reform
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Unions and left-wing political parties are calling for the immediate withdrawal of President Macron's pension reforms, which would raise France's retirement age from 62 to 64.
Brandon Jourdan: Production, video, and editing
Associate Producer: Daniel Murphy
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- New jails are popping up everywhere. Here's how to fight back | Rattling the Bars
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- In a special episode of Rattling the Bars, the Prison Policy Institute convenes activists fighting jail expansion from coast to coast to discuss strategies and methods to fight back.
The resources below were curated and shared by the Prison Policy Initiative and webinar panelists from Building Justice in Berks, Families for Justice as Healing, and the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. We hope they will be useful in your follow-up work fighting jail expansion projects in your communities.
Arguments against jail expansion (Prison Policy Initiative)
A how-to guide: Critically reviewing a jail assessment calling for a bigger jail (Prison Policy Initiative)
Does our county really need a bigger jail? A guide for avoiding unnecessary jail expansion (Prison Policy Initiative)
Smoke and Mirrors: A cautionary tale for counties considering a big, costly new jail (Prison Policy Initiative)
A guide to publi...
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- Tyre Nichols' brutal killing proves America's addiction to specialized police units has to end
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- 3 years ago
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- The video of the killing of Tyre Nichols by a specialized policing unit reveals in graphic detail how America's reliance on specialized police units comes with tragic consequences. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis discuss what this extrajudicial killing says about the continued emphasis on militarized policing and how its ongoing evolution is both anti-democratic and fundamentally destructive.
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- Will Julian Assange ever be freed? | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Chris Hedges speaks with film producer and brother of Julian Assange, Gabriel Shipton, on his new film about his family’s journey to get Julian freed.
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- A cop watcher attended the trial of a corrupt officer, the judge made him pay for it | PAR
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The trial of Ft. Worth police officer Aaron Dean for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson ended in a conviction for manslaughter and 12-year sentence. But in this episode, PAR investigates how the judge retaliated against supporters of Jefferson's family who attended the trial, throwing one cop watcher in jail for refusing to be sworn in as a witness.
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- Grad students at Johns Hopkins are organizing for a living wage
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- 3 years ago
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- Graduate student-workers at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University are fighting to unionize under the banner of Teachers and Researchers United. After a supermajority of grad student-workers signed union cards in October and November, an official date for the union election has now been set. Eligible bargaining unit members will cast their votes on whether or not to unionize and affiliate with the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) on Monday, Jan. 30, and Tuesday, Jan. 31. To get an up-to-date look at the unionization drive at Johns Hopkins, Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with Jasmine Grey and Martin Yepes of Teachers and Researchers United in the TRNN studio in Baltimore.
Teachers and Researchers United website: https://trujhu.org/
Studio: Adam Coley, Cameron Granadino, Darian Jones
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Meet the women fighting Nevada's prison system | Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- Return Strong Executive Director Jodi Hocking and Community Organizer Ashley Gaddis join Rattling the Bars to discuss the fight against mass incarceration in Nevada.
Return Strong website: https://www.returnstrongnv.org/
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- Julian Assange and the war on whistleblowers w/Kevin Gosztola | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- 13 years ago WikiLeaks pulled back the curtain on a host of documented US government crimes. This year, Julian Assange is expected to stand trial. His case is emblematic of how far the US government will go to hide the truth.
Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of Shadowproof, where he writes The Dissenter. He is the author of Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning.
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- Cops keep pulling him over for bogus tickets, now he's fighting back with a cellphone | PAR
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The questionable arrest of Daniel Alvarez went viral after PAR featured him in an investigative report. But since he went public with concerns over unlawful police tactics, the same cops have been stopping him without cause and issuing thousands of dollars in fines.
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- MLK Day | Activists call for peace in Ukraine, diplomacy with Russia
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- 3 years ago
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- For Martin Luther King Day 2023, RootsAction hosted a livestream panel discussion with anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons activists to discuss the need for diplomacy with Russia to achieve peace in Ukraine. This panel features Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Poor People’s Campaign, Pastor Michael McBride of Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Judith LeBlanc of Native Organizers Alliance, Senator Nina Turner who is the current Senior Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at the New School, political activist Daniel Ellsberg, Khury Petersen-Smith of Institute for Policy Studies, David Swanson of World Beyond War, and political activist Norman Solomon. This discussion was moderated by Hanieh Jodat. You can learn more about RootsAction's efforts to prevent nuclear war by visiting DefuseNuclearWar.org.
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- America Made Me a Black Man - Boyah J. Farah | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- New anti-union law in UK takes aim at strike wave
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- 3 years ago
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After a two-day work stoppage last week by Britain's rail workers, Parliament is threatening new legislation that would require striking workers to continue providing a "minimum service" while striking. RMT union organizer Gaz Jackson joins TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez to discuss the strike wave and the Sunak government's repressive measures.
Post-Production: Adam Coley
RMT National Dispute Fund: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/national-dispute-fund/
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- Louisiana is imprisoning kids on death row | Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- A new report shows Louisiana is in the process of transferring at least 20 incarcerated minors to be housed at death row units in various facilities, including the infamous Angola Prison. Lana Charles, who has worked to provide arts programs in Louisiana's juvenile justice system for 15 years, joins Rattling the Bars to explain the situation of incarcerated youth in her state.
Read the full transcript here: https://therealnews.com/louisiana-to-imprison-juveniles-at-angola-prisons-death-row
Luliana "Lana" Charles has worked with youth for over 15 years in the capacity of the arts, enrichment and cultural programming and the juvenile justice system. Lana is a social worker and trained artist, and a member of PAIMI Advisory Council and Louisiana Human Trafficking Prevention Commission and Advisory Board. She also serves as board chair at The Beautiful Foundation.
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- Why Americans can't debate politics anymore | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new book, Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy.
Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in media studies and history at California State University, East Bay. Higdon sits on the boards of the Action Coalition for Media Education and Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education. He also cohosts the Along the Line podcast. He is the author of several books, including The Anatomy of Fake News and The Media and Me.
Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored, president of the Media Freedom Foundation, co-editor of the annual Censored book series from Seven Stories Press (since 2009), co-author of United States of Distraction (City Lights, 2019), professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College, and lecturer in communications at California State University, East Bay.
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- Belgian trade unions march against energy costs and inflation
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- 3 years ago
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- In the midst of freezing temperatures, thousands of workers from throughout Belgium took to the streets of Brussels to demand a cap on soaring energy prices, higher wages, and more bargaining power for trade unions.
Director, Camera, Editing: Brandon Jourdan
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- Fired construction workers speak out against Alba Demolition
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Read a translated transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/this-nyc-construction-union-is-reaching-out-to-undocumented-and-non-union-workers-the-bosses-dont-like-it
Many workplaces are marked by a real tension between different types of workers: undocumented vs. citizens, union vs. non-union, and more. New York City’s Construction and General Building Laborers’ Union Local 79 has been working to overcome these divides by intentionally reaching out to undocumented and non-union workers in the construction trades. And the bosses are taking notice. Recorded in the spring of 2022 from the Local 79 headquarters in Manhattan, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez conducts a Spanish-language interview with Alex Martinez, Walter Martinez, and Jose Rosas, who were all fired from their jobs at Alba Demolition after they were caught talking to Local 79 organizers on their break.
Studio: Thomas Hedges
Translation: Jaxx Landry
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- Will Lula fix the crisis facing Brazil's informal workers? | Workers of the World
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as Brazil's president on New Year's Day. Half of all Brazilian workers are employed in the informal sector, working without protections or a contract. This segment of the working class was key to Bolsonaro's defeat and Lula's victory. Yet as the Lula government moves to forge alliances with the nation's leading capitalists, questions remain as to whether informal workers can simply count on their new president to address their needs.
Production: Martin Varese
Videography: Lucas Mattara
Post-Production: Leo Erhardt
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- Europe's war on refugees | The Chris Hedges Report
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- In their book, 'Map of Hope and Sorrow,' co-authors Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan trace the stories of five refugees trapped in Greece's brutal refugee camps.
Helen Benedict is a novelist and journalist. Her previous books include 'The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq', and 'Wolf Season'.
Eyad Awwadawnan, formerly a law student from Damascus, Syria, is a writer and poet currently living as an asylum-seeker in Reykjavik, Iceland. During his four years in Greece, he worked as a cultural mediator, translator and interpreter for various NGOs.
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- Senior Reporter Taya Graham shares her final thoughts of 2022
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- 3 years ago
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- Why the Catholic Church expelled me w/Roy Bourgeois | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- As a young man, Roy Bourgeois enlisted to fight in the Vietnam War. After being injured, he became a volunteer at a local orphanage and was inspired to become a priest upon his return to the US. Bourgeois became a priest in Bolivia during the dictatorship of General Hugo Banzer. He decided he could not be an apolitical priest. He spoke out against Banzer's political repression, leading to his arrest and expulsion from Bolivia. Back in the US, Bourgeois organized protests outside Fort Benning, Georgia where the US was training Salvadorian soldiers to fight the leftist insurgency. He was imprisoned twice for illegally entering the base during planned direct actions against the war. In 2012, Bourgeois was excommunicated by the Catholic Church for supporting the ordination of women.
Roy Bourgeois is an American activist, a laicized Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch). He is the author of Stop the Killing: My...
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- Cops in this town are out of control, we review the best cop movie ever!
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- 3 years ago
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- Editor's note: This video was recorded prior to Ray Liotta's passing.
Police Accountability Report show hosts Taya Graham and Stephen Janis kick off the holidays with a spoilers-free review of the exceptional film Cop Land.
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- How the war machine took over the Democrats w/ Dennis Kucinich | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- There was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J. William Fulbright, George McGovern, Gene McCarthy, Mike Gravel, William Proxmire, and, of course, Dennis Kucinich. But that was largely decades ago. The new Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America, but the arms industry. The massive military budget, $858 billion in military spending allocated for fiscal year 2023, is an increase of $45 billion over the Biden administration's budget request, and nearly $80 billion more than the amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal year.
What happened to the Democratic Party? Why has it become impossible to question war and the massive expenditures on arms? Why is such questioning political suicide? Why can't a Democrat ask, especially at a time of economic hardship and huge deficits, how much we are going to divert to the war in Ukraine, which has already consumed some $60 bill...
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- Live: Striking workers need YOUR help to WIN!
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- 3 years ago
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- In this special worker solidarity livestream, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez will speak with workers involved in the ongoing struggle on the railroads, the strikes at Warrior Met Coal and CNH Industrial, and more.
2022 has been a year of intense labor struggle. 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.
Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 7 pm EST on the TRNN YouTube channel and send us your questions!
Links mentioned during the livestream:
- UMWA strike fund: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund
- Strike pantry fund for Warrior Met Coal strikers: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/UMWAStrikePantry
- Railroad Workers United: https://www.railroadworkersunited.org/
- UAW Local 807 CNH workers strike fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-striking-uaw-local-807-cnh-worke...
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- 'Chokepoint Capitalism' How to take back the arts from Big Tech | Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
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- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/big-tech-has-rigged-the-game-against-artists-heres-how-we-can-fight-back
TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow for the launch of their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back. This event was hosted by The Peale Museum in Baltimore.
Rebecca Giblin is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor at Melbourne Law School. She is director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) and heads up the Author’s Interest and eLending projects, as well as Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project. Chokepoint Capitalism is her latest book.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books. Chokepoint Capitalism is his most recent non-fiction work. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fictio...
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- Rikers Island's Deadliest Year with Olayemi Olurin | Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- Editor's note: This interview was filmed on Dec. 1, 2022. A 19th person, Edgardo Mejia, died at Rikers on Sunday, Dec. 11.
19 people died on Rikers Island in 2022, making this the deadliest year in the jail's history. New York public defender Olayemi Olurin joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the human rights crisis on Rikers Island.
Olayemi Olurin is a public defender and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and an analyst at the Law & Crime Network and The Hill’s Rising.
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- The Secret History of WWI with Adam Hochschild | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- Historian Adam Hochschild examines the untold history of WWI in his new book, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.
Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist and historian. His works include King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918, and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves.
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- Cops pull a gun on a man parked at a church, documents reveal a troubling motive | PAR
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- 3 years ago
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- An unnamed motorist was stopped by Baltimore County police, held at gunpoint, and manhandled by multiple officers before being arrested. Body cam footage reveals the motorist, who has requested anonymity, asking multiple times to speak with a supervisor and to know the crime he was being arrested for to no avail.
Police Accountability Report reviews the available footage and the details of the case, as well as what this man's ordeal can tell us about the police war against our civil rights.
Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode of the Police Accountability Report!
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- Support The Real News Network
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- Justice for Kevin Torres, father and soccer coach killed by security guard
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- 3 years ago
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- EDITOR’S NOTE: The Justice for Kevin march will be taking place at 6:30pm EST on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 4020 E. Lombard Street in Baltimore, Maryland, not on Thursday, Dec. 8.
Kevin Torres was beloved by his family and his community. After emigrating from Honduras decades ago, Torres built a life in Baltimore, where he and his wife ran a concrete and construction company, along with raising their family. In his spare time, Torres coached the Villanueva adult Soccer Team. On the night of Nov. 6, Kevin was out with family and friends at ChrisT Bar in Highlandtown celebrating his team’s victory in their league championship. But the festive atmosphere took a quick turn after a dispute over a missing cellphone resulted in an altercation involving the bar’s security guard. Kevin tried to intervene when the security guard began to argue with his stepdaughter. Moments later, Kevin was dead. As The Baltimore Sun reported, “The security guard told Baltimore Police he dischar...
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- 'Tax Broke' Baltimore's Dirty Secret | Rattling the Bars
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- 3 years ago
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- The new documentary 'Tax Broke' explores how city tax subsidies pushed in the name of economic development transferred taxpayer money into the pockets of the rich while leaving Baltimore no better off.
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- Union Canvassers Mobilize for Walker vs. Warnock Georgia Runoff Election
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- 3 years ago
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- Senator Raphael Warnock is facing off against Republican challenger Herschel Walker after neither secured 50% of the vote during the Nov. 8 general election. UNITE HERE is aiming to hit more than 500,000 doors for Warnock, a pastor at Martin Luther King’s former church. Walker is a former NFL star backed by ex- president Trump, and was the only statewide Republican candidate in Georgia to not win his race in the general. He is facing fresh accusations of domestic violence and is trailing in the latest polls.
But it is widely expected for the race to be decided by election day turnout, which is what is driving these union members. Their recent track record gives them reason to be optimistic. In November, UNITE Here played a key role in helping Democrats maintain their Senate majority. 1,200 members knocked on 2.7 million doors in key swing states, including, as the Real News reported, one million doors to help Democrats hold onto Nevada. A Warnock win will give Democrats ...
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- Inflation, Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed with Richard Wolff | The Chris Hedges Report
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- 3 years ago
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- Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/richard-wolff-the-feds-response-to-inflation-is-another-upward-transfer-of-wealth
The Federal Reserve has responded to runaway inflation by hiking up interest rates at the same time that Americans are drowning in historic levels of personal debt. With interest rates up, prices will only rise faster than wages, hitting the vast majority of people with stagnant or declining wages in real terms. The result is yet another upward transfer of wealth to the minority of capitalists responsible for the crisis in the first place. Economist Richard Wolff joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the origins of the inflation crisis, the Fed's response, and what this all means for working people.
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. He is the host of the weekly p...
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- Democrats failed Florida's progressives | The Marc Steiner Show
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- 3 years ago
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- Marc Steiner speaks with Florida State House Rep. Anna Eskamani and Dream Defenders Co-Executive Director Rachel Gilmer about the stakes of Florida's politics and the prospects for undoing the GOP's stranglehold.
Anna Vishkaee Eskamani is a member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 47th District in Orange County.
Rachel Gilmer is an organizer with and the Co-Director of the Dream Defenders, a statewide grassroots organization of communities across Florida. Established in 2012 in response to the unjust murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, The Dream Defenders are a diverse group of young people who build power by organizing campaigns, services, and political-education programming for community civic engagement and transformational justice.
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- Cops searched him for an hour but couldn't find a crime, so they used more aggressive tactics | PAR
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- 3 years ago
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- Phillip Hamm was on the road with a friend in Paducah, Kentucky when he was pulled over by local police over a busted tail light. Instead of letting him go, the officer held Hamm for over an hour, during which time he forced Hamm to undergo a sobriety test, searched his person, and demanded access to his vehicle. When Hamm declined, the police brought over a canine unit and searched his car. Despite finding nothing, officers tested dollar bills from Hamm's wallet for methamphetamine and then arrested him on felony drug charges. Police Accountability Report examines the footage of Hamm's arrest as an example of how police routinely abuse their power to manufacture the outcomes they want. Phillip Hamm himself also joins the show to speak on his ordeal.
Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode of the Police Accountability Report!
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Why Democrats lost the midterm election with Ralph Nader
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- 3 years ago
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- Ralph Nader joins The Chris Hedges Report to for a post-mortem on the 2022 midterm elections, and to discuss how we can retake Congress from corporate influence.
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate and former presidential candidate.
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- Rattling the Bars: He was supposed to be out on parole, but ICE deported him to Cambodia
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- 3 years ago
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- Phoeun You was supposed to be released on parole after serving 26 years in prison for murder. Instead, he was handed over to ICE, who deported him to Cambodia, a country You left at the age of one. Calling in from Cambodia, Phoeun You joins Rattling the Bars to tell his story.
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