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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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- Rattling the Bars: He was supposed to be out on parole, but ICE deported him to Cambodia
- Date posted
- 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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- The Chris Hedges Report: Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time with Justin E.H. Smith
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Philosopher Justin E.H. Smith joins Chris Hedges to discuss Marcel Proust's magnum opus, In Search of Lost Time, on the 100th anniversary of the author's death.
Justin E. H. Smith is a professor of history and the philosophy of science at University of Paris 7 – Denis Diderot. The main-belt asteroid 13585 Justinsmith is named after him. You can find him on Substack at Justin E.H. Smith’s Hinternet.
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- UC student employee union president explains UC strike
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- 4 years ago
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- The largest strike in the US since 2019 is currently underway across University of California campuses. 48,000 teaching assistants, postdocs, researchers and graders on the front lines of teaching and research at California’s prestigious public university system are seeking a minimum annual salary of $54,000 and increased child-care benefits, saying they do not earn enough to live in the state. They also accuse the university of breaking the law and not bargaining in good faith with their union, the United Auto Workers. UAW Local 2865 president and UCLA English PhD candidate Rafael Jamie joins TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez to discuss the historic strike. This interview was recorded on Monday, Nov. 12.
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- Scott Ritter: Ukraine cannot win this war. It's a 'fantasy.'
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Editor note: This interview was recorded Nov. 4, 2022
Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter explains why a Russian victory is inevitable, and what it costs the West to refuse to accept this.
William Scott Ritter Jr. is an author and pundit, and a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector.
Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist from Montreal, Quebec. In 2020, Dimitri ran for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada.
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- Rattling the Bars: It's not a 'migration crisis'—it's imperialism
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- 4 years ago
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- In his new memoir and first book, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, journalist Roberto Lovato traces the long history of colonial violence in El Salvador through the story of his family. Lovato joins Rattling the Bars to discuss his book and the lessons El Salvador's revolutionary history can offer the world.
Roberto Lovato is an educator, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto. He’s also the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins).
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- The Chris Hedges Report: America's dangerous leaders with Andrew Bacevich
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich argues America's leaders are woefully out of touch with reality, and unable to adapt to a changing world. Unless they are wrenched from power, the twilight of the American empire will be one filled with catastrophe after catastrophe.
Andrew Bacevich is a retired army colonel and Emeritus Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. He is also the cofounder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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- Panel: Ukrainian and Russian academics discuss the war
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Debates over the proper approach to the Russo-Ukrainian War have dominated much of the year. Yet discussions within the western left have not always featured the perspectives of Ukrainians and Russians themselves. The Real News Network board member Bill Fletcher, in partnership with Haymarket Books, hosts a panel with Ukrainian and Russian academics.
Yuliya Yurchenko is a senior lecturer and researcher in political economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute and the Economics and International Business Department, the University of Greenwich (UK). She is the author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict (London: Pluto Press, 2018) and many other publications, including in Capital and Class and New Political Economy. She is vice-chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network Board (European Sociological Association), co-coordinator of the World Economy working group, IIPPE, and an edit...
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- Nevada's UNITE HERE union canvassers mobilize for 2022 elections
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Things are heating up in Nevada ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8. A Republican victory in the state could end up flipping the Senate, and undermine the Democrats' federal agenda for years to come. That's why union workers are mobilizing to turn the tide in their state. Culinary Workers Union Local 226 has been leading the charge. Four hundred Local 226 canvassers have knocked on 800,000 doors across the state, and reached over half of Nevada's Black and Latinx workers, along with over a third of its AAPI voters. Local 226 is an affiliate of UNITE HERE, which represents 300,000 hospitality workers in the US and Canada. The Real News correspondent Jaisal Noor covers UNITE HERE's efforts from the ground in Nevada.
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- Rattling the Bars: Prison slavery in America
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- This year, 5 US states are considering amendments to their constitutions to remove language similar to the 13th Amendment. Historian Robert T. Chase joins Rattling the Bars to discuss what altering these state constitutions would really mean for incarcerated people.
Robert T. Chase is associate professor of history at Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY). He is the author of We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners Rights in Postwar America (UNC, 2020).
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- How to show solidarity with railroad workers
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In a special panel co-hosted by The Real News and Haymarket Books, Railroad Workers United members speak about their struggle, the situation on the rails, and how you can get involved in efforts to support them.
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- Florida is arresting people for voting
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- 20 formerly incarcerated people in Florida are facing charges for exercising their right to vote in the 2020 election.
Anna Vishkaee Eskamani is a member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 47th district in Orange County.
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- The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Peace activist and author Medea Benjamin joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the history of Ukraine as explained in her new book, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, co-authored with Nicholas Davies.
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of Code Pink and author of Drone Warfare, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US Saudi Connection, and Inside Iran.
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- Does more policing cause more crime? - PAR
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of the Police Accountability Report host a live discussion on the rapid growth of police budgets and aggressive tactics. Are cops the ones preventing crimes, or actually causing them?
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- Bolsonaro supporters reject Lula's clear presidential victory in Brazil
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In an historic victory, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidency on Sunday night, defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by more than 2 million votes. Tens of thousands of Lula supporters poured onto São Paulo’s Paulista Avenue for a huge victory celebration. But Bolsonaro fans have also taken to the streets blocking highways and rejecting the result. Lula takes office on January 1st.
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- Rattling the Bars: Should Biden legalize weed?
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- On Oct 6, President Biden announced an official pardon of anyone incarcerated on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana. Biden framed his pardon in terms of correcting the historic injustices meted out against people of color by the War on Drugs, but is it enough? The pardon itself affects about 6500 people, but does not necessarily guarantee that every one will have their records expunged. Furthermore, countless other people remain incarcerated, on probation or parole, or with criminal records for cannabis-related charges. To talk more about what else should be done, Rattling the Bars speaks with Taya Graham and Stephen Janis, co-hosts of the The Real News program Police Accountability Report. Stephen and Taya make a case for the full legalization of cannabis, which remains a federal Schedule 1 drug, pointing out that so long as cannabis laws are passed unevenly, it will be the poor and people of color who pay the price.
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Noam Chomsky, Pt 2
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- World-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, and political activist Noam Chomsky returns to The Chris Hedges Report to continue their discussion on contemporary fascism, the war in Ukraine, and the tasks of the left in a time of ecological and political crisis. You can watch the first part of this two-part interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Vueji6LQo
Noam Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books on topics that include linguistics, the press, the inner workings of empire, and the war industry. He is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include "Hegemony or Survival," "For Reasons of State," "American Power and the New Mandarins," "Understanding Power," "The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, On Language, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship," "The Fateful Triangle," and many others. His latest book is "Notes...
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- Rattling the Bars: San Quentin Prison is a COVID deathtrap
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In 2020, at least 23 people died at San Quentin State Prison in California due to COVID-19. Two years later, COVID-19 remains a clear and present threat to incarcerated people, despite California's attempts to implement testing and quarantine. Incarcerated journalist Juan Moreno Haines calls in to Rattling the Bars from San Quentin prison with his colleague, journalist Katie Rose Quandt, to give us the inside perspective.
Juan Moreno Haines is an award-winning incarcerated journalist and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the editor of the San Quentin News.
Katie Rose Quandt is a freelance journalist who writes about criminal justice, incarceration, and inequality. She is a senior editor at the Prison Policy Initiative, and a writer and editor at Solitary Watch.
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- Chelsea Manning: Why I risked prison to expose the US military
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Chelsea Manning was imprisoned in 2010 after leaking 750,000 military documents to the website WikiLeaks. Chelsea's revelations exposed heinous war crimes by the US military. While the perpetrators of the atrocities she exposed have never faced justice, Chelsea herself spent seven years behind bars, including several months in solitary confinement before her trial. README.txt is Chelsea's first tell-all memoir about what led her to speak out, and her experiences in prison. Chelsea Manning joins Baltimore-based activist and independent journalist Ryan Harvey for a special discussion on her memoir, hosted at Red Emma's cooperative bookstore and café.
In README.txt, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. Manning details the challenges of her childhood and adolescence as a naive, computer-savvy kid, what drew her to the military, and the fierce pr...
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- Katie Halper: The Hill TV fired me for defending critics of Israel
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- 4 years ago
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Noam Chomsky, Pt 1
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In a wide-ranging discussion, Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges discuss the war in Ukraine, the rising tide of global fascism, the climate catastrophe, and the role left to public intellectuals in an increasingly restrictive and censored media environment.
Noam Chomsky is the author of more than 150 books on topics that include linguistics, the press, the inner workings of empire, and the war industry.
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- Park police said this volunteer overstayed his welcome, how they got rid of him was shocking! - PAR
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Steve Headrick and his wife were volunteering at Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona, when park police tried to force them to leave, and resorted to violence when Headrick and his wife refused to obey. Police Accountability Report interviews Steve Headrick about his ordeal. Please join Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode of The Police Accountability Report!
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- Brazil on Fire: Supporters in Northeastern Brazil hope to lift Lula to victory
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Tens of thousands joined former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the streets of Recife last Friday for another packed march in northeastern Brazil. This is the poorest region of Brazil. People here felt the real impact of Lula’s policies during his previous governments in the mid-2000s. They voted overwhelmingly for him in the first round. And they are hoping to carry him to the presidency on Oct. 30.
This is Brazil on Fire, a podcast about Brazil’s descent toward fascism under President Jair Bolsonaro. Over six episodes, we look at Bolsonaro’s far-right government that has set the country ablaze, and how the United States helped him do it. We visit the birthplace of Brazilian Nazism, evangelical churches, and Indigenous villages in the Amazon.
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- Rattling the Bars: Cholera in Haiti's prisons, free them now!
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- 4 years ago
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- Cases of cholera have been confirmed at Haiti's National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. Cholera, which spreads through unsanitary water, has become endemic in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake, and is believed to have been inadvertently introduced by UN peacekeepers. According to advocates, the Haitian prison system has been a ticking time bomb for cholera for years. Migrant justice organizations in the US have raised the alarm over conditions in Haitian prisons, where migrants deported by the US are often warehoused without formal charges or a trial.
S.B., a survivor of deportation who spent time in Port-au-Prince's National Penitentiary, joins Rattling the Bars to share his experience of the Haitian prison system. S.B. reports a total lack of sanitary infrastructure within the prison, even attesting that prisoners who died in their crowded cells were often left there overnight in the presence of other inmates. Sociologist Jon Shaffer also joins the show to contextualize h...
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Dr. Gabor Maté on trauma, addiction, and illness under capitalism
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- 4 years ago
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- Dr. Gabor Maté joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his new book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.
Dr. Gabor Maté is a physician and childhood development specialist who has written several best-selling books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection; and Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder.
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- Rural Cops Demanded His ID, Things Turned Ugly When He Refused - PAR
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Cell phone footage shows San Diego sheriffs threatening to fabricate charges against the driver, who was waiting on a tow truck after his car broke down. Police Accountability Report speaks with California resident Chase Hasegawa about the charges, his arrest, and the impact of this experience on his life.
Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode of the Police Accountability Report!
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- The Marc Steiner Show: These US states are billionaire tax havens
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- 4 years ago
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- The US has become a major global tax haven. For a discussion on this worrying trend and its effects on wealth inequality, Marc Steiner speaks with Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies and author of The Wealth Hoarders, along with journalist and researcher Kalena Thomhave.
Studio: Cameron Granadino, Dwayne Gladden
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- Chris Hedges: Julian Assange's persecution is the CIA's revenge
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges reframes the DOJ campaign against Julian Assange as an act of retaliation to protect the interests of US empire.
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- Supporters of Julian Assange host international day of action against his extradition
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- TRNN speaks with journalist Chris Hedges from the ground during the international protests to free Assange, which were held in Washington, DC, and in London.
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Dystopia, octopus intelligence, and what makes us human
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Writer Ray Nayler joins Chris Hedges to discuss his new novel, 'The Mountain in the Sea.'
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- The Marc Steiner Show: 'Working 9 to 5' with Ellen Cassedy
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In 1973 the organization 9 to 5 was founded as a national association of women office workers advocating for their rights. Organizing women against workplace discrimination and harassment, 9 to 5 brought a new generation of white collar women workers into the labor movement, and remains one of the largest organizations of women workers in the United States. Their experiences inspired the 1980 film "9 to 5," starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton. Now, almost half a century since 9 to 5's beginnings, founder "Ellen Cassedy joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss her new memoir, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie."
Ellen Cassedy was a founder and longtime leader of 9 to 5, the national association of women office workers. Working 9 to 5 is her first-person account of this exciting movement, which began in the early 1970s, mobilizing women across the country to organize for rights and respect on the job. Ellen is also the award...
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- Body camera caught cops lying, this is what happened when we asked police to explain | PAR
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Michael Q. Banks was in his car one evening when a specialized crime unit of Trenton police suddenly pulled him from his vehicle and slammed him on the pavement, breaking his nose. When PAR traveled to Trenton to investigate further, what we found was an example of why law enforcement across the country continues to struggle with mistrust among local communities.
Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis for this important episode of the Police Accountability Report!
Studio: Stephen Janis
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- Fired Amazon union organizer: “We’re not able to feed ourselves”
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- 4 years ago
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- Multiple pro-union Amazon workers have been fired recently in suspected acts of retaliation and union busting from the company. Albert Elliot, a former Amazon employee and organizer with the rank-and-file group Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), speaks with Real News editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez about his termination and the inhumane working conditions at Amazon’s facilities.
You can support CAUSE’s organizing efforts and Albert's family by donating to their GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pbxq8-cause?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
Studio/Post-Production: Dwayne Gladden
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- Rattling the Bars: Alabama prisoners on strike
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- 4 years ago
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- TRNN contributor Michael Sainato returns to 'Rattling the Bars' to discuss the system-wide strike in Alabama's state prisons. The strike is focused on both improving the living conditions of prisoners and demanding changes to Alabama's draconian parole and sentencing laws and practices.
Current updates on the prison strike are being released by the organization Free Alabama Movement: https://twitter.com/FREEALAMOVEMENT
This conversation was recorded on Sept. 27.
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on Ukraine, Palestine, music & more
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- 4 years ago
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- Roger Waters, the British rock legend and co-founder of Pink Floyd, is in the midst of his “This Is Not A Drill” tour. He joins Chris Hedges to discuss his music, life, and how his politics have guided him through it all.
Studio: Adam Coley, Cameron Granadino, Dwayne Gladden
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- Lula vs Bolsonaro: Countdown to Brazil’s elections
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Tensions have been building for months as Brazil heads for an electoral showdown that will have major implications for the country and for the world. Leftist national hero and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is currently leading in the polls in the race to unseat current far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, but the outcome is all but assured, and fears are mounting that the dark, increasingly fascistic forces Bolsonaro has unleashed in recent years will take extreme January 6-style measures to retain power if Lula wins the presidential election in October. Brazil’s national elections will take place on Oct. 2, 2022. If either candidate secures over 50% of the popular vote on Oct. 2, they will be declared the winner. However, if neither candidate crosses the 50% threshold, a second round of elections will be held at the end of October.
The essential context for Brazil’s contemporary political scene has been covered extensively by the The Real News through the...
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- Cops Stopped Him At A Questionable Checkpoint But What Came Next Made Him Fear For His Wife! | PAR
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- After an aggressive police stop by Kentucky law enforcement, a husband and wife refused to abandon their 3-year-old child to the hands of strangers. PAR investigates the purpose of this checkpoint to determine if public safety is the goal, or if there is a less noble intent.
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Post-Production: Stephen Janis, Adam Coley
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- The Marc Steiner Show: Israel's August raid on Palestinian NGOs, w/Sahar Francis
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- In August 2022, the Israeli Defense Forces conducted dawn raids on the offices of seven Palestinian human rights NGOs. The targeted organizations included groups working to support Palestinian women and children, as well as political prisoners. The Israeli government justified shutting down the organizations under the pretext that they were fronts for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The organizations have rigorously denied the allegations, and vowed to continue their work in spite of Israeli repression. Sahar Francis, general director of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, joins The Marc Steiner Show to explain why these organizations have come into the crosshairs of the Israeli government. Francis explains that a key motivation for the raids was the work of her and other organizations to advance investigations for Israel's crimes through the UN and International Criminal Court. In order to consolidate the occupation and complete the an...
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- Rattling the Bars: America's rural county jail boom w/Stephen Janis and Taya Graham
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Read the transcript of this video: https://therealnews.com/booming-rural-county-jails-are-now-the-main-driver-of-mass-incarceration-study-says
Stephen Janis and Taya Graham of Police Accountability Report join Rattling the Bars to discuss a new report from the Vera Institute on the boom in rural jails. In a wide-ranging conversations, Stephen and Taya help connect the dots between the rural jail boom and the rural police boom, the opioid crisis, and the decades-long economic crisis in rural America.
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- Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library workers move to unionize
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Employees of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library system have announced their intention to unionize, citing better pay, benefits for all, and greater employee input into working conditions as their chief motivations. Seeking voluntary recognition from Pratt leadership, Pratt Workers United hopes to join AFSCME Council 67, where workers from Walters Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art are also seeking representation. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez interviews Pratt Workers United organizers Marti Dirscheri and Antoinette Wilson on the unionization campaign.
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, speaks out
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Julian Assange has spent over a decade fighting imprisonment, extradition, and CIA espionage. On Oct. 8, Chris Hedges and others will gather in Washington, DC, to demand Assange's release at the same time that protestors surround the British Parliament. For this special episode of The Chris Hedges Report, John Shipton, Assange's father, shares updates on the international campaign to free his son.
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- Cops tried to confiscate his phone without a warrant, things turned ugly when he refused | PAR
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Video obtained by Police Accountability Report reveals how police in a small Texas town used violence to force a man who was not suspected of a crime to turn over his phone. The warrantless seizure raises more questions about the use of illegal tactics by police in rural communities.
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Studio: Stephen Janis
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- The Marc Steiner Show: Environmental racism from Jackson to Flint
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- As of Sept. 15, Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi has declared Jackson's water safe to drink, but a long battle to properly resource the city's recovery remains ahead. Vangela Wade of Mississippi Center for Justice joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the struggle on the ground, and Jackson's place in a larger pattern of environmental catastrophes linked to systemic racism.
Vangela Wade is the president and CEO of Mississippi Center for Justice, a public interest law firm advancing racial and economic justice through an approach that combines legal services with policy advocacy, community education and media outreach.
Studio/Post-Production: Dwayne Gladden
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- One Ukrainian democratic socialist's opinion on the war
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/one-ukrainian-democratic-socialists-opinion-on-the-war
Vladyslav Starodubtsev is a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, and a member of Sotsyalnyi Rukh. Founded in 2015 by participants in Maidan, Sotsialnyi Rukh brings together social, feminist and eco-activists, trade unions, and socialists for the goal of creating and registering a democratic-left, socialist, and anti-capitalist party in Ukrainian politics.
Studio/Post-Production: Adam Coley
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- Rattling the Bars: Susanville, California, prison ordered to close by judge
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A judge has ruled a Susanville, California, prison to close, ending a drawn-out legal battle between the town, the state government, and advocates. Brian Kaneda, Shakeer Rahman, and General Dogan join Mansa Musa to explain how lawyers, advocates, and incarcerated organizers joined forces to secure this victory.
Brian Kaneda is the Deputy Director for CURB, Californians United For A Responsible Budget and a leader of the statewide campaign to Close California Prisons.
Shakeer Rahman is an attorney and organizer with the Los Angeles Community Action Network and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.
General Dogon is an organizer with the Los Angeles Community Action Network. He previously served 27 years in the California prison system.
Studio/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- The Chris Hedges Report: The monstrous myth of Custer
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- There is a vast disparity between the mythic presentation of Custer and the reality of the so-called Indian wars. Nathaniel Philbrick, author of The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, joins Chris to discuss this seminal moment in American history.
Studio: Cameron Granadino, Adam Coley, Dwayne Gladden, Chris Arnone
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Wall Street is holding the supply chain hostage to stop a railroad workers’ strike
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- A national railroad strike is looming in the US, and many in the media are focused on the effect it will have on consumers. But railroad unions say Wall Street is actually the one disrupting the supply chain to pressure workers to accept a bad deal.
Matt Parker is a full-time locomotive engineer who’s been working on the railroads for 19 years, Matt also serves part-time as Chairman on the Nevada State Legislative Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
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- The Marc Steiner Show: Kali Akuno on Jackson's water crisis
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Organizer, writer, and educator Kali Akuno joins The Marc Steiner Show to explain how the current crisis is a reflection of capitalism's failures and decades of institutional racism.
Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, and an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). Formerly, he served as the coordinator of special projects and external funding for the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba in Jackson, Mississippi. Akuno is the author of “Let Your Motto be Resistance,” and co-author of “Operation Ghetto Storm” and “Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Black People.”
Post-Production: Stephen Frank
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- Rattling the Bars: Man wrongfully imprisoned for 26 years speaks out
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- After being wrongfully incarcerated at the age of 19, Lacino Hamilton fought to free himself through journalism, and by educating himself and his fellow prisoners.
Lacino Hamilton is a writer, thinker, and activist who was incarcerated for 26 years thanks to a wrongful conviction, and was exonerated in September 2020. For more information about his case, see “Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men.” After being sent to prison, he spent four of his first six years in solitary confinement. It was there that he began to read, think critically and distinguish between expressing a desire to change and demonstrating the ability to achieve it.
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- The Chris Hedges Report: Why did Democrats give this pro-Trump GOP primary candidate $425,000?
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official, has received over $425,000 from the Democratic Party. Historian Paul Street joins 'The Chris Hedges Report' to discuss what is taking place on our bizarre political landscape as we head towards the midterm elections.
Paul Street has taught at numerous Chicago-area universities and is the author of 'This Happened Here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America' (New York: Routledge, 2021). He also writes regularly for 'Counterpunch.'
Studio: Cameron Granadino, Adam Coley, Dwayne Gladden
Post-Production: Dwayne Gladden
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- The Marc Steiner Show: Canada's trucker 'Freedom Convoy' goes Christian nationalist
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Since storming Ottawa in early 2022, Canada's trucker 'Freedom Convoy' has taken an increasingly Christian nationalist turn, with some elements advocating a divine mission to overthrow the Canadian government. Emily Leedham joins the Marc Steiner Show to discuss the history of the 'Freedom Convoy,' and what its merger with the religious right could mean for Canada's future.
Emily Leedham is PressProgress’ prairies reporter. Her reporting has a special focus on workers and communities, big money and corporate influence, and systemic racism.
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