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EXCLUSIVE: Union leader beaten & arrested at ICE raid SPEAKS OUT
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- EXCLUSIVE: Union leader beaten & arrested at ICE raid SPEAKS OUT
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- President Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested David Huerta, a prominent labor leader and president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), while Huerta and others were observing an ICE raid in Los Angeles, CA, on June 6. Huerta was released from federal custody, but he is still being charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer, and the Trump administration continues to ramp up its attacks on immigrants, sanctuary cities, and organized labor. In his first public interview since he was arrested, recorded at the Netroots conference in New Orleans, LA, TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Huerta about the status of his case and about the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.
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- Beto O’Rourke Interview: Will Dems actually fight MAGA, or sell working people out?
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have strategically left Texas to thwart Republicans’ latest effort to further gerrymander the Congressional map ahead of next year’s midterm elections. While facing bomb threats at their hotels to threats from President Trump to sic the FBI on them, Texas Democrats have so far succeeded in preventing a vote, but how far are they willing to go to win this fight? In this exclusive interview, recorded at the 2025 Netroots conference in New Orleans, LA, TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke about the national stakes of the political showdown in Texas, and about what Democrats are and aren’t willing to do to prove to working people that they’re actually going to fight back against MAGA authoritarianism.
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- How medical examiners cover up for police killings
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- When police kill someone, state medical examiners have an outsized influence in determining the final cause of death—and whether or not cops can be charged or held accountable for the killing. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with fellow TRNN reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham about their years of investigating Dr. David Fowler, former Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland, and the families of people killed by police that were denied justice because of Dr. Fowler’s malpractices.
Stephen Janis is an award-winning investigative reporter turned documentary filmmaker. He is the co-host and producer of Police Accountability Report and Inequality Watch at The Real News Network.
Taya Graham is an award-winning investigative reporter covering US politics, local government, and the criminal justice system. She is the co-host and producer of Police Accountability Report and Inequality Watch at The Real News Network.
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- Gaza's ‘aid distribution’ sites are deathtraps
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Since May, the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been posing as a lifeline for starving Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. But with over 650 aid-seekers killed and thousands more wounded at the sites, and with Gaza continuing to starve, what purpose does the GHF actually serve? Almost every single international humanitarian organization—from The United Nations and Oxfam to Amnesty International—has condemned the GHF for weaponizing aid and using aid distribution sites as death traps. In this urgent, on-the-ground report, TRNN speaks with Palestinians in Gaza about the horrific truth of the GHF and its “aid distribution” operations.
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
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- ICE agents BEAT & KIDNAP father of three Marines in broad daylight
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- On June 21, Narciso Barranco, an undocumented father of three Marines, was doing landscaping work at an IHOP in Santa Ana, CA, when he was suddenly swarmed by a group of armed, masked, unidentified Customs and Border Patrol agents who chased him down, brutally beat him in the middle of a busy intersection, and kidnapped him in broad daylight. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Alejandro Barranco at the IHOP where his father was beaten and kidnapped.
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- Armed, masked ICE agents KIDNAP CA father in broad daylight: ‘They beat him really badly’
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Narciso Barranco, an undocumented father of three Marines, has lived and worked in the US for over 30 years. On June 21, Barranco was doing landscaping work at an IHOP in Santa Ana, CA, when he was suddenly swarmed by a group of armed, masked, unidentified Customs and Border Patrol agents who chased him down, brutally beat him in the middle of a busy intersection, and kidnapped him in broad daylight. “I believe he was racially profiled,” Alejandro Barranco, one of Narciso Barranco’s sons, tells TRNN. “My dad has never done anything wrong. They had no warrant for him.” In this on-the-ground report, TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Alejandro Barranco at the IHOP where his father was abducted about the cruel, terrifying reality of the Trump administration’s immigration raids.
Pre-Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Studio Production / Post Production: Cameron Granadino
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- John Filax and Otto The Watchdog discuss new cop watcher documentary 'I Am But the Mirror'
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- 'I Am But the Mirror: The Story of American Cop Watching' is the first documentary to ever cover cop watchers as a grassroots people-powered movement. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of the Police Accountability Report discuss the documentary, which examines the life and sentencing of controversial cop watcher Eric Brandt, with First Amendment activists @JohnFilax and @OttotheWatchdog.
Produced by Stephen Janis and Taya Graham
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- Chris Smalls BEATEN by Israeli forces after #Gaza Freedom Flotilla captured
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Israeli forces imprisoned and beat Chris Smalls, US labor leader, after capturing the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship Handala on Saturday. Smalls was on board the Handala along with other peace activists trying to deliver life-saving aid (food, baby formula, etc) to Palestinians who are being systematically exterminated in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. Smalls was the only Black member of the delegation captured by Israeli forces.
As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition reports: "The Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirms that upon arrival in Israeli custody, US human rights defender Christian Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back. When his lawyer met with him, Christian was surrounded by six members of Israel's special police unit. This level of force was not used against other activists."
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- How the Israeli flag became the symbol of Brazil's far right
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Support for Israel’s genocidal slaughter of Palestinians has become a critical political dividing line, not just in the United States, but in countries around the globe. At a recent pro-Donald Trump rally in São Paulo, Brazil, for instance, a protester waving an Israeli flag fought with a man in a Palestinian shirt. In this on-the-ground report, Brazil-based journalist Michael Fox shows how Israel’s US-backed war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is playing out in South America’s largest country.
Filming / Post-Production: Michael Fox
Story link: https://therealnews.com/israel-gaza-brazil-cpac-evangelical-far-right-movements
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- America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of dollars—exploiting the slave labor of prisoners. And yet, incarcerated workers have been largely excluded from the ranks of workers the public in general, and organized labor specifically, cares about. What will it take for unions and union members to embrace incarcerated workers as part of the labor movement? In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa explores the history of labor exploitation and labor organizing in America’s prison system.
Story link: https://therealnews.com/prison-labor-movement-incarcerated-workers
Guests:
-Katherine Passley is Co-Executive Director of Beyond the Bars, a worker center in South Florida building the social and economic power of workers with criminal records and their families. Passley was named the 2025 Labor Organizer of th...
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- Gaza journalist’s URGENT MESSAGE: ‘We need to eat! We need this war to stop!’
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- “The entire population of over two million people in Gaza is severely food insecure,” according to the latest report from UNICEF. “One out of every three people has not eaten for days, and 80 per cent of all reported deaths by starvation are children.” In this urgent testimony video, award-winning Palestinian journalist and TRNN contributor Ruwaida Amer describes the inhumane nightmare that is unfolding in #Gaza, and issues a dire plea to the world: “We are really hungry. We need to eat. We need to stay alive. We need this war to stop!”
Facing global uproar, Israel has pledged to implement daily humanitarian pauses in its genocidal blockade and bombardment to allow some aid into the Gaza Strip—but not nearly enough to reverse the catastrophic humanitarian crisis. “This is progress,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted in a July 27 statement, “but vast amounts of aid are needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health ...
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- Hospital nurses STRIKE for FIRST TIME in Baltimore history at Ascension St. Agnes
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Registered nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital held a one-day strike from July 24, 7AM to July 25, 6:59AM, "to protest Ascension management’s refusal to address their urgent concerns about patient care, safe staffing, and high staff turnover in contract negotiations."
"St. Agnes nurses are tired of the treatment we've been getting," RN Robin Buckner told TRNN. "We've tried bargaining for 18 months. That didn't seem to get us anywhere. So now the only recourse we have is to strike."
"We are chronically understaffed, chronically overworked," RN Nicki Horvat said. "Ascension itself is a multi-billion dollar corporation. They have the resources to address these issues, to make this place safer for patients and for nurses, and they are actively choosing not to."
TRNN reports from the picket line in #baltimore
#strike #labor #healthcare #catholic #nurses #hospital
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- Baltimore joins GLOBAL PROTEST to end Israel’s genocidal Gaza blockade
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Banging pots and pans, Baltimore residents rallied on July 24 in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands starving in Gaza—and called for boycotts of, and divestment from, businesses with financial ties to Israel. The protest was organized by groups including: @JewishVoiceforPeace - Baltimore and Baltimore Rapid Response Network. Local unions also took part. Jaisal Noor reports from the ground for TRNN.
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- "Supporting AMAZON is supporting GENOCIDE": Chris Smalls speaks from #Gaza Freedom Flotilla
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Chris Smalls, US labor leader and co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union, breaks down how workers' fight against #Amazon is connected to the fight to stop Israel's genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. TRNN spoke with Smalls from on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship Handala (@freedomflotillacoalition6166), which is sailing towards Gaza at this moment in the hopes of breaking Israel’s blockade and bringing life-saving supplies to Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
#palestine #israel #genocide #labor #union #jeffbezos
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- Chris Smalls: Gaza Freedom Flotilla faces sabotage attempts, death threats, but presses on
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- More than a hundred aid organizations warned Wednesday that “mass starvation” is spreading in Gaza, as Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians reaches an unspeakable turning point. As the crisis of humanity deepens, another Gaza Freedom Flotilla @freedomflotillacoalition6166 has set sail in the hopes of breaking Israel’s blockade and bringing life-saving supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip. Calling from the Handala ship while en route to Gaza, American labor organizer Chris Smalls, co-founder and former president of the Amazon Labor Union, speaks with TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez about the threats and sabotage attempts the Freedom Flotilla has already faced on its journey—and why that won’t deter the crew from their humanitarian mission.
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- “ICE out of Dena!”: CA community FIGHTS BACK against #ICE terror
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Pasadena, CA: After weeks of watching their families and neighbors terrorized by President Trump’s #ICE raids, residents of Pasadena are organizing on their own for community self-defense, reclaiming public space, and refusing to live in fear. “Our community has been under siege lately,” Elizabeth Castillo of Grupo Auto Defensa says. Castillo tells TRNN she and her neighbors “noticed and felt the fear, felt the terror, felt the hostility that ICE was causing here. And so, we decided to get up, get on our feet, and go against them [to] save our people.”
Many community members, vendors, and workers, predominantly Brown and Latino, have been afraid to leave their homes these past few weeks. But at a public concert and gathering at Villa Parke in Pasadena on Sunday, July 13, that was not the case. Through entirely grassroots and voluntary efforts, Grupo Auto Defensa provided know-your-rights information while conducting safety patrols so children could play on the p...
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- ICE ripped their mom from their arms and took her in an unmarked car
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Pasadena, CA: On June 28, around 7:30 in the morning, Bayardo Vargas, his brother Alejandro, and his girlfriend Violette Bedico drove Bayardo and Alejandro's mom Rosalina Luna Vargas to work. When they arrived, masked men in plainclothes who showed no warrant swarmed them and violently wrestled Rosalina Luna away from her family as they tried to protect her. "They were looking for somebody else and they still detained Rosalina," the family said.
TRNN spoke to Bayardo, Alejandro, and Violette in person. Bayardo and Alejandro haven't seen their mother in three weeks. They have paid Rosalina Luna's bond but are still awaiting her release.
#trump #immigration #ice #mask #california #latina #racism
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- How the ‘war on drugs’ set the stage for Trump’s authoritarianism today
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- “What Kilmar Abrego Garcia's family is going through is just unimaginable,” says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods, “but it is also what we've all allowed to happen over generations of letting the drug war and our deference to police departments erode the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which should protect us all from illegal search and seizure, such as these seizures that ICE is committing all around the country right now.” In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa and Woods discuss the US government’s case against Abrego Garcia—whom the Trump administration finally returned to US soil from El Salvador in June—and what the government can do to citizens and non-citizens alike when our right to due process is taken away.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- They told him his sign was illegal. What happened next shows cops don't know the law.
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Timothy Michael Randall was 29 years old when he was stopped for an alleged traffic infraction. Within one minute of stepping out of the car at Deputy Iverson's request, the unarmed young man was shot and killed. Cop Watcher @OttotheWatchdog arrived on the scene in Henderson, TX, to protest the brutality and was promptly arrested for disorderly conduct related to alleged profanity on his signage. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of the Police Accountability Report engage Sgt. Iverson's credibility issues as a state trooper, the dismissal of his criminal charges for the death of Randall, and the potential loss of qualified immunity for Iverson's shooting.
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- America, ‘nation of immigrants,’ turns on immigrants w/ Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- For generations, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a beacon representing the promise of America as a land of freedom and opportunity for immigrants from all over the world. But in 2025, as immigrant communities are being vilified and terrorized across the US, as people of color are being kidnapped off the street by armed, masked agents of the state, as immigrants are kidnapped and disappeared to prisons in foreign countries like El Salvador, as billions of taxpayer dollars are allocated to erect migrant concentration camps and a giant wall on the US-Mexico border, it should be horrifyingly clear that the promised America embodied in the Statue of Liberty is not the America we live in today. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen about the reality immigrant families face in the US today and about the critical relationship between the rise of authoritarianism at home and the violent expansion of American imperialism abroad.
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- EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil reveals how he won his freedom
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- After being abducted from his New York apartment building by plainclothes agents and locked away in an ICE jail in Louisiana for over 100 days, Mahmoud Khalil has been freed and reunited with his family. A federal judge ruled that Khalil’s detention was unconstitutional and that he was neither a flight risk nor a threat to the public, and the Syrian-born Palestinian activist, husband, father, and former Columbia University graduate student was finally released on June 20, 2025. But the fight for Khalil’s freedom is not over, and we have by no means seen the last of the Trump administration’s authoritarian attacks on immigrants, universities, and the movement to stop Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians. In this exclusive interview, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Amy Greer, an associate attorney at Dratel & Lewis and a member of Mahmoud Khalil's legal team, about the epic legal battle to free Khalil.
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- CNN Anchor BOTCHES progressive candidate takedown, MSM has 'knives out' for Zohran Mamdani!
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The pushback against progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals. Stephen Janis and Taya Graham take down the CNN anchor's takedown and show why her efforts are corporatist propaganda to undermine the popularity of his platform.
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- Chicagoans tell #Trump "Go to hell!" on #independenceday
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Hundreds of Chicago residents and a coalition of political and community organizations marched through the streets of downtown Chicago on July 4, one day after Republicans in Congress passed President Trump's tax and spending mega-bill. TRNN reports from the ground in #Chicago.
The march, which began at Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago, was called by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA), including two of its leading organizations—US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)-Chicago and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR)—plus the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine. In a press statement released prior to the march, the coalition said, "As Trump’s Big Beastly Bill has passed both chambers of Congress, Chicago’s diverse communities will stand together—with millions of people all over the country—to demand money for housing, healthcare, jobs, and education, not for wars, incarceration, and deportation"
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- STRIKE ALERT: 9k #philadelphia City workers walk off the job, Mayor's office 'scrambling"
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Over 9,000 municipal workers are on strike in Philadelphia—and residents and fellow union workers are showing up to support them.
"Every worker in this city deserves a fair, affordable wage" Philadelphia Federation of Teachers member Peter Doherty says.
"How can the Mayor give herself a 9% raise when workers have been living off of $40-50 thousand for God knows how long?" Philadelphia resident Jar Hernandez-Orsini asks.
AFSCME District Council 33 workers provide essential services across the city, from trash pickup and street repair to 911 dispatch, but workers and union reps say many employees struggle to afford living and making ends meet in the very city they serve. Workers officially began their strike, the largest City worker strike since 1986, when their contract expired at 12:01AM on July 1.
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- Gaza watches Iran bomb Israel: ‘The missiles represented hope’
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- On Friday, June 13, after Israeli airstrikes struck Iran, Iran launched a retaliatory barrage of missiles at Israel, hitting targets in Tel Aviv. Palestinians watched Iran’s bombs fall on Israel from across the militarized border separating the Gaza Strip from Israel. The Real News Network spoke with Palestinians on the ground in Gaza, who continue to endure genocidal violence and forced starvation at the hands of Israel, about their reactions to Iran’s airstrikes.
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- ‘These cuts are death sentences’: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ passes Senate
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to advance Donald Trump’s massive spending and tax bill, which will now go back to the House of Representatives for final approval. President Trump has publicly pushed his party to get the bill on his desk to sign by July 4. Dozens of peaceful protestors, including disabled people in wheelchairs, were arrested last Wednesday, June 25, in Washington, DC, while protesting Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which will slash taxes, dramatically increase funding for war and immigration enforcement, and make devastating cuts to vital, popular programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Lorraine Chavez, an educator, researcher, and community leader based in Chicago, and Christine Rodriguez, a legal assistant from Pasadena, California, both of whom traveled to DC with the @DebtCollective and were arrested for participating in the peaceful act of civil diso...
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- 'Congress doesn’t eat ’til Gaza eats!' Faith leaders shut down Capitol Hill cafeteria in protest
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- More than 50 faith leaders were arrested after shutting down Capitol Hill cafeterias in a bold protest against the lobbying day of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) — a group protesters denounce as a far-right hate group fueling genocide in Gaza and pushing the US toward war with Iran.
The action was organized by Interfaith Action for Palestine, a multifaith coalition of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist peace groups.
Their demands:
— End unconditional US military aid to Israel
— Pass the Block the Bombs Act
— Enforce the War Powers Resolution to stop unauthorized strikes on Iran
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- “Congress doesn’t eat ’til Gaza eats.”
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- More than 50 faith leaders were arrested after shutting down Capitol Hill cafeterias in a bold protest against the lobbying day of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) — a group protesters denounce as a far-right hate group fueling genocide in Gaza and pushing the US toward war with Iran.
The action was organized by Interfaith Action for Palestine, a multifaith coalition of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist peace groups.
Their demands:
— End unconditional US military aid to Israel
— Pass the Block the Bombs Act
— Enforce the War Powers Resolution to stop unauthorized strikes on Iran
#CeasefireNow #FreePalestine #StopTheBombs #FaithForPeace
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- Breaking: Popular cop watcher arrested for holding a sign—these words put him in jail
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Hunt County, Texas, police have arrested popular cop watcher Otto the Watchdog after police accosted him while he was protesting. The sign in question included an expletive, which led to charges of disorderly conduct. However, firmly established case law (Cohen v. State of California, 1971) precludes arresting someone for holding a sign that includes profanity. Otto has been released on bail. We will update this story shortly.
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- BREAKING: Over 9k City workers STRIKE in #philadelphia at midnight, July 1
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- At 12:01pm ET on July 1, Philadelphia will see its largest municipal worker strike in decades. Over 9,000 City workers represented by @afscme District Council 33 will walk off the job after their contract expires at midnight. DC 33 workers provide essential services across the city, from trash pickup and street repair to 911 dispatch, but workers and union reps say many employees struggle to afford living and making ends meet in the very city they serve. "There’s something wrong when a lot of our men and women are essentially the working poor inside this city," District Council 33 president Greg Boulware tells TRNN.
#union #strike #trump
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- Why Venetians want Jeff Bezos to choke on his wedding cake...
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Lauren Sanchez, in preparation for her Venice wedding, is carrying an Eiffel Tower purse that likely costs more than your rent, your mortgage, or even your monthly salary. Jeff Bezos' yacht Koru's purchase price could supply insulin for 856,666 diabetics or feed roughly 1,285,000 people for an entire year. The Bezos/Sanchez $10 million wedding is just the tip of the selfish iceberg that is the Amazon empire, known for grinding warehouse workers into the ground with surveillance practices, extreme time management, on-the-job injuries, and aggressive union busting. Join your Inequality Watchdog Taya Graham, as she breaks down the true cost of the wedding, Amazon's harsh labor practices, and how the Venetians are fighting back—they just might win too!
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- Democrat elites try to destroy Zohran Mamdani's chance at NYC mayor—will they succeed?
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- 10 months ago
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- After a progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani beat the establishment choice for NYC mayor in the primaries, Democrats are at a crossroads. Will they double down on their success, or will the corporatist wing of the party try to destroy Zohran Mamdani? Inequality Watchdogs Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the culture of a party that refuses to take a win.
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- Journalist SHOT IN THE HEAD by LA police while covering protests
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Multimedia journalist Michael Nigro was on the ground in #LosAngeles documenting the protests and police violence—wearing a clearly marked PRESS vest & helmet—when he was suddenly shot in the head by #LAPD at close range by a "non-lethal" round. We spoke to Nigro on the latest episode of the Working People podcast.
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#trump #police #press #firstamendment #protest #ice
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- 'Definition of fascism': Masked #ICE agents terrorizing #LosAngeles immigrant communities
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- "Imagine if people were getting vaporized by the federal government. That's what it feels like [in LA] right now." In the latest episode of the Working People podcast, we take you to the streets of Los Angeles, CA, and speak with multiple eyewitnesses about the on-the-ground reality of President Trump's mass deportation campaign and the brutal manner in which masked agents of the state are arresting and disappearing people from the streets.
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#immigration #trump #california #protest #raid
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- Angola prison ‘purposefully simulating chattel slavery’ with ‘inhumane’ Farm Line
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm under “inhumane” and dangerous conditions, including extreme heat. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Samantha Pourciau, senior staff attorney at The Promise of Justice Initiative, about the slave-like conditions of prison agricultural labor and a groundbreaking lawsuit that could bring an end to Angola’s notorious “Farm Line.”
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#prisonindustrialcomplex #prison #heat #louisiana #slavery #farming
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- 'Stop bombing Iran now!': Baltimoreans protest #trump war on Iran
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- On Sunday, June 22, Baltimoreans staged a demonstration outside the entrance to Druid Hill Park, where the annual #Afram festival was taking place, to protest the Trump administration’s illegal bombing of Iran.
#trump #iran #bomb #war #gaza #israel
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- Chicago Jewish activists HUNGER STRIKE for Gaza
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- On June 16, six members of @JewishVoiceforPeace in Chicago—Ash Bohrer, Becca Lubow, Avey Rips, Seph Mozes, Audrey Gladson, and Benjamin Teller—began an indefinite hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, unconditional military aid for Israel, and the blockade of food and medical aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians now living amongst the rubble. In this urgent episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with two of the Chicago hunger strikers, Ash Bohrer and Avey Rips, about their act of protest and how far they’re willing to go to stop Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians.
#palestine #israel #gaza #protest #jewish
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- She took her fight against prison sexual violence to the Supreme Court—and won
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Deidre Farmer, the first transgender plaintiff in a US Supreme Court case (Farmer v. Brennan) and executive director of Fight-4-Justice, discusses the reality of sexual violence in prisons and how LGBTQ inmates are especially vulnerable.
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#Prisons #LGBTQ #transgender #SupremeCourt
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- “Everything is death”: Israel’s starving of Gaza
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip are dying from forced starvation and malnutrition as a direct result of Israel’s nearly three-month-long total blockade preventing food, medicine, fuel, and other supplies from entering Gaza. While Israel has recently allowed some limited aid to enter Gaza, it is nowhere near enough to meet the needs of Gazans clinging to life. TRNN reports on the ground from Gaza, where an entire population is being slowly starved to death.
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- Why authoritarians hate LGBTQ people
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Abby Stein, a transgender rabbi, author, and activist raised ultra-orthodox, explains why authoritarian regimes hate and target LGBTQ people, and why LGBTQ people stand in solidarity with immigrants and other oppressed minorities.
Listen to our full interview with Rabbi Stein on The Marc Steiner Show: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0voq8YCfdNUYc5Ir7JOpku
#israel #palestine #lgbtq #immigration #ice
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- 'A dictatorship run by an idiot!' Baltimoreans say #NoKings in USA
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Baltimoreans have had enough of the Trump administration's authoritarian policies and showed up in the thousands this weekend to voice their dissent and stand up for their neighbors. TRNN was on the ground speaking to folks at Saturday's #NoKings protest.
#trump #baltimore #protest #usa #immigration #ice #military #democracy
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- 'My family's at risk': Baltimore man speaks up for immigrant relatives at #NoKings protest
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Baltimore resident Lee Watkins shares emotional testimony at Saturday's #NoKings rally about how the #Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants & citizens alike has put his family in danger, and why he is speaking out...
#immigration #protest #democracy #Ice #surveillance
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- Their county voted for Trump, but they don’t want a king
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In one the most heavily Republican counties in Maryland, residents joined the #NoKings national day of action to show their support for due process, immigrants, and the Constitution, and to protest the Trump administration’s attacks on Blue cities, elected officials like Sen. Alex Padilla, and anyone pushing back against authoritarianism. TRNN Inequality Watchdogs Taya Graham and Stephen Janis speak with protestors at the Harford County, MD, demonstration on June 14.
#maryland #trump #democracy #king #immigrants
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- Thousands defy #Trump at Baltimore #NoKings rally
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Thousands of Baltimore residents gathered in Patterson Park on Saturday, June 14, to protest the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants, democracy, the rule of law, free speech and the right to protest, Social Security, and more. TRNN reports on the ground from Baltimore's #NoKings protest.
#protest #ice #immigration #police #baltimore
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- 'No Kings! No Cages!' Maryland protesters direct righteous anger at #Trump White House
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Veterans, grandparents, Democrats, and even Republicans from the reddest sections of Maryland gathered at the #NoKings demonstration in Harford County on June 14 to protest the Trump administration and to show support for due process, democracy, and their immigrant neighbors.
#protest #democracy #donaldtrump
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- ‘Piece of crap!’: VA nurse blasts #trump administration’s attacks on veterans
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- “It has been impossible to treat and care for [our] veterans as it is,” VA hospital nurse and National Nurses United union steward Teshara Felder tells TRNN—and the Trump administration’s plans to cut 80,000 more jobs in the Department of Veterans Affairs will only make this crisis worse for veterans and healthcare workers. Thousands of veterans, federal workers, union members, VA nurses, and more protested the Trump administration for cutting veteran jobs, benefits, and healthcare at the “Unite for Veterans, Unite for America” rally in Washington D.C. on June 6.
#veteran #military #healthcare #trump
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- 'We're holding those dead babies with our hands'
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- After returning from a volunteer medical delegation in Gaza, Dr. Rizwan Minhas shares the harrowing truth of what he saw and experienced attempting to provide medical care for patients in the midst of Israel’s genocidal slaughter of Palestinians.
Listen to the full podcast interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC8t9n0G7Gc
#palestine #israel #gaza #doctor
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- 'Draft dodger' Trump plans giant military parade while cutting veteran benefits, jobs, & healthcare
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- At the “Unite for Veterans, Unite for America rally” in Washington D.C. on June 6, thousands of veterans gathered to protest the Trump administration’s attacks on veteran jobs, benefits, and healthcare. TRNN spoke with Terri Henry, a retired Air Force veteran, who shared some choice words about President Trump.
#trump #military #veteran #protest
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- Baltimore stands with LA protestors, immigrants: "ICE out of Baltimore!"
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- On June 9, residents of Baltimore marched to the George H. Fallon ICE Field Office downtown to protest the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign and President Trump's decision to send National Guard troops and active-duty Marines to squash anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. #ice #losangeles #immigration #trump #baltimore #protest
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- Doctors returning from Gaza beg humanity to stop the carnage
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Doctors Sarah Lalonde, Rizwan Minhas, and Yipeng Ge have all recently returned to Canada from volunteer medical delegations in Gaza with a harrowing message for the rest of the world. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with all three doctors about what they saw and experienced attempting to provide medical care for patients in the midst of Israel’s genocidal slaughter of Palestinians.
Content Warning: This episode contains vivid descriptions of wartime conditions, genocide, violent physical injuries, and death.
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-Dr. Sarah LaLonde is an emergency and family physician specializing in community, rural, and remote emergency medicine, with a particular focus on Indigenous communities
-Dr. Rizwan Minhas is a Toronto-based physician specializing in sports and regenerative pain medicine, with extensive experience in em...
