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Why more mega-prisons won’t fix Alabama’s crisis
- Title
- Why more mega-prisons won’t fix Alabama’s crisis
- Runtime
- 34:02
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- From chronic overcrowding and inmate deaths to systematic abuse and lawbreaking by corrections officers, prison conditions in the state of Alabama have reached a crisis point. And yet, state leaders continue to push an “Alabama solution” that involves building more mega-prisons and expanding qualified immunity for officers. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Dakarai Larriett, a Democratic candidate for US Senate in Alabama, about about the true cost of Alabama’s carceral crisis and his vision for an alternative vision of criminal justice.
Guest: Dakarai Larriett is a community leader, entrepreneur, and Democratic candidate for US Senate in Alabama
Credits: Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- NYC Marathon Meets Mayor’s Race: Harlem Voters Speak Out!
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Here in New York City, the marathon isn’t the only race this weekend.
As runners test their endurance, New Yorkers are making another choice: who will lead their city into the future? With Zohran Mamdani holding a steady lead over Andrew Cuomo, we hit the streets to ask voters what’s driving their decisions. Most New Yorkers we spoke to had one message: they’re ready for change.
#nycmarathon #NYC #mamdani #cuomo #socialists #democrats #democracy #harlemJoin
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- Title
- NYC Voters want real change. They hope the next mayor can deliver it.
- Runtime
- 4:32
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Before voting ends in the New York City mayoral race, TRNN is on the ground talking to voters about who they voted for and why. One theme has emerged: New Yorkers want real change, and they want it now.
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis speak with voters in Harlem about what issues are important to them, what they think of the frontrunner candidate Zohran Mamdani, what they think of his opponent, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, and what they want the mayor to do for them.
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- Title
- One-man rule: Congress stalls as millions risk losing care
- Runtime
- 27:14
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- As the government shutdown stretches into its fourth week, Republicans are managing the crisis as if democratic accountability no longer applies—stalling Congress, ducking public scrutiny, and holding lifesaving ACA tax credits and SNAP benefits hostage for partisan gain. The result is immediate and unequal harm: millions risk losing healthcare while one-man rule, dark money, and gerrymandered advantage erode what little democracy we have left. Reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break it all down in this installment of the Inequality Watch.
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- Title
- Rural America wants to break its economic addiction to prisons
- Runtime
- 34:41
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Prisons have frequently been presented as a “solution” to the economic woes and employment needs of rural communities around the US—but that doesn’t mean residents of these communities want them there. In Franklin County, Arkansas, for instance, residents are banding together in opposition to the state’s plans to build a mega-prison in their area. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Lauren Gill, a staff reporter from Bolts magazine, and Natalie Cadena, executive director of the Arkansas-based rural advocacy nonprofit Gravel & Grit, about the fight in Franklin County and rural America’s changing relationship to the prison-industrial complex.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #prisons #arkansas #rural
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- ICE contract with airline under fire in blue state of Maryland
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Protesters in the Maryland state capital of Annapolis asked Governor Wes Moore to ban the airline Avelo from flying out of the state's largest airport, BWI. The airline has received millions in contracts from ICE to fly immigrants out of the country. Activists say the company is profiting off the violation of people's rights who are being deported without due process.
#ice #avelo #wesmoore #maryland #politics #news
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- Title
- He trusted the police. They let him die on the street.
- Runtime
- 5:05
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- 31-year-old Dontae Melton Jr. approached Baltimore police officers pleading for help, saying someone was chasing him. Instead of receiving medical aid or mental health care, he was handcuffed, shackled, and left on the hot pavement for nearly an hour while officers waited for an ambulance that never came. By the time officers drove him to Grace Medical Center, it was too late. The Maryland Medical Examiner has now ruled his death a homicide.
For Dontae’s mother, Eleshiea Goode, the heartbreak is compounded by disbelief. “He came to them for help,” she said. “They let him die on the street.” The family’s attorney calls it a preventable tragedy, and the homicide ruling now confirms what his family already knew: that Dontae’s death was caused not by fate, but by a chain of failures inside Baltimore’s policing and emergency-response systems.
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- Title
- Gaza City residents defy Israel’s orders to evacuate: ‘We’re staying here’
- Runtime
- 8:59
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Ahead of a ground invasion that officials threatened would be a “mighty hurricane,” Israel ordered the entire population of Gaza City—over one million people—to evacuate. For those in Gaza City, many of whom have already been displaced multiple times, this order presents a deadly choice: flee into the unknown yet again, or stay and face the advancing Israeli army. “We already experienced displacement,” Ziad Ayyad, a refugee in Gaza City, says. “We can’t do it again. We’re staying here. Whatever happens, happens. Even if they crush us under their tanks.” In August 2025, TRNN asked Palestinians if they plan to evacuate or stay as Israel attempts to completely depopulate Gaza City. This is what they told us.
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
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- Billionaires are running America. The current shutdown proves it.
- Runtime
- 18:38
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The current shutdown of the federal government is more than just a dispute between two parties with different policy ideas. It's also a stark example of how America's massive wealth inequality continues to weaken our democracy. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the evidence that billionaires are running the show.
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- Title
- Nebraska inmate punished for speaking on wife’s podcast
- Runtime
- 31:11
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Calling from a prison phone in Nebraska, Nicholas Ely joined his wife, Julie Montpetit, for an episode of Montpetit’s podcast, “More Than an Inmate’s Girlfriend,” which aims to destigmatize relationships like theirs. Afterwards, Montpetit lost all contact with her husband. Now, Ely is suing several employees in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, alleging that he has faced unlawful retaliation for appearing on the podcast and that his constitutional rights, including his right to free speech, were violated. In this episode of “Rattling the Bars,” host Mansa Musa speaks with Montpetit about losing contact with her husband and about the status of his lawsuit.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #prisons #Nebraska #podcast
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- Title
- ‘Mike Johnson can kiss my ass!’: Voices from the DC “No Kings” protest
- Runtime
- 28:11
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- WASHINGTON, DC: Amid threats of police crackdowns and accusations from Republican officials that protesters “hate America,” millions of people defiantly turned out to the “No Kings” Day protests that took place in cities and towns across the US on Saturday, Oct. 18. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez was on the ground in Washington, DC, speaking with protest attendees about why they were protesting, what their demands are, and what messages they have for President Trump and his administration. This is what they said…
Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #nokings #trump #dc #democracy
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- Title
- Giant sloths against fascism
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Reporting on the ground from Towson, MD—one of the multiple "No Kings" protests that took place in Baltimore County on Saturday, Oct. 18—Inequality Watchdogs Taya Graham and Stephen Janis spoke directly with protestors themselves, including one giant sloth who had a lot to say about the state of America today...
Watch our full on-the-ground report from Baltimore's "No Kings" protest here: https://youtu.be/_YF1Al82-iM
#news #politics #Trump #NoKings #Baltimore
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- Title
- No violence, "No Kings": Protestors respond to Mike Johnson allegations that they "Hate America"
- Runtime
- 2:50
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- At a Baltimore County 'No Kings' demonstration on Oct. 18, Inequality Watchdogs Taya Graham and Stephen Janis asked protesters to respond to Speaker Mike Johnson's allegations that they were hateful Marxists who wanted to destroy America. Graham and Janis interviewed dozens of protesters, and this is a representative selection of their responses. Here's what they said...
#news #politics #democracy #protest #nokings #trump
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- Title
- 'Time for a general strike!': Union president Sara Nelson calls for action at DC "No Kings" protest
- Runtime
- 4:02
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- WASHINGTON, DC: At the "No Kings" protest in the nation's capital—one of thousands of demonstrations that took place across the country on Saturday—labor leader and international president of the Association of Flight Attendants Sara Nelson spoke with TRNN about the role unions must play in ending the current government shutdown and stopping the oligarchy's war on democracy.
Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #nokings #trump #shutdown
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- Title
- 'This is what Antifa looks like': Baltimore's "No Kings" protests
- Runtime
- 7:50
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- TOWSON, MD: What brought millions of Americans out to over 2,500 "No Kings" protest sites across the US on Saturday,? Were these protests really "Hate America" rallies, as Republicans accused? What are the hopes, expectations, and goals of these protests, and what comes next? Reporting on the ground from one of the multiple protests that took place in Baltimore County on Oct. 18, Inequality Watchdogs Taya Graham and Stephen Janis posed these questions directly to protestors themselves. Here's what they said...
#news #politics #trump #nokings #baltimore
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- Title
- Searching for "agitators" & "paid protestors" at DC "No Kings" protest
- Runtime
- 24:40
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- WASHINGTON, DC: At the "No Kings" protest on Saturday, Oct. 18, TRNN was on the ground walking the entire length of the demonstration looking for the "paid protestors," "agitators," "Hamas supporters," and "antifa terrorists" Republicans claimed would be filling the streets in what they called a "Hate America" rally. Here's what we actually saw...
Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #nokings #trump #dc
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- Title
- Their kids were all killed by police. Now, they’re leading a movement
- Runtime
- 9:04
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- In the USA, so many Black parents have seen their children killed by police that, now, growing numbers of those same parents are building a grassroots movement for accountability and justice. On Oct. 14—the birthday of George Floyd, who was murdered by Minneapolis police in 2020—a coalition of parents, allies, and community organizations gathered in Washington, DC, for a rally to remember those who have been killed by the police and to hear from their loved ones who continue to fight in their name. TRNN reports on the ground from the rally in Union Square.
Studio Production / Post Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #police #dc
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- Adelita Grijalva, the final vote needed for Congress’ Epstein petition, SPEAKS OUT
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva says House Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying her swearing in to cover for predator Jeffrey Epstein and his clients. Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona, won a special election roughly three weeks ago, but Speaker Johnson has refused to formalize her Congressional post with a swearing-in ceremony. Johnson claims that the government shutdown is to blame for the delay, but Congressional representatives have been sworn in (including by Johnson himself) during pro forma sessions before. Grijalva would be the 218th member of Congress to sign a discharge petition that would force the House to vote on a subpoena to force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.
TRNN Congressional Correspondents and Inequality Watchdogs Taya Graham and Stephen Janis were on the ground in Washington DC and got a chance to speak with Congresswoman Grijalva herself…
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- Title
- 31,000 workers ON STRIKE at Kaiser Permanente
- Runtime
- 16:22
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Around 31,000 registered nurses and front-line healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike, demanding better wages, working hours, and proper staffing. The strike began on Tuesday, Oct 14, and spans hundreds of medical centers and offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaii. Calling in from the picket line in Portland, Oregon, Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) and Executive Secretary of the Oregon Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals (OFNHP) Nick Eng speaks with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about what healthcare workers are fighting for.
Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #strike #healthcare #politics #california
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- For Gazans, ‘there is no optimism’ the war will actually end
- Runtime
- 8:23
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- After two years of Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza, Palestinians have welcomed the tenuous ceasefire that began last week. However, there is little hope that the ceasefire will lead to lasting peace or an end to the occupation. “There is no optimism,” one Gaza resident, Nusfat Modin, says. “You can't negotiate with these people. A deal, no deal—we have no hope. No one—ask anyone.”
TRNN asked Gazans what they thought about the latest ceasefire deal. This is what they told us…
Full story page: https://therealnews.com/for-gazans-no-optimism-the-war-will-actually-end
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
#news #politics #gaza #israel #Trump #Netanyahu
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- Title
- How ICE creates the chaos ICE is called in to "fix"
- Runtime
- 46:36
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- President Trump repeatedly promised that his mass deportation efforts would target "the worst of the worst" criminals, yet the government's own data reveals that immigrants with no criminal record are the largest group in US immigration detention today. How can the Trump administration justify its deployment of federal agents, and even the military, to US cities based on the factually disprovable fictions that American cities are crime-ridden "war zones" overrun with criminal "illegal aliens"? To answer that, one must study the long-established precedent in the USA of overpolicing poor communities of color that are painted as inherently violent, chaotic, and crime-ridden. In this episode of "Rattling the Bars," host Mansa Musa speaks with TRNN reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham about what the history of policing in America can teach us about Trump's authoritarian deployment of law enforcement agencies today.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadi...
- Title
- Arrest of cop watcher filming police shows 1st amendment rights under assault
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- An arrest of cop watcher @JamesFreeman1 for filming police in Texas suggest the right to film law enforcement may be on shaky ground. Department of Homeland Security officials have threatened to arrest people filming ICE agents. That pushback may be leading to more aggressive tactics by local police against a well established constitutional right.
#copwatch #firstamendment #ICE #Texas #shorts
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- Title
- Help us make sure voices from Gaza are heard!
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- For years, The Marc Steiner Show on TRNN has lifted up the voices of Palestinians and Israelis fighting against the violence of Occupation. And that vital work has earned us a spot as a 2025 finalist for a prestigious Signal Award, but we need your help to win!
Between now and October 9, we need you and all our listeners to go to the Signal Award website and vote (it just takes a few seconds). Use the links below…
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- Title
- ICED out of America
- Runtime
- 19:09
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- For over four months, masked federal officers have been arresting and disappearing immigrants attending their mandatory asylum court dates. Photojournalists in New York City fought to maintain their First Amendment right to observe the chaotic, cruel, and often violent breach of due process occurring daily in NYC's immigration courts.
A documentary by Michael Nigro.
#ice #immigration #immigrationcourt #news #politics
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- Title
- Defying Israel, more ships sail to Gaza after Global Sumud Flotilla captured
- Runtime
- 9:38
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Sparking global outrage and condemnation, Israel has illegally intercepted every vessel and captured every volunteer sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Protests over the flotilla’s capture have erupted around the world, from Buenos Aires to Barcelona, and hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Italy in a one-day general strike called by Italian unions in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. And another, smaller fleet of ships with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition is currently sailing to Gaza. Recorded on Saturday, Oct. 4, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing with the flotilla on board the Conscience.
Studio Production / Post Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
#gaza #news #politics #flotilla #israel
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- Title
- How I survived a supermax prison
- Runtime
- 37:49
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Eric King is a father, poet, activist, and anarchist who was imprisoned in 2014 for acts of solidarity with the Ferguson, MO, uprising in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown. While locked up, King endured years of documented physical and psychological torture, spending the last 18 months of his sentence in the ADX supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with King about how he survived his incarceration “with heart and soul intact,” and about King’s new book, “A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America's Most Notorious Dungeon,” in which he “opens the doors of America’s most secretive prison and lets the reader step into the cell to experience all the horrors the Federal Bureau of Prisons tries to keep hidden underground.”
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #prisons #supermax #ferguson #ericking
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- Title
- Gaza's children "have experienced every kind of oppression"
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- While Palestinians cling to hope that they will live to see the end of the war, the incalculable trauma inflicted on Gaza’s children over the last two years will leave permanent scars.
"Every time I speak to other moms, they say, 'My child wasn't like this before the war..." mother Um Alaa Jundiya tells us.
In our latest on-the-ground report, @therealnews speaks with children in Gaza about how the war has forever changed their lives.
Watch the full documentary report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PAwx0vBvY
#news #politics #palestine #children
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- "Government by extortion": Unpacking the GOP shutdown
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The government shutdown "is being covered [by the media] like a horse race. Who’s going to win? The Republicans are the Democrats? From our perspective as reporters, it’s a calamity" TRNN reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham say. "Millions of people are right now on the verge of losing access to healthcare"
How long will this shutdown last? What short-term and long-term impacts will the shutdown have on poor and working people, on the Affordable Care Act, on the Trump agenda, and on the congressional battle to release the Epstein files? We break down your questions about the shutdown...
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#News #politics #trump #GOP #shutdown #Democrats #Republicans
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- Title
- Microsoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt
- Runtime
- 31:18
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- In a stunning and massive development, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is terminating parts of the Israeli military’s access to proprietary technology that it was using to conduct mass surveillance and targeting of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. “Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform,” the Guardian reports. “The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza.” This major development would not have happened without the joint-investigative work of reporters at The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call exposing Microsoft’s complicity in Unit 8200’s mass-surveillance campaign, but it also would not have happened without disruptive protest campaigns by tech workers with...
- Title
- Layoffs, healthcare, Epstein files: Breaking down the GOP government shutdown
- Runtime
- 24:18
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Seven years ago, during Donald Trump’s first presidential term, the US endured the longest government shutdown in its history: 35 days. Now, in the first year of Donald Trump's second presidential term, with Republicans and Republican appointees controlling all three branches of government, the government is shut down again. How long will this shutdown last? What short-term and long-term impacts will the shutdown have on poor and working people, on the Affordable Care Act, on the Trump agenda, and on the Congressional battle to release the Epstein files? TRNN Editor-in-Chief and “Inequality Watch” hosts Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down your questions on Day 1 of the government shutdown.
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#shutdown #trump #epsteinfiles #economy #democrats #republicans #news #politics #medicare #obamacare #aca #government
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- Title
- Republicans make last ditch effort to block Epstein files release
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson has refused to swear in recently elected Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva until the election is certified which could take weeks. Democrats say it’s all a ruse to buy time to sway Republicans how signed a discharge petition to force a vote on a subpoena to force the justice department to release all the Epstein files.
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- Title
- "If I am killed during this mission...": Global Sumud Flotilla nears Gaza, despite Israel's threats
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The Global Sumud Flotilla, consisting of over 40 vessels with delegations of peace activists from around the world, is sailing within 150 nautical miles of Gaza. As of Tuesday night, the Flotilla fleet has entered the “high risk” zone, where Israel has threatened to intercept them. The Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest maritime mission in history to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Calling in from the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with two members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, Iara Modarelli and Leila Hegazy. "We have seen the inhumane violence that Israel and its military are capable of," Alvarez said to Modarelli and Hegazy before asking: "If this does go bad, and this is your last mission, what do you want your final message to the world to be?" Here is their answer...
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#news #politics #gaza #palesti...
- Title
- BREAKING: Federal whistleblowers ILLEGALLY FIRED after exposing “chaos” at Trump’s HUD
- Runtime
- 26:26
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Last week, The Real News Network published a bombshell interview with two federal whistleblowers working in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan, two attorneys in HUD’s Office of Fair Housing, about the “chaos” that has upended HUD under the new Trump administration, and the vulnerable Americans who are being systematically abandoned as a result. Then, on Monday, Sept. 29, exactly one week after going public, Osadebe and Heenan were fired in what the Federal Unionist Network describes as “a stunning act of illegal retaliation.” In this urgent followup interview, we speak once again with Osadebe and Heenan about the conditions of their firing, and what this attack on whistleblowers means for the future of government transparency and the future of HUD itself.
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#whistleblower #news #politics #governm...
- Title
- Global Sumud Flotilla sails to Gaza despite Israel’s threats
- Runtime
- 32:50
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The Global Sumud Flotilla has embarked on the most dangerous leg of its mission to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver life-saving aid to Palestinians in the midst of genocide. As of Monday morning, over 40 vessels with delegations of peace activists from around the world are just over 300 nautical miles from Gaza, and will be entering the "high risk" zone within the next 24-48 hours. Naval ships from three countries—Spain, Italy, and Turkey—are now accompanying the humanitarian fleet as a security escort. Calling in from the Mediterranean Sea, flotilla members Iara Modarelli and Leila Hegazy speak with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about the current status of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the critical days ahead.
Story page: https://therealnews.com/global-sumud-flotilla-sets-sail-for-gaza-despite-israels-threats
Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Title
- Trump’s loophole for mass-jailing immigrants: The US Marshals
- Runtime
- 17:27
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- There are two primary federal agencies tasked with immigration detention: ICE, which is well known, and the US Marshal Service. Under the Trump administration, the US Marshals have dramatically increased their role in detaining and incarcerating undocumented immigrants, using their federal power to override restrictions on immigrant detention in local jails around the country. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Wanda Bertram, communications strategist for the Prison Policy Initiative, about how the Trump administration is weaponizing legal loopholes and the US Marshal Service to execute the mass incarceration of immigrants.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Title
- ‘We have experienced every kind of oppression’: Gaza’s children speak
- Runtime
- 5:58
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- For the last two years, Israel’s US-backed genocide has destroyed every facet of normal life in the Gaza Strip. While Palestinians cling to hope that they will live to see the end of the war, the incalculable trauma inflicted on Gaza’s children will leave permanent scars. “In these two years, we have experienced every kind of oppression,” 13-year-old Abdelrahman Bashir Jundia tells TRNN.
“From living in tents, to refugee centers that are not fit for living in at all… We have suffered torture, torture, and more torture.” In this on-the-ground report, TRNN speaks with children in Gaza about how the war has forever changed their lives.
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
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- Title
- Carnival Cruise ship workers deported with no due process in Baltimore
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- On Sunday, Sept. 14, Filipino and migrant justice organizations held an emergency rally at the Port of Baltimore. Just days prior, four seafarers working on the Carnival Pride cruise ship—three of them Filipino, one Indonesian—were detained and deported without due process while docked in Baltimore. These workers were reportedly accused of possessing "child pornography" as a means of justifying their immediate deportation, but no charges were filed or evidence presented.
The Sept. 14 rally and press conference was organized by the Tanggol Migrante Movement organizations and allies on the same morning that the Carnival Pride returned to the Port of Baltimore. Representatives from the Malaya Movement - Baltimore, the Kabataan Alliance, and the Baltimore Rapid Response Network spoke at the rally.
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- Title
- Breaking: House to Force Epstein Petition.
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- A discharge petition to force the House to issue a subpoena to the Justice Department for yet to be released Epstein documents picked up a crucial vote after Democrats won a special election in Arizona. Adelita Grijalva won a special election in the 7th district in Arizona, and has pledged to sign the discharge petition as soon as she is sworn in.
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- Title
- Gazans send messages to Global Sumud Flotilla: 'We are not abandoned'
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Multiple vessels with the Global Sumud Flotilla have been attacked this week. As The Guardian reports, "Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists have reported explosions and multiple drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated near Greece. 'Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,' the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) said in a statement. 'We are witnessing these psychological operations first-hand, right now, but we will not be intimidated.'"
The Global Sumud Flotilla, consisting of over 50 vessels with delegations from over 40 countries, is the largest collective maritime effort in history to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver live-saving aid to Palestinians facing genocide.
TRNN reached out to two Palestinians in Gaza, Mohammed Abu Tawila and Abdul Rahman Mohammed, to ask what messages they had for all of the partici...
- Title
- Jimmy Kimmel is back, but Trump's war on free speech is just beginning
- Runtime
- 34:56
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- By pressuring broadcast giant ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show—a decision that ABC reversed this week—the Trump administration has taken its assault on the First Amendment to new heights over the past week. Kimmel’s show is back on the air for now, but the whole debacle has revealed just how vulnerable free speech in America is to political and corporate authoritarianism. This is a crisis, and both Democrats and Republicans have set the stage for it. “As corporate media accelerate their censorship of comedians and journalists,” renowned media analyst Jeff Cohen writes, “we must realize that we got to this dire situation because of old-fashioned, bipartisan corruption in Washington, DC.” In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Cohen about how the consolidation of corporate control over the media, mixed with a ravenously censorious Trump administration, has left free speech in America hanging by a thread.
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- Title
- If Democrats Don't Die on This Hill, 17 Million People Will Lose Healthcare
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- While a smattering of Democrats gathered on Capitol Hill at a press conference on Sept. 18 to discuss the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) cuts that would result from the passing of "The Big Beautiful Bill," they mentioned the only tool at their disposal is withholding funding by not voting for the CR, or Continuing Resolution. However, no Democratic politician present was willing to commit to taking that action. Erin McKeon, an advocate for people with Crohn's and Colitis disease was forthright in explaining exactly what would happen to millions of Americans if these ACA credits are allowed to sunset and other healthcare benefits are cut.
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- Title
- CA to close infamous Norco prison—this abolitionist coalition wants to shut down more facilities
- Runtime
- 25:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- After years of pressure from community members and a coalition of over 80 organizations, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has announced plans to close the infamous California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, CA, by the fall of 2026. But organizers say this is just the beginning—they are fighting to close more prisons in California and prevent the government from re-opening shuttered facilities for immigrant detention. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Woods Ervin of the grassroots organization Critical Resistance about California's prison system and the growing abolitionist movement working to dismantle it.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #california #prisons #trump #immigration #ICE
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- Title
- EXCLUSIVE: Federal whistleblowers expose ‘chaos’ at Trump’s HUD
- Runtime
- 35:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- UPDATE: On September 29, attorneys and federal employees at HUD Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan were fired, exactly one week after they filed their complaint. Click here to watch the followup interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTHsh0nscKo
Whistleblowers working in the federal government are going public to expose an emergency situation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. According to their formal whistleblower complaint, under President Trump’s administration, “HUD leadership has already violated the law” and taken actions that “will result in legal violations, gross mismanagement, gross waste of funds, and present a specific danger to public health and safety.” The complaints were filed by four attorneys and staff workers at HUD'S Office of General Counsel and Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. In their first on-air appearance since going public with their allegations, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with att...
- Title
- Can Democrats stop Republicans from gutting healthcare?
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- September 18, Congresswomen Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) and Susie Lee (NV-03) hosted a press conference alongside patients and other battleground House Democrats to call for the extension of the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits. These tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year, which will cause premiums to skyrocket for working families across the country.
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- Title
- Life and death in the West Bank's Tulkarem refugee camp
- Runtime
- 8:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Established in 1950, Tulkarem refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank became home to Palestinians driven from their native lands during the 1948 Nakba (“Catastrophe”), which saw over 700,000 people expelled in a campaign of ethnic cleansing to create Israel. Since January of 2025, the camp has been forcibly depopulated by Israel and largely destroyed as part of the IDF’s Operation Iron Wall, which has displaced over 40,000 Palestinians in West Bank refugee camps. In April 2024, before their forced displacement, TRNN was granted access to the Tulkarem refugee camp and spoke to residents about life and death in what was once one of the most densely populated camps in the West Bank.
Produced by: Ross Domoney, Antonis Vradis, Abdalrahman Abdrabboh
Filmed and edited by: Ross Domoney
Ever wondered how political stories are crafted from the ground up? Ross Domoney, the filmmaker behind this piece, invites filmmakers, journalists, and activists into his com...
- Title
- Gaza City in RUINS as Israel invades, depopulates Gaza's biggest urban center
- Runtime
- 2:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- After two years of genocidal bombing and blockade, Israel is invading, depopulating, and destroying what remains of Gaza City. Palestinians there who have somehow survived the last two years have been warned to evacuate, though there is nowhere safe in the Gaza Strip for them to go. Award-winning filmmaker and TRNN journalist sent us this footage she captured on Sunday, Sept. 14, near the ruins of Al-Ru'ya Tower and Mashtaha Tower in Western Gaza City.
"Mashtaha Tower has been standing for decades and was home to dozens of families," Amer reports. "Ru'ya Commercial Tower was recently built, approximately four years ago, and housed offices, including the Palestinian Human Rights Office and other media offices, as well as residential apartments. It is located near the university complex. For nearly a week, the Israeli army has been violently targeting residential towers in the city, considered the most vital area in the Gaza Strip. This successive bombing has altered the cit...
- Title
- ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just the beginning: Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ mass incarceration network
- Runtime
- 23:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has halted the imminent closure of the infamous "Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp in Florida; now, the future of the facility, and the people incarcerated within it, remains in limbo. “But no matter the future of Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration is turning it into a model for expanding detention capacity across the country,” Shannon Heffernan and Beth Schwartzapfel report at The Marshall Project. “Similar large-scale facilities, opened in collaboration with state governments, are already in the works. These projects mark the first time that states have gotten this involved in large-scale immigration detention.” In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Heffernan about how the Trump administration, in collaboration with state governments, is expanding the US system of mass incarceration to unprecedented levels.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Title
- Why veterans are sailing to #Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "I'm someone who served in Afghanistan in 2009," US Army veteran and About Face - Veterans Against the War member Zue Jernstedt told us this week on @therealnews "I feel like it's my duty now to stand up against imperialism, because I was a foot soldier of imperialism."
TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with Jernstedt and US Marines veteran Zuleyka Morales Rivera earlier this week about why they and other US military veterans and About Face members have joined the massive fleet of vessels sailing to deliver life-saving aid to Palestinians in Gaza. Including over 50 vessels, delegations from at least 44 countries, and activists, organizers, and people of conscience from around the world, the Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest maritime mission in history to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. Just hours after recording this conversation with Jernstedt and Morales Rivera, the flagship vessel of the flotilla fleet was bombed by a drone off the port of ...
- Title
- ‘THIS IS WAR’: Will Charlie Kirk's assassination unleash a wave of political retribution?
- Runtime
- 38:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump, conservative political activist, and founder of Turning Point USA, has sent shockwaves throughout the entire country. As of Thursday, Sept. 11, Kirk’s killer is still at large. Authorities still do not know who the shooter is and what their motivations were, but that hasn't stopped the formation of a thunderous chorus of powerful people across the right and far-right spectrum calling for retribution, from President Trump and Elon Musk to far-right influencers like Chaya Raichik and Laura Loomer. What will the societal fallout be from this high-profile assassination? Will the public murder of Kirk unleash a new wave of political repression? What possibilities should people be prepared for? In this urgent panel discussion, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez poses these questions to three experts on far-right politics: Shane Burley, Natasha Lennard, and Jared Holt.
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- Title
- 4 Reasons why Trump is afraid of Zohran Mamdani w/Taya Graham and Stephen Janis | Inequality Watch
- Runtime
- 23:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Donald Trump is putting his thumbs on the scale of the New York mayoral race. Reports suggest he’s floated an ambassadorship to current Mayor Eric Adams and even had back-channel conversations with former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who’s now eyeing an independent run.
But why is the president of the United States so determined to stop Zohran Mamdani? And why are so many Democrats nervous about a Mamdani primary win?
Join Taya Graham and Stephen Janis on Inequality Watch as they break down the four big reasons Mamdani has the political establishment—and Trump himself—running scared.
Written by: Stephen Janis
Studio: David Hebden
Post-Production: Stephen Janis
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