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EPA involved in toxic "coverup" in Ohio, independent testing expert says
- Title
- EPA involved in toxic "coverup" in Ohio, independent testing expert says
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- In the weeks, months, and years following the Feb. 3, 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine, OH, the Environmental Protection Agency assured local residents that the air, soil, and water in their community was safe. But when independent testing expert and Blue Shirt Justice League founder Scott Smith (@waterwarriorone) began testing for toxins in and around East Palestine, his findings revealed a horrifying truth that, according to Smith, Norfolk Southern and the EPA have tried to cover up...
#news #politics #toxic #epa #ohio
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- Title
- 'My small-town life changed in an instant'
- Runtime
- 2:26
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- When a Norfolk Southern "bomb train" carrying hazardous chemicals derailed two blocks from her house on Feb. 3, 2023, Ashley McCollum's quiet, small-town life "changed in an instant." Norfolk Southern, opportunistic politicians, and media pundits have all moved on from the East Palestine train derailment and chemical disaster, but residents like McCollum are still dealing with the toxic fallout...
Watch our full documentary report here: https://youtu.be/UD0crvUzUCo
#news #politics #toxic #ohio
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- Title
- They poisoned a whole community. The EPA helped cover it up.
- Runtime
- 10:54
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern 'bomb train' carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio. Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of vinyl chloride, blasting a toxic mushroom cloud into the air and exposing residents to toxins that have poisoned their bodies and homes. In the weeks, months, and years following the East Palestine derailment and chemical disaster, the Environmental Protection Agency assured residents that the air and water in their community was safe. But when independent testing expert and Blue Shirt Justice League founder Scott Smith (@waterwarriorone) began testing for toxins in and around East Palestine, his findings revealed a horrifying truth that, according to Smith, Norfolk Southern and the EPA have tried to cover up...
Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
#news #politics #ohio #pennsy...
- Title
- 'The public needs to see this'
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Whether it’s investigating cops abusing their power on Police Accountability Report or interviewing Epstein victims for Inequality Watch, Taya Graham is on the ground reporting for you.
Thank you to all of our viewers and supporters!
Video by Stephen Janis and Taya Graham.
#news #politics #independentmedia #copwatch
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- Title
- Prison during the holidays isn’t what you think
- Runtime
- 26:01
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- For incarcerated people and their families, the holidays are the most painful time of year. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa and TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speak frankly about what it’s like to be locked up during the holidays, why inmate suicides, violence, and depression spike this time of year, and about the life-saving and society-improving steps we can take this holiday season to help prisoners maintain contact with the outside world.
C/W: Discussion of suicide and depression
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Full episode page: https://therealnews.com/prison-during-the-holidays-isnt-what-you-think
#news #holiday #prison #politics
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- Title
- ‘We’ve been left for dead’: Residents left behind after industrial disaster
- Runtime
- 7:04
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern 'bomb train' carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio. Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of chemicals, blasting a mushroom cloud of toxic phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air. Nearly three years later, residents like Jami Wallace and her family are still suffering the toxic fallout…
Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
Additional footage courtesy of Jami Wallace
#news #politics #industrial #accident #ohio #pennsylvania
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- Title
- 'I Lost My Car Driving for Uber!' How Uber’s Business Model Squeezes Drivers and Riders
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Please watch closely, this Uber driver explains how the math really works.
She drives 20–26,000 miles a year, lost her car to this job, and still drove 309 miles to demand fair pay on Capitol Hill for herself and others. (A fellow Uber driver mentioned he drives as many as 200,000 miles per year. And how the average pay is $4-5 per hour!)
By the end of this interview, you’ll understand why drivers say Uber is taking both drivers and riders-- for a ride. Congress members Talib and Norcross are introducing the Empowering App Based Workers Act to gain algorithmic transparency, data and most importantly a guaranteed 75% of the fare for the driver.
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- Title
- An industrial disaster wrecked my home. Now I’m living out of a hotel.
- Runtime
- 8:46
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Life for Zsuzsa Gyenes has become a never-ending nightmare after a Norfolk Southern “bomb train” carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in her hometown of East Palestine, OH, on Feb. 3, 2023. “When the derailment happened, my son and I [got] very sick,” Gyenes says, “we were forced to leave our home very shortly afterwards, and we had been displaced continuously for over a year and a half.” When Norfolk Southern eventually helped Gynes locate and pay for a new home, she hoped it was a chance for a fresh start—but her troubles were only just beginning…
Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
#news #politics #industrial #accident #ohio #pennsylvania
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- Title
- A billion-dollar company poisoned my home and destroyed my town
- Runtime
- 12:02
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Ashley McCollum's quiet, small-town life "changed in an instant" on the night of Feb. 3, 2023, when a Norfolk Southern "bomb train" derailed near her home in East Palestine, OH. The derailment, followed by the disastrous decision to "vent and burn" multiple carloads of hazardous chemicals, exposed residents in East Palestine and the surrounding area to toxins that have made them sick, poisoned their homes, and changed their community forever. While Norfolk Southern, politicians, and media pundits have all moved on from the East Palestine train derailment and chemical disaster, residents like McCollum are still dealing with the toxic fallout.
Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, David Hebden
#news #politics #industrial #accident #ohio
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- Title
- The biggest labor story in the US is happening at Microsoft
- Runtime
- 3:08
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The biggest labor story happening in the US right now is taking place deep in the dark heart of Big Tech. For over a year, under the banner of the “No Azure for Apartheid” campaign, tech workers have been waging a full-on, grassroots revolt from within Microsoft, putting their jobs, safety, and even their immigration status on the line to disrupt business as usual in protest of the tech giant’s contracts with Israel. TRNN has done more in-depth coverage of the tech worker revolt at Microsoft than any other outlet, and with your support we will continue to report from the front lines of this struggle. Donate today!
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- Title
- Why fascists & oligarchs are OBSESSED with controlling the media
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- At a recent book launch event for the @ProjectCensored 2025 State of the Free Press report at Red Emma's Cooperative Bookstore in Baltimore, MD, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joined Movement Media Alliance partners Mickey Huff, Eleanor Goldfield, and Mischa Geracoulis on stage to break down why the rich and powerful are hellbent on owning and controlling news media orgs, social media platforms, and every other form of media they can get their hands on.
"People's feelings and politics flow downstream from the reality they believe they're living in," Alvarez says. "And media are how the powerful warp our perceptions of the reality that we believe that we're living in..."
Listen to the full panel conversation on the TRNN podcast feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2lgskcEeitt1ykMfYIyYBB
#news #politics #media #trump #epstein #Gaza #ICE
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- Title
- Republicans face tough questions over ACA tax credits as premiums set to skyrocket
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- With just weeks before Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits expire, do Republicans have a plan for the millions of constituents who may be forced to pay massively increased premiums in 2026? TRNN reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham confronted legislators on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and posed this question directly to Republican Congressman Don Bacon. Here's what he said...
#news #politics #republican #healthcare #ACA
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- Title
- ‘Wisconsin incarcerates more Black men than any other state in the Union’
- Runtime
- 7:18
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Wisconsin is “still running prisons that were built in the 1800s,” formerly incarcerated organizer Sean Wilson says. While the state is pushing through a bipartisan initiative to overhaul its crumbling corrections system, Wilson and Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa discuss whether Wisconsin’s prison plan will deliver real transformation to a broken justice system, or if it will simply amount to a construction project that leaves that system intact.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #wisconsin #prisons #politics
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- Title
- $4 an hour to drive 200,000 miles!?
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- App-based “gig workers” who drive tens (or hundreds) of thousands of miles every year for companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash say that they make as little as $3–$6 an hour, that their pay is calculated by invisible algorithms, and that they receive no benefits and have no job security.
That’s why Capitol Hill lawmakers and workers are pushing to pass the Empowering App-Based Workers Act, which is designed to bring transparency, accountability, and full algorithmic visibility to app-based labor.
Reporting from Washington, DC, Inequality Watch reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis speak with app-based workers about the reality of “gig work” today and how the Empowering App-Based Workers Act would change their lives.
#News #politics #labor #gigeconomy #uber #lyft #bigtech
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- Title
- “Our neighbors are disappearing without a trace"
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- ICE’s lawless tactics have left Baltimore’s immigrant communities living in constant fear, economic precariousness, and social isolation.
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- Title
- After 48 years in prison, I’m helping others get free
- Runtime
- 3:49
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- My name is Mansa Musa, and I was released from the Maryland Division of Corrections on December 5th, 2019, after serving approximately 48 years. Now, I’m the host of Rattling the Bars on @therealnews—a show founded by legendary Black Panther and former political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway. Every week, we take you into the dark heart of the prison-industrial complex. We talk to the people directly impacted by the monstrous system of mass incarceration—and the people who are organizing and fighting to bring it down. We go where corporate media won’t dare, and we turn up the volume on the voices of the silenced. Join us, support us, and be part of this movement.
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- Title
- One year after Assad’s regime fell, Yarmouk residents rebuild their lives
- Runtime
- 21:02
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Yarmouk, Syria, was originally a temporary refugee camp for thousands of Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Nakba; however, the camp eventually grew to a lively metropolis with a vibrant community of artists, intellectuals, and families. Home to an estimated one million residents, Palestinians and Syrians lived together in Yarmouk under the authoritarian regime of the notorious Assad family. During the protracted civil war in Syria, Yarmouk became the site of repeated bombardment by heavy artillery and intense sieges. Fleeing war, illness, and starvation, hundreds of thousands left Yarmouk; yet, a handful of residents remained, determined to fight against tyranny.
In December 2024, the Assad regime finally fell. Now, residents of war-torn Yarmouk are returning to rebuild their homes and their lives once again. For this on-the-ground documentary report, TRNN was granted access to the camp and spoke to residents about what life was like in Yarmouk during the many violent yea...
- Title
- US is “by far the world’s number one jailer”: Nicole Porter
- Runtime
- 37:08
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration, states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado are pushing to build new prisons and expand immigrant detention. In this episode of "Rattling the Bars," host Mansa Musa talks with Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project about how federal and state governments are doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts to expand the prison-industrial complex, what sets the US criminal justice system apart from other countries around the world, and how organizers are fighting for real prison population reductions instead of more cages.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#News #politics #Prisons #massincarceration #ICE
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- Title
- Epstein Island video shows windowless buildings with bedrooms
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The House Oversight Committee just released never-before seen video of Epstein Island revealing the opulence of his surroundings and its clandestine nature. A standout feature of the island is the many island bungalows that have large heavy doors, bedrooms, and no windows - an unusual feature, as most recreational island bungalows are created to enjoy island sunsets, the sound of waves, and other aspects of natural beauty. The walkthrough video tour of the island highlights two important things: Epstein's incredible wealth and his pathological desire isolate his victims and protect his predation. It remains to be seen if the next release of documents will reveal the predatory actions of others. Taya Graham and Stephen Janis will continue to give updates on the information released from the Epstein Transparency Act.
#epstein #epsteinfiles #epsteinisland #FBI #inequalitywatch
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- Title
- ICE raids are tearing apart immigrant families and neighborhoods in Baltimore.
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- ICE raids and the expanded use of expedited removal are tearing apart immigrant families and neighborhoods in Baltimore. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Baltimore reporter Kori Skillman about how lack of democratic oversight and collusion between local government and federal law enforcement have enabled ICE’s lawless tactics and left Baltimore’s immigrant communities living in constant fear, economic precariousness, and social isolation.
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- Title
- ‘Microsoft workers refuse to be complicit in the genocide’
- Runtime
- 5:02
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Around 20,000 people attended tech giant Microsoft’s Ignite conference in San Francisco last month. Current and former tech workers and Microsoft employees with the No Azure for Apartheid movement were also there to disrupt business as usual, and to continue their ongoing protests of Microsoft’s contracts with Israel’s government and its complicity in the war crimes Israel has committed against Palestinians. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Patrick Fort, a Microsoft senior engineer who resigned in protest at the Ignite conference, and Hossam Nasr, a No Azure for Apartheid organizer who was fired by Microsoft.
Post-Production: David Hebden
#news #politics #tech #microsoft
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- Title
- How Baltimore is enabling ICE’s lawlessness
- Runtime
- 31:06
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- ICE raids and the expanded use of expedited removal are tearing apart immigrant families and neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD. In this episode of "Rattling the Bars," host Mansa Musa speaks with Baltimore reporter Kori Skillman about how lack of democratic oversight and collusion between local government and federal law enforcement have enabled ICE’s lawless tactics and left Baltimore’s immigrant communities living in constant fear, economic precariousness, and social isolation.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #politics #Baltimore #ICE
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- Title
- The American aristocracy is panicking, and the Epstein scandal is why...
- Runtime
- 18:57
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis go to Capitol Hill to speak with Representatives @RepRoKhanna and @RepThomasMassie, who co-sponsored the Epstein Transparency Act. Many of the women who survived Epstein's abuse and human trafficking ring share their experiences and their determination to receive justice. Now that the bill has passed both Houses, the Department of Justice is obligated to share with the public thousands of previously secret documents, emails, and photos. Although many critics are concerned that redactions will make these documents ineffectual in exposing the predators and predator protectors, there is still hope that these women will finally be able to reveal the corruption that has survived multiple presidential administrations. We discuss four reasons why the Epstein files may be the beginning of the end for the unchecked power of these elites, or "Epstein class." With Congress compelling the DOJ to reveal Epstein’s secret files, the protective w...
- Title
- In Gaza, 'the suffering does not stop' after the 'ceasefire'
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- "Gaza City has become a ghost town," photojournalist Youssef Shaqfa tells Marc Steiner. "The suffering does not stop. There is no education, there is no food, there is no water, there is no infrastructure... We have nothing left. We have lost everything. We are dead alive."
Please watch and share Youssef's message to the world. Support our Palestinian journalist colleagues who are still fighting to survive the winter after two years of genocidal war on Gaza.
#news #gaza #journalism
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- Title
- Grad workers union accuse Hopkins private police of union busting
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is facing mounting opposition from Teachers and Researchers United-Johns Hopkins University (TRU-JHU) and community members over its armed private police force, arguing that Johns Hopkins Police Department has harassed and targeted workers and students.
Activists are planning a mass demonstration at Baltimore City Hall on December 15th to deliver a petition signed by nearly a thousand residents and over 30 community organizations.
Reporting by Jaisal Noor.
#baltimore #news #workers #police #students #johnshopkinsuniversity
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- Title
- The Epstein class has no party loyalty
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Esptein survivor Annie Farmer stood before Congress this week with a photo of herself at 16, the age when she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and she and her sister were ignored by the FBI when she tried to report it. As 20,000 newly released emails put fresh attention on Epstein’s ties to the powerful, from Donald Trump to Bill Clinton to the Former Prince Andrew Windsor, survivors are reminding us of something important: this was never about partisan politics. This was about the American government’s failure to stop a wealthy predator who had the right connections, enough money, and the protection of elites across both parties.
Congress now has 30 days to force the full release of Epstein’s investigative files, but the survivors have already waited decades. The Inequality Watch will keep a close eye on what happens next and will continue to update you from Capitol Hill.
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- Title
- People are dying inside Wisconsin's '18th-century' prisons
- Runtime
- 37:47
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Wisconsin’s much-touted prison overhaul plan promises to close crumbling facilities like Green Bay Correctional Institution, but people locked up inside these facilities may have to wait years for relief they desperately need now. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, formerly incarcerated organizer Sean Wilson joins host Mansa Musa to discuss whether Wisconsin’s bipartisan prison plan will deliver real transformation to a broken justice system, or if it simply amounts to a construction project that leaves that system intact.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #wisconsin #prisons #politics
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- Title
- Will we ever see the FULL Epstein files?
- Runtime
- 46:08
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- President Trump signed a bill on Wednesday directing the Justice department to release more files from the investigations into the infamous sex offender, sex trafficker, and international political power broker Jeffrey Epstein. Will the public finally see the full release of the Epstein Files? Or will the Trump administration withhold and redact the information it does not want people to see? TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and “Inequality Watch” reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis report back from a truly wild week in Washington, DC, and answer your questions about one of the biggest political scandals in US history.
Studio Production / Post-Production: David Hebden
#news #politics #Trump #Epstein #MAGA #mtg #marjorietaylorgreene #republicans
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- Title
- Fossil fuel lobbyists swarm #COP30 UN climate summit
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “The presence of lobbyists and other representatives from the fossil fuel industry… is a huge problem, obviously, for the COP process,” Dharna Noor says. “The idea that these companies that have their profit wrapped up in the continued sale and use of fossil fuels is outright contrary to the very goals of the Paris Agreement, including the less radical ones.”
This year’s COP conference in Belém, Brazil, has more fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance than any previous conference, but it has also drawn the biggest delegation of Indigenous peoples from around the world—each group representing competing visions for addressing the climate crisis. Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Guardian US fossil fuels and climate reporter Dharna Noor to discuss what actions are and are not being taken at COP30, and what the results of this year’s climate summit will mean for humanity’s future on a rapidly heating Earth.
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- Title
- Trump could release Epstein files now—victims ask, why not?!
- Runtime
- 2:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, such as Haley Robson, Danielle Bensky, Liz Stein, Lisa Phillips, Annie Farmer, Jess Michaels, and many others spoke out today, encouraging Congress to put aside partisan issues and concentrate on the protection of women and girls. Lisa Phillips of the @fromnowonpod announced that she and the other survivors are launching the first nationwide survivor-led network to change how human trafficking is handled in the US. Many survivors thanked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for their support, despite the pushback that these Republicans initially experienced. Robson addressed President Trump directly: "I'm grateful that you have pledged to sign this bill. I can't help to be skeptical of what the agenda is. So with that being said, I want to relay this message to you: I am traumatized. I am not stupid." And Lisa Phillips closed with these powerful words: "Alone, we are fearful. Together, we are fear...
- Title
- Fossil fuel industry profits or a livable planet? At COP30, humanity must choose
- Runtime
- 28:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP30, began on Nov. 10 in Belém, Brazil, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. This year’s COP conference has more fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance than any previous conference, but it has also drawn the biggest delegation of Indigenous peoples from around the world—each group representing competing visions for addressing the climate crisis. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter at Guardian US, about what actions are and are not being taken at COP30, and what the results of this year’s climate summit will mean for humanity’s future on a rapidly heating Earth.
Studio Production / Post-Production: David Hebden
#COP30 #climatechange #Brazil #oil #indigenous
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- Title
- Gaza journalist: "We are still suffering from this hard war"
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Ruwaida Amer is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker who has filmed many documentary reports from Gaza for @therealnews. Please watch her testimony about life in Gaza after enduring two years of genocidal war.
#news #politics #gaza
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- Title
- 'It's tearing MAGA apart!' MTG says she is not a traitor for releasing Epstein files
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asserted in today's Epstein Transparency Act press conference with Epstein survivors that "A traitor allows a foreign power to politically influence America," which appeared to be a direct call out of President Donald Trump's recent foreign policy. One theme repeated itself in this press conference: that the survivors of Epstein's human trafficking and Reps. Khanna, Massie, Greene, and Grijalva are determined to make sure that the wealthiest and most powerful in our country do not escape accountability for being predators—or for protecting them.
#news #politics #epsteinfiles #epstein #mtg
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- Title
- Inside Gaza’s last hospitals
- Runtime
- 5:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Since Oct. 2023, at least 34 hospitals in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israel. In that same time, as the humanitarian need for urgent medical care in the Gaza Strip dramatically increased, Israeli forces detained at least 405 Palestinian healthcare workers, according to NGO Healthcare Workers Watch. In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you inside one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals.
Editor’s note: This report was filmed at Al Shifa Hospital in June 2025, before it was destroyed.
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
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- Title
- 'The Alabama Department of Corrections is a drug cartel'
- Runtime
- 46:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor, violence, and deliberate neglect. In this episode of "Rattling the Bars," host Mansa Musa speaks with journalist Matthew Vernon Whalan about his book "Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison," and about the systematic corruption and inhumane horrors endured daily by incarcerated people in Alabama.
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#news #alabama #crime
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- Title
- Kim Kelly: Why this #starbucks strike is different
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Over 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers in over 40 cities across the US walked off the job on an indefinite Unfair Labor Practice strike on Thursday, Nov. 13. Reporting on the ground from the Red Cup Rally in Philadelphia, PA, renowned labor reporter Kim Kelly breaks down why this strike is so important and how it's different from the other collective actions Starbucks Workers United has taken against the coffee giant in the past.
#news #strike #starbucks
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- Title
- No contract, no coffee, no scabs: Starbucks workers strike nationwide
- Runtime
- 10:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- PHILADELPHIA, PA: Over 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers in over 40 cities across the US walked off the job on an indefinite Unfair Labor Practice strike on Thursday, Nov. 13. The union, Starbucks Workers United, says more workers at more unionized stores will be joining the picket line during the busy holiday season to pressure Starbucks to return to the bargaining table with proposals that seriously address workers’ ongoing demands regarding better pay and work hours, safe staffing, and resolving the hundreds of Unfair Labor Practice charges that have been filed against the coffee giant. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez reports on the ground from the picket line in Philadelphia, PA.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: David Hebden
#news #politics #starbucks #strike
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- Title
- Jeffrey Epstein: How millionaires get away with crime in America
- Runtime
- 27:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Jeffrey Epstein was able to traffic and assault young women and girls for almost two decades, without consequence. How did he get away with this? The simple answer is wealth. But how did a college dropout who was quietly dismissed from his first job as a teacher at a private school acquire a private jet and party with some of the most famous and powerful people in the world? We delve into the money and the people who may have aided and abetted Epstein’s scandalous and criminal life.
Producers: Taya Graham, Stephen Janis
Post-Production: David Hebden
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- Title
- Damning Epstein emails expose who knew...
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- New revelations come from document dump of Jeffrey Epstein's emails, indicating to many that President Trump was aware of his criminal activities with underage girls.
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- Title
- Inside the modern-day plantation: How theater confronts incarceration
- Runtime
- 47:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa explores how a one-woman play, The Peculiar Patriot, reveals the human cost of mass incarceration and the enduring ties between slavery and the prison system. The artist behind the play, Liza Jessie Peterson, has worked with incarcerated youth for decades, bringing their stories to the stage and to national audiences. Performed in more than 35 US prisons and filmed at Louisiana’s Angola Prison—once a plantation, now a maximum-security facility—the play became the basis of the documentary, Angola: Do You Hear Us? (Paramount Plus / Amazon Prime). As the fight for abolition and prison reform gains momentum, this story reminds us that art is not decoration—it’s a tool for awakening, organizing, and freedom.
#prisons #angola #art #theater #prisonindustrialcomplex
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Angola: Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison — Paramount+ / Amazon Prime
- Title
- Mainstream media tried to scare Mamdani voters with socialism—It didn't work!
- Runtime
- 6:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for him and they said “socialism won’t sell.” But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom. All throughout Manhattan and from East Harlem to Queens, voters told us the same thing: they’re tired of the old guard, the empty promises, and a system that serves the wealthy instead of the working class.
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- Title
- Mamdani’s home district ERUPTS after electoral victory announced
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- 8:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Less than an hour after polls closed at 9PM ET, 34-year-old democratic socialist @ZohranforNYC Zohran Mamdani was announced as the winner of the New York City mayoral election. Reporting from the Democratic Socialists of America election results watch party at the Astoria Bohemian Beer Garden in Mamdani’s home district of Astoria, Queens, NY, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez captures the moment Mamdani’s victory was announced.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#News #politics #ZohranMamdani #NewYorkCity
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- Title
- Why Zohran Mamdani's campaign speaks to NYC's working-class South Asian communities
- Runtime
- 8:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Brooklyn, NY: Election day is finally here, and New Yorkers are heading to the polls to decide who will be the next mayor of their city. Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani has risen from electoral longshot to the current frontrunner, and winning support from New York's working-class South Asian and Indo-Carribbean communities has been key to his campaign's success. Reporting on the ground from the PS-217 polling station in Brooklyn, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with organizers and volunteers with the organization DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) Beats about why they support Mamdani's campaign and what it will mean for them and their families if he wins.
Videographer: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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- Title
- Mamdani stood up for NY taxi drivers, now they're standing with him
- Runtime
- 13:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 2021, when New York City taxi drivers were dying by suicide and others were going on hunger strike, begging City Hall for relief from the debt trap that had set them up for failure and financial ruin, a young NY Assemblyperson named Zohran Mamdani stood with them. Now, taxi drivers are standing with Mamdani in his bid to become the next mayor of New York City. Reporting on the ground in New York, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Yellow Cab driver-owner and NY Taxi Workers Alliance member Mouhamadou Aliyu about the ongoing struggle for justice for NY taxi drivers—and what Mamdani’s campaign means to them.
Videographer: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
#ZohranMamdani #News #NewYorkCity #politics
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- Title
- Why more mega-prisons won’t fix Alabama’s crisis
- Runtime
- 34:02
- Date posted
- 1 year 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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- Title
- NYC Marathon Meets Mayor’s Race: Harlem Voters Speak Out!
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 1 year 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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- NYC Voters want real change. They hope the next mayor can deliver it.
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- 4:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- 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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- One-man rule: Congress stalls as millions risk losing care
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- 27:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- 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
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- 34:41
- Date posted
- 1 year 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
- 1 year ago
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- 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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