Kayla Denker speaks out against death threats, transphobic backlash
Kayla Denker is a military veteran and a trained archaeologist who has worked in the private sector and for the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. She…
‘This is war’ fighting mass incarceration from inside prisons | Rattling the Bars
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/how-a-1970s-prisoner-organized-literacy-program-changed-marylands-penitentiaries Marshall “Eddie” Conway was framed for the murder of a police officer and incarcerated for 44 years—but even behind bars, he continued to…
Mexico’s wind energy farms aren’t as ‘clean’ as you think
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/wind-energy-in-mexico-is-not-as-clean-as-you-think In March 2023, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Oaxaca, Mexico, to discuss U.S.-Mexico collaboration over…
Cops raided his house without a warrant, how they justified it is scary
The chilling raid of an early-onset dementia patient’s home in Erie, PA by multiple law enforcement agencies evokes a larger pattern of police abuse against disabled people. Please join journalists…
Education for Rwanda’s refugee children under threat due to reduced UN funding
A United Nations refugee agency has announced $90.5 million in funding cuts.The reduced U.N. funding is jeopardizing the education of tens of thousands of refugee children.The funding constraints have also…
What 17 years of railroad work taught me about corporate America
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/ive-been-a-train-conductor-for-17-years-corporate-greed-has-ruined-the-railroads Bryan Mack is a second-generation railroad worker from Florence, South Carolina, with a Masters in Music Performance. Both Bryan and his father worked…
Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam: It’s not the climate, it’s the system | The Chris Hedges Report
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/the-system-is-not-moving-fast-enough Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body of UN scientists, delivered a “final warning” to drastically cut…
Making a Killing: Anatomy of the Cincinnati Rebellion of 2001 w/Robin D.G. Kelley
In a special ‘George Floyd Memorial Lecture’ hosted by the University of Houston, historian Robin D.G. Kelley draws links between the 2020 uprisings and the 2001 rebellion in Cincinnati against…
How Brazil’s MST fights for agrarian reform while battling hunger
Hunger skyrocketed in Brazil during the tenure of former president Jair Bolsonaro. 33 million Brazilians, some 15% of the entire country, are now food insecure according to official statistics. As…
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni leaves partner following a nearly decadelong relationship
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni announced Friday that she is separating from her partner and the father of her young daughter after nearly a decade together.In a statement posted on social…
Texas is the future neofascists want | The Marc Steiner Show
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/for-a-glimpse-of-americas-future-look-at-texas Attacks on LGBTQ rights, abortion access, and movements for racial justice aren’t exclusive to any one state in the union. But Texas is…
To Say Their Own Word: Eddie Conway’s prison organizing | Rattling the Bars
Even though he was framed for the killing of a local police officer, sentenced without a fair trial, and imprisoned for 44 years, former Black Panther and dearly departed TRNN…
350,000 Teamsters are about to take on UPS
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/350000-teamsters-are-about-to-take-on-ups Under the new leadership team led by General President Sean M. O’Brien, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are re-introducing themselves to the bosses…
Haiti’s Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier: Gang leader or revolutionary? | The Chris Hedges Report
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/a-new-documentary-offers-a-different-look-at-haitis-jimmy-barbecue-cherizier Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti’s purported “gang problem.” But who is Chérizier really?…
Main suspect in 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse gets arrested
A former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 was arrested Thursday in Haiti’s capital after being on the…
What Union Pacific and the media aren’t telling you about the Baker, CA, train derailment
This Feb., Norfolk Southern’s train derailment catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio dragged the decrepit state of the US rail system into the national spotlight. A rash of other railroad catastrophes…
Is DeSantis America’s future? w/Anna Eskamani & Dream Defenders | The Marc Steiner Show
Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, “Florida” has become synonymous with attacks on LGBTQ rights, public schools, and unions. Yet this offensive isn’t only driven by hatred and ideology. It’s also about…
Livestream: Worker Organizing, Repression & Trade Policy In the Philippines
Learn about efforts to organize unions in US-linked call centers in the Philippines & the importance of ensuring that international trade policies uphold fundamental human rights. The event, moderated by…
The US is guilty of genocide w/ Jalil Muntaqim | Rattling the Bars
To read the transcript to this episode, go to: https://therealnews.com/jalil-muntaqim-the-time-to-end-prison-slavery-is-now In 2021, the International Tribunal On US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples found the United States…
Video shows cargo planes delivering armored vehicles to Israeli Defense Forces
US cargo plane delivers military vehicles to Israel The Israeli Defense Ministry said Thursday an American plane landed in Ben Gurion Airport with a shipment of armored vehicles for the…
‘You’re going to see more books get banned’: The war on schools in Ron Desantis’s Florida
Read the transcript and shownotes for this podcast: https://therealnews.com/youre-going-to-see-more-books-get-banned-floridas-war-on-public-schools Things are getting very dark in Florida, and educators at all levels have found themselves on the frontlines of a reactionary…
COVID-19 isn’t ‘over’—but your Medicaid might be | The Chris Hedges Report w/ Dr. Margaret Flowers
The Biden administration is poised to allow the national emergency on COVID-19 to expire on May 11, 2023. Once that occurs, between 5 to 14 million Americans previously covered under…
Live: Strikes at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, University of Michigan, & more
From strippers in North Hollywood to service workers in Atlanta and graduate students in Michigan, workers across sectors of the economy are taking direct action and fighting for what they…
The Pendleton 2 story: 200 years for saving a life w/Too Black & Victoria Law | Rattling the Bars
Too Black and Victoria Law join Rattling the Bars to discuss the campaign to free the Pendleton 2. The Pendleton 2 were sentenced to more than 200 years for leading…
UK Prime Minister puts US officials on blast regarding Hamas: ‘Call it what it is … evil terrorists’
United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Israel on Thursday, when he held diplomatic talks with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and condemned Hamas, a terrorist group that governs Gaza, for…
The American evangelical roots of Uganda’s new anti-LGBTI law w/Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
Ugandan activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera explains how US evangelicals exported anti-LGBT politics to Uganda, which has now passed a sweeping law broadly criminalizing LGBTI people for the second time in…