Johns Hopkins Leads The COVID-19 Response, But Just Laid Off Its Low-Wage Workers
At a May Day rally, workers said Johns Hopkins University reneged on a commitment to give laid off workers four weeks pay. Subscribe to our page and support our work…
Pollution Rises As China Ends COVID-19 Shutdown
As China’s economy reopens, old pollution trends are reappearing. It’s a cautionary tale for other countries as they end stay-at-home orders. Producer: Steve Horn Director/Video Editor: Bababtunde Ogunfolaju Subscribe to…
Essential Remittances To Africa Devastated By Coronavirus Pandemic
Families dependent on remittances from seasonal workers are facing a crisis, even in countries without widespread COVID-19 cases. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
Police Repression Backfires As Protests Multiply
Professor Lester Spence argues America is facing two pandemics: COVID-19 and political policing. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
The Black Man Lab In Atlanta Is Providing A Reprieve For Men
Atlanta’s Black Man Lab is a forum where Black men can speak frankly and honestly address their concerns, even in the middle of a pandemic. Subscribe to our page and…
Violence Towards Protesters Shows Why Many Want To Abolish Police
Minneapolis organizer Tony Williams speaks about the ongoing uprisings and how groups can work towards the strategic dismantling of the police. Director: Taylor Hebden Subscribe to our page and support…
Third Parties Sue For Ballot Access During COVID-19 Pandemic
Third parties are fighting for survival during the coronavirus pandemic. Director/Video Editor: Will Arenas Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is…
Can Sex Workers Survive COVID-19 When The Government Won’t Give Aid?
Sex Workers’ rights advocates have been demanding decriminalization of their work, but now under the pandemic regulations even legal forms of sex work like strip clubs have been targeted by…
Correction Officers And Inmate Advocates Prepare For Action At Jessup Prison
Corrections officers and prison abolitionists will join together Saturday to protest the lack of PPE and testing, and the need for parole, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Producer: Ericka Blount Danois…
What’s Behind Brazil’s COVID-19 Disaster?
Indigenous, poor, and working-class communities in Brazil are all under threat from COVID-19. One man is largely to blame for the country’s pandemic disaster: President Jair Bolsonaro, who has just…
Coronavirus Cases Surge As Nurses Demand States Close Until They Can Reopen Safely
The US experiences record-high coronavirus cases after ignoring the warnings of public health experts and medical professionals. We speak with National Nurses United President Zenei Cortez. Director/Video Editor: Taylor Hebden…
Majority Black Prison Populations In Maryland See Disproportionate COVID-19 Spikes
Racial disparities in Maryland prisons are affecting COVID-19’s spread, with majority white populations receiving protective equipment even as Jessup institutions with majority Black populations struggle to get supplies. Maryland Department…
What Happens When Wildfires And Covid Collide?
COVID-19 may make the impacts of the west’s wildfire season more deadly, hitting aging and vulnerable communities the hardest. Producer: Steve Horn Video Editor: Oscar Leon Subscribe to our page…
Black Americans, Black Brazilians Suffer More From COVID-19. Structural Racism Is To Blame.
“Genocides don’t always have to be intentional. It’s about impact. Whether or not they have been planning to kill people, we know people are dying and Black people are dying…
COVID-19 surges in Florida after data whistleblower fired
“Somebody needs to put a muzzle on before he gets another 100,000 people killed. The United States does not have this under control.” Subscribe to our page and support our…
As Maryland Evictions Resume, Activists Demand Protections
Activists demanded state and local officials extend protections for the some 400,000 people unable to pay rent during the coronavirus pandemic. Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Who’s Responsible For The Rise In COVID-19 Cases In Prison?
Eddie Conway talks to activists from Michigan and California—two hot spots for COVID-19 cases in prisons. In both states, mistakes by prison officials led to a rise in cases. Producer:…
Big Pharma slows vaccine rollout to protect corporate profits
This week, President Biden announced that, by utilizing the Defense Production Act, the federal government has created an historic agreement between drugmakers Johnson & Johnson and Merck to produce enough…
Black mass incarceration in the so-called Free State
Until recently, the horrifyingly unjust reality of America’s mass incarceration system has not been a central concern in popular political discourse. In the past few years, however, more people have…
Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers
Amazon is intensifying the anti-union campaign at its Bessemer, Alabama, plant, where workers are currently voting to unionize. On Feb. 20, Amazon workers and their allies rallied in cities across…
The pandemics of racism and COVID-19 are a deadly mix
The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlights deep racial inequities in wages, health, and vaccination rates—but it’s a century of racist public policy that laid the foundation for these…
Worker ownership can save businesses and protect employees
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for workers and small businesses alike. As reopening plans pit employee safety against economic viability for struggling businesses, can the worker co-op model provide…
‘Bring Sundiata home’: The case for freeing elderly political prisoners
At 84 years old, Sundiata Acoli has been in prison for 48 years, and has been denied parole six times. Last December, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. In this episode…
Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both CRUEL and DANGEROUS
Public health experts and advocates continue to shine a light on the horrifying statistics of COVID-19 infections within the prison-industrial complex. Those same experts, moreover, have shown that outbreaks in…
Taharka Bros: Ice cream with a side of worker ownership
The pandemic wiped out 70% of their business, but Baltimore’s Taharka Bros’ worker-owners successfully pivoted to delivery, saving their company and offering insight into how co-ops were able to weather…
The unending COVID-19 disaster in Maryland prisons
In this episode of “Rattling the Bars,” we get an inside and outside view of the ongoing, slow-moving disaster happening in Maryland prisons, which have failed to adequately protect inmates,…