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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
‘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…
Lori Grinker’s photos capture history through portraits | The Chris Hedges Report
Lori Grinker was just an art school student when she was assigned to shoot a project on young boxers under the guidance of legendary trainer Cus D’Amato. It was through…
Greek workers want to overthrow their government after a train crash
On Feb. 28, 2023, two trains traveling along the same track collided in Greece, killing 57 people—many of them students in their teens and 20s returning home from university in…
Cops demanded his ID, this is how it escalated when he refused | Policy Accountability Report
When a local police officer approached Paul Brophy of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and demanded to see his identification, Brophy attempted to invoke his constitutional rights. The officer then escalated the situation…
Mexico’s epidemic of murdered journalists w/Katherine Corcoran | The Chris Hedges Report
More than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. The case of Regina Martinez, an investigative journalist assassinated in her home in the state of Veracruz in 2012,…
A tribute to the revolutionary life of Marshall ‘Eddie’ Conway | Rattling the Bars
Eddie Conway, former Baltimore Black Panther, 44-year political prisoner, and host of Rattling the Bars passed away on Feb. 13, 2023. Eddie’s family and coworkers reflect on his life and…
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Taya Graham and Stephen Janis investigate the Atlanta Police Foundation which is funneling roughly $90million to create a police training complex for cops to practice urban warfare, demolitions and crowd…
From a shop steward to vice president of his union—Tevita Uhatafe explains how to fight your boss
For the past five years, Tevita Uhatafe of TWU Local 567 has dedicated himself to advancing the labor movement. Known affectionately as “Mic Guy,” Uhatafe has traveled from coast to…
How media censors the left w/Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
In the midst of the largest strike wave in the US in a century, corporate media is more focused on amplifying the bigotry and fearmongering of right-wing politicians and their…
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Taya Graham and Stephen Janis investigate the Atlanta Police Foundation which is funneling roughly $90 million to create a police training complex for cops to practice urban warfare and crowd…
Neoliberalism’s anti-democratic stealth revolution w/Wendy Brown
Half a century of neoliberalism has transformed the politics of the globe. The supremacy of free market ideology has stripped away the commons and reduced most states to their purely…