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Eric Cortellessa, digital editor for the Washington Monthly, talks about Md. Gov. Larry Hogan’s plan to make absentee ballots optional—a plan critics say is more expensive and complicated than universal…
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:…
We look at how to hold people in government accountable, and the systems that act as a check on their power. Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Cultural and intellectual elites are trying to save themselves from accountability, not protect your free speech. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video…
Brandi Mack from Designing Justice talks about how their work designing restorative justice spaces centers people who have been directly impacted by the system. Producer: Ericka Blount Danois Director/Video Editor:…
Founded in 1999, the coalition paused its work in 2006. The relaunch aims to bring environmental racism and enforcement of environmental regulation back into focus. Producer: Steve Horn Ericka Blount…
Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of Shadowproof, watched the trial and reports on Ellsberg’s testimony. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is…
Cartoonist Keith Knight’s dramedy “Woke” is a semi-autobiographical mixing of political consciousness with outrageous humor and surreal animation. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
The limits of the First Amendment are put to the test by veteran Eric Brandt, a cop watcher and member of the Occupy Denver Movement. PAR investigates how a FOX…
Azadeh Shahshahani from Project South says women in detention centers have little to no control over their own bodies. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Corporations are using COVID-19 as an excuse to treat low-wage workers as disposable. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
A multi-year investigation by TRNN reporters reveals how neoliberal policies and public-private partnerships have led to tax-free zones for private interests, while taxpayers foot the bill. Subscribe to our page…
It’s all part of a push to privatize, which threatens the living wages of hundreds of thousands of employees. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
Authors Maya Schenwar and Vikki Law argue that many alternatives to incarceration follow the same model of oppression as physical prisons. Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Eddie Conway talks with reporter Katie Kull in Missouri about poor conditions and the no-mask mandate that led to over 100 prisoners contracting Covid-19. Subscribe to our page and support…
As school sex education programs have been cut back and replaced with an abstinence-only standard under the Trump-Pence administration, the LGBTQI community has developed sex-positive and safe sex curricula to…
The story of cop watcher Otto The Watchdog reveals how American law enforcement uses the criminal justice system to retaliate against critics and their families. But Otto is not alone,…
Ignoring the unique threats Trump presents could destroy our democracy, warns professor Lester Spence. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is…
The GOP has been trying to tip the scales on U.S. elections for a long time, but efforts are becoming more brazen. Subscribe to our page and support our work…
Members of the group Releasing Aging People in Prison talk about officials’ refusal to release aging prisoners with violent offenses, although studies show the chances of someone reoffending as they…
How the colonization of the United States helped create the American obsession with property rights and property damage over people’s rights. Subscribe to our page and support our work at…
Progressives in Rhode Island explain how grassroots organizers, inspired by Bernie and AOC, defeated the state’s powerful Democratic machine. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. **…
A proposed $600 million settlement cannot compensate for Flint’s trauma, one activist says. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended…
We have known about the over-policing of Black and brown communities there for a long time, experts say. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer:…
Eddie Conway talks with an attorney about what the impact of this ruling will be in one of the most contentious presidential elections in history. Subscribe to our page and…
Oakland native and Berkley professor Brandi Thompson Summers tackles the contradictions wrapped up in Harris’ nomination. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video…