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The first country in Latin America to gain its freedom and the only country to win independence through a slave revolt. This is Episode 64 of Stories of Resistance.| The Real News Network
The two warring forces are generating hunger as a strategy of control, including attacking community aid volunteers.| The Real News Network
“We don't want Black August to become like a new Black History Month, where [it’s] just about celebrations or parties. That's not the spirit of it. It's in resistance and how we can prepare ourselves to resist our own oppression.”| The Real News Network
The courts have cleared the way for the Trump administration to execute its assault on federal unions and workers’ collective bargaining rights. Union contracts at the VA, EPA, and Department of Agriculture have since been terminated. “An estimated 400,000 have been affected, about 2.6% of unionized workers in the US.”| The Real News Network
“The robber barons of the 19th century never dreamed of having this much power. And here we are today, potentially on the threshold of allowing a mega merger… the likes of which we’ve never seen.”| The Real News Network
“This is now such an obvious example of the war at home and how skewed our priorities are. We need the money we're spending on militarizing our streets to be used to help the poor in DC.”| The Real News Network
“There is a straight line between 1948 and 2025… What has changed is the style, but not the essence. And the essence is simple: Israel is a settler-colonial state. It used violence in order to take over more and more land… to limit and destroy [any] rights that Palestinians ever had.”| The Real News Network
Palestinian activist Eman Abdelhadi explains the history of imperialist support for Israel’s colonial conquest of Palestine up to the current genocide, the Palestinian people’s steadfast resistance, and the urgency of global solidarity with their freedom struggle.| The Real News Network
Cashless bail allows people to walk free before trial without exorbitant and often predatory fees.| The Real News Network
The Trump administration has been secretly deporting prisoners to Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy.| The Real News Network
“It's just unimaginable to see it and witness it, to see an elderly couple being split apart… to see a child ripped out of their mother's arms. It's something that you think would never happen here in the United States, and it's happening right now behind the doors of that nondescript building.”| The Real News Network
Redmond PD and Microsoft claim forceful arrests were necessary because protestors became “aggressive” and their action “threatened” others. “I was standing and filming 10 feet away the entire time,” TRNN’s Maximillian Alvarez says, “I saw nothing of the sort.”| The Real News Network
National Radio Day was held in the United States on August 20. It’s a fitting moment to remember El Salvador's guerrilla radio Radio Venceremos. This is episode 63 of Stories of Resistance.| The Real News Network
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Court.| The Real News Network
"These aggressive policies seek to extend US dominance in Latin America, no matter the human cost," CodePink said.| The Real News Network
The agency also said it will vet immigrants for involvement in “anti-American activity.”| The Real News Network
With only 8% of Democrats backing Israel’s genocide, there’s emerged a buyer’s market for empty performative outrage.| The Real News Network
"The widespread destruction in Zeitoun," said one group, "is part of a deliberate Israeli policy: completing a campaign of genocide and erasing Palestinian urban life."| The Real News Network
“The state of mind of DC citizens right now is that they're under a police state, mainly in the poor Black and Brown communities... their mandate is to harass the citizens of the District of Columbia.”| The Real News Network
“We’re in the middle of a war for the very soul and possibility of democracy,” legendary Texas populist Jim Hightower tells TRNN. “This is not a fight about the Texas legislature. This is a fight about whether the people themselves are going to be able to have a vote that matters.”| The Real News Network
Inequality Watch Dogs Taya Graham and Stephen Janis breakdown corporate media's attacks on NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.| The Real News Network
Half a century ago, this bridge was a favorite execution site for the military of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Today, activists will not let it be forgotten—ever. This is episode 62 of Stories of Resistance.| The Real News Network
“They're showing up and just kidnapping people. I think we, as Americans, should have an expectation that we should be able to walk—regardless of the color of our skin, what we do for a living, the language that we speak—and not be grabbed off the street.”| The Real News Network
According to the CBC, Israel said filming Gaza from above would “jeopardize flights.”| The Real News Network
In his first public interview since he was beaten and arrested by federal agents in June, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), speaks about the status of his case and the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.| The Real News Network
"Make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family"| The Real News Network
There are only 100 salt farmers left in Zapotitlán Salinas, but they continue to practice this ancient art. This is episode 61 of Stories of Resistance.| The Real News Network
Cop watchers are a diverse community of First Amendment activists who exercise this right through recording encounters with police. We launched a 4-year investigation to expose the truth in all its complexity and contradiction.| The Real News Network
New Orleans city officials have pledged to ramp up security ahead of Super Bowl LIX. But what is the cost for New Orleans residents living under the Super Bowl weekend police state?| The Real News Network
The stories and language of their ancestors have been lost to time. But their spirits remain. And the ruins remember. This is episode 60 of Stories of Resistance.| The Real News Network
“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison.”| The Real News Network
“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn't just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life itself?”| The Real News Network
"The agent lied and said he was in hot pursuit of a person who punched him," explained one local defense attorney. "The entirety of the affidavit is false."| The Real News Network
Pundits like Bret Stephens continue to deny the reality of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza even as that genocide is unfolding in front of our eyes and on our screens.| The Real News Network
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar called the Republican budget package "one of the most cruel, immoral pieces of legislation that Congress has ever voted on."| The Real News Network
Miko Peled, author and former member of IDF Special Forces, explains how Israel indoctrinates its citizens in anti-Palestinian racism from the cradle to the grave.| The Real News Network
Neoliberalism's dying star Emmanuel Macron hoped to exploit the Paris Olympics to shore up political support; that plan backfired spectacularly.| The Real News Network
In a letter to President Biden, seven major labor unions called for an end to US military aid to Israel, linking the genocide in Gaza to the flow of arms and funding from Washington.| The Real News Network
After winning a historic strike in the auto industry and being among the first major unions to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, the UAW has emerged as a different kind of political player in the election.| The Real News Network
Dozens of organizers with the Chicago Labor 4 Palestine coalition took to the streets for the final March on the DNC.| The Real News Network
TRNN reports on the ground from the March on the DNC protest that took place hours before the Democratic National Convention began on Monday.| The Real News Network
We speak with UAW president Shawn Fain at the DNC about why the UAW has endorsed Harris-Walz, what is at stake in this election for working people and the labor movement, and which side of the class war Donald Trump is on.| The Real News Network
Thousands took to the streets on Thursday night for a final March on the DNC.| The Real News Network
The people of Chicago respond to the DNC—the good, the bad, and the ugly.| The Real News Network
One mile from the DNC in Chicago, hundreds of University of Illinois Hospital nurses hit the picket line, saying public funds at the public hospital are being used for executive salaries at the expense of workers' livelihoods and safety.| The Real News Network
The Biden Administration expresses "concern" over Gaza deaths while supporting Israel's scorched-earth campaign just the same.| The Real News Network
