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The Real News Podcast
Daily Reports, specials, and podcasts by The Real News Network (TRNN). TRNN makes media connecting you to the movements, people, and perspectives that are advancing the cause of a more just, equal, and livable planet. TRNN is a nonprofit media organization. We do not accept advertising revenue or corporate sponsorship.
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The Real News PodcastLabor organizers explain why they're marching on DC for Palestine tomorrow
On Jan. 13, a second march on Washington in solidarity with Palestine will take place, following the record-breaking mobilization this past November…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, January 12, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, January 12, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, January 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, January 11, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, January 10, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastGuatemala. The Disappeared. | Under the Shadow, Ep 3
In the third episode of Under the Shadow, host Michael Fox visits a memorial for the disappeared on the outskirts of the Guatemalan town of San Juan Comalapa…
The Real News PodcastGuatemala. United Fruit. | Under the Shadow, Ep 2
In the second episode of Under the Shadow, host Michael Fox digs into the past to examine the outsized role one US banana corporation, United Fruit, played in…
The Real News PodcastThe Beginning: Monroe and Migration | Under the Shadow, Ep 1
Two hundred years ago, on December 2, 1823, then-president James Monroe delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. In his address, he laid out what…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, January 9, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastThese men spent over 120 years in prison—parole reform now! | Rattling the Bars
Less than 15 percent of parole-eligible prisoners serving life sentences in Maryland have been released since 2015. With advocates across the state clamoring…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, January 8
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, January 8, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastThe trailblazing athletes of color you've never heard of | Edge of Sports
While certain iconic athletes of color have become immortalized in history, many of the earliest trailblazers who fought rampant discrimination to compete and…
The Real News Podcast2023 in review: The biggest stories on The Real News
Here we are again, at the end of another impossibly long, intense, and exhausting year of reporting the news that matters from the grassroots level. As we try…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 22
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 22, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastEven soccer is a target in Israel's war on Palestine | Edge of Sports
As in most of the world, soccer, or football, is an immensely popular sport among Palestinians. From Gaza to the West Bank to the diaspora, the Beautiful Game…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 21
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 21, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastKaiser workers win big after largest healthcare strike in US history | Working People
From October 4-6 of this year, the US experienced the largest healthcare worker strike in our history, when over 75,000 workers with the Coalition of Kaiser…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 20
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 20, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 19
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 19, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastThe fight to end prison slavery in California | Rattling the Bars
The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution makes an exception to the abolition of slavery in order to permit the use of "involuntary servitude" as punishment…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 18
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 18, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastWashington state trooper crashes car, attempts to pin fake DUI on innocent driver | PAR
The weather outside is frightful, and so is the behavior of police departments around the country! In a special holiday-themed livestream aired on Dec. 14…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 15
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 15, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastHow Black soccer players turned a global sport into a site of political struggle
Black athletes have not only changed how the game of soccer is played; around the world, they've also harnessed their positions to fight for justice and…
The Real News PodcastMeet the workers who crashed the 2023 Game Awards
Video game workers picketed the 2023 Game Awards to protest sizable layoffs happening around the industry. Some 8,000 workers were laid off in the industry…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 14
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 14, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastThese Brazilian farmworkers escaped slavery, now they're taking back the land
In this special international episode, we get the chance to talk to folks in Brazil about the farmworkers who are being trapped in slave-like conditions, and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 13
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 13, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastNo to APEC: Free trade, US-China war, and corporate rule w/Nina Macapinlac of BAYAN USA
From Nov. 11-17, leaders from 20 nations across the Pacific Rim gathered in San Francisco for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. An…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 12
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 12, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 11
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 11, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 8
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 8, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, December 7
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, December 7, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastOne East Palestine family's story of the Norfolk Southern train disaster | Working People
It's been nearly 10 months since the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train and the subsequent “controlled release” and burnoff of toxic vinyl chloride…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, December 6
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, December 6, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastIsrael's war on Palestine didn't start on Oct. 7 | The Marc Steiner Show
It has been nearly two months since Israel's latest bombing campaign against Gaza began. With more than 20,000 Palestinians killed, including at least 10,000…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, December 5
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, December 5, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastRemembering the rise and fall of Grenada's New Jewel Movement
In 1979 a socialist revolution under the leadership of the New Jewel Movement took power in Grenada. For the next four years, the Caribbean island nation…
The Real News PodcastWhat it's like to be in prison for the holidays | Rattling the Bars
The holiday season is a time to be spent with loved ones—yet for the nearly 2 million people incarcerated in US jails and prisons at any given time, that's not…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, December 4
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, December 4, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastMacy's, Starbucks workers use fake corporate holidays to strike
Workers are strategically taking direct action to disrupt fake corporate holidays like “Black Friday” and Starbucks’ “Red Cup Day.” Last week, on the Friday…
The Real News PodcastThese are the athletes supporting Palestine w/Karin Zidan | Edge of Sports
The silence of the pro sports world in the face of Israel's genocide in Gaza continues to disappoint. US sports organizations are among the worst…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, December 1
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, December 1, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News Podcast'Our people cannot afford for us to fail': The Palestinian Youth Movement speaks
Israel's war on Gaza has ignited a firestorm of international condemnation. In the midst of this outrage, organizations like the Palestinian Youth Movement…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 30
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 30, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 29
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 29, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastJim Hightower: How far-right nuts & corporate money hijacked Texas politics | The Marc Steiner Show
People write off states like Texas as dyed-in-the-wool Republican strongholds, but it wasn't always that way. Legendary author, organizer, commentator, and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 28
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 28, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastAngola prison and environmental justice w/Malik Rahim | Rattling the Bars
Malik Rahim, a former Black Panther and long-time prison and housing activist, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the conditions faced by prisoners at the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 27
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 27, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News Podcast'There is hope in resistance': Reframing Oct. 7, Hamas, and Palestine's armed factions
The events of Oct. 7, when Operation Al-Aqsa Flood began, have inflated Hamas into a terrifying bogeyman in the Western and Zionist imagination. The…
The Real News PodcastDutch athlete fired for pro-Palestine views | Edge of Sports
The silence of the sports world in the face of Israel's genocide in Gaza grows more deafening by the day. Only a few athletes like Anwar El-Ghazi of the…
The Real News PodcastAmazon fired him for union organizing—1.5 years later, he's still fighting to hold them accountable | Working People
Back in August of 2022, we spoke with Matt Littrell, a picker at the Amazon warehouse in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and one of the lead organizers in an effort…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 22
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 22, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News PodcastTrump, Project 2025, and the plan to bring autocracy to the US | Marc Steiner Show
The potential return of the Trump administration looms large in US politics—and a new initiative called Project 2025 offers a roadmap for a redux of the…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 21
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 21, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest…
The Real News Podcast'This is McCarthyism all over again': NY court blocks union from VOTING on pro-Palestine resolution | Working People
With each passing day, more Israeli bombs are falling on Gaza, more bodies are being blown apart and buried under the rubble, over a million Palestinians have…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 20
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 20, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…
The Real News PodcastMeet the activists fighting Zionism with direct action
With each passing day, more Israeli bombs are falling on Gaza. Over a million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes. The world is bearing witness…
The Real News PodcastOklahoma cop grabs Indigenous grandmother for not walking on a sidewalk | PAR
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/oklahoma-cop-grabs-indigenous-grandmother-for-not-walking-on-a-sidewalk Police brutality and…
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 17
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 17, 2023. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and…