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The Real News Podcast
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The Real News PodcastWorking People: Countdown to a national railroad strike
On Friday, September 16, the United States could see its first major rail strike and/or rail lockout since the early '90s. Railroad workers have reached the…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: Lacino Hamilton speaks on his 26-year wrongful imprisonment
In September 2020, Lacino Hamilton was exonerated for the murder of his foster mother, Willa B. Bias, and released after 26 years in prison. Convicted at the…
The Real News PodcastIs the US headed for a national rail strike?
The rail industry is experiencing a self-induced crisis as a result of decades of cost-cutting, profit-maximizing executive decisions that have driven rail…
The Real News PodcastBrazil on Fire Episode 4: Nazis on your street
Brazil has a long and complicated history with fascism, going back to the early 20th century. Far-right and white supremacist groups have been emboldened by…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: The Jewish Labor Bund w/Molly Crabapple
From 1897 to 1921, the General Jewish Labour Bund operated as a Jewish socialist party in Russia, Lithuania, and Poland. Composed primarily of…
The Real News PodcastThe Marc Steiner Show: Racism and Jackson's water crisis w/Kali Akuno
Jackson, Mississippi, remains gripped in an ongoing water crisis. The task of distributing water to local residents has been largely taken up by community…
The Real News PodcastThe Marc Steiner Show: Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' takes a Christian nationalist turn
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/canadas-freedom-convoy-has-taken-a-christian-nationalist-turn Earlier this year, Canada's…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: Amazon keeps firing union organizers (w/Matt Littrell)
Read the transcript of this podcast and see the full show notes: https://therealnews.com/amazon-fires-another-organizer-to-stop-kentucky-facilities-unionizing…
The Real News PodcastSri Lanka's crisis: Ethnonationalism and the legacy of the civil war with Dr. Mythri Jegathesan
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/sri-lankas-crisis-ethnonationalism-and-the-legacy-of-the-civil-war Sri Lanka's civil war ended in…
The Real News PodcastBrazil on Fire Episode 3: God Above Everyone
Jair Bolsonaro could not have won the presidency without the support of one very important group: Evangelical Christians. There is, perhaps, no other group…
The Real News PodcastBrazil on Fire Episode 2: Free Lula
The election of president Jair Bolsonaro was never a foregone conclusion. For most of that electoral season, someone else was ahead in the polls. But that…
The Real News PodcastBrazil on Fire Episode 1: Violence and the Culture War
As candidate Jair Bolsonaro neared the presidency in 2018, violence rippled across Brazil, mostly perpetrated by Bolsonaro supporters. Hundreds of threats and…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: Black August and the fight to free political prisoners
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/black-august-and-the-fight-to-free-political-prisoners Jericho Movement activists fighting for the…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: Heat waves are literally killing package and mail carriers
"As blistering heat waves swept across the United States this summer, breaking temperature records and placing millions under heat advisories and warnings,"…
The Real News PodcastMarc Steiner Show: The Federal Reserve and Democrats are wrong about inflation, with Dean Baker and Dan Johnston
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/the-federal-reserve-is-wrong-corporations-should-pay-to-stop-inflation-not-workers The Federal…
The Real News PodcastSri Lanka's crisis: The long shadow of colonialism
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/sri-lankas-crisis-the-long-shadow-of-colonialism In July, photos and videos of immense crowds of…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: Mansa Musa's 50 year struggle against the prison system
To read the transcript of this podcast and see show notes, click here: https://therealnews.com/former-black-panther-mansa-musa-prison-abolition-and-the-labor-st…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: Advocates demand Israel end solitary confinement of Ahmad Manasra, imprisoned at 13
Ahmad Manasra, a Palestinian boy from Jerusalem, was arrested by Israeli police at the age of 13. He has now been in prison for 7 years, and is currently in…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: Repurposing prisons can revitalize rural America
The economic fortunes of rural communities across the United States are often deeply intertwined with the prison industrial complex. This poses a real…
The Real News PodcastThe Marc Steiner Show: The Republicans' imminent return to power
While the Democratic leadership expends its energy squashing progressive agendas and candidates, a revitalized GOP is preparing to sweep back into full power…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: How corporate greed ruined the railroads, and how workers are fighting back
Read the transcript of this story and see the full show notes: https://therealnews.com/ask-a-railroad-worker-how-did-railroad-jobs-get-so-bad As we speak, the…
The Real News PodcastBrazil on Fire: Democracy and Dictatorship
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/brazil-on-fire-democracy-and-dictatorship The Jair Bolsonaro presidency has been a disaster for…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: How capitalism wrecked the music industry, ft. Torq Campbell of Stars
Where did all the good tunes go? Have millennials just gone the way of Gen X and Boomers before them, pining nostalgically for gilded memories of a past that…
The Real News PodcastThe Marc Steiner Show: 'An Autobiography of Whiteness'
As a country founded on the violence of racial slavery and genocide, the United States has yet to overcome its historical dependence on the ideology of white…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: Chicago teachers suspect mayor in attempted targeted firing of two teachers
Click here to see the notes for this podcast and read the full transcript: https://therealnews.com/chicago-teachers-suspect-mayor-lightfoot-tried-to-fire-them-f…
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Trailer: Brazil on Fire
Jair Bolsonaro's rise was unimaginable just a few years before his election to Brazil's presidency. With an impending showdown between the incumbent Bolsonaro…
The Real News PodcastThe Marc Steiner Show: The Weather Underground with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
The Weather Underground spent nearly a decade combating the US government. From prison breaks to bombings of the Pentagon and the US Capitol, the 'Weathermen'…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: Chipotle United
Click here to read the transcript of this story and see full show notes: https://therealnews.com/chipotle-shut-down-its-only-unionized-store-organizers-say-its-…
The Real News PodcastThe Marc Steiner Show: The white identity politics of Christian nationalism
"Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021," as the description of Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: Does the new Star Trek betray the socialist principles of the original series?
The venerable Star Trek universe is really the only major pop culture property that can be claimed as certifiably leftist. But how do the newest batch of shows…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: An Injury to One is an Injury to All (w/ Gabbi Pierce & Martha Grevatt)
Read the transcript and see full show notes for this episode: https://therealnews.com/the-new-lavender-scare-is-an-attack-on-the-working-class Things are…
The Real News PodcastFrom Haiti to Minneapolis, anti-colonial resistance catches white supremacy by surprise
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/from-haiti-to-minneapolis-anti-colonial-resistance-catches-white-supremacy-by-surprise Resistance…
The Real News PodcastMutulu Shakur denied compassionate release despite terminal cancer diagnosis
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/mutulu-shakur-former-black-liberation-army-member-denied-compassionate-release-despite-terminal-can…
The Real News PodcastInside airport workers’ fight for dignity and livable wages
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/inside-airport-workers-fight-for-dignity-and-livable-wages Airport workers have been on the front…
The Real News PodcastPAR: Mainstream Media says copwatchers are a menace—here’s why they’re wrong
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/mainstream-media-says-copwatchers-are-a-menace-heres-why-theyre-wrong In this live conversation…
The Real News PodcastPAR: Police used this dangerous restraint during a fatal arrest, so why isn’t anyone talking about it?
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/police-used-this-dangerous-restraint-during-a-fatal-arrest-so-why-isnt-anyone-talking-about-it The…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: UK rail workers prepare for second round of strikes
Read the transcript and see show notes for this podcast: https://therealnews.com/uk-rail-workers-prepare-for-second-round-of-strikes Last month, roughly 40,000…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: 'Why leftists should read Marilynne Robinson—despite her sins'
Read the transcript of this podcast: Marilynne Robinson established herself through some of the most biting critiques of neoliberalism written in her time…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: Virginia revokes early release for inmates with good behavior
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/virginia-revokes-early-release-for-inmates-with-good-behavior Lawmakers in Virginia have approved…
The Real News PodcastMarc Steiner Show: Biden budget showers military with cash, shafts everyone else
Read the transcript of this podcast: Last week, after months of tortured talks and compromises from Democrats to pass legislation that their extremist…
The Real News PodcastStarbucks and other companies escalate war on unions with store closures
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/starbucks-and-other-companies-escalate-war-on-unions-with-store-closures The union wave is hitting…
The Real News Podcast'You can't think about voting if you're thinking about feeding your kids'
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/you-cant-think-about-voting-if-youre-thinking-about-feeding-your-kids Voter suppression has been…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: Labor Notes Postgame
To read the transcript of this podcast and see full show notes, visit: We wish everyone could have been in Chicago for the Labor Notes 2022 conference! But for…
The Real News PodcastPAR: How to make sure you go home and not to jail—A civil rights attorney shares the ugly truth.
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/how-to-make-sure-you-go-home-and-not-to-jail-a-civil-rights-attorney-shares-the-ugly-truth…
The Real News PodcastMarc Steiner Show: A wave of Post-Roe criminalization is coming
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/roe-v-wade-is-gone-a-wave-of-criminalization-is-coming The recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: Chris Hedges on trauma & teaching writing in prison
Since 2013, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of The Chris Hedges Report, has taught college courses in drama, literature, philosophy…
The Real News PodcastPolice Accountability Report: They filmed cops on their own property, police raided their home
The story of an El Paso family’s terrifying encounter with police shows just how treacherous it can be when we point our cameras at law enforcement. PAR speaks…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: She asked Amazon for injury accommodations. They fired her.
The Amazon Labor Union victory at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island was historic, but right now, as we speak, Amazon is currently in court trying to throw…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: New York prisons ban care packages containing food
The prison-industrial complex has many ways of turning the incarceration of human beings into a profitable business model. In New York state, new regulations…
The Real News PodcastPolice Accountability Report: A father tried to protect his daughter, then cops attacked him and his dog
The Loveland, Colorado, Police Department has made national headlines for brutality and overreach. But a new case involving the disturbing arrest of an entire…
The Real News PodcastArt for the End Times: 'Our Flag Means Death'
Love is rarely simple, and love on the high seas is no exception. The HBO Max show Our Flag Means Death brings something fresh to television we didn't know we…
The Real News PodcastHow America's broken electoral system made the Jan 6 insurrection possible
America’s electoral system is broken. From partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression to an Electoral College that sidelines the popular vote, it should…
The Real News PodcastHow Native organizers won voting access and reached record turnout in 2020
Native Americans overcame multiple challenges to turn out in record numbers during the 2020 elections, playing a crucial role in Joe Biden’s victory over…
The Real News PodcastHow Georgia's Latinx community is seeking to ‘out-organize’ voter suppression
Georgians went to the polls in record numbers during the May 24 primary ahead of the crucial 2022 midterm elections, despite renewed GOP efforts to suppress…
The Real News PodcastHow organizers in rural North Carolina are bridging racial and class divides
In rural North Carolina, dog-whistle politics focused on scapegoating minorities for social and economic problems have long fueled racial resentment but have…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: Frontline physicians in LA can't pay rent, so they threatened to strike
We all know that, even before the horrific, world-changing event of COVID-19, society would fall apart without hospital workers and medical staff. But like so…
The Real News PodcastMarc Steiner Show: 'If we can abolish slavery, the prison system is not untouchable'
Breathless media coverage of a purported ‘crime wave’ is galvanizing the right and prompting reactionary calls for expanding policing and the prison-industrial…
The Real News PodcastRattling the Bars: How Maryland is preventing prisoners from getting college degrees
UPDATE (7/1/2022): One day after this segment aired, prison authorities announced that they had “reconsidered” their earlier decision, clearing the way for…
The Real News PodcastAn Oral History of the 10-Month St. Vincent Hospital Strike
The COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding failure at every level of government to prevent its spread dealt a devastating blow to healthcare workers. Nurses…
The Real News PodcastWorking People: The fight to organize dollar store workers
From Dollar General and Dollar Tree to Family Dollar, dollar stores are spreading rapidly throughout Louisiana and across the country, often strategically…