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The Real News Podcast
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The Real News PodcastEddie Conway: Slave labor has always been the bedrock of capitalism
In recent episodes of Rattling the Bars, TRNN’s weekly show on the violence and victims of the prison-industrial complex, legendary Black Panther and longtime…
The Real News PodcastHigh-rise window cleaners risk their lives every day—now they’re on strike
Rappelling down skyscrapers to clean windows is already a very dangerous job. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, high-rise window cleaners with SEIU Local 26 in…
The Real News PodcastA cop kicked a compliant man in the head, then police tried to cover it up
The brutal assault on a suspect after a high-speed chase that was captured by a security camera reveals how police have many hidden mechanisms to skirt…
The Real News PodcastTwenty-year war? More like 42 years
Nearly twenty years after the beginning of the US War in Afghanistan, tens of thousands of lives have been lost, trillions of dollars have been spent, and the…
The Real News PodcastWhy I’m not leaving Afghanistan
Scenes of panic and chaos in the capital city of Kabul have played on repeat around the world as the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan has precipitated…
The Real News PodcastRemembering George Jackson, revolutionary author and activist
To celebrate Black August, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway talks with Claude Marks about the life and legacy of revolutionary…
The Real News PodcastBig Agriculture’s bleak future for all of us
A proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Burnett County, Wisconsin, is slated to house 26,000 hogs and produce millions of gallons of liquid…
The Real News PodcastCops illegally took his camera ... but they weren't ready for what happened next!
Holding police accountable requires defending the First Amendment right to put them on camera. This is why Philip Turner, known on YouTube as The Battousai…
The Real News PodcastFive months into strike, Alabama coal miners aren’t backing down
Around 1,100 union coal miners in Brookwood, Alabama, have been on strike over unfair labor practices at Warrior Met Coal for over five months. Workers and…
The Real News PodcastRick Perlstein: ‘I was drafted into the project of settler colonialism as a child’
In the second segment of this week’s Marc Steiner Show, we bring you the latest installment of our ongoing series “Not in Our Name,” which highlights the…
The Real News Podcast‘The history of postwar fascism needs to be retold’
Popular understandings of what fascism is, where it came from, and how it was “defeated” have hindered our collective ability to identify and fight fascist…
The Real News PodcastBreaking the dehumanizing spiral of anti-Arabism and anti-Semitism
“While there are differences, to be sure, between anti-Semitism and anti-Arab bigotry, the animus that has driven the hostility directed against both Arabs and…
The Real News PodcastBig Pharma leaves 1,400 workers in the dust with West Virginia plant closure
The Mylan pharmaceutical plant in Morgantown, West Virginia, has been in operation since 1965, producing low-cost generic drugs and providing good-paying jobs…
The Real News PodcastThe moratorium extension won't end evictions
Progressives celebrated as Biden extended the eviction moratorium. But three housing advocates in a city with one of the nation's highest eviction rates warn…
The Real News PodcastRichard Wolff: Capitalism is holding "all of us hostage."
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the nature of work and the lives of working people in drastic ways. Millions of workers lost their jobs over the past year…
The Real News PodcastBig business exploits prison labor instead of paying fairer wages
After surviving a deadly pandemic, workers in the US are reluctant to return to unsafe workplaces for poverty wages. Rather than offer better pay, protections…
The Real News PodcastFactory farming is pushing independent farmers to the edge of extinction
A proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Burnett County, Wisconsin, is slated to house 26,000 hogs and produce millions of gallons of liquid…
The Real News PodcastBiden’s cynical plan for 'security and prosperity' in Central America
President Biden’s plan to secure “security and prosperity” in Central America appears to be a continuation of the longstanding policy of US intervention in…
The Real News PodcastWe have proof that life is better without bosses
From workers dying from lack of adequate safety measures and PPE to states viciously cutting off extended unemployment benefits to force people back to unsafe…
The Real News PodcastCops made his life a living hell. Judges are making it worse
Offensive Facebook posts led to the arrest of activist Joshua Martinez. But his treatment in court and $1 million bail reveal the often-overlooked role played…
The Real News Podcast'We have fewer voting rights today than we did 56 years ago'
“Between January 1 and July 14, 2021, at least 18 states enacted 30 laws that restrict access to the vote,” according to the Brennan Center for Justice…
The Real News PodcastFactory farms pose an 'existential threat' for rural Wisconsin communities
The rural landscape in the US is changing drastically: The days of the independent family farm have increasingly given way to industrial agriculture and…
The Real News PodcastConnecticut made prison phone calls free. Other states should do the same
After Gov. Ned Lamont signed a new bill into law in June, Connecticut became the first state in the US to make phone calls free for incarcerated people…
The Real News PodcastMassage therapists forced to choose between unsafe work or losing unemployment
Up until the pandemic, Kate was a massage therapist who loved her job. But when her employer wanted to push her and her co-workers back to work before they…
The Real News PodcastCops hate citizen journalists, but they're not the only ones
Citizen journalists continue to play a critical role in holding police accountable, which is why they face increasing pushback from the underlying system that…
The Real News PodcastSeven months after Capitol riots, we still haven't confronted what caused them
It’s been seven months since Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC in an attempt to overturn the general election results…
The Real News Podcast1998 mass shooter still used to justify life sentences for juveniles
Kip Kinkel was publicly reviled when, suffering from undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, he shot and killed his mother and father before killing two of his…
The Real News Podcast84-hour weeks: A striking Frito-Lay worker shares horrors of working for chip giant
Hundreds of workers at the Frito-Lay manufacturing and distribution plant in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since July 5. Workers at Frito-Lay have…
The Real News PodcastThe drug war destroyed her family. 47 years later she's breaking her silence
The nation's endless war on mind-altering substances has many casualties, some who refuse to be forgotten. That's why Catherine Freeman is coming forward after…
The Real News PodcastUS media co-opts Cuba protests for imperialist ends
Amid power outages, food shortages, and continued fears over COVID-19, amplified by 60 years of economic strangulation by a US blockade, thousands of…
The Real News PodcastThe US is the ONLY country sentencing children to life without parole. A movement is fighting back
Sonia Kumar, senior attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, explains the movement to restore the parole option to people sentenced for serious crimes in childhood.…
The Real News PodcastUnearthing the horror of Native American boarding schools
Back in May, the remains of 215 children were discovered on the grounds of a former residential (boarding) school in Canada that was used to forcibly…
The Real News PodcastTrader Joe’s workers fight back against unlawful intimidation from management
When faced with unlawful intimidation and interrogation from management at Trader Joe's, Alex P. and his coworkers stood together and stood up for their rights…
The Real News PodcastU.S. Supreme Court ruling makes it easier for judges to give young people life sentences. Now what?
ACLU legal expert Sonia Kumar says the ruling slows but does not stop the movement toward more just sentencing for juveniles. Help us continue producing…
The Real News PodcastDon’t mess with a coal miner’s wife
Union miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, have now been on strike for four long months, facing economic hardship, social stigma, and even…
The Real News PodcastDeSantis translates culture war paranoia into Florida state law
In a brazen effort to make political hay out of the right-wing culture wars, Republican Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis has signed a slew of bills into law…
The Real News PodcastSmithfield workers in Sioux Falls stood together and won big
We cover a lot of important worker struggles on this show, but it's important to cover worker victories as well—and workers in South Dakota just landed a huge…
The Real News PodcastFormer cop became cop watcher after this fraught encounter with police
What would cause a former cop to cross the thin blue line and use his camera to monitor law enforcement and hold police accountable? For well-known police…
The Real News PodcastRural Wisconsinites take on the factory farming industry
There is a battle happening in rural America: Across the country, rural farming communities are struggling to combat the relentless onslaught of Big Ag and the…
The Real News Podcast'Neither Washington nor Beijing!'- The Western left grapples with -new Cold War- between US-China
The Trump administration's frequent antagonism toward China ushered in what many analysts have called a "new Cold War" between the two world powers. Rather…
The Real News PodcastInternational commission indicts American policing system for “crimes against humanity”
In our first segment for this week’s episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc talks with Marjorie Cohn about the highly anticipated report from the International…
The Real News PodcastWhat everyone gets wrong about the 'Defund the Police' debate
Public debates about "Defund the Police" have seemingly devolved into an all-or-nothing rhetorical war with little room for nuance. But opponents of the slogan…
The Real News PodcastAfter busting union drive, “progressive” vegan company lays off entire production staff
Earlier this month, No Evil Foods, a “progressive” vegan meat company founded in North Carolina, notified its staff that they were closing their Asheville…
The Real News PodcastThe coordinated assault on voting rights is ‘Jim Crow 2.0’
Voters in Georgia stunned the nation in 2020 by delivering key presidential and Senate victories for Democrats. In response, Republicans have launched a…
The Real News PodcastWhat do workers really lose when they’re injured on the job?
We will be back to our regular Working People schedule next week. Until then, to tide listeners over, and to celebrate his book recently receiving Honorable…
The Real News PodcastDeath is a lot of work
While Max is traveling for The Real News Network, “Working People” producer Jules Taylor makes his host debut by interviewing his stepfather Ric Ortiz about…
The Real News PodcastWhy Is Trumka Going After Vermont AFL-CIO?
Over the past couple years, the Vermont State AFL-CIO and its membership have embraced a more democratic, rank-and-file strategy, building up bonds of…
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No such thing as a ceasefire under occupation
As part of our ongoing series "Not in Our Name," we hear a poem from E. Ethelbert Miller. Host Marc Steiner also speaks with scholar and human rights defender…
The Real News PodcastJews against the occupation say 'Not in our name'
The violence of Israeli occupation and apartheid has been happening for many years with unceasing support from the U.S. government. This is why many are…
The Real News PodcastWorkers around the world can help end violence against the people of Palestine and Colombia
Right now, working people in Palestine and Colombia are being crushed by a relentless onslaught of murderous violence and dispossession, economic degradation…
The Real News PodcastBreaking bad: Boris Johnson’s Brexit poses dangerous threats to Irish unity
The 1999 Good Friday Agreement brought to an end 30 years of strife in the North of Ireland. Now, less than 25 years after the Agreement was made, social…
The Real News PodcastFrom Appalachia to Wall Street, how the US created an oligarchic dystopia
Appalachia is a region with a rich and complicated political history that is often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented in other parts of the country. In…
The Real News Podcast'People are dying every minute': COVID-19 catastrophes in India and Brazil
While wealthy countries like the United States are rushing to vaccinate their populations and “reopen” their societies, the rest of the world continues to…
The Real News PodcastWoke-washing the US military meat grinder
In this special episode of “Working People,” we talk with three veterans about how the military and the class system (in the U.S. and around the world) go hand…
The Real News PodcastSeeing (and fighting) fascism beyond twentieth-century Europe
The “F” word has been thrown around a lot in the age of Donald Trump. From President Trump’s “Muslim ban,” to bipartisan support for migrant-filled…
The Real News PodcastThe right attacks democracy because the right doesn't want democracy
It’s been four months since supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building in early January in a thwarted attempt to overturn his defeat in the…
The Real News PodcastWorkers in Myanmar are risking their lives to fight against the military coup
In this important episode, we interview worker-organizers with the Federation of General Workers Myanmar about the brutal military coup that has been unfolding…
The Real News PodcastChauvin trial 'felt like something because I’m used to so much nothing'
Last week the country watched anxiously as Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd last May, was found guilty of…
The Real News PodcastWhy childbirth is deadlier if you’re not white
In this unearthed, pre-pandemic recording of "Working People," we talk to filmmaker Dominique Rémy about her important full-length documentary project, which…
The Real News PodcastVietnam, Afghanistan, Yemen: What is all this needless death for?
Last week, President Joe Biden announced he will be pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan on Sept. 11, 2021, seemingly ending the longest war in U.S. history…