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Brazil: Thousands protest Donald Trump tariffs and interference in Brazilian courts
Thousands on the streets of Brazil, Sao Pauloâs Paulista Avenue packed, angry and protesting US President Donald Trump and his imposition of 50% tariffs on Brazilian products. Trumpâs new tariffs on Brazil are in response to the countryâs trial against Trump ally, former far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.Â
Bolsonaro is accused of leading a âcriminal organizationâ that looked to stop his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from assuming the presidency after he won the 2022 elections. The Brazilian courts will decide. Trump has other plans. But Brazilian leaders say they wonât back down.Â
âIf there's one t...
How the âwar on drugsâ set the stage for Trumpâs authoritarianism today
âWhat Kilmar Abrego Garcia's family is going through is just unimaginable,â says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods, âbut it is also what we've all allowed to happen over generations of letting the drug war and our deference to police departments erode the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which should protect us all from illegal search and seizure, such as these seizures that ICE is committing all around the country right now.â In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa and Woods discuss the US governmentâs case against Abrego Garciaâwhom the Trump administration finally returned to US soil from El Salvador i...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, July 11, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, July 11, 2025.
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How union organizing can change your life and the world w/Jaz Brisack | Working People
After getting a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, Jaz Brisack became a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helped organize the first unionized Starbucks in the US in December of 2021. In their new book, Get on the Job and Organize, Brisack details the hardwon lessons they and their coworkers have learned from building one of the most significant and paradigm-shifting worker organizing campaigns in modern history. In this extended episode of Working People, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian speaks with Brisack about their book, the facts and fictions characterizing todayâs ânew labor movement,â and why...
Caught between the US and China, Taiwanâs future is uncertain | Solidarity Without Exception
Today, Taiwan is caught in the crosshairs of two imperial rivals: the US and China. This is nothing new for the island nation, which has been a battleground for competing empires for centuries, but what is new is the critical role Taiwan plays in the 21st-century world economy. For example, Taiwan manufacturers 90% of the world's most advanced microchipsâthe key component in everything from consumer electronics to the US militaryâs F-35 fighter jets. In this episode of Solidarity Without Exception, co-host Ashley Smith speaks with Brian Hioe, journalist and editor of New Bloom magazine, about the history of Taiwanese struggl...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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Karipuna Resistance: Defending the Amazon | Stories of Resistance
There are less than a hundred members of the Karipuna tribe. They live on their land in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. Their territory is demarcated, which means that itâs legally theirs.But many outsiders donât care. Land invaders have been pushing in, hauling off hardwood and big trees and carving out pieces of their land, and dividing them up to sell.
The Karipuna are resisting.
This is episode 56 of Stories of Resistanceâa podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action progra...
These vets swore to defend the Constitution against all enemiesâincluding Donald Trump
On June 13, military veterans and their families and supporters protested in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, demanding that taxpayer dollars for Donald Trumpâs ill-fated military parade and decision to send troops to Los Angeles should be used for housing, healthcare, food, and taking care of veterans. Around 60 demonstrators were arrested by Capitol police. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with veterans MichaelâŻT.âŻMcPhearson, Kevin Benderman, and Amber Mathwig, two of whom were arrested on June 13, about the duty they feel to oppose the Trump admistrationâs actions and the vital role vet...
EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil reveals how he won his freedom
After being abducted from his New York apartment building by plainclothes agents and locked away in an ICE jail in Louisiana for over 100 days, Mahmoud Khalil has been freed and reunited with his family. A federal judge ruled that Khalilâs detention was unconstitutional and that he was neither a flight risk nor a threat to the public, and the Syrian-born Palestinian activist, husband, father, and former Columbia University graduate student was finally released on June 20, 2025. But the fight for Khalilâs freedom is not over, and we have by no means seen the last of the Trump administrationâs author...
Corporate media is trying to take down Mamdani. This is why theyâre failing | Inequality Watch
The pushback against progressive New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That pushback has largely been coming from the mainstream media. Inequality Watchdogs Stephen Janis and Taya Graham take down CNN anchor Brianna Keller's takedown of Mamdani and show how her efforts amount to corporatist propaganda intended to undermine the popularity of his platform.
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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July 4 and the long tradition of US protest | Stories of Resistance
Over the last two and a half centuries people in the US have used July 4 to make their stand against injustice, inequality, and oppression, and demand their rights. From an infamous speech by Frederick Douglass to women suffragists demanding the right to vote, civil rights protests, and a historic farm workersâ march, today we look at moments of July 4 resistance.
This is episode 55 of Stories of Resistanceâa podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, weâll bring you stories of resistance like t...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, July 3, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, July 3, 2025.
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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The history of the 1970 Kent State massacre you havenât heard | The Marc Steiner Show
tâs been 55 years since the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University who were protesting the US war in Vietnam. Four students were murdered at the Kent State Massacre: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Mike Alewitz, who was a student at Kent State in 1970, about what it was like to witness the massacre firsthand, and about how the true history of this critical moment in US history has been whitewashed ever since.
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Mike Alewitz is an inte...
Protesters put their bodies on the line to stop Trumpâs âBig Disastrous Betrayal Billâ
Dozens of peaceful protesters, including disabled people in wheelchairs, were arrested last Wednesday in Washington, DC, while protesting President Trumpâs massive spending and tax bill, which will dramatically slash taxes, restructure the student loan and debt system, and make devastating cuts to vital, popular programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). With Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to advance Donald Trumpâs so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which will now go back to the House of Representatives for final approval. In this urgent episode of Working People, we speak with...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
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How Indigenous field hockey is reviving Mapuche culture | Stories of Resistance
Chileâs Indigenous Mapuche people have played their own version of field hockey for countless generations. Roughly 2 million Mapuche Indigenous people live across Chile and Argentina. Many have moved from their ancestral lands to the city. But they have not forgotten their past. They are using their ancestral sport, palĂn, to breathe life into their culture and traditions. Using their sport as a type of resistance.Â
This is episode 54 of Stories of Resistanceâa podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, weâll...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 30, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 30, 2025.
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Stonewall: The uprising that sparked the LGBTQ movement | Stories of Resistance
Stonewall. They say it was the spark that set the fire ablaze. The start of the modern LGBTQ movement. Protests and riots that lasted for days in defense of gay rights. And from it, came gay pride parades, gay pride months, days, and celebrations far from the United States, in cities around the world.Â
This is episode 53 of Stories of Resistanceâa podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, weâll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, June 27, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 27, 2025.
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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, June 26, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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The voice of the resistance against the 2009 Honduran coup | Stories of Resistance
On June 28, 2009, Honduras exploded and the people took to the streets after the president was overthrown in a coup. One radio show followed them, reported from the protests, and became the voice of the resistance: Felix Molinaâs ResistenciaâResistance.
This is episode 52 of Stories of Resistanceâa podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, weâll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. <...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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Thereâs resistance happening all around us, weâre just not seeing it | The Marc Steiner Show
The world-destabilizing horrors we see on the news today (and the many forms of resistance we donât see) can easily make us feel overwhelmed and hopeless about the state of the world. But as Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back have seen firsthand organizing with poor and working-class communities around the US, âthere's amazing grassroots organizing led by poor and dispossessed people that's happening right now⌠there's kind of an awakening happening, but I think instead of looking to our political leaders or looking to some of the more established folks out there.â In this episode of The Marc Stei...
Resurrection City 1968: Demanding an end to poverty | Stories of Resistance
The year is 1968. Summertime. Washington, DC. And covering the National Mall are endless rows of shacks built by hundreds of poor families from across the United States. Itâs called Resurrection City, and they have come to Washington to demand an end to poverty and a new economic bill of rights⌠for the poor.
This was Martin Luther King Jrâs dream. The Poor Peopleâs Campaign is what heâd been working for in the months before he was killed in April 1968.Â
The city would last for six weeks. It would inspire thousands. Its legacy would last...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
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Whatâs really happening in Los Angeles vs. what youâre hearing online | Working People
In Los Angeles, CA, armed, masked agents of the state are snatching and disappearing immigrants off the street, peaceful protestors and journalists are being attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets, National Guard troops and active-duty Marines have been deployed to police and intimidate American citizens. Fear and uncertainty have gripped Americaâs second largest city as a barrage of misinformation obscures the reality on the ground; nevertheless, Angelinos continue to defy the Trump administrationâs attacks on immigrant communities and authoritarian crackdown on civil rights. In this episode of Working People, we take you to the streets of LA and s...
Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance | Stories of Resistance
For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sunâthe Andean New Year. But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations. They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance.Â
And itâs not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance.
This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistanceâa podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 23, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 23, 2025.
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As Israel starves Gaza, Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action
On June 16, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace in ChicagoâAsh Bohrer, Becca Lubow, Avey Rips, Seph Mozes, Audrey Gladson, and Benjamin Tellerâbegan an indefinite hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, unconditional military aid for Israel, and the blockade of food and medical aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians now living amongst the rubble. In this urgent episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with two of the Chicago hunger strikers, Ash Bohrer and Avey Rips, about their act of protest and how far theyâre willing to go to stop Israelâs slaughte...
How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language | Stories of Resistance
If you walk down the street in Paraguay, you will hear people speaking Spanish, the official language of most of the countries of Latin America. But, particularly if you are in the countryside, you will also hear something else:Â GuaranĂ.
Itâs one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in the Americas; a mother tongue of roughly six and half million people. In particular, in Paraguay.
There, most Paraguayans speak GuaranĂ or a mixture of GuaranĂ and Spanish, regardless of whether or not they are Indigenous GuaranĂ, mestizo, or white. When Paraguay was invaded in the mid-1...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, June 20, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, June 20, 2025.
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Protecting Qâeswachaka, the last Incan rope bridge | Stories of Resistance
Qâeswachaka is the last Incan rope bridge. Itâs located down in a valley in the Andes mountains of Peru. And in early June, the residents of four Quechua communities hold a three-day-long festival, where they rebuild the bridge from scratch.
This is not just a task to be done, but an ancestral ceremony. A means of holding on to their traditions and the storyâresisting modernity and the passage of time, by preserving this piece of their history and their culture.
The bridge itself is a symbol of the communityâs connection to their past, to...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
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Why Abby Steinâa transgender rabbi raised ultra-orthodoxâstands up for Palestine | The Marc Steiner Show
Raised in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, Rabbi Abby Stein has had a long, painful, beautiful journey to coming out as a transgender woman and becoming a fierce opponent of Zionism and Israelâs Occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Rabbi Stein about her journey, and about the need to simultaneously fight Israelâs genocide in Gaza and the rightâs fascist assault on the rights of LGBTQ+ people here in the US.Guest:
Rabbi Abby Stein is the tenth-generation descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the foun...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
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Bruce Springsteen: Resisting Trump, standing for America | Stories of Resistance
Bruce Springsteen has never shied away from expressing his political views. And heâs not gonna back down now.
âIn my home, the America I love. The America Iâve written about. That has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,â he told a crowd at a concert in Europe, in May. Donald Trump responded over Truth Social, calling him a âpushy, obnoxious jerkâ and a âdried out âpruneâ of a rocker.â
In dark times, music and song gives us hope. Bruce Springsteen, like Pet...
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, June 16, 2025
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 16, 2025.
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Ernesto âCheâ Guevara: A symbol of revolution | Stories of Resistance
You might think that Ernesto âCheâ Guevara's resistance came with the Cuban revolution. When he sailed on the yacht known as the Granma, picked up arms, fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra, and liberated the island of Cuba. Or when he denounced US intervention at the United Nations, or when he helped to lead Cuba and make it self-sufficient, despite the US embargo that still exists today. Or when he left it all behind to try and spark a revolution in Bolivia.
But Ernesto Guevara's resistance began long before all of that. It began when he trav...
