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- 7603 - Give the people musicals: Gene Bruskin, the people's artist
Gene Bruskin was born to a Jewish working-class family in South Philadelphia and has been a life-long social justice activist, union organizer, poet, and playwright. Since retiring from the labor movement, Gene wrote his first play in 2016, a musical comedy for and about work and workers called Pray For the Dead: A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny. In this mini-cast we talk to Bruskin about his life in the the labor movement, the role of art and imagination in revolutionary politics, and about Bruskin's new musical, The Return of John Brown, which is premiering this month in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and the John Brown Raid Headquarters in Maryland. "In a staged reading of this new musical, John Brown, who in 1859 became the first person in the nation executed for treason, climbs out of his grave where he was hanged, into the present, only to be rearrested and threatened with another hanging."
The Return of John Brown(musical,) websiteCosmopod, "Gene Bruskin: A Life in the Labor Movement"Christina L. Perez, Labor Notes, "Labor Musical Brings Morgue Workers' Struggle to Life"Permanent links below...
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 19, 2024.
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Story 1 - Quebec 13 y/o is banned from social media over harassment and child pornography accusations.
Story 2 - 36 year old man dies at Regina Correctional Centre with no information about cause of death or what happened.
Story 3 - International student will not be deported over his climate justice activism but his future in Canada is still uncertain.
Story 4 - Canadian aid organization's water truck is bombed in targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Story 5 - Solidarity actions at Columbia university and other universities are met with intense opposition from administrators and police.
Story 6 - Mass grave discovered at the al-Shifa hospital complex.Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 7601 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 19, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 19, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastFri, 19 Apr 2024 - 7600 - East Palestine residents demand fully-funded healthcare | Working People
On March 23, 2024, a coalition of around 80 people convened at the East Palestine Country Club at the first gathering called by the newly formed Justice for East Palestine Residents & Workers Coalition. Those in attendance included: East Palestine residents; railroad workers; residents of other “sacrifice zones" in Ohio, Maryland, California, and West Virginia; concerned citizens living near other rail lines; labor activists and labor union representatives; representatives of environmental justice organizations; (striking) journalists; socialists, Trump voters, non-voters, etc.; and more. As journalist Steve Mellon reported, "The newly formed coalition, dubbed Justice for East Palestine Residents & Workers, determined they will travel to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8 to further their demand that the federal government step in and make sure those affected by the derailment are provided with fully funded health care. They plan to involve union members, including those who represent workers at railroad companies, as well as environmentalists and members of other communities damaged by chemical contamination. The coalition also determined to schedule a second conference in Iowa — the cause has been embraced by union organizers there; several traveled by bus to East Palestine to attend Saturday’s event — and to seek a meeting with the president of the AFL-CIO. Organizers want the federation of unions representing more than 12 million workers to support the coalition’s demand.”
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In this extended episode, you will hear a compilation of speakers from the March 23 conference in East Palestine. Speakers include: Lauri Harmon, East Palestine resident; Chris Albright, East Palestine resident; Jami Rae Wallace, East Palestine resident, president of East Palestine Unity Council; Christina Siceloff, East Palestine resident; Rob Two-Hawks, East Palestine resident; Daren Gamble, East Palestine resident; John Palmer, longtime organizer and officer with the Teamsters, but not speaking on behalf of the Teamsters; Andrew Sandberg, International Association of Machinists (IAM); George Waksmunski, United Electrical Workers (UE); Chris Silvera, Teamsters Local 808 Executive Secretary; Steve Mellon, journalist for the Pittsburgh Union Progress, on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 18 months; Vina Colley, Portsmouth-Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety & Security; Steve Zeltzer, WorkWeek; David Pfister, Food & Water Watch; Nicole Fabricant, activist, academic, and author of Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore; Hilary Flint, Clean Air Action; Penny Logsdon, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Jeff Kurtz, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Carrie Duncan, Lee County, Iowa, Labor Chapter; Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network; Mike Stout, Musician.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 18, 2024.
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Story 1 - 14 out of 15 drug poisoning deaths in Windsor-Essex were related to fentenyl.
Story 2 - The Ontario Legislature's speaker MPP Ted Arnott bans Keffiyehs as being political symbols.
Story 3 - Crisis in Alberta's NICUs spurns doctors to call for action; minister floats idea of airlifting infants in critical care to other provinces.
Story 4 - Private citizen to be questioned over ArriveCan app by the House of Commons for the first time in 100 years after Kristian Firth was found in contempt.
Story 5 - Pakistan blocked out social media just before and just after the elections, in a move meant to harm Imran Khan's chances.
Story 6 - 1 in 5 Palestinians living in the occupied territories have been arrested, a rate that is doubled when only men are concerned. Yesterday marked Palestinian Prisoners' Day.Thu, 18 Apr 2024 - 7598 - Cuba's protests and the long crisis of US intervention
Protests against shortages of food and fuel in Cuba's eastern provinces on March 18 brought the corporate media spotlight back to the island, which is currently experiencing a major economic crisis. True to form, much US reporting on the protests attempted to construct a familiar narrative of Cuba as a failed state on the brink of collapse, with no mention of the 62-year US blockade. This is particularly striking given how Cuba's current crisis is a direct outcome of the intensification of the blockade under Trump—which President Biden has upheld throughout his term despite promises to relieve the strangulation of Cuba.
So what's really going on in Cuba today? How severe is the crisis, and where did it come from? What sort of future do the Cuban people envision for themselves, and what role does the US have to play in it? To address these questions and more, The Real News speaks with Manolo de los Santos of The People's Forum, and Liz Oliva Fernandez of Belly of the Beast.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
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Story 1 - Sexual assault charges laid against three teenagers in a case of apparent high school hockey team hazing incident in Manitoba.
Story 2 - Gate Gourmet workers at Toronto's Pearson Airport have walked off the job.
Story 3 - FOI docs reveal that the UCP had been talking with coal industry execs for months before they announced their intentions to allow open pit mining in the Rockies.
Story 4 - The 2024 Federal Budget: Asset dumping, but call it a housing strategy.
Story 5 - UN Special Envoy to Libya resigns over lack of good faith among Libya's fueding leaders.Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 7596 - Noboa vs. AMLO: The embassy raid and Ecuador's deeper crisis w/Guillaume Long
Ecuador has been thrust into the international spotlight following a flagrantly illegal raid on the Mexican embassy on April 5. President Daniel Noboa ordered the raid to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum on the embassy grounds since Dec. 2023. Mexico has responded by severing diplomatic ties with Ecuador and filing a complaint with the ICJ, specifically requesting that the court expel Ecuador from the UN until an apology is given. Governments across the Americas and the world have joined the chorus of denunciations, noting the violation of diplomatic immunity as a severe breach of international law.
Ecuador once stood out in the region for its relatively low crime rate and steadily improving social progress, yet its fortunes have radically reversed in the past decade. The fall of the left-wing Correistas unleashed a tide of neoliberalism and narco-trafficking in the country, sending poverty and crime soaring. Noboa, who is the son of Ecuador's wealthiest man, came to power on promises to address the security crisis—but so far, has only managed to haul the country into a three-month long state of emergency. To understand recent events and place them in the proper context of Ecuador's contemporary politics, The Real News speaks with Guillaume Long, Ecuador's former Foreign Minister.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
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Story 1 - Unifor files with the BC labour board to represent Amazon workers in Delta and New Westminster.
Story 2 - Resignations en masse at the RM Armstrong in Manitoba puts governance of the municipality into question.
Story 3 - More than 1/4 young people are dying from Opioids with Alberta the location with the highest rates of death by far.
Story 4 - Azerbaijan asks the ICJ to through out ethnic cleansing charges brought by Armenia over conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Story 5 - Georgia proposed law to designate NGOs and media orgs that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign sources as foreign actors is met with protests, especially from pro-EU partisans.Tue, 16 Apr 2024 - 7594 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 15, 2024.
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Story 1 - Third arrest made related to the Thunder Bay police force and this time, it's the former chief.
Story 2 - Nurses union in Quebec rejects latest government deal.
Story 3 - Ontario has spent more than $134M over 10 years on cops who were paid to stay home while being investigatd for misconduct. One third of the allegations related to sexual violence.
Story 4 - Today is the one year anniverary of the war in Sudan and Canada is offering $132M to provide aid and help people flee to neighbouring countries.
Story 5 - After a weekend where Iran attacked Israel, Israel seemingly still managed to kill more people in Gaza and the West Bank than Iran did in their retaliatory airstrikes.
Story 6 - Cyprus is suspending asylum claims after rush of claimants from Syria.
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 - 7593 - The Gringo who tried to rule Central America
William Walker was a journalist, lawyer and physician from Nashville, Tennessee, who in 1855 invaded Nicaragua with a few dozen troops and conquered the country.
At the time, he was one of thousands of private U.S. citizens who had their sights set on taking over foreign nations, all in the name of Manifest Destiny.
In this episode, host Michael Fox follows in the footsteps of William Walker as he recounts one of the most twisted stories of U.S. imperialism in Central America — a story that still has lasting repercussions for Latin America, the United States and across the world.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
Guests: Michel Gobat
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Theme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 12, 2024.
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Story 1 - Montreal's STM is increasing security patrols to deal with impact of the affordability and drug crises.
Story 2 - Family of man who died in a Fredericton ER calls for change so that it doesn't happen to anyone else.
Story 3 - A Canadian woman will be evacuated from Gaza.
Story 4 - New affordability measures for housing introduced will do absolutely nothing to boost affodability (but they will plunge you deeper in debt!)
Story 5 - Political parties and civil society groups decry the military leadership's decree to ban political activity in Mali.Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 7591 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 11, 2024.
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Story 1 - Edmonton Police stop man at 2:15 am over bylaw infraction and then chase him into the North Saskatchewan River.
Story 2 - Former lawyer for the Thunder Bay Police is facing criminal charges; the second person charged in criminal probe of that force.
Story 3 - Canadian company sold paternity tests even though they knew that the tests were faulty, causing tremendous trauma to individuals around the world.
Story 4 - Massive flooding in Russia and Kazakhstan has forced the evacuation of 200,000 people.
Story 5 - Lufthansa (the only operator that connects Tehran to the West) has suspended flights to Tehran over fears of military action after Israel bombs Iranian embassy in Syria.
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 - 7590 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
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Story 1 - Oral surgeon who directed a cop in extracting four teeth from a sedated inmate receives absolute discharge.
Story 2 - Syncrude fined $390,000 for worker's death. The money will go to three group to develop an ... app ... about excavation safety, even though the trouble was a lack of analysisn of the ground where the worker was working from an engineer.
Story 3 - The AFN says that there is a $350 billion gap between infrastructure within Indigenous communities compared to non-Indigenous communities. When you add in Inuit communities, the number rises to $425 billion.
Story 4 - Very little information about Canada's Syrian embassy, which was damaged when Israel struck Iran's embassy which is right beside.
Story 5 - UNRWA says that Israel is lying about how much aid is reaching Gaza via truck.
Story 6 - At least three dead in hydroelectric plant explosion in Italy.Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 7589 - Illegal real estate sales of Palestinian land are happening around the US
Six months into the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, there is little use denying that what is taking place before our eyes is an intended land grab. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich have called for Gaza to be "resettled" and for the Palestinian population to be expelled. And in the US, the likes of Ben Gvir and Smotrich have their allies and accomplices who hope to profit from the theft of Palestinian land. Across the US, real estate events advertising the sale of land parcels in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem have begun to appear. Activist, journalist, and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the recent protests against one such real estate event in Baltimore.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
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Story 1 - Cop has assault charges discharged. Just 7 years ago, he also had been charged with manslaughter, charges that were also dropped.
Story 2 - Humboldt Broncos truck driver fighting his deportation.
Story 3 - SFU hired private security firm to spy on striking workers.
Story 4 - Canada promising a ridiculous amount of money to go to war machines in its pre-budget tour.
Story 5 - At least 94 dead in Mozambique after boat capsizes. Most on board were fleeing due to misinformation related to cholera.
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 - 7587 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 8, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 8, 2024.
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Story 1 - NFLD Justice Minister John Hogan apologized for not know how cross-examination works when the person on the stand is a survivor of sexual assault.
Story 2 - Airbus workers in Quebec reject the company's latest offer.
Story 3 - Trudeau to dump $2.4B into a black hole and say that it will help foster AI in Canada.
Story 4 - Israel's war on Gaza passes the six month mark.
Story 5 - Ecuador stormed Mexico's embassy, Mexico pulls its diplomatic staff.Mon, 08 Apr 2024 - 7586 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 5, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 5, 2024.
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Story 1 - Hospital in Halifax had not heat or water after the second water main break in 24h.
Story 2 - Widow of migrant worker injured on the job in Ontario wants to see working conditions improved.
Story 3 - CMHC says hold on to your butts: housing prices will surpass the 2022 peak by 2026.
Story 4 - Myanmar's junta capital was hit by a drone attack by opposition forces.
Story 5 - Peru's president Boluarte avoids being impeached over wealth probe.Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 7585 - In the Middle East, America's chickens are coming home to roostEditor's note: This podcast was recorded on March 19, 2024.
Each day brings fresh horrors from the ground in Gaza as Israel's brutal genocide continues with the full backing of the US. Yet Israel is not operating with complete impunity.
From the Houthis' humanitarian blockade of the Red Sea to Hezbollah's missile strikes against Israel itself, the unofficial alliance of states and armed organizations known as the Resistance Axis is imposing consequences on Israel and the US. The result is a low-grade regional war, that for months has featured Israel and the US conducting increasingly brazen air strikes from Yemen to Lebanon and Syria.
Most recently, Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1, killing seven military advisors, including Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and his deputy Mohamad Hadi Haji Rahimi. Iran has vowed to retaliate. As the spiral of escalation and deterrence continues, the question arises of just how much longer the two sides can trade blows until a full-blown regional war erupts.
Veteran war journalist Elijah Magnier and Middle East Critique Editor Matteo Capasso join The Real News for a timely discussion on the historical roots of the Resistance Axis, and how the confrontation taking place could reshape regional and global politics. Corporate media has flooded the US public with a one-dimensional narrative of the Resistance Axis, leaving out a crucial detail—how decades of US and Israeli intervention and destruction birthed the Resistance Axis. Drawing on their deep expertise, Magnier and Capasso reframe the current confrontation in light of the region's history, and its future.
This interview is the second part of a two-part series on the Resistance Axis. Click here to read or listen to the first part of the conversation with Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi about the media narratives about the Resistance Axis used to justify US intervention in the region.
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Read Elijah Magnier's blog.Find out how to register for Middle East Critique's Ramadan course on Palestine and Imperialism.Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
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One week has gone by since a massive container ship struck a critical support column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending the structure and a group of construction workers who were fixing potholes on the bridge into the water of the Patapsco River. Of the 8 men who were working on the bridge that night, six have been pronounced dead since last Tuesday. As more details have emerged about the accident, and the city and port authority's plans for clean-up and reconstruction, The Real News convened a panel of journalists working all sides of this story to get a sense of what we know, what key questions still need to be answered, and what happens next.
Joining this timely discussion are Marc Steiner, host of the Marc Steiner Show on The Real News Network; Real News Network Editor-in-Chief Max Alvarez; Dharna Noor, who leads "Big Oil Uncovered," a Guardian series focused on the fossil fuel industry's attempts to thwart climate science, discourse, and policy; and Clara Longo de Freitas, a neighborhood reporter covering East Baltimore communities for the Baltimore Banner.
Studio Production: Adam Coley
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 4, 2024.
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Story 1 - A Longueuil cop sexually assaulted someone whose sexual assault case he was working on.
Story 2 - Two Indigenous fishermen taken on a Starlight Tour in Nova Scotia by DFO officers.
Story 3 - Trans-mountain pipeline set to open in time for International Workers Day. Only cost us $34B.
Story 4 - Pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate in Van is reinstated after being DQed. He won with 55% of the vote.
Story 5 - Thailand's Move Forward Party might be dissolved and its leaders banned from politics after it tried to amend the royal defamation law.Thu, 04 Apr 2024 - 7582 - Baltimore’s Latino/Latine community rallies to support those affected by Key Bridge disaster
When the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed around 1:30am on Tuesday, March 26, eight men who were working on the bridge at the time were plunged into the cold waters of the Patapsco River. Two of those men were recovered alive, six were not. As TRNN previously reported, all existing evidence points to the fact that these workers—who were working for a non-union contractor, Brawner Builders, filling potholes on the bridge—did not receive any warning from emergency dispatch that the shipping vessel Dali was about to plow into the bridge.
As Baltimore reels from the shock of the bridge collapse, as investigations begin into the root causes of the accident, and as we begin to take stock of the seismic economic and potential environmental impacts that this catastrophic accident will have, the families of the six workers who died are mourning an incalculable loss. As Clara Longo de Frietas writes at The Baltimore Banner, “All of the men confirmed or presumed to be dead had emigrated from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador or Mexico. They were Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35; Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26; Miguel Luna, 49; Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, 38; Jose Mynor Lopez, 35; and one as-yet-unnamed man… All of them came to Baltimore for a better life.”
Amidst this tragedy, volunteers, community organizers, immigrant and Latino/Latine justice organizations, businesses, and more have responded with tireless efforts to support the families of the deceased workers, and to provide support for Baltimore’s Latino/Latine and immigrant communities in general. In this special bilingual podcast, recorded in Spanish and English at El Taquito Mexicano restaurant in Fells Point, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community and immigrant justice organizers and members of Baltimore’s Latino/Latine community to discuss those efforts, what we know about the men who were working on that bridge, and what this tragedy tells us about the plight of immigrant workers in Baltimore and around the US. Panelists include: Ricardo Ortiz, vice president of the Centro de Apoyo Para la Superación del Inmigrante (CAPSI); Susana Barrios, vice president of the Latino Racial Justice Circle; Carlos Crespo, who volunteers at CAPSI; Lucia Islas, president of Comité Latino de Baltimore; Norma Martinez, a high-school student in Baltimore, born in Honduras (and Max’s foster daughter); Claudia, co-owner of El Taquito Mexicano; Victor, co-owner of El Taquito Mexicano.Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 7581 - The Key Bridge disaster was caused by the oppression of workers | Working People
24 hours after Max returned to Baltimore from East Palestine, Ohio, the shipping vessel Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing it into the Patapsco River. The catastrophic collision and collapse of the bridge claimed the lives of six immigrant, non-union construction workers who were working the night shift at the time, filling potholes on the bridge. In this interview on The Valley Labor Report, Alabama's only weekly union talk show, hosts Jacob Morrison and Adam Keller speak with Max about The Real News Network's coverage of the bridge collapse, the connections between Baltimore and East Palestine, and about the conspiracists and "anti-woke" grifters who are trying to capitalize on this tragedy for their own gain.Additional links/info below…
Baltimore Immigrant Community Fund Key Bridge Emergency ResponseThe Valley Labor Report YouTube channel, Facebook page, Twitter/X page, and PatreonThe Valley Labor Report, "The Toll of Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse in Baltimore on Working People - TVLR 3/30/24"Democracy Now!, "Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings"America's Workforce Radio, "Union Solidarity Is the Key to Getting East Palestine Residents Help"Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "Missing, Presumed Dead Workers from Key Bridge Weren’t Informed of Mayday Call"Maximillian Alvarez, The Nation, "Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse"Breaking Points, "Construction Workers ABANDONED in Baltimore Bridge Collapse"Permanent links below...
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 3, 2024.
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Story 1 - City of Kingston to enforce park camping ban pushing marginalized Kingstonins out with nowhere else to go.
Story 2 - Emails reveal the extent to which cuts by the Yukon Hospital Corporation would delay care and burn nurses out.
Story 3 - Ghost ship the likely culprit behind the Red Sea Internet cable cuts.
Story 4 - Israel has killed more than 200 aid workers since Oct. 7, including 7 in a targeted strike yesterday.
Story 5 - Opposition leader in India jailed just weeks ahead of the election.
Story 6 - 9 dead, up to 1000 wounded after massive earthquake hits Taiwan.Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 7579 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
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Story 1 - Carbon tax protests greet the new tax, Premier of NL is Furey...ous.
Story 2 - Dan Philip, longtime civil rights activist and former president of the Black Coalition of Quebec, dies at 87.
Story 3 - Statscan data shows that armoured vehicles and other weapons have been exported to Israel since Oct. 7, contradicting the official government line.
Story 4 - Israel passes a law to outlaw Al Jazeera.
Story 5 - Unthinkable carnage remains at al-Shifa hospital after Israeli troop withdrawal.
Story 6 - UN warns that the DRC is reaching a humanitarian breaking point due to fighting in the Eastern part of the country.Tue, 02 Apr 2024 - 7578 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 29, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 29, 2024.
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Story 1 - Two volunteer firefighters in a small town in Quebec died trying to rescue people in a flood due to a lack of training and poor equipment, finds the the CNESST.
Story 2 - Nursing unions call for an end to the use of agency nurses in Ontario facilities.
Story 3 - Trudeau continues his pre-budget tour and promises $1B for childcare centres in loans to expand. No explanation for why loans and not grants. ($60M will be grants)
Story 4 - Some 1500 people have been killed in Haiti due to increasing violence.
Story 5 - Jacob Zuma cannot run in South Africa's May election, rules the election commission. His party plans to appeal.
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 7577 - Property developers are exacerbating the housing crisis
Years of meticulous investigation by The Real News reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis have shown how the city of Baltimore siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds to corporate developers over a period of decades. With their findings now available in a full documentary, Taya and Stephen's investigative reporting has also spawned calls for an investigation from the State of Maryland, something which major unions in the state have also backed. Building on her previous coverage of the housing crisis engulfing the country, TRNN reporter Mel Buer speaks with Taya and Stephen on the relevance of their findings to understanding the role of property developers and municipal corruption in exacerbating the housing crisis.
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The drumbeat of intervention is rolling once again for Haiti. Since last year, plans have been laid for a US-sponsored intervention in Haiti nominally led by Kenya, ostensibly in the name of fighting "gang violence" in the Caribbean nation. While corporate media has breathlessly pushed the narrative of a lawless Haiti overrun by criminal organizations, such framing deliberately excludes the role of the US and its allies in the so-called Core Group in destabilizing Haiti over the past 20 years in particular—not to mention the past two centuries since Haiti's independence. Quebec-based activist Jafrik Ayiti joins The Real News to help set the record straight on Haiti's history, and how the social disorder splattered across the front pages of Western media outlets has been manufactured by the very governments now calling for intervention.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 28, 2024.
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Story 1 - Office building that was home to Nunatsiaq News has burned to the ground.
Story 2 - Hamilton School Board trustee faces sanctions if she does not delete a tweet where she says she is being investigated for ... other tweets.
Story 3 - The Liberals unveil new protections to help renters like a common lease agreement, a tiny amount of money for legal aid programs across Canada and ... uhh ... for your rent to count towards your credit score.
Story 4 - 116 forest fires are raging across Mexico, 400 already have burned this year and four people have died.
Story 5 - 2 dead and 106 hospitalized in Japan after eating supplements that contain red rice yeast.Thu, 28 Mar 2024 - 7574 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
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Story 1 - Family of four found dead in home in Neudorf SK, very few details released.
Story 2 - Scotlyn Sweetpac Growers is fined $125,000 over the COVID-19 death of Jose Lopez Chaparro, though the judge could have given a fine of up to $1.5M.
Story 3 - Father loses bid to have his daughter's MAID request refused.
Story 4 - Canada's responsible business practices ombudsman lays its first charge, against a Canadian company that hadn't had control over the mine with alleged forced labour in seven years.
Story 5 - Updates related to the Key Bridge collapse.
Story 6 - Julian Assange gets temporary reprieve from deportation.Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 7573 - Under the Shadow, Update 3 | Honduras. Narcodictator. Convicted.
A New York court has found former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of drug trafficking and weapons possession. It’s a huge verdict that will likely see the former president imprisoned for life.
In the last episode of Under The Shadow, host Michael Fox looked deeply at Hernández’s time as president from 2014 to 2022, which many came to call a narco-dictatorship. He won office in a fraudulent election, consolidated unprecedented power, pushed a neoliberal sell-off, and carried out widespread human rights abuses.
In this Update 3, Fox looks at the New York trial that convicted him. What went down, what it meant, and what it means going forward for Honduras. And most important, what was missing — namely the role of the United States and Canada in propping up the Hernández regime.
For this update, we speak with Karen Spring, the co-coordinator of the Honduras Solidarity Network and host of the Honduras Now podcast. She was in the New York courtroom throughout Hernandez’s trial.
Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
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This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
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Story 1 - Three cops charged with the murder of a baby have their charges dropped because there was no way to prove they weren't shooting in self defence.
Story 2 - 1600 teaching assistants at McGill go out on strike. They join the more than 3500 academic workers currently on strike at York.
Story 3 - Workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario? Also on strike.
Story 4 - The UN Security Council passes a motion in favour of a cease-fire. The US finally doesn't veto it.
Story 5 - Instagram "updates" everyone's settings and removes political content from everyone's feed. You have to go and turn it back on if you want to see it.Tue, 26 Mar 2024 - 7571 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 25, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 25, 2024.
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Story 1 - McGill students reach three-week mark in their hunger strike against the university's investment in military firms that have sold weapons to Israel.
Story 2 - More than 100 spots open in Ontario for family doctor residency spots remain unfilled, highlighting one aspect of the crisis in family medicine.
Story 3 - Millions more promised to the RCMP in Saskatchewan beyond what was in last week's budget to help them recruit.
Story 4 - 137 dead in theatre attack in Russia; ISIS-K claims responsibility.
Story 5 - Election day finally came to Sénégal and Bassirou Diomayé Fayé is in the lead.
Story 6 - Former chief of police, former congressman and former auditor general have been charged in the 2018 assassination of socialist Marielle Franco.Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 7570 - Survivors of sexual assault in juvenile detention are speaking out
The prevalence of sexual violence in the US prison system is so widespread and accepted that it's often made the butt of jokes in popular culture. Yet the reality is that countless survivors of the prison system carry the scars and traumas of sexual abuse—and for many, the perpetrators of these crimes were the very prison staff charged with their protection. Juvenile victims of the prison system are no exception. In Maryland, several adult survivors of sexual abuse as juveniles in state custody have filed a class action lawsuit demanding justice. Lawyer and former DC Council Member LaRuby May joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the class action suit, and the systematic nature of sexual violence in prisons as a form of racial oppression.
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Donate to support this podcastMon, 25 Mar 2024 - 7569 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 22, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 22, 2024.
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Story 1 - Alarming spike in death among Edmonton's homeless population. 72 people have died in just 78 days.
Story 2 - Canada to peg temporary resident visas to 5% of the population, effectively dropping the number of temporary residents by 1.5%. Migrant rights groups call for better treatment rather than messing with caps.
Story 3 - Quebec's economy and energy minister says that Montreal "no longer works" and it's because there are too many cars on the road.
Story 4 - Talks continue to secure a cease fire though Israel refuses to agree to permanently stop their war.
Story 5 - Bombing outside of a bank in Kandahar City kills at least 3.Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 7568 - After Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, a Pentagon witch hunt looms
US Airman Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation in protest of the US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza has raised questions from some about the politics of soldiers in the US military. Bushnell's self-avowed anarchist views have become an object of particular scrutiny, raising the possibility of Pentagon surveillance and investigations into left-leaning troops. Ken Klippenstein joins The Real News to discuss the political storm brewing in the wake of Bushnell's act of protest and the ramifications it could have on soldiers and civilians alike.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 21, 2024.
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Story 1 - Protesters block access to Confederation Building postponing the provinces budget to today.
Story 2 - Former NHLer Chris Simon had CTE, his family says.
Story 3 - Supreme Court to hear case today that will determine how much warrantless access police can have to your cell phone.
Story 4 - Humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan is catastrophic, says UN.
Story 5 - Another 87 people have been kidnapped in Nigeria. Nearly 5000 people have been abducted this past year alone.Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 7566 - A new coalition demands healthcare and justice for East Palestine | Working PeopleThis Saturday, March 23, unionists and labor leaders, environmental justice groups, community organizers, community members from other “sacrifice zones,” and supporters from around the country are coming to East Palestine to join residents as part of the newly formed Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers coalition. The coalition has come together in recent months and mobilized around the core objective of pressuring President Biden to invoke the Stafford Act and issue a major disaster declaration for East Palestine. If Biden does this, organizers say, it will immediately unlock a whole suite of federal resources that residents desperately need and have been demanding for a year, and it will also immediately guarantee every resident emergency healthcare. For residents like Chris Albright—a former pipeline worker and LIUNA member who has been disabled by the toxic fallout from the derailment, is now experiencing severe heart failure, can’t work, and has subsequently lost his health benefits—this is a matter of life and death, and we are racing against the clock.
This episode is a compilation of voices from across the growing Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers coalition. Speeches in the first half are from a panel cohosted by Steve Zeltzer and Penny Logsdon and recorded by the Labor Video Project on Feb. 3, 2024, the one-year anniversary of the derailment; speeches in the second half are from another panel cohosted by Steve Zeltzer and Penny Logsdon and recorded by the Labor Video Project on March 9, 2024. Speakers include: Steve Zeltzer (Labortech); Penny Logsdon (Lee County Labor Chapter); Chris Albright (East Palestine resident, LIUNA member); Jami Wallace (East Palestine Unity Council); Steve Mellon (Pittsburgh Union Progress); Jeff Kurtz (Lee County Labor Chapter); Maximillian Alvarez (The Real News Network); Mike Stout (protest musician); Charlie Wishman (Iowa AFL-CIO); John Palmer (Teamsters, San Antonio); Bob Anspach (BLET-IBT 391); Vina Colley (Portsmouth Pikeston Residents for Environmental Justice).
From the Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers organizing committee: "We will be hosting a National Conference for the people of East Palestine along with supporters in Ohio and throughout the country to build this campaign for healthcare on Saturday, March 23, 2024, where we will bring community members, labor, environmentalist and allies together in our urgent campaign. This Conference will be held from 12-5pm ET at the East Palestine Country Club. To contact the Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers organizing committee, reach out to Steve Zeltzer: labormedia[at]gmail[dot]com or Penny Logsdon: onecent7921[at]gmail[dot]com. In solidarity."
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Help us continue producing...Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 7565 - The racist history of the Kansas City 'Chiefs'
The history of white supremacy in US sports culture is as old as the games, and the nation, themselves. Recent years have seen a push to change the names of the most egregious offenders, most notably the former name of the Washington Commanders. Yet some teams' problematic names and histories have comparatively flown under the radar. Such is the case with the Kansas City football team. Radio Host Rhonda Levaldo, a co-founder of the organization Not In Our Honor, joins Edge of Sports for a frank discussion on the racist history of the Kansas City football team, and why its name should be changed.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 20, 2024.
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Story 1 - Ottawa police violently arrest man who they "mistook" for someone else. Both are Black .
Story 2 - Hoopla over the Hoopla as parents target the teacher's union over provincial basketball tourney cancellation. Meanwhile, Cockrill says that binding arbitration is like bargaining with a gun to his head -- which is absolutely is not.
Story 3 - Marc Miller will allow more Gazans to come to Canada except Canada never cleared the program with Israel or Egypt and people are not able to leave Gaza unless they pay.
Story 4 - Lawsuit brought to an Amserdam judge against Vale over Mariana dam collapse that triggered massive and deadly landslide in Brazil.
Story 5 - Javier Milei's plan to ignore congress is not accepted by the senate. Mass protests continue to challenge the fascist leader.Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 7563 - The long roots of Pakistan's political crisis
Since 2022, the politics of Pakistan have been rocked by a struggle for power centered around former prime minister Imran Khan. Khan, who was ousted from office by a parliamentary no-confidence motion in April 2022, has alleged that his removal from office was orchestrated at the behest of the US government. This January, Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking government documents as part of his effort to prove US involvement in his ouster. Khan's saga has ignited mass protests across Pakistan over the past two years. Despite being imprisoned during national elections this February, Khan's political party, PTI, won more parliamentary seats than any other political party. Journalist and policy analyst Raza Rumi joins The Marc Steiner Show for an in-depth look at Pakistan's political crisis in the context of its long and turbulent struggle for democracy.
Raza Ahmad Rumi is a Pakistani writer and a public policy specialist. He is the director of the Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College, and founder of the digital media platform NayaDaur Media in collaboration with Pakistani diaspora in the United States.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
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Story 1 - Cabin Radio getting another chance at winning radio license from the CRTC.
Story 2 - Airbus workers in Quebec, members of IAMAW, a heading towards a strike.
Story 3 - Parliament passes NDP motion to call for a Palestinian State, with the point about Palestinian State removed.
Story 4 - WHO plan for future pandemics is in jeopardy.
Story 5 - No evidence that the so-called Havanna Syndrome caused physical harms.Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 7561 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 18, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 18, 2024.
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Story 1 - High school equivalency program is cancelled in Ontario by the private company that ran it and there is no plan to replace it.
Story 2 - Migrant Spring protests call for justice for migrant workers.
Story 3 - EU and Egypt work to form controversial migrant deal to stop people from coming from Europe.
Story 4 - Niger's military leadership is kicking out the United States military.
Story 5 - DR Congo lifts the moratorium on the death penalty.Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 7560 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 15, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 15, 2024.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 14, 2024.
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Story 1 - Edmonton city workers are set to go on strike today.
Story 2 - Members of committee for police reform in Nova Scotia have been named, 3 of 16 who are police officers.
Story 3 - Loblaws has installed receipt scanners in 4 stores as a pilot to see how customers react to needing to scan their receipts to leave the store.
Story 4 - Two Auditor General employees fired after it was found out they were also working as government consultants.
Story 5 - The UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is now going to come with a £3000 payout.Thu, 14 Mar 2024 - 7558 - ‘I fight so that my son is remembered’: Brett Cross on life in Uvalde before and after the shooting | Working People
Brett Cross is a small-town kid who grew up in Western Texas, among the oil fields, near Odessa. He worked in the oil fields, worked his way up to doing pipeline work, eventually moving to green energy work. He even became a foreman, working hard to provide for his family. And Brett was at work when he got the call from his wife Nikki that changed their lives forever. It was May 24, 2022, Nikki was at their sons’ school, Robb Elementary, in Uvalde, Texas. “This is not a fucking joke,” she said, “there’s a shooter at the boys’ school.” We talk to Brett about his life before, about living in a small town, working and making your own fun, we talk about some of the family memories he cherishes most. We remember Brett and Nikki’s son Uziyah “Uzi” Garcia, we talk about the day Uzi was taken from them, along with 18 of his classmates and two of his teachers, and we talk about the unimaginable fight for justice and real change that Brett and Nikki have been fighting ever since.
Brett’s Twitter/X pageSneha Dey, Erin Douglas, Andrew Zhang, Brooke Park, & Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune / ProPublica, “21 Lives Lost: Uvalde Victims Were a Cross-Section of a Small, Mostly Latino Town in South Texas“Edgar Sandoval, The New York Times, “A Year After the Uvalde Massacre: Did Anything Change?“Gus Bova, Texas Observer, “The Uvalde Parents Won’t Back Down“Elissa Jorgensen, American Statesman, “‘There Are no Good Days’: Uziyah’s Family Won’t Stop Fighting Until Gun Laws Change“Danielle Campoamor, Today, “A Father’s Fury: Uvalde Dad Brett Cross Is Mad as Hell and Wants You to Know It“Kayla Padilla, Texas Public Radio, “Arrested Uvalde Father Says Police More Upset With Him Using Expletive Than Children Dying“Yvette Benavides, David Martin Davies, & Julián Aguilar, Texas Public Radio, “‘We Did It!’ — Uvalde’s Entire School Police Department Suspended Following Activism from Families“Lomi Kriel, Alejandro Serrano, & Lexi Churchill, The Texas Tribune / ProPublica, “‘Cascading Failures’: Justice Department Blasts Law Enforcement’s Botched Response to Uvalde School Shooting“John Woodrow Cox, Steven Rich, Linda Chong, Lucas Trevor, John Muyskens, & Monica Ulmanu, The Washington Post, “More Than 360,000...
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 13, 2024.
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Story 1 - Inside recording from the real estate event in Montreal selling land in the West Bank.
Story 2 - 10 Pakistani flight attendants who work for PIA have gone missing in the past few months in Toronto after their flights landed.
Story 3 - The monument to the 14th Division of the SS in Oakville isn't down forever, it's just in the monument shop for ... repairs.
Story 4 - Haitians in Canada call for Haitians to be involved in stabilization plans for that country.
Story 5 - Canada opposes new Produced in USA labels on meat, poultry and eggs and argues that Canadian products should be exempt, and also declared Produced in USA.
Story 6 - With just weeks to go before possible re-election, Modi says he will implement 2019 law that many called anti-Muslim because it excludes Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 7556 - Honduras, 2009. Legacy of a Coup | Under the Shadow, Ep. 7, Pt. 2
In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country’s fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long narco-dictatorship.
But the people fought back.
In this continuation of Episode 7, host Michael Fox looks at the fallout of the 2009 coup in Honduras, walking from 2009 into the present. He takes us to Tegucigalpa to dive into the fraudulent U.S.-backed elections that ushered in a narco-dictatorship, and also the resistance movement that, after years of struggle, ultimately did what it set out to do: remove the dictatorship and return democracy to Honduras.
This is Part 2 of a two-part episode looking at the 2009 coup in Honduras and the aftermath.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
Guests:
Bertha Oliva, COFADEH
Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Adrienne Pine
Felix Molina
Jesse Freeston
Karen Spring
Alex Main, CEPR
Edited by Heather Gies.
Sound design by Gustavo Türck.
Voice Actors: Andalusia K. Soloff
Theme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Follow and support journalist Michael Fox or Under the Shadow at https://www.patreon.com/mfox
Click here, to watch Jesse Freeston’s documentary, ResistenciaResistance, about the campesino struggle in the Aguan Valley.
Karen Spring is has been covering the New York trial of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernáandez. Visit Honduras Now for updates, or follow @springkj and @HondurasNow on Twitter.
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From Assata Shakur to Leonard Peltier, social movements have lifted up political prisoners as revolutionary examples and fought protracted, often decades-long campaigns to secure their release. Now, a new collection from AK Press, Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, gathers the experience and wisdom of some 30 political prisoners in one place for the first time. Eric King and Josh Davidson, the editors of the project, join Rattling the Bars to discuss their new book and the urgency of the fight to free political prisoners.
Josh Davidson is an abolitionist who is involved in numerous projects, including the Certain Days Collective, which publishes the annual Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar, and the Children’s Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.
Eric King is a father, poet, author, and activist. He is a political prisoner serving a 10-year federal sentence for an act of protest over the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. He is scheduled to be released in 2024. He has been held in solitary confinement for years on end and has been assaulted by both guards and white supremacists. King has published three zines: Battle Tested, Antifa in Prison, and Pacing in My Cell.
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Donate to support this podcastTue, 12 Mar 2024 - 7554 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
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Story 1 - Big investigation into fire safety lapses in properties owned by Paul Dediala, after one of his properties burns, killing two occupants.
Story 2 - Naheed Nenshi throws hat into the race to become leader of the Alberta NDP.
Story 3 - Saltwire is on the ropes as it files for creditor protection. But COO promises that this will make the company stronger and more dynamic!
Story 4 - Boeing whistleblower found dead in hotel garage during week where he was testifying against Boeing for safety lapses.
Story 5 - Pope calls for peace negotiations to bring an end to Russia's aggression, NATO says sure, they will negotiate peace through cheering on more war.Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 7553 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, March 11, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 11, 2024.
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Story 1 - Chief of the Nishawbe Aski Police Service has been suspended but there are few details.
Story 2 - Canada restores UNRWA funding, just in time for Ramadan.
Story 3 - The Sudanese military calls for RSF to leave civilian site as a Ramadan truce seems unlikely.
Story 4 - The right wins big in Portugal with exit polls showing that the centre-right party has won the most support while the far-right party has tripled its support over 2022.
Story 5 - 9 dead and 78 hospitalized after a rare form of food poisioning is caught from turtle meat in Zanzibar.Mon, 11 Mar 2024 - 7552 - Demystifying Iran and the Resistance Axis w/Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has unleashed a low-grade regional war that is gradually escalating towards what could become an all-out conflict. The central players in this simmering showdown are the members of the informal Resistance Axis, which include Hezbollah in Lebanon, a number of armed Palestinian groups including Hamas, the Syrian and Iranian governments, the Houthis or Ansarallah in Yemen, and Iraq’s armed Popular Mobilization Forces. Numerous strikes against Israeli and US military and commercial targets across the region have already been carried out by these groups since last October, from US military bases in Iraq to Israel-linked commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
Patreon page for Breakthrough NewsListen to the Citations Needed podcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson“Between the Hammer and the Anvil”: The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé,The InterceptHamas, Hezbollah and Houthis: Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance,’ Explained | WSJ
As the possibility of a regional conflagration looms, corporate media outlets are turning their attention to the Resistance Axis—and often regurgitating stale, Orientalist narratives that have been deployed for decades to justify US and Israeli aggression in the region. Central to this media narrative is the presentation of Iran as a kind of puppet master overseeing and coordinating the activities of the Resistance Axis. What this narrative fails to take into account is that it is not Iran that has the Resistance Axis, but decades of US and Israeli aggression. Journalists Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi join The Real News for a conversation on the media narratives spun around the Resistance Axis and Iran, and how decades of such portrayals have primed the US public to support forever wars in West Asia.
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News where she hosts the show Dispatches. Her work has also appeared at The Intercept, Truthout, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Salon, AlterNet, Vice, and more.
Nima Shirazi is the cohost of Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, and politics.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 8, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastFri, 08 Mar 2024 - 7550 - Companies steal from freelancers—but new laws could improve things
For millions of freelance workers in the gig economy, delayed and even stolen wages are a routine hardship that leave many scrambling to make ends meet. More than half of all freelance workers have experienced wage theft at least once in their careers, and the majority find little protection or means of recompense from the government. That's where new "Freelance Isn't Free" laws come in to protect freelance workers from nonpayment. First passed in New York City in 2017, Freelance Isn’t Free legislation has helped freelancers recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid invoices over the last 7 years. Now, backed by organizers at the National Writers’ Union and the Freelance Solidarity Project, local and state governments are looking to enact their own Freelance Isn’t Free laws. The Real News speaks with Eric Thurm of the National Writers Union and the Freelance Solidarity Project, along with Keisha "TK" Dutes of the Association of Independents in Radio.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 7, 2024.
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Donate to support this podcastThu, 07 Mar 2024 - 7548 - Why do railroad workers keep dying on the job? | Working People
“Last Wednesday, a fellow rail worker was gravely injured on the job and lost his life,” a Feb. 6 email from Railroad Workers United reads. “Our brother Chris Wilson, who worked for Norfolk Southern, was critically injured in its Decatur rail yard Wednesday and died Thursday at Huntsville Hospital.” Another email from Feb. 9 reads, “On January 15th, a fellow rail worker was killed on the job in Ohio.” Then, on Feb. 17, another email: “On February 13th, a fellow rail worker was killed on the job in North Carolina. Brother Randall M. Howell, 41, of Allied Federation Lodge 563, died following a road crossing incident in Roanoke Rapids, N.C.” Why are railroad workers all over the country dying on the job? And what can be done to stop these needless deaths? We talk with four railroad workers and members of Railroad Workers United (RWU). Panelists include; Nick Wurst, a freight conductor in Massachusetts, legislative rep for his union local, and currently serving on the RWU international steering committee; Matt Weaver, a member of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED-IBT) for nearly 30 years, legislative director for his union in Ohio, and a founding member of RWU; Mark Burrows, a retired locomotive engineer with 37 years in the industry, and the editor of “The Highball,” RWU’s quarterly newsletter: and Ross Grooters, RWU co-chair, member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, also serving on the BLET-IBT Iowa state legislative board, with over 20 years in the industry.Additional links/info below…
Railroad Workers United website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageRoss’s Twitter pageMaximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “They Were Just Another East Palestine Family—Until Norfolk Southern Set Off a Bomb in Their Lives“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “East Palestine Residents Still Need Help—the Labor Movement Should Be an Ally“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “He Tried to Raise the Alarm about Railroad Safety. Then He Got Fired“Mike L, The Real News Network, “A Carman’s Perspective on the East Palestine Derailment and the Railroad Industry as a Whole“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “US Freight Workers Say It’s Time to Nationalize the Railroads“Maximillian Alvarez, Breaking Points, “Rail Worker EXPOSES Ohio Disaster COVERUP“Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, ““This Was Preventable”: Railroad Workers Explain How...Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 7547 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
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Story 1 - Massive investigation by Global News shows Residential school-like conditions that Indigenous youth are subjected to in private, for-profit youth homes.
Story 2 - Mohawks of Kahawake have spent $100,000 trying to clean up a diesel spill coming from Châteauguay.
Story 3 - Five dead after plane crashes in Nashville, all on board were Canadian.
Story 4 - CBC's Catharine Cullen reports that the government will reverse its decision on UNRWA because it's seen an interim UN report, makes no mention of the social pressure to do this ... and the press conference was just cancelled.
Story 5 - Underwater cables in the Red Sea have been severed, impacting 26% of all east-west communications. No word yet on whether it was sabotage or an accident.
Story 6 - Yahya Dillo, the head of the Parti Socialiste sans frontières in Chad was killed as Chadian forces stormed their headquarters.Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 7546 - Michigan's warning to Democrats: Biden's continued support of genocide in Gaza could cost him the election
With each day that passes without a ceasefire in Gaza or a cessation of US aid to Israel, dissent within the Democratic party grows. In Michigan, more than 13% of Democrats voted uncommitted in the recent primary as a protest vote against Biden's stance on Gaza—and this is just the beginning. Calls have been put forward to organize other uncommitted votes in primaries around the country. While these protest votes are unlikely to dislodge Biden from securing the nomination, it's the underlying discontent with the Biden administration, shared by millions of Americans, that poses the real threat to his reelection. John Nichols of The Nation joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the infighting within the Democratic Party and the prospects of Biden's reelection this year.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
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The system of mass incarceration in the US offers few second chances to prisoners, and Maryland is no exception. As The Real News has previously reported, the state's parole system puts incarcerated people at the mercy of an inefficient, capricious process that is unlikely to deliver a speedy release for many. Now, a new bill in the Maryland legislature could create new pathways to freedom for prisoners who've served 20 years or more behind bars. Alonzo Turner Bey and Desmond Haneef Perry of the MD Second Look Coalition join Rattling the Bars to discuss the Second Look Act (SB123).
MD Second Look Coalition FacebookContact Maryland state legislators to support the Second Look Act
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 4, 2024.
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Story 1 - Landlords are getting around rental increase laws through fixed-term leases.
Story 2 - More than 100 weapons seized from a residence in Gatineau, man in his 60s is not yet arrested.
Story 3 - Protests shut down dinner with a fascist at the AGO.
Story 4 - Shervin Hajipour is condemned to three years in prison for having penned a protest song.
Story 5 - Nearly 170 people have been killed by violence in Burkina Faso amid state security forces conducting air raids on rebel groups.Mon, 04 Mar 2024 - 7542 - Irish athlete activist on organizing a sports boycott of Israel
Rebecca O'Keeffe helped spark an international firestorm within the world of sports when she called on the Irish women’s basketball team to boycott its Feb. 8 match against Israel. While O'Keeffe's calls for a boycott ultimately went unheeded, her actions have provoked serious debate within Ireland and internationally on the responsibility of athletes to stand up against genocide. O'Keeffe joins Edge of Sportshost Dave Zirin for an exclusive interview on why she took a stand, how the sports world responded, and why she refuses to back down.
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Donate to support this podcastSat, 02 Mar 2024 - 7541 - Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, March 1, 2024
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 1, 2024.
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Story 1 - The man driving a stolen U-Haul truck is chxaarged in the death of a woman he hit; she was only out of her car though because of a police-thrown spike belt that she ran over.
Story 2 - York University says that it never invited nor did it know that Toronto Police would crash a lecture on Palestine.
Story 3 - Arms manufacturers were blockaded all over Canada this past week.
Story 4 - Global News investigation finds that Canada paid higher prices for foreign-made COVID tests than Canadian-made tests.
Story 5 - Bill 21 found to be constitutional, except not the part that banned the niqab in the National Assembly -- that is unconstitutional.
Story 6 - National emergency declared in Zambia due to drought.
Story 7 - The far right is the big winner of this week's municipal elections in Israel.Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 7540 - Inside the historic student protests for Palestine at UC Davis and Stanford
Colleges and universities across the US have turned into battlegrounds for the Palestinian solidarity movement, as students mobilize against their schools' financial entanglements with the Israeli occupation. At UC Davis and Stanford, student-led struggles have made historic achievements. UC Davis activists recently passed a bill in student government to boycott and divest from all “corporations complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians." At Stanford, students protesting their university's complicity in the genocide in Gaza just ended the longest sit-in in the school's history, camping out for over 120 days. The Real News speaks with student organizers on their recent achievements on their respective campuses, and how to keep the student movement in solidarity with Palestine going.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 29, 2024.
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Story 1 - Alavida Lifestyles is jacking up rents but hundreds and thousands of dollars, pushing people to find a new place to live.
Story 2 - Former PPC party guy who ran on an anti-vax platform, and who works for DND, was paid millions to work on the ArriveCAN app (and hundreds of millions for other contracts!)
Story 3 - Visas are back for Mexicans who visit Canada.
Story 4 - On the eve of the Flour Massacre, Canada said that it wants to drop aid on Gaza from the sky.
Story 5 - Violence in Chad as the government announces a date for the next election that is supposed to restore civilian, democratic rule.Thu, 29 Feb 2024 - 7538 - Johns Hopkins grad student-workers picket as contract negotiations stall
One year ago, graduate student-workers at Johns Hopkins University overwhelmingly voted to unionize under the banner of Teachers and Researchers United (TRU-UE), which is affiliated with United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers. While workers had much to celebrate with their historic union election victory, bargaining a first contract with the university administration has been another story. On February 20, fed up with what workers say have been disrespectful and insufficient offers from the university administration, TRU-UE members held practice pickets on campus to show the administration what's in store if more progress is not made at the bargaining table soon. In this on-the-ground episode, we take you straight to the picket line to hear from worker-organizers about what they're fighting for and what they're asking supporters to do to help.
Teachers and Researchers United (TRU-UE) website, Facebook page, Twitter/Xpage, and InstagramMaximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "Now or never: Grad Student-Workers at Johns Hopkins Mobilize Ahead of Union Election"Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "These Workers Are Making Baltimore a Union Town Again"Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "Johns Hopkins University Graduate Students Are Organizing for a Living Wage"Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed, "Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize"Permanent links below...
Speakers include: Janvi Madhani, TRU Bargaining Committee member pursuing a PhD in Physics and Astronomy; Lyla Atta, TRU organizer and MD-PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering; Jeffrey Davis, Bargaining Committee member and grad worker studying Physics and Astronomy; Emily Hoppe, Contract Action Team Organizer, School of Nursing; and Zeke Cohen, Johns Hopkins alumnus and City Councilman for Baltimore City's First District.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, February 28, 2024.
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Story 1 - Man who was charged in connection with stealing a U-Haul and who was forced into incarceration while waiting trial, dies in a London prison.
Story 2 - Students force the University of Waterloo to ditch new vending machines that use facial recognition software for some reason.
Story 3 - Conestoga College offered a stunning 30,000 international student permits in 2023 alone; information coming from new CBC investigation about which institutions are driving international student enrolment.
Story 4 - It's the eighth anniersary of the Phoenix payroll system and there are more problems then ever! Currently, there are 444,000 outstanding payroll issues.
Story 5 - Chinese migrants are increasingly moving through south to north American routes to migrate to the US.
Story 6 - The same day an attack on a Catholic church in Burkina Faso's north killed 15 people, dozens were killed in the country's east when a mosque was attacked.
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In June 2009, Honduras faced a devastating coup that shattered the country’s fragile democracy and sunk the country into violence, repression, and a decade-long narco-dictatorship. But the people fought back.
In this episode, host Michael Fox dives into the tremendous resistance to the 2009 coup. He also looks at the government of Manuel Zelaya, the Latin America Pink Tide movement of the 2000s, and the push back from Honduran elites and the United States. This is Part 1 of a two-part episode looking at the 2009 coup in Honduras and the aftermath.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
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Felix Molina
Jesse Freeston
Karen Spring
Alex Main, CEPR
Edited by Heather Gies.
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Theme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.
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The death toll in Gaza is now inching closer and closer to 30,000, with no end in sight to Israel's bombing or US political, military, and financial support for the genocide unfolding. Amid the carnage and horror of the past 144 days, Gaza's medical workers have worked around the clock under unimaginable conditions to save as many lives as possible. Israel has answered their bravery with brute savagery, laying waste to every single one of Gaza's hospitals, routinely targeting emergency medical vehicles, and killing at least 627 healthcare workers. Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian American ER physician, speaks with The Real News on what he witnessed at Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis during his recent medical mission to the Gaza Strip.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 27, 2024.
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Story 1 - Woman hits police-thrown spike belt, gets out of her car to inspect and then is killed by the person that the police are recklessly chasing.
Story 2 - Some 3000 contract workers and TAs are on strike at York University.
Story 3 - New regulatory bodies, fines and complaints mechanisms promised in Online Harms Act.Story 4 - Government criticized over its Sudanese sponsorship program as being insufficient.
Story 5 - Active member of the US airforce sets himself on fire outside of Israeli consulate; last words are Free Palestine.
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A group of current and former prisoners have sued the state of Alabama with the support of two unions who have signed on as co-plaintiffs, the Union of Southern Service Workers, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The lawsuit claims that Alabama's system of prison labor amounts to a "modern-day form of slavery" that generates massive profits for private businesses and revenues for the state by forcing incarcerated people to work for little or no pay. Jacob Morrison and Adam Keller join Rattling the Bars to discuss the lawsuit and the importance of the fight for prisoners' rights to the overall labor movement.
Jacob Morrison is a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, and the president of the North Alabama Labor Council. Adam Keller is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 900. Together, they host The Valley Labor Report, Alabama’s only union radio talk show.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, February 26, 2024.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, February 23, 2024.
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Story 1 - Woman is the victim of a crane accident in Vancouver, IUOE Local 115 decries the state of crane operation safety in BC.
Story 2 - Cop (who was on sick leave) gets into a brawl with local teens; rallies his friends to convince a hearing that he's actually a good guy.
Story 3 - Gatineau's first woman mayor resigns over how horrible it is to be a woman and elected these days.
Story 4 - 7600% spike in pediatric flu hospitalizations between 2021-22 and 2022-23.
Story 5 - Ukraine blames the United States on their inability to resist Russia, warns Munich conference that every town in Europe is next on Russia's list of invasions.
Story 6 - A US private company has landed a spacecraft on the moon; first time in more than 50 years that Americans have done this.
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Some 34% of available housing stock in the US is rented by tenants, who number over 114 million people. Among tenants, more than 40% pay over 35% of their monthly income towards rent alone. As wages stagnate and rents rise, the fight against landlords, evictions, and developers becomes more urgent to the class struggle day by day. The Real News speaks with Esteban Girón from the Crown Heights Tenants Union on the housing crisis roiling America and how tenants can fight back.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 22, 2024.
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Baltimore has become what many consider to be ground zero in the emerging “solidarity economy” and the formation of worker-owned, cooperatively run businesses. There’s something important going on here, and there’s a lot that we can all learn from our fellow workers who are in the cooperative space—people who are living, breathing proof that there’s another way to run a business, that there's another way to run our economy, and that there are other ways we can treat work and workers. At a recent event hosted by the Baltimore Museum of Industry titled "Work Matters: Building a Worker-Owned Co-op," Max moderated a panel including workers and representatives from Common Ground Bakery Café, Taharka Bros Ice Cream, A Few Cool Hardware Stores, and the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy (BRED). He talked to them about how they came to work at these different co-ops, how their businesses transitioned to more cooperative models, and they dig into the nitty gritty of what working at a co-op looks like, what it takes for workers to democratically run a business, and the real challenges, limitations, and rewards that come with this kind of work. Panelists include: Vince Green (Taharka Bros Ice Cream); David Evans (A Few Cool Hardware Stores); Craig Smith (A Few Cool Hardware Stores); Sierra Allen (Common Ground Bakery Café); Christa Daring (BRED).
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, February 21, 2024.
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Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has spearheaded a manufactured political crisis over the state of the US-Mexico border for years. Not content to send hundreds of non-consenting migrants to Democrat-run cities by the busload, Abbott's latest stunts have now brought him into confrontation with the federal government over the border. Jim Hightower and David Griscom return to The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the impact of Abbott's standoff on border communities and migrants.
Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow". He publishes the monthly "Hightower Lowdown." David Griscom is a writer and Texan based in Austin and the cohost of the podcast Left Reckoning.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
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Story 1 - Renters in Canada are more likely to experience loneliness and financial difficulties. Related: up to 30% of Canada's rental stock is owned by investment firms.
Story 2 - Profiteering by shrinking packaging but charging the same (or more!) abounds. Here's what other countries are doing to signal to their population that it's happening (Canada has promised to pay for research into shrinkflation)
Story 3 - The US may move a motion at the UN Security Council that calls for a cease fire -- the first time that they have used those words.
Story 4 - Julian Assange might be out of legal options before being forcibly transfered to the US to face up to 175 years in prison.
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The US has one of the highest prisoner recidivism rates in the world: over 70% of incarcerated people who are released from prison in the US will be rearrested within five years of their release date. That is not an accident. Our system of mass incarceration sets people up to fail as they leave the prison system and try to reintegrate into society. That is why organizations like Hope for Prisoners in Nevada are working to provide returning citizens with the resources and support they need to rebuild their lives and maintain their freedom. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Jon Ponder, founder and CEO of Hope for Prisoners, about why returning from prison is so difficult for so many, and what it takes to “empower the formerly incarcerated and their families to create a successful future.”
Studio / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
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Most ultimate frisbee players don’t have to consider how an Israeli checkpoint might disrupt their plans for a game—but this is the reality of life in Palestine. The story of the small but vibrant subculture of Palestinian ultimate frisbee enthusiasts offers a glimpse into life under Israeli occupation that is too often unseen by the outside world. Edge of Sportshost Dave Zirin speaks with Daniel Bannoura, founder of Ultimate Palestine.
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The crisis of mass incarceration is about more than the conduct of police officers—it's a question of public expenditures, and how pouring taxpayer money into incarceration at the expense of other, more humanizing ventures takes a toll on society at large. As public schools and public health programs across the nation grapple with a host of preventable problems arising from underinvestment, state and local governments across the nation spend over $200 billion each year on prisons, jails, and police. Now, a new report from the Justice Policy Institute, "The Right Investment 2.0", takes a detailed look at the "downward spiral" low-income, predominately Black and Brown communities across Maryland are forced into by this imbalance in public expenditures. T. Shekhinah Braveheart and Ryan King of the Justice Policy Institute join Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the report's findings in Baltimore, and how an alternative model of community investment could combat poverty and crime without resorting to further policing.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, February 16, 2024.
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Story 1 - Two teens intentionally run down by man in Abbotsford.
Story 2 - TSB recommends that regulations mandate that helicopters have technology to help guide pilots in zero visibility, after inquest into crash that killed three people.
Story 3 - Parliamentarians are increasingly relying on RCMP security details.
Story 4 - Canada working on raising defense spending to get it closer to NATO's required 2% of GDP.
Story 5 - 72 of 99 journalists killed last year around the world were Palestinian.
Story 6 - Kenya moves 21 black rhinos to a vast preserve in the hopes of growing their population.
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As a community college professor, Josh Fernandez started an anti-fascist club to organize alongside his students. The school administration responded by investigating him for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities.” Fernandez’s autobiography, The Hands That Crafted the Bomb, follows him through a year spent defending his job and reflecting on his political development from an angry young man in Davis, California, to a seasoned anti-fascist and writing professor. Fernandez speaks with The Real News about his life and recent book.
Post-Production: David Hebden
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 15, 2024.
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Story 1 - Cop hockey coach charged with assaulting and threatning a 12-year old on opposing team.
Story 2 - January was a month of record average rents across Canada. Highest percentage increase was in Edmonton.
Story 3 - The company behind the ArriveCAN app scandal was given more than $200M in contracts since 2015.
Story 4 - Canada, alongside New Zealand and Australia is calling on Israel to stop its plans to invade Rafah. No news on whether or not Canada will stop selling arms to Israel.
Story 5 - Leaders in Tobago call for the owner of a barge that spilled oil in their waters to identify themselves so they can clean it up.
Story 6 - Prabowo looks to have won the election in Indonesia, alongside the son of Jokowi.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, February 14, 2024.
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Story 1 -Rogers Sugar strike is over and The Tyee introduces us to the Dude of Dudes, a Canada goose.
Story 2 - Quebec fast-tracks training for new home-based personal service workers, will pay students $12,000 to attend.
Story 3 - The feds flow $176M to small municipalities to build housing in exchange for bylaw and regulation changes that will make it easier to build housing.
Story 4 - Hospital targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza.
Story 5 - At least 45 people were killed by Ethiopian forces in Amhara region, finds Ethopian Human Rights Commission.
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In the 1980s, Honduras was ground zero for US operations in Central America—it was the primary point from which the US would wage its proxy wars and launch its interventionist operations across the region in the name of “fighting communism.” The 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala, which we explored in Episode 2 of Under the Shadow, was staged from Honduras. It was the main base of operations where US forces trained, funded, and backed Contras in their war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. And today, Honduras is home to the Soto Cano Air Base, previously known as Palmerola, the largest US military base in Central America. One of the largest in Latin America.
Within Honduran society itself, that meant squashing any revolutionary activity that could destabilize this key US ally and its strategic importance for US imperial operations. The impact on the country was tremendous: massacres, disappearances, many at the hands of an elite US-trained death squad known as Battalion 316. “There was a lot of repression. A huge military presence,” says Karla Lara, a Honduran journalist and well-known singer.
In this episode, host Michael Fox takes us to present-day Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, then we descend back in time to one of darkest periods in Honduran history. Fox visits Honduran family members of the disappeared and walks right up to the walls of the Soto Cano Air Base.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened—a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
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Grahame Russell, Rights Action
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 13, 2024.
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For months, analysts have warned of the possibility of Israel's genocide in Gaza sparking a regional war. In Yemen, that war is already here. Beginning on Jan. 12, the US and UK have conducted a series of air strikes in Yemen in retaliation for its efforts to block Israeli shipping in the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandab Strait. Just days later, the Biden administration declared Ansarallah, better known in the West as the Houthis, a terrorist organization.
Use this toolkit to join the Yemeni Alliance Committee's campaign to end US involvement in the war on Yemen
The Pentagon has attempted to frame its latest war on Yemen as an act of self-defense to protect freedom of trade and navigation from "terrorism". Yet Ansarallah has definite political motivations for its actions—stopping Israel's genocide by applying pressure to end the siege of Gaza. As Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree made clear in a statement, "ships bound for the Zionist entity will not pass through if food and medicine do not enter the Gaza Strip."
Thus far, there are few indications that Ansarallah will prematurely end its blockade, or that the US will cease conducting air strikes against Yemen. Jehan Hakim of the Yemeni Alliance Committee joins The Real News for a conversation on Yemen's recent history and the deep solidarity of its people with Palestine.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, February 12, 2024.
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Story 1 - Southern Manitoba man in custody after three children, two women at three different sites are all found dead.
Story 2 - Extremely powerful opioid has turned up in the Quebec City region and public health is warning to watch out for little green tablets. They evade fentenyl testing. Carry naloxone.
Story 3 - Exports to Israel from Canada since Oct. 7 are higher than ever reported before.
Story 4 - Cousins are going extinct in CanadaStory 5 - Israel bombs Rafah by air and by sea, killing between 50 and 100+ people.
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Super Bowl LVII in 2023 was the most-watched US telecast in history, and with well over 100 million people expected to tune in on Feb. 11, Super Bowl Sunday will provide one of the biggest platforms on Earth for pro-Israel groups to attempt to justify Israel's ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. The Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism, which is owned by Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the NFL's New England Patriots, has purchased a $7 million TV ad spot on Super Bowl Sunday to "Stop Jewish Hate." Kraft’s ties to Israel run deep, from hefty donations to AIPAC to a long history of business deals in the country. Edge of Sports host Dave Zirin takes aim at the influence of Zionism in professional sports in this special edition of “Choice Words.”
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The sports world has largely been silent in the face of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet former NBA player Tariq Abdul-Wahad is standing up and speaking out in support of a ceasefire and the rights of Palestinian people. Tariq Abdul-Wahad joins Dave Zirin to discuss his support for Palestine and the responsibilities of his fellow athletes in this moment.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, February 9, 2024.
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Story 1 - Widow of Amazon worker who died after a fire alarm is moved to a 1-bdroom apartment to be able to avoid a massive rent increase in her 2-bdroom apartment.
Story 2 - Montreal couple had to pay $200 to get access to the Minister of Transportation to talk about reducing drunk driving.
Story 3 - Three delegates uninvited from a meeting with clerks of the SCC over posts in support of Gaza.
Story 4 - 4800 jobs cut at Bell, including brutal cuts to Bell Media; company made more than $2B in profits last year
.Story 5 - Thousand flee from villages around Goma in DRC as M23 fighters arrive.
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On Feb. 7, 1894, the Western Federation of Miners declared a strike in the boomtown of Cripple Creek, CO, in protest of increased working hours. For the next five months, thousands of miners upheld the strike while fending off violent attacks from mercenaries hired by their bosses. The resulting victory became the first in a long chain of contentious and often violent labor struggles known as the Colorado Labor Wars. Independent historian Kyle Steven Kern joins The Real News for an overview on the Battle of Cripple Creek and its significance to US labor history.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, February 8, 2024.
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Story 1 - 14 ODs in a matter of hours in downtown Belleville, CBC only talks to cops about it
Story 2 - CTV Calgary ran a poll from a far-right group about abortion and parental involvement and then had to overhaul their story to make it about the group that ran the poll.
Story 3 - Big investigation into why 34 trucks have hit overpasses on BC roads since 2021 by the Vancouver Sun finds that a wide range of cost-cutting measures are to blame.
Story 4 - Amid a total cellphone service blackout, Pakistan heads to the polls today.
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Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches, a Seattle-based chain, was founded with the mission of creating a more sustainable food system; however, as one former employee tells TRNN, Homegrown’s business model is “not actually sustainable for their workers.” Workers at Homegrown voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UNITE HERE LOCAL 8 in late 2022, and they have been fighting for a first contract ever since. In fact, workers from two Homegrown stores have been on strike since late last fall in protest of the unfair termination of union leader Sydney Lankford, who was fired after speaking up at a union delegation. As of this week, workers at the Redmond Homegrown location have been on strike for over 100 days. We talk with Sydney Lankford and Perry, two members of the Homegrown workers union who are currently on strike.
Homegrown workers union Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter/X pageHomegrown Sustainable Sandwiches Contact Us pagePETITION: Tell Homegrown to #Bring Syd Back!STRIKE FUND: Support Striking Homegrown Workers! #BringSydBackFreedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) websiteRenata Geraldo, Seattle Times, "Seattle’s Homegrown Cafe Workers Vote to Unionize"KIRO 7, "Workers at Redmond’s Homegrown Sandwich Shop Strike Over ‘Unfair’ Firing of Union Leader"Permanent links below...Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIn These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageThe Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebookpage, and
EDITOR'S NOTE: The heat pay contract provision referenced in this conversation would guarantee time-and-a-half pay for workers if and when the in-store temperature reaches 82 degrees Fahrenheit, not 84.
Additional links/info below…Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 7507 - El Salvador. Bukele, Presidente. | Under the Shadow, Update 2
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has been reelected. While the official results aren’t yet in, with 70% of the ballots counted, Bukele has received an astounding 83% of the votes. He declared victory on Sunday night over X (formerly Twitter).
Under the Shadow host Michael Fox was on the ground for the election. He takes us there, and sits down for an in-depth conversation with Dartmouth assistant professor of Latin American Studies Jorge Cuellar. They look at the vote. Concerns for the country’s democracy. Bukele’s reelection, his image, plans, and what it all means going forward.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present.
In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened — a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
Recorded in San Salvador, El Salvador
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
Guests:Jorge Cuellar.
Sound design by Gustavo Türck.
Theme music by Monte Perdido. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, February 7, 2024.
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Story 1 - Bees in Saskatchewan think that it's spring already, which will be a disaster for their population if they start to make baby bees.
Story 2 - Massive recall fo Honda vehicles made between 2020 and 2022 over airbag sensor issues.
Story 3 - "Trust Ukraine" says Canadian advisor to Ukraine's military, over request to give that country 83,000 decomissioned, potentially untable and ready-to-be destroyed missiles from a CAF munitions depot
Story 4 - Cease fire extended between the ELN and Colombia's military for 180 days.
Story 5 - At least 10 people are dead after blast in busy market in Mogadishu.
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By now, the false equivalency between anti-Zionism and antisemitism—which Israel’s supporters use to give rhetorical cover for Zionism—is a well-worn topic on the left. What’s less discussed is the role of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in Zionists’ attempts to smear their critics, particularly Arab and Muslim ones, as antisemitic. A new report from Rutger University Law School’s Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR) maps the use of Islamophobic tropes in the discourse on Israel-Palestine, noting that the racist association between terrorism and Arab and Muslim identity is intentionally invoked by Israel’s apologists.
Michael Plitnick and Sahar Aziz join the Marc Steiner Show to discuss the new report and its contents. Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, and Sahar Aziz is distinguished professor at Rutgers Law School and the founding director of CSRR. Both authors have appeared on Al-Jazeera.
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Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, February 6, 2024.
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Story 1 - Cops in Val d'Or want millions of dollars over how they were protrayed in an episode of Enqûete about abuse of Indigenous women from 2015
Story 2 - Selina Robinson out as PSE minister for saying that Palestine before Israel was "crappy land" ... Global News manages to report about pre-Isreal Palestine without saying Palestine once.
Story 3 - Turns out that the PMO invited a Ukrainian Nazi to the after-party event in Toronto with Zelensky.
Story 4 - Federal government blew $600,000 on hotel rooms that no one used, plus millions to leadership consultants for a federal anti-homelessness strategy.
Story 5 - Deaths in West Bank highest since 2005, when data started being counted.
Story 6 - Nicaragua is bringing Canada and other countries to the ICJ over arms exports to Israel.
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