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From Bessemer to Baltimore, Amazon workers demand the right to organize
Activists held an international day of action to support Amazon workers on March 20, highlighting the ways unions can help defend worker rights and safety protections. TRNN’s Jaisal Noor reports from the solidarity action held…
The unending COVID-19 disaster in Maryland prisons
In this episode of “Rattling the Bars,” we get an inside and outside view of the ongoing, slow-moving disaster happening in Maryland prisons, which have failed to adequately protect inmates, guards, and the surrounding communities…
Nathan Robinson speaks about losing his Guardian column after criticizing Israel
Nathan Robinson, founder and editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine, has been writing a column for The Guardian U.S. since 2017. Then, without warning, The Guardian stopped accepting his pitches after Robinson tweeted criticisms of U.S….
How Malcolm Little became Malcolm X
Sunday, February 21st, 2021, marks the 56th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination. In this special segment from the latest “Marc Steiner Show,†Marc has an in-depth conversation with Tamara Payne, co-author of the National Book…
ILLEGAL Checkpoint Arrest Tied to Controversial Shooting
In the small town of Talking Rock, Georgia, a man was supposedly stopped for avoiding a roadblock, had his car searched without consent, and was arrested for having balding tires. But residents say the story…
Blaming the Green New Deal for Texas Blackouts is Bullshit
Republican politicians like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have cynically used overblown and patently false claims that renewable energy failures are responsible for millions losing power and heat during deadly Winter Storm Uri. Critics around the…
Eric Brandt: Controversial cop watcher gets results
Known for his role in the Occupy Denver movement and his controversial, even profane, manner of exercising his First Amendment rights, Eric Brandt has been arrested roughly 200 times while protesting police brutality and advocating…
From Standing Rock and J20 to the US Capitol: Who gets treated like the enemy?
We’ve seen this so many times before, but it never ceases to shock: The brutal disparity between law enforcement’s response to far-right insurgents and its response to Black, Indigenous, and social justice protests reveals which…
Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both CRUEL and DANGEROUS
Public health experts and advocates continue to shine a light on the horrifying statistics of COVID-19 infections within the prison-industrial complex. Those same experts, moreover, have shown that outbreaks in prisons and jails spread quickly…
Militarized police attacked him on his own front porch. PAR helped him fight back
Nick Pettit was assaulted by Columbus, Ohio, police for filming a botched raid. We investigated on his behalf, and now evidence gathered by PAR is part of an ACLU lawsuit against the police department that…
Will US policy on Palestine/Israel change under Biden?
In the first segment of this week’s “Marc Steiner Show,” we discuss what changes we should and shouldn’t expect in U.S. policy toward Palestine and Israel in the Biden era. For this segment, Marc is…
Students to University of Florida: Stop using unpaid prison labor!
In the second segment of this week’s “Marc Steiner Show,” we talk to some of the student organizers who are leading the grassroots effort to force the University of Florida to unequivocally end its use…
‘Bring Sundiata home’: The case for freeing elderly political prisoners
At 84 years old, Sundiata Acoli has been in prison for 48 years, and has been denied parole six times. Last December, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Rev….
Gamestopped: WallStreetBets, Wall Street wins
Wall Street was in a tizzy last week after a band of Redditors on the forum r/wallstreetbets worked together to drastically inflate the stock price of brick-and-mortar retailers like GameStop. The guerrilla stock-buying surge caused…
What role does independent media play after Trump?
From our TRNN #InaugurationDay livestream, the Real News team sits down to discuss the devastation left by Donald Trump’s presidency, the bizarre national spectacle of Joe Biden’s inauguration, and what role independent media must serve…
Worker ownership can save businesses and protect employees
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for workers and small businesses alike. As reopening plans pit employee safety against economic viability for struggling businesses, can the worker co-op model provide a pathway for a just…
A police chief tried to stop the drug war—then they came for him
In this episode of the Police Accountability Report, we tell the story of Kelvin Sewell, the first Black police chief of Pocomoke City, a small town on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore. When Sewell tried to…
Can Democrats meet this historic moment? Yes. But will they?
From our TRNN #InaugurationDay livestream, our own Jaisal Noor reports on the key challenges Democrats face in the Biden era and how to avoid the electoral pitfalls of past administrations. Then, Noor gives us a…
Criminal injustice is bipartisan, but it doesn’t have to be
From our TRNN #InaugurationDay livestream, Stephen Janis and Taya Graham, intrepid hosts of the weekly Police Accountability Report, look at the changes we should and shouldn’t expect in the world of criminal justice and policing…
Workers showed up for Biden. Will he show up for them?
From our TRNN #InaugurationDay livestream, Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez breaks down how Donald Trump’s anti-worker administration was a disaster for the labor movement, and what President Joe Biden and the Democrats can do to repair that…
Screw the deficit. Democrats can tackle inequality if they want to
From our TRNN #InaugurationDay livestream, Stephen Janis and Taya Graham, hosts of the weekly Police Accountability Report and our ongoing “Inequality Watch†series, discuss how inequality has increased under both Democratic and Republican administrations—and what…
Askia Muhammad Before the 1984 Election: ‘The Stifling of Dissent Has Begun’
As relevant today as it was on the eve of the 1984 election, Askia Muhammad talks about increasing surveillance, US cultural imperialism, Iranian hostages, and the stifling of dissent that paved the way to our…
Big Pharma slows vaccine rollout to protect corporate profits
This week, President Biden announced that, by utilizing the Defense Production Act, the federal government has created an historic agreement between drugmakers Johnson & Johnson and Merck to produce enough COVID-19 vaccines for the entire…
Police HIJACK helicopter ambulance for aerial surveillance
Documents obtained by PAR reveal how an air ambulance (medevac) service has been used repeatedly to fly surveillance missions over the city of Baltimore, raising serious questions about the militarization of American police and the…
Amazon faces a day of reckoning for its treatment of workers
Amazon is intensifying the anti-union campaign at its Bessemer, Alabama, plant, where workers are currently voting to unionize. On Feb. 20, Amazon workers and their allies rallied in cities across the country to demand Amazon…
Filming the police is legal, but that doesn’t stop them from arresting people for it
Another Ohio resident has been arrested under the dubious charge of “misconduct during an emergency,” which has been used again by Ohio police to incarcerate another person who filmed them in action. The arrest raises…
Black mass incarceration in the so-called Free State
Until recently, the horrifyingly unjust reality of America’s mass incarceration system has not been a central concern in popular political discourse. In the past few years, however, more people have learned about the brutality and…
