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No to Nike: College coach stands up to sweatshop labor | Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports is back! In this Season 2 premiere, former St. John’s University Assistant Soccer Coach Jim Keady joins Dave Zirin to talk about why he left college coaching in protest of Nike sweatshop…
The Washington Commanders will never be the ‘Redskins’ again | Edge of Sports
A recent petition demanding the Washington Commanders return to the ignominious ‘Redskins’ name has garnered thousands of signatures. The franchise changed its name after years of pressure from activists and tribal nations. The belated backlash…
Slovenian workers FIGHT BACK amid cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine | Working People
Ana JakopiÄ is a lawyer, organizer, and trade union leader in Slovenia. Currently, Ana is working as a field organizer and lawyer for KS 90, the Trade Union Confederation 90 of Slovenia (Konfederacija Sindikatov 90…
How liberal comedians became lap dogs for establishment power w/Lee Camp | The Chris Hedges Report
The fusion of politics, news, and entertainment has given prominence to comics like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Bill Maher, who serve as attack dogs for the Democratic Party, which has joined forces…
How immigrant warehouse workers took on Amazon and won | Working People
As a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker living in Minnesota, Khali Jama has always had to fight for the life she, her family, and her fellow workers deserve. And earlier this year,…
Police said his rights didn’t matter, but they didn’t know another camera was watching…
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s traffic stop, allegedly conducted for excessive window tinting, led to a fishing expedition that stranded an innocent passenger at night without her phone, wallet, keys or transportation. But cop watchers…
Mainstream Democrats’ complacency will doom us all | The Marc Steiner Show
Max Elbaum on blocking the fascist threat and building real grassroots power. Max Elbaum is on the editorial board of Convergence Magazine and is the co-editor, with Linda Burnham and Maria Poblet, of ‘Power Concedes…
Help us stop this police cover up- the video Texas sheriffs Don’t want you to see
Horrible body-worn camera footage, hidden for over a year, was finally released, a disgusting example of excessive force which resulted in an innocent, unarmed man having his leg severed from his body. Watch the video…
Why psychiatrists say we have to rebuild society | The Chris Hedges Report
The pervasiveness of trauma in American society is intimately linked to the ubiquity of sexual violence in our culture, and ultimately, the politics that buttresses this reality. In the second installment of a two-part discussion,…
Should Cornel West run as a Democrat? w/Bhaskar Sunkara, D.D. Guttenplan | The Marc Steiner Show
Dr. Cornel West’s decision to run for President has been embraced with enthusiasm by some on the left, and met with groans of disapproval by others. Disputes over the merits of Dr. West’s candidacy have…
America’s trauma epidemic w/Dr. Judith Herman | The Chris Hedges Report
Violence is ubiquitous in American life, and so is the trauma that follows in its wake. From the domestic sphere to the public sphere, interpersonal violence, particularly of a sexual nature, is all-too-common in the…
Cops severed his leg during arrest! This is how they covered it up
A nonviolent domestic dispute in Laredo, Zapata County, Texas took a dark and violent turn after the arrival of local sheriffs. Officers moved to subdue Rigoberto Barrientos, and in the process injured his leg so…
Cop City, RICO, and corporate fascism w/Taya Graham & Stephen Janis | Rattling the Bars
After two years of resistance against the proposed “Atlanta Public Safety Training Center,” more commonly known as Cop City, more than 60 activists associated with the movement have been indicted on RICO charges. The push…
Chile’s new constitution process hijacked by the far right
In 2019 the nation of Chile was shaken by a mass protest movement that has come to be known as the Social Explosion. A central demand of the Social Explosion was the abolition of the…
These real life Texas cowboys were socialists | The Marc Steiner Show
Symbols of the Old West are almost unquestionably associated with the right wing in this day-in-age. Yet the real history of the Wild West is more complicated. Take the 19th century Fence Cutting Wars in…
New #edgeofsports premiere! College athletes are being exploited. It’s time to unionize
Universities make fortunes off unpaid athletes who put their health and future at risk for a chance at an education. If these students did any other kind of work, we’d recognize it as unpaid labor!…
College football is dangerous. Unions can fix it.
The view of college athletes as unpaid workers is gaining currency among the public. Of course, it’s one thing to have an analysis of how universities exploit their students—it’s another to know what to do…
UAW strike update: More auto plants to join ‘stand-up’ strike
The United Auto Workers are striking against all of the Big Three automakers at once for the first time in the union’s history. The UAW is employing a novel “stand-up strike†strategy: rather than having…
Can identity politics be used for liberation?
During his life, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral co-founded the PAIGC and dedicated his life to the liberation of his native Guinea and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonialism and capitalism-imperialism. One of his most celebrated works,…
‘Silent Coup’—How corporations rule the world w/Matt Kennard | The Chris Hedges Report
The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper…
She won the FIFA World Cup for Spain. Her boss’s response was shocking | Edge of Sports
Jenni Hermoso’s stunning performance at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final was overshadowed by a scandal after Royal Spanish Soccer Federation president Luis Rubiales inexplicably kissed her onstage at the medal presentation. Rubiales’s assault…
The dark side of El Salvador’s ‘gang crackdown’ w/Michael Fox | Rattling the Bars
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has now suspended the rule of law in his country for 18 months, during which time more than 70,000 people have been rounded up and imprisoned without trial in the naming…
Rebecca Gould, Jewish author accused of antisemitism for criticizing Israel | The Marc Steiner Show
The question of historical and present antisemitism is at the heart of Zionism, though not always in the ways supporters of Israel would believe. In the effort to shield Israel from criticism of occupation and…
Homeless Vet and Wife Dragged At Texas Walmart By Security #policeaccountabilityreport
Arlington, TX PD and Loss Prevention allege that a $40 pair of Khakis was stolen, although the couple swears nothing was taken. The Army Veteran Cody S, who suffers from PTSD says he was not…
Cops want them out of their forest home to build a coal mine. These villagers say no!
In Turkey’s Akbelen Forest, villagers and environmental activists are fighting to protect centuries-old trees from a massive coal mine. The forest is not only their home—it also provides many with their livelihoods. The Erdogan government…
Israel once had a communist movement. Could things have been different?
These days, the Israeli Communist Party is a marginal force—but the errors made by this party through its 100 year history still provide valuable insight into how Zionism developed historically and what mistakes Jewish and…
She was dating a cop. Things turned ugly when she tried to leave | PAR
Shocking video of Pennsylvania State Trooper Ronald K. Davis wrestling his girlfriend, Michelle Perfanov, to the ground has opened the lid on a case of clear domestic abuse buttressed by state power. Davis, who is…
