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So sorry no PAR tonight but update on next week’s episode
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Workers Strike Back coalition for a $25 min wage & more w/Kshama Sawant | The Chris Hedges Report
After over a decade on Seattle City Council, socialist Kshama Sawant is launching a national coalition called Workers Strike Back to fight for wages, universal healthcare, LGBTQ rights, a clean energy transition, and more. Kshama…
The federal govt wants to steal from prisoners’ families | Rattling the Bars
Incarcerated people across the US could find their commissary funds depleted by a new proposed policy from the Bureau of Prisons to automatically deduct three quarters of all funds prisoners receive from loved ones on…
‘We must make Macron back down’: French workers launch indefinite strike against pension reforms
After weeks of targeted strikes, French President Emmanuel Macron refuses to change course on his plans to reform the country’s beloved pension system. Last week, unions across France upped the ante and launched an indefinite…
A deeply personal struggle for Black liberation | The Marc Steiner Show
Marc Steiner interviews Dan Berger, author of ‘Stayed on Freedom: the Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey’, along with Dr. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons whose stories are featured in the book….
Inside the UK’s first Amazon strike
Amazon’s business, and Jeff Bezos’s wealth, expanded at a dizzying pace over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic; meanwhile, Amazon workers continue to burn out from the relentless pace of work and are struggling to…
College used to be affordable. What happened? w/Ellen Schrecker | The Chris Hedges Report
The 1960s were a decade of intellectual and political ferment on college campuses. Anti-war, feminist, and racial justice movements all found a foothold in higher education, with student activists often playing a pivotal role in…
Türkiye cracks down on May Day workers’ protests ahead of election
For years, the working class of Türkiye has been caught in the vice-grip of a global economic downturn and a government hostile to their interests. Now, with presidential elections coming up on May 14, speculation…
Texas is the future neofascists want | The Marc Steiner Show
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/for-a-glimpse-of-americas-future-look-at-texas Attacks on LGBTQ rights, abortion access, and movements for racial justice aren’t exclusive to any one state in the union. But Texas is certainly a place where state…
To Say Their Own Word: Eddie Conway’s prison organizing | Rattling the Bars
Even though he was framed for the killing of a local police officer, sentenced without a fair trial, and imprisoned for 44 years, former Black Panther and dearly departed TRNN Executive Producer Marshall “Eddie†Conway…
COVID-19 isn’t ‘over’—but your Medicaid might be | The Chris Hedges Report w/ Dr. Margaret Flowers
The Biden administration is poised to allow the national emergency on COVID-19 to expire on May 11, 2023. Once that occurs, between 5 to 14 million Americans previously covered under Medicaid will lose their insurance….
The Pendleton 2 story: 200 years for saving a life w/Too Black & Victoria Law | Rattling the Bars
Too Black and Victoria Law join Rattling the Bars to discuss the campaign to free the Pendleton 2. The Pendleton 2 were sentenced to more than 200 years for leading a prison uprising to stop…
The American evangelical roots of Uganda’s new anti-LGBTI law w/Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera
Ugandan activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera explains how US evangelicals exported anti-LGBT politics to Uganda, which has now passed a sweeping law broadly criminalizing LGBTI people for the second time in a decade. LGBTI stands for…
Is America becoming Cop City? Taya Graham&Stephen Janis Investigate! W/LackLuster&Chris Reiter-PAR
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis go on the ground in Atlanta, GA to find the truth behind the Cop City protests, the police shooting death of Manuel Tehran “La Tortugita” and the dark money funding…
Kayla Denker speaks out against death threats, transphobic backlash
Kayla Denker is a military veteran and a trained archaeologist who has worked in the private sector and for the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. She is also a trans woman…
UMich docks pay, calls cops on striking grad students | Working People
Graduate student-workers at the University of Michigan are still on strike after hitting the picket line for the second time in three years at the end of March. In the time between the Fall 2020…
How Brazil’s MST fights for agrarian reform while battling hunger
Hunger skyrocketed in Brazil during the tenure of former president Jair Bolsonaro. 33 million Brazilians, some 15% of the entire country, are now food insecure according to official statistics. As Brazil’s poorest were abandoned to…
Haiti’s Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier: Gang leader or revolutionary? | The Chris Hedges Report
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/a-new-documentary-offers-a-different-look-at-haitis-jimmy-barbecue-cherizier Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti’s purported “gang problem.” But who is Chérizier really? A new documentary series, Another…
350,000 Teamsters are about to take on UPS
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/350000-teamsters-are-about-to-take-on-ups Under the new leadership team led by General President Sean M. O’Brien, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters are re-introducing themselves to the bosses and to the world as…
Making a Killing: Anatomy of the Cincinnati Rebellion of 2001 w/Robin D.G. Kelley
In a special ‘George Floyd Memorial Lecture’ hosted by the University of Houston, historian Robin D.G. Kelley draws links between the 2020 uprisings and the 2001 rebellion in Cincinnati against the police killing of Timothy…
Cops raided his house without a warrant, how they justified it is scary
The chilling raid of an early-onset dementia patient’s home in Erie, PA by multiple law enforcement agencies evokes a larger pattern of police abuse against disabled people. Please join journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis…
Women strike in Barcelona for fair pay, migrant justice, and more
The degradation of women’s labor and social standing is a global feature of capitalism. In Barcelona, Catalonia, 60,000 women took to the streets for a one-day general strike called by Spanish union CGT on International…
Neoliberalism’s anti-democratic stealth revolution w/Wendy Brown
Half a century of neoliberalism has transformed the politics of the globe. The supremacy of free market ideology has stripped away the commons and reduced most states to their purely military and repressive functions. In…
Mayor candidate Brandon Johnson’s plan to save Chicago
With Lori Lightfoot ousted, Chicago’s mayor seat is up for grabs in a Democratic Party runoff election between Brandon Johnson and police union-backed candidate Paul Vallas. A former public school teacher backed by a wide…
Cops demanded his ID, this is how it escalated when he refused | Policy Accountability Report
When a local police officer approached Paul Brophy of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and demanded to see his identification, Brophy attempted to invoke his constitutional rights. The officer then escalated the situation to an arrest, claiming Brophy…
Mexico’s epidemic of murdered journalists w/Katherine Corcoran | The Chris Hedges Report
More than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. The case of Regina Martinez, an investigative journalist assassinated in her home in the state of Veracruz in 2012, is emblematic of this war…
A tribute to the revolutionary life of Marshall ‘Eddie’ Conway | Rattling the Bars
Eddie Conway, former Baltimore Black Panther, 44-year political prisoner, and host of Rattling the Bars passed away on Feb. 13, 2023. Eddie’s family and coworkers reflect on his life and example. Production: Cameron Granadino Read…
