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Art for the End Times: The Jewish Labor Bund w/Molly Crabapple
From 1897 to 1921, the General Jewish Labour Bund operated as a Jewish socialist party in Russia, Lithuania, and Poland. Composed primarily of Yiddish-speaking, secular Jews, the Bund struggled on tw…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
The Marc Steiner Show: Racism and Jackson's water crisis w/Kali Akuno
Jackson, Mississippi, remains gripped in an ongoing water crisis. The task of distributing water to local residents has been largely taken up by community organizations like Cooperation Jackson and O…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
The Marc Steiner Show: Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' takes a Christian nationalist turn
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/canadas-freedom-convoy-has-taken-a-christian-nationalist-turn
Earlier this year, Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' movement stormed the nation's c…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Working People: Amazon keeps firing union organizers (w/Matt Littrell)
Read the transcript of this podcast and see the full show notes: https://therealnews.com/amazon-fires-another-organizer-to-stop-kentucky-facilities-unionizing
Matt Littrell has worked as a picker at t…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Sri Lanka's crisis: Ethnonationalism and the legacy of the civil war with Dr. Mythri Jegathesan
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/sri-lankas-crisis-ethnonationalism-and-the-legacy-of-the-civil-war
Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009, but ethnonationalism remains a powe…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Brazil on Fire Episode 3: God Above Everyone
Jair Bolsonaro could not have won the presidency without the support of one very important group: Evangelical Christians. There is, perhaps, no other group that Bolsonaro has so vocally courted, or t…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Brazil on Fire Episode 2: Free Lula
The election of president Jair Bolsonaro was never a foregone conclusion. For most of that electoral season, someone else was ahead in the polls. But that opponent was jailed on supposed corruption c…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Brazil on Fire Episode 1: Violence and the Culture War
As candidate Jair Bolsonaro neared the presidency in 2018, violence rippled across Brazil, mostly perpetrated by Bolsonaro supporters. Hundreds of threats and attacks, including several killings, wer…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Rattling the Bars: Black August and the fight to free political prisoners
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/black-august-and-the-fight-to-free-political-prisoners
Jericho Movement activists fighting for the release of freedom fighters from US pris…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Working People: Heat waves are literally killing package and mail carriers
"As blistering heat waves swept across the United States this summer, breaking temperature records and placing millions under heat advisories and warnings," Livia Albeck-Ripka writes at The New York …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago