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The Teamsters Take Amazon | The Upsurge
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Amazon: The company we hate to love, for its convenient next-day deliveries, and we love to hate, for its egregious treatment of the workers that execute that mir…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The NFL Players' Association, Lamar Jackson, and trans kids in sports | Edge of Sports TV
In the premiere episode of the all-new series Edge of Sports, host Dave Zirin interviews DeMaurice Smith, outgoing Executive Director of the NFL Players' Association. The episode also touches on the …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Labor must join the fight to stop Cop City | Working People
Plans to build Cop City have been mired in controversy and civil rights violations from the beginning—from the city government's attempts to ignore residents' and activists' objections and force thro…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
My life in the Civil Rights Movement | The Marc Steiner Show
TRNN show host Marc Steiner's Rise of the Right series has followed the ascendance of far-right political forces domestically and internationally. In a special episode of The Marc Steiner Show, TRNN …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
East Palestine residents have been left behind—and they're running out of water
Months after a catastrophic Norfolk Southern train derailment changed their lives and communities forever, residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area feel “numb,” lied to, and abando…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
48-year political prisoner reviews John Oliver's report on solitary confinement
The topic of solitary confinement was the focus of a recent episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of activists organizing against solitary confinement for decades…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
How illegal Great Depression-era PA coal miners fought cops, banks, and bosses to unionize
The onset of the Great Depression brought devastation to Pennsylvania's coal region. Suddenly rendered unemployed, coal miners with no other way to make a living turned to 'bootleg' mining, setting u…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Cash bail is an abomination of justice | Rattling the Bars
While the underlying logic of the cash bail system in the US may sound convincing on paper, in practice it has become a means of denying justice to, and destroying the lives of, people who have not e…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
These workers are making Baltimore a union town again | Working People
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We hosted a Working People live show at The Real News Network studio in Baltimore on May 18. In this panel discussion, co-hosted b…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
America is in the middle of a ‘slow civil war’ | The Marc Steiner Show
Jeff Sharlet has been studying and reporting on far-right movements in the US for decades, but something feels different now. From Waco and Ruby Ridge in the ‘90s to the 2014 Bundy family standoff wi…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago