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Florida is arresting people for voting
20 formerly incarcerated people in Florida are facing charges for exercising their right to vote in the 2020 election. In 2018, a ballot referendum in Florida passed Amendment Four, granting certain …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Working People: Philly Home Depot workers are unionizing
The wave of grassroots worker organizing is spreading to different industries and businesses around the country, including those that have notoriously resisted any and all unionization efforts in the…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Art for the End Times: Lyta is writing a book!
Our contemporary political discourse is rife with claims that certain forms of art, literature or thought are poisoning our culture and advancing the decay of civilization. The right has whipped itse…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Rattling the Bars: It's time to legalize marijuana
On Oct. 6, President Biden announced an official pardon of anyone incarcerated on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana. Biden framed his pardon in terms of correcting the historic injust…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Marc Steiner Show: Israel's raids on Palestinian NGOs intended to defy international law
Journalist Oren Ziv joins The Marc Steiner Show to explain how the Israeli government is sending a message of defiance against the international community with its continued attacks on Palestinian NG…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Working People: Alabama Paper Mill Workers Want Their Lives Back
Read the full transcript and show notes of this interview here: https://therealnews.com/
"On the morning of Oct. 1... almost 500 union members from three United Steel Workers (USW) locals at WestRock’…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Rattling the Bars: San Quentin Prison is a COVID deathtrap
In 2020, San Quentin State Prison in California had some of the worst rates of COVID infection in the nation. At least 23 people died from COVID after contracting it at the prison. Prisons, jails, an…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Marc Steiner Show: Katie Halper: The Hill TV fired me for defending critics of Israel
Censorship of voices supportive of Palestinian liberation from Zionist settler colonialism and occupation is nothing new. Journalists, members of the academy, and even schoolteachers have found thems…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Johns Hopkins University graduate students are organizing for a living wage
The life of a graduate student looks much closer to that of an average worker than many universities care to admit. After completing core courses, most students at this level devote the equivalent of…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Rattling the Bars: Cholera outbreak in Haiti's prisons amid protests against Henry government
Cases of cholera have been confirmed at Haiti’s National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. Cholera, which spreads through unsanitary water, has become endemic in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake, and is…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago