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Stories of Resistance: Mothers of Argentina’s 30,000 disappeared half-century...
The streets of Buenos Aires are cold. Colder than they should be in April, 1977. Because people—students and young adults, in particular–are missing. Snatched by military officers of the regime and...
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Israel kills journalist Hossam Shabat, known for his reports from North Gaza
This story originally appeared in Truthout on Mar. 24, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Israeli forces killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Monday in separate strikes, bringing the...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction and Trump’s escalating war on the Palestine movement
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist at Columbia University, is currently in ICE detention facing deportation proceedings—and the future of free speech in America hangs on the outcome of his...
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Stories of Resistance: Trump wants the Panama Canal—but Panamanians won’t...
The response rolled in like a tidal wave. Unexpected and overwhelming… Growing until it would crash across the entire country. People marched in every city. On every highway. They took over roads....
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Out of ashes, victory: How New York’s garment workers rebirthed the US labor...
As we’ve mentioned many times before on the show, movements today are a part of a legacy of extraordinary actions taken by ordinary people. Tapping into our own labor history provides us with a...
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Tufts student activist Rumeysa Ozturk abducted by ICE on her way to Iftar
This story originally appeared in Truthout on Mar. 26, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk was abducted by federal agents on Tuesday and has...
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Trump targeted Mahmoud Khalil to inspire fear—the opposite may be happening
He stood up against genocide. And for this, he was ambushed at his home, abducted, and arrested. Arrested without cause. Arrested without a warrant. By plainclothes officers who refused to give their...
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Unmasking PROMESA: The unelected board perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico first became a US colony in 1898—and remains so well into the 21st century. Today, that colonial relationship is structured through PROMESA, an unelected board that controls the island’s...
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Trump goes nuclear on the federal workforce
This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on Mar. 28, 2025. It is shared here with permission. In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on...
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Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike
‘Huelga!’ Strike. In the 1960s, these words rang from the fields of the Central Valley, California. Even though they were banned, they were shouted from the lips of thousands, and they inspired a...
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The soundtrack to the resistance against the Brazilian dictatorship
In times of darkness, music has often led the way. Shining light on the injustices. Breathing hope into the cracks. Denouncing violence and repression… authoritarianism. Sometimes openly. Sometimes...
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With detention of beloved farmworker organizer, ICE comes for the labor movement
This story originally appeared in Truthout on Apr. 01, 2025. It is shared here with permission. On the morning of March 25, farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was forcibly detained by...
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Brazil’s military dictatorship seemed invulnerable—until metalworkers went on...
São Bernardo do Campo is a working-class neighborhood on the edge of the city of Sao Paulo. Gritty. Industrial. The Detroit of Brazil. In the late 1970s, this is where hundreds of thousands of...
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Huwaida Arraf on Gaza: ‘We will look back and truly feel ashamed’
The ceasefire in Gaza has shattered, and Israel’s military has resumed the genocide. Simultaneously, organizations and activists in the US are sounding the alarm over Trump’s persecution of Mahmoud...
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Media’s Response to Trump Restarting the Gaza Genocide? Mostly Ignore It.
On March 18 Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire and recommenced its full scale assault, siege, and bombing of Gaza. Since then, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed and the humanitarian situation is...
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What’s really behind Trump’s war on federal unions?
Last week, President Trump escalated his administration’s war on the federal workforce and workers’ rights when he signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions...
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Free Lula: The vigil that freed a president
The night is dark. Overcast. And, in Curitiba, cold. Crowds amass outside the chain-link barbed-wire fence surrounding the courthouse and jail. One group, dressed in yellow and green, sets off...
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‘We have to stand united’: Unions join farm workers against ICE raids
On March 31, also known as Cesar Chavez Day, unions and workers from across California converged on Delano, home of the historic Delano Grape Strike that began the struggle of the United Farm Workers....
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Massive protest for Palestine rocks DC as Gaza genocide begins anew
As Israel resumes its genocide in Gaza with the full support of the Trump administration, the movement in solidarity with Palestine has returned to Washington, DC, in a mass mobilization on April 5....
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Former Black Panther Mansa Musa on how to fight Trump: ‘Get organized!’
Mansa Musa, host of Rattling the Bars, spent 48 years in prison before his release in 2019. At the invitation of the UMD College Park Young Democratic Socialists of America, Mansa delivered a lecture...
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