Gaza has disappeared from nightly news and Sunday shows and no longer merits front page NYT coverage. It’s totally bipartisan and totally normalized mass death.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Huwaida Arraf on Gaza: ‘We will look back and truly feel ashamed’
The Palestinian American lawyer and activist explains why the fight for our civil liberties and Gaza go hand in hand.
Posted inStories of Resistance
Brazil’s military dictatorship seemed invulnerable—until metalworkers went on strike
Brazil’s military dictatorship ruled through fear and terror. Then, massive metalworkers’ strikes in 1979 and 1980 led by current President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva changed everything. This is episode 15 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
With detention of beloved farmworker organizer, ICE comes for the labor movement
“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.
Posted inStories of Resistance
The soundtrack to the resistance against the Brazilian dictatorship
Musicians responded to the Brazilian dictatorship by writing songs of resistance and hope. The military regime fought back with censorship and repression. But still the music sang on. This is episode 14 of Stories of Resistance.
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Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike
Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927. He would grow to lead strikes and become one of the greatest US farmworker organizers of the 20th Century. This is a bonus episode of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump goes nuclear on the federal workforce
In his broadest attack on federal workers and their unions to date, President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an Executive Order that claimed to end collective bargaining rights for nearly the whole federal workforce.
Posted inSolidarity Without Exception
Unmasking PROMESA: The unelected board perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico
“We have to make sure that Puerto Rico is able to liberate itself from [its] present colonial condition. That begins with eliminating the political subordination to the United States.”
Posted inStories of Resistance
Trump targeted Mahmoud Khalil to inspire fear—the opposite may be happening
Thousands of people have rallied across the country for weeks to demand Khalil’s release from ICE detention.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Tufts student activist Rumeysa Ozturk abducted by ICE on her way to Iftar
Chilling footage shows Ozturk being arrested and taken away by six people in plain clothes.
