At the root of Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement is a popular rejection of corruption, exploitation, and the abuse of poor and working-class people. But the movement is also a rejection of neoliberalism, militarism, and a bloody history of U.S. imperialism and European colonization.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Thanksgiving is going to kill a lot of people, again
Amid a terrifying surge in COVID-19 cases, millions are defying public health warnings and traveling for Thanksgiving—a grimly fitting situation, given the central role of contagious diseases in the genocide of this continent’s Native people.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
The internal battle over the future of the Democratic Party; Rennie Davis of the Chicago 7 talks about mobilization
This week, Marc Steiner asks how progressives will maintain pressure on the Democratic Party now that the election is over, and we speak to Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago 7, about how mobilization around the Vietnam War compares to movements today.
Posted inPress Releases
Groundbreaking Indigenous news and commentary show coming to The Real News Network
TRNN is excited to announce the upcoming launch of “Decolonized News Hour,” a groundbreaking show featuring the latest stories from Indian Country, in all its underappreciated diversity, and investigations of current issues from Native perspectives.
Posted inBurn It Down
Justice means abolition, not more jails
The U.S. spends billions incarcerating the largest prison population in the world, but prison abolition still sounds too abstract for many people to think about. Here’s what it would actually look like.
Posted inBurn It Down
Tear gas for BLM, red carpet for MAGA marchers
We ask why police suddenly left all their tear gas and rubber bullets at the office while Trump supporters took to the streets for the Million MAGA March in Washington, DC.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump-appointed CEO of US global media agency targets journalists’ independence
Former US global media agency CEO John Lansing worked hard to consolidate his power. His Republican successor, Michael Pack, is putting those powers to use, and compromising the journalistic independence of the US taxpayer-funded news networks he oversees.
Posted inPolice Accountability Report
K-9 attacks: The new (old) face of police brutality
Indiana mother Jennifer Fleming speaks out about the brutal and excessive police dog attack on her 19-year-old daughter, and calls for police to rethink how these animals and their handlers are trained.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Marc Steiner Show: DeRay McKesson on the movement; Debating Black expatriation from the US
In the second episode of the Marc Steiner Show, DeRay McKesson talks about his victorious Supreme Court case against a police officer, and how the left has the numbers, but not the organization. Then, TaNesha Barnes and Dr. Lester Spence debate the best recourse for Black Americans after an election where 71 million voters actively supported—or ignored—Donald Trump’s racism.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Anti-Abortion protesters get special treatment from the police
Minneapolis, Louisville, Kenosha, Portland—these cities, among others, have all seen police respond with violence to protests for racial justice this year. However, anti-abortion protesters almost never elicit a police response, even with their long history of violence at clinics.