Since last year’s protests against a controversial finance bill that would have sharply raised taxes, over 100 demonstrators have been killed and thousands arbitrarily detained or abducted.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
The real reason Donald Trump can’t escape the Epstein scandal
Donald Trump’s usual tactics to deflect blame are failing as victims of Jeffrey Epstein expose the deep inequalities that protected the predator, and now implicate Trump himself.
Posted inStories of Resistance
Paulo Freire and education for freedom
Paulo Freire was born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921. He would change the way we think about education. This is episode 67 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Life and death in Tulkarem refugee camp
In April 2024, TRNN was granted access to the Tulkarem refugee camp and spoke to residents about life and death in what was once one of the most densely populated camps in the West Bank—before Israel forcibly depopulated and destroyed the camp this year.
Posted inStories of Resistance
Argentine students continue to march against the crimes and disappearances of the past
On the Night of the Pencils—September 16, 1976—Argentine police kidnapped high school students in one of the most heinous acts of the military dictatorship. Students today are still marching in their honor. This is episode 66 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Nearly 100 (and counting) dead as Israel launches large-scale ground invasion of Gaza City
“The only way to halt this devastation,” said one advocate, “is to end the flow of weapons that Israel relies on to fuel its genocide.”
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Sanitizing MLK’s legacy begins by forgetting his life outside the South
“When you look at the history of the Civil Rights movement, how these movements in the North are treated and Dr. King is treated in the North, it’s a reminder that our activism is not necessarily going to be praised in the moment.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
White House working to criminalize left-wing dissent as ‘domestic terror’ in wake of Kirk murder
“We must end any form of political violence—and reject those who try to exploit it,” one Democratic congresswoman asserted.
Posted inRattling the Bars
Trump’s incarceration nation: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just the beginning
Collaborating with state governments, the Trump administration is building out an “unprecedented” mass incarceration system. “This is something we’ve not really seen at this scale before in the United States,” Shannon Heffernan of The Marshall Project tells us.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump announces he will send National Guard to occupy Memphis
“We will do everything in our power to prevent this incursion into Tennessee,” said one elected official.
