The Shift: 25 years after 9/11, our country is still dominated by the “War on Terror”
25 years after 9/11, the War on Terror’s legacy is everywhere, from rampant Islamophobia, to another open ended war on Iran.
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5-years in prison pushes controversial cop watcher to breakdown. Eric Brandt speaks out after release.
His colorful antics and controversial tactics thrust Denver activist Eric Brandt into the crosshairs of law enforcement. After serving 5 years of a 12 year sentence Brandt speaks to Taya Graham and Stephen Janis shortly after his release about the toll his battle with the legal system has inflicted, and what he plans to do…
Fearless Speech: Examining myths around the First Amendment
Professor Mary Anne Franks analyzes the persistent myths surrounding the history of free speech in the United States.
Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter
“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don’t let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”
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Why is YouTube demonetizing so many cop watchers?
First Amendment auditors and cop watchers with YouTube audiences ranging from thousands to more than a million subscribers say their channels have suddenly been demonetized.
Israel’s Gaza ‘solution’ is to empty it of Palestinians, defense minister says
“There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,” said Israel Katz.
‘The most powerful publishers the world has ever seen’: Fara Dabhoiwala on the real battle over free speech
Historian Fara Dabhoiwala on the 18th-century hack who invented free speech absolutism and then sold out to the government—and why that same doctrine now shields Big Tech and the powerful instead of the public.
‘Treated worse than cattle’: 2,500 Tyson workers laid off, plant shutters overnight
“They gave no reason, nothing… people have no job. No money to pay our bills. For 11 years, I made money for them. And now they’re not doing anything for me.”
‘American dominance’: boat strikes, Cuba, and Latin American pushback
This is episode 13 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
Brazil’s battle against fake news and the US war to undermine it | Ep. 12
Few countries in the world have fought disinformation as actively as Brazil. Now, the United States is pushing to roll it back in the name of US-style “free speech.”
We ask five musicians: Can anyone ‘make it’ in today’s music industry?
“It’s like becoming an astronaut to say, ‘Oh, I’m going to go have Taylor Swift’s career.’ It’s absurd… What I want more than anything else, which we have a lot of, is freedom. We make enough money to get by, but we can do whatever we want.”
New community museum honors the legacy of Eddie Conway and the Black Panthers
“…We need our own people’s archives. We need our own spaces where we not only celebrate and remember, but we tell accurate histories of resistance, of black liberation in particular, but not even limited to that, the experience of indigenous people, the experience of Latino people” says Dominque Conway.
