The Marc Steiner Show
The Marc Steiner Show meets you at the intersection of politics and culture. We produce dynamic conversations and visual productions with activists, actors, artists and authors to creatively get to the root of the social, political and cultural issues that we and our world face.
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Standing Together: Inside Israel’s Jewish-Arab movement for equality and peace
“We need to make a choice: Are we going to allow our leadership to continue to push us [in] the direction of eternal war, genocide, annihilation, occupation, and apartheid… or are we going towards a historic solution of Israeli-Palestinian peace—of freedom and dignity and equality and safety to all?”
Recent episodes
How to stand up to ICE: Lessons from Chicago and Charlotte
We speak with organizers on the ground in Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, about what to do when ICE invades your town.
The Israeli and Palestinian combatants building a shared movement for peace
“I would like for people to bear in mind this one message: Please do not stand with Israel, and do not stand with Palestine. Please stand with all of us. Please stand with peace.”
‘This is the hill to die on for universities’: free speech can survive Trump, but not without a fight
A veteran of the free speech movement in the ‘60s, historian David Hollinger shares hard-won lessons about defending free speech and academic freedom from extinction in the age of Trump.
We’ve reached the ‘show me your papers’ stage of American authoritarianism
“It’s just really, really bleak, and I don’t think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out of their vans, rolling up on two men who were working… and asking for their papers.”
Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world
“Basically, the most evil billionaires in Silicon Valley want to consume everything before it’s too late, and then kick the tires and leave us all to drown…”
A civil rights icon’s advice for combatting Trump, ICE, and fascism today
“When you see some of the tactics people are using now to try and monitor these ICE arrests… it’s similar to what we did when we were in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).”
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How can anyone still deny Israel is committing genocide in Gaza?
“There is this very specific criteria for what makes something genocide, and it doesn’t have to look anything like the Holocaust.”
US veterans’ final message from the Global Sumud Flotilla before being intercepted by Israel
“We’ve heard that there’ll be a floating prison, basically, for us this time, since this is the biggest flotilla in history…”
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Move over, Jon Stewart. The Real News is here…
How Democrats set the stage for Trump’s assault on free speech
Jimmy Kimmel’s show is back on the air… kind of. But the consolidation of corporate control over the media, mixed with a ravenously censorious Trump administration, leaves free speech in America hanging by a thread.
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.”
It’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
Donald Trump’s plan for the US and Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for Israel are both shaped by racist, colonialist worldviews that grant full rights and personhood to some while justifying the repression and extermination of others.
The Nakba never ended: A conversation with Haim Bresheeth
“There is a straight line between 1948 and 2025… What has changed is the style, but not the essence. And the essence is simple: Israel is a settler-colonial state. It used violence in order to take over more and more land… to limit and destroy [any] rights that Palestinians ever had.”
‘Rebellion is the strategy’: Jim Hightower breaks down the Texas gerrymandering battle—and what comes next
“We’re in the middle of a war for the very soul and possibility of democracy,” legendary Texas populist Jim Hightower tells TRNN. “This is not a fight about the Texas legislature. This is a fight about whether the people themselves are going to be able to have a vote that matters.”
Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté: Gaza genocide ‘the worst thing I’ve seen in my whole life.’
“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
An American surgeon’s dire warning from Gaza: ‘We’re leveling a whole society’
“More children under the age of two have been killed in Gaza since October 7 [2023] than every Israeli who has ever died from military or terrorist violence… in Israel’s entire existence.”
Latinos in Baltimore are living in fear: ‘I can be stopped just because of my accent’
“People are not going out. We’re going back to the pandemic time… when you were afraid to go out, but instead of getting sick, you’re afraid of being caught. People cannot go to work, but at the same time they cannot go get food.”
Yes, goddamnit, it’s genocide!: A conversation with Norman Solomon
Pundits like Bret Stephens continue to deny the reality of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza even as that genocide is unfolding in front of our eyes and on our screens.
These vets swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies—including Donald Trump
“We need to unite across the spectrum to push back. Veterans like us need to continue to speak out, so that we can motivate other veterans to speak out, and also show them the hypocrisy of this administration.”
‘There were massive revolts’: The history of the 1970 Kent State massacre you haven’t heard
“The whole history of the massacre was suppressed… And then they suppressed the whole history of the anti-war movement at Kent. They’ve tried to erase the history.”
There’s resistance happening all around us, we’re just not seeing it
“I think we are seeing, in this moment, this emergent struggle—this survival struggle that’s happening across the country,” Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back tell us. “The question is: How do we bring greater organization and coordination to it?”
As Israel starves Gaza, Chicago Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action
“What wouldn’t you do to stop the slaughter of two million people?… In the face of atrocity, the lesson I have learned from my people is we cannot do nothing.”
Why Abby Stein—a transgender rabbi raised ultra-orthodox—stands up for Palestine
“Queer people know what it means to struggle against the government, know what it means to struggle against the status quo. And, most importantly, we’re not as easily controlled…”
‘We’re holding those dead babies with our hands’: Doctors returning from Gaza beg humanity to stop the carnage
“This is a genocide happening, live streamed. And yes, you can see it online, you can see dead babies online, but we are actually holding those dead babies with our hands”
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