The tenure of Maryland’s former Chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Fowler has been under review since his controversial testimony in the case of police officer Derek Chauvin who was convicted of murdering George Floyd.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
‘These tents are graves above the earth’: Gaza after the broken ceasefire
Gazans recount the horrors of Israeli bombings, life in tents, and the silence of a world that watches but does not act.
Posted inWorking People
This new model for worker organizing could supercharge today’s labor movement
Less than 10% of American workers are now unionized. To reverse decades of decline and bring millions of new workers into the labor movement, unions need to embrace the worker-to-worker organizing model.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
‘Sadly, there are martyrs among our colleagues’: Israel continues targeting and killing journalists in Lebanon
In this documentary report from Lebanon, TRNN speaks with journalists who continue to report on Israel’s war crimes even after they have been targeted and injured and their colleagues have been killed.
Posted inStories of Resistance
Liquor Store Resistance: 1973 Chile
In 1973, a thick grey fog sank over Chile. A fog that plucked people from off the street and removed them, never to be seen again. But despite the risk, many people stood together. This is episode 33 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inInequality Watch
Dr. Richard Wolff: How an elite idea destroyed the working class, and how to fix it
Dr. Wolff explains how ideas hatched in the classroom decades ago prompted economic elites to put the US on a treacherous path that would hollow out the middle class, suppress wages, and ensure a future where only the wealthiest benefit from America’s economic growth.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
‘What does it mean to be a Palestinian Jew’ today?
“I was born into the Zionist colony in Palestine, and an identity was imposed on me at birth, called Israeli identity. And this identity was fabricated… 14 years before I was born.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
‘We need calls now!’ Republicans slip nonprofit killer bill into tax package
“If Democrats capitulate to the wanton destruction of crucial civil society institutions, they had better expect civil society to burn them to the ground for that betrayal.”
Posted inPrisons and Policing
A Hopkins professor says America’s descent into authoritarianism may have started with policing in blue cities. If that’s true, we’re in big trouble.
As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says we need to understand one yet-to-be-examined source of the push towards authoritarianism: urban policing.
Posted inStories of Resistance
The Sanctuary Movement: Sheltering migrants against deportation
In the early 1980s, hundreds of churches, synagogues, and university campuses joined the Sanctuary Movement, sheltering waves of refugees and migrants. This is episode 32 of the Stories of Resistance podcast.
