Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 4, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer...
Apr 04, 2025•7 min
Last week, President Trump escalated his administration's war on the federal workforce and workers’ rights when he signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions across the government. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 government employees, has sued the Trump administration over the executive order.In response to these intensifying assaults on federal workers, agencies, and critical programs like Social Security, unions, social just...
Apr 03, 2025•55 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustain...
Apr 03, 2025•7 min
The ceasefire in Gaza has shattered, and Israel’s military has resumed the genocide. Simultaneously, organizations and activists in the US are sounding the alarm over Trump’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil and other student activists. Palestinian American lawyer and activist Huwaida Arraf joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the situation in Gaza, and the urgency of ramping up the solidarity movement with Palestine to combat genocide and the rise of fascism. Studio Production: David Hebden Post...
Apr 03, 2025•35 min
In 1979 and 1980, Brazilian metal workers held huge strikes, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. They were unprecedented, and a sign of the beginning of the end of the military dictatorship. They were led by one charismatic labor leader named Luís Inácio Lula da Silva. This is episode 15 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange . Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each...
Apr 02, 2025•4 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 2, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustai...
Apr 02, 2025•9 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 1, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustaine...
Apr 01, 2025•7 min
On March 31, 1964, the Brazilian military carried out a US-backed coup against the democratically elected government, installing a dictatorship that would last for 21 years. Hundreds of people were disappeared. Thousands imprisoned and tortured. But musicians stood up, singing songs that were a sometimes subtle — sometimes not-so-subtle — critique of the dictatorship. The military regime responded by censoring songs, music and artists. Some, like Chico Buarque, went into exile. Others were detai...
Mar 31, 2025•6 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 31, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustaine...
Mar 31, 2025•7 min
Subscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast here Today, March 31, is Cesar Chavez Day. The day, celebrating the birth and life of the great U.S. farmworker labor leader. In 1962, Cesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers, alongside Dolores Huerta. The organization would go on to wage strikes and boycotts, winning tremendous victories for workers picking the crops in the fields of California and elsewhere in the United States. In 1969, he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. In 1970, ...
Mar 31, 2025•8 min
Puerto Rico first became a US colony in 1898—and remains so well into the 21st century. Today, that colonial relationship is structured through PROMESA, an unelected board that controls the island’s budget and has unleashed a vicious cycle of debt and privatization that has mired Puerto Ricans in poverty, unemployment, and underdevelopment. Rafael Bernabe joins Solidarity Without Exception to discuss PROMESA’s role in perpetuating colonialism in Puerto Rico, and the longer history of the island’...
Mar 28, 2025•49 min
On March 8, 2025, ICE agents detained, without a warrant, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil at his home in New York City. Khalil is a U.S. resident, but Trump officials said they’d stripped him of his green card. His crime? Standing up and speaking out against the U.S.-backed Israeli attack on Palestine. As a graduate student at Columbia University last year, he helped to lead protests against Israeli genocide in Gaza. And just as he stood up for the Palestinians, others are standing up for Kh...
Mar 28, 2025•6 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustaine...
Mar 28, 2025•9 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustai...
Mar 27, 2025•8 min
In late 2023, Panamanians shut down their country for months to demand the closure of a Canadian copper mine. And they won. It was not just a protest against a foreign company. It was about the country’s sovereignty after a century of US occupation and invasions. The US occupation of Panama is not ancient history, here. It is still in the forefront of everyone’s mind. So are the decades of blood, sweat, and tears that it took to finally win back the region of the Panama Canal from the United Sta...
Mar 26, 2025•6 min
As we’ve mentioned many times before on the show, movements today are a part of a legacy of extraordinary actions taken by ordinary people. Tapping into our own labor history provides us with a blueprint for action in today’s turbulent world. On March 25th, 1911, a fire began in the scrap bins under a cutter’s table on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Within minutes, the entire floor was engulfed in flames, spreading to the ninth floor and 10th floors–where 200+...
Mar 26, 2025•56 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 26, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly susta...
Mar 26, 2025•6 min
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist at Columbia University, is currently in ICE detention facing deportation proceedings—and the future of free speech in America hangs on the outcome of his case. Khalil, who has permanent resident status, was illegally abducted by ICE agents in front of his pregnant wife on March 8, sparking national and international outrage and raising alarms about what his extrajudicial abduction and imprisonment means for the present and future of civil liberties ...
Mar 25, 2025•26 min
Today, March 24, is the anniversary of the 1976 coup that led to the brutal Argentine dictatorship. In Argentina, it’s known as the National Day for Memory and Truth and Justice. It honors the victims of the military regime. 30,000 people were disappeared under the 7-year-long military regime. Each year, big marches and demonstrations are held in Buenos Aires to mark the date. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are always front and center. They have marched for five decades to demand justice and t...
Mar 24, 2025•6 min
Maryland's Second Look Act has passed the State House, and now awaits a vote in the Senate. The bill would allow prisoners to request judicial review of their sentences after serving 20 years of prison time. Advocates say Maryland's prison system is in desperate need of reform; parole is nearly impossible for longterm inmates, and clear racial disparities in arrest and incarceration are immediately evident—72% of Maryland's prisoners are Black, despite a state population that is only 30% Black. ...
Mar 24, 2025•33 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustaine...
Mar 24, 2025•7 min
Monsignor Óscar Romero was the archbishop of San Salvador. They called him la voz de la sin voz, The voice of the voiceless. He spoke out against the government repression, violence and killings in the late 1970s El Salvador. It cost him his life. He was killed on March 24, 1980, while at the altar while delivering mass. In 2018, Pope Francis declared him a saint. His legacy lives on. This is the tenth episode of Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Excha...
Mar 21, 2025•5 min
This week, we’re taking a more national focus, and checking in with the National Association of Letter Carriers, who have been embroiled in a years-long contract negotiation with the US Postal Service. In our episode today, I’m sitting down with Melissa Rakestraw, member of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 825 in Chicago, IL, to discuss the state of negotiations with our nation’s letter carriers, the unprecedented rejection of the recent Tentative Agreement and what happens ne...
Mar 19, 2025•53 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 19, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly susta...
Mar 19, 2025•8 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 18, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustain...
Mar 18, 2025•8 min
The rise of the internet and personal computing once inspired utopian visions of how technology could improve society. These days, that kind optimism is sorely lacking from the conversation. The internet has gone from a sprawling web of thousands of websites and subcultures to an increasingly homogenized and monopolized space dominated financially and politically by a handful of billionaires, whose reach now extends into the federal government. In his new novel, Picks and Shovels, author Cory Do...
Mar 17, 2025•43 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustaine...
Mar 17, 2025•8 min
In the 1840s, hundreds of Irish soldiers joined the Saint Patrick’s Battalion to help defend Mexico against the invading US army. They fought under Irish Captain John Riley and they marched under the green flag of Saint Patrick, with the harp and the shamrock and the Irish words Erin Go Bragh embroidered across it. “Ireland forever.” Today, the Saint Patrick's Battalion is still remembered in Mexico. This is the ninth episode of Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News ...
Mar 17, 2025•6 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustaine...
Mar 14, 2025•9 min
Editor's note: This episode was recorded on March 4, 2025. In Syria, Assad is gone, but the country's challenges remain. Over a decade of civil war and foreign intervention has devastated the country's economy and politics, but a fragile optimism still exists. Joseph Daher and Ramah Kudaimi join this second episode of Solidarity Without Exception for a discussion on Syria's long journey from the 2011 revolution to today, and what solidarity with the Syrian people should have looked like then, an...
Mar 14, 2025•57 min
