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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 23, 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...

Apr 23, 20258 min

Flamingos: Resisting in the driest desert on the planet | Ep 23 Stories of Resistance

The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet, and one of the most inhospitable. But salt lagoons dot the barren landscape, and flamingos are one of a number of species that have adapted to live in this harsh environment, and are battling to survive. This is episode 24 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 week, we’ll bring you stories o...

Apr 23, 20254 min

A bitcoin mine in Texas is "killing us slowly," local residents say | Working People

“I would like to see Texas become the center of the universe for bitcoin and crypto,” US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in 2021. In 2024, Republican Governor Greg Abbott said Texas “wears the crown as the bitcoin mining capital of the world.” But in small towns like Granbury, TX, about an hour southwest of Fort Worth, residents are the ones paying the price for Texas’s crypto boom. A 300-megawatt bitcoin mine, which is owned by Marathon Digital, a Florida-based cryptocurrency company, uses a mi...

Apr 23, 202551 min

International observers are defending Palestinians in the West Bank with their own bodies | The Marc Steiner Show

Even before the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli attacks on the West Bank were escalating in 2025. By Feb. 5, 70 Palestinians were reported killed this year alone. Anna Lippman , a member of Independent Jewish Voices, has traveled on numerous occasions to the West Bank from her home in Toronto, Canada, to stand with Palestinians defending their land from attacks by Israeli soldiers and armed settlers. Most recently, Lippman was in the Masafer Yatta community in the occupied West Bank as Ham...

Apr 22, 202524 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 22, 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 22, 202510 min

Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time | Ep 23 Stories of Resistance

In recent years, local organizations, together with dozens of Indigenous communities, have planted more than 10 million trees up and down the Andes, with almost half of them in the Peruvian mountains around Cusco. Many of the tree species are threatened, and many of the ecosystems at risk. The trees help to protect and preserve the local environments and ecosystems and in particular help retain water. The communities are also holding on to their local cultures, beliefs and religion. Making offer...

Apr 21, 20256 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 21, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 21, 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 21, 20256 min

Writing as an act of resistance | Ep 22 Stories of Resistance

The most powerful acts of resistance are sometimes the simple choices we make each day. The words we write. The pictures we take. The people we support. And the decision to step outside our home. To volunteer at migrant shelters. To stand with the most oppressed and marginalized. To fight against unjust systems. These are the daily acts of resistance of writer and reporter Tamara Pearson. You can follow her work at https://resistancewords.com/She tweets at https://x.com/pajaritaroja You can find...

Apr 18, 20254 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 18, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 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 sustaine...

Apr 18, 20257 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 17, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 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 sustai...

Apr 17, 20256 min

Columbia University students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks | Working People

One year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and around the world. Now, Columbia has become ground zero for the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on higher education, academic freedom, and the right to free speech and free assembly—all under the McCarthyist guise of rooting out “anti-semitism.” From Trump’s threats to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts with Colum...

Apr 16, 202559 min

Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony | Ep 21 Stories of Resistance

Federico Avalos is an Argentine poet. But he does not write the words. He recites them. And poetry is both Federico’s job and his activism. A theatric intervention. A temporal break in time from the digital monotony: The selfies, the tweets, the posts, the likes, the comments and the follows. This is Federico's resistance. Standing up to the cyber mayhem. Breathing art into the void. Magic. Reflection. This is episode 21 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Globa...

Apr 16, 20256 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 16, 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...

Apr 16, 202510 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 15, 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 15, 20257 min

Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian | Ep 20 Stories of Resistance

Titles do not do Eduardo Galeano justice. He was writer, reader, journalist, editor. But he was also historian. Catching stories in the air. Writing and retelling them anew. But he did not write for the stuffy halls of the elites or academia. He wrote for the people. He was a truth teller. A myth maker. An essayist. A poet. Polishing his craft. Honing his art. Chiseling his sculptures with word, until they were perfectly symmetrical. Gorgeous bouquets of words. He was a storyteller. And his tale...

Apr 14, 20256 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 14, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 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...

Apr 14, 202510 min

Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup | Ep 19 Stories of Resistance

On April 11, 2002, a massacre occurred on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, as rebelling officers and members of the country’s Chamber of Commerce attempted a coup against the democratically elected president Hugo Chavez. The coup lasted just two days. The people were not having it. Chavez supporters descended from the hillsides of the poorest communities across Caracas and amassed outside of Miraflores, the presidential palace. They refused to recognize the de facto government. On April 13, Ch...

Apr 11, 20256 min

Funding cuts, ICE abductions, chaos, fear: Higher education in the new Trump era | Working People

International students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today’s urgent episode of Working P...

Apr 11, 20251 hr

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, April 11, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, April 11, 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 11, 20256 min

“Kill the Cuts”: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal | Working People

On Tuesday, April 8, unions, unionized federal workers, and their supporters around the country mobilized for a national “Kill the Cuts” day of action to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to life-saving research, healthcare, and education programs. As organizers stated on the Kill The Cuts website, "By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. These cuts are dangerous t...

Apr 10, 202535 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, April 10, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 10, 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 10, 20259 min

The Cochabamba Water War: Bolivia’s rebellion against neoliberalism | Stories of Resistance Ep 18

April 10 marks the 25th anniversary of the people’s victory in the Cochabamba Water War against the privatization of of their precious resource. Community members protested and shut down the streets for months in defense of their right to water after Cochabamba handed the municipal water supply over to a subsidiary of the US construction firm Bechtel. Rates spiked. People stood up. This is episode 18 of Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange . Inde...

Apr 09, 20254 min

Will the Philippines be a battleground for US-China war? | Solidarity Without Exception

Since 1565, the Philippines has been in the grip of one imperialist power after another. Even after independence, the archipelago remains a kind of functional US colony. Now, territorial conflict in the South China Sea could turn the Philippines into a battleground for US-China war. Josua Mata joins Solidarity Without Exception to discuss the Philippines long history of colonization and resistance. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and be...

Apr 09, 20251 hr 2 min

Cancelled by Israel: Canada human rights pro Birju Dattani speaks out | The Marc Steiner Show

Birju Dattani's tenure as Canada's chief human rights commissioner was short-lived. After holding the post for less than a year, Dattani was forced to resign by a smear campaign targeting him for his social media posts criticizing Israel. Now, Dattani is suing his critics, and joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss his case and the wider implications for human rights and free speech in countries backing Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Links: Read the Statement of Claim: https://www.stlbarrist...

Apr 09, 202530 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 9, 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 09, 20259 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 8, 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 08, 20258 min

Former Black Panther Mansa Musa on how to fight Trump: 'Get organized!'

Mansa Musa, host of Rattling the Bars , spent 48 years in prison before his release in 2019. At the invitation of the UMD College Park Young Democratic Socialists of America, Mansa delivered a lecture on his life behind bars and the political struggles of prisoners. Produced and edited by Cameron Granadino. Help us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer. Sign up for our newsletter Follow us on Bluesky Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Donate ...

Apr 07, 20251 hr 8 min

Chile’s Roma community: Maintaining an identity through resistance | Stories of Resistance Ep 17

April 8 is the International Day of the Roma, or Romani, people. It takes place each year to focus attention on the discrimination and marginalization of Roma communities across the world. According to researchers, there are upwards of 15 million Roma people worldwide, and 1.5 million Roma people in Latin America. They continue to hold on to their traditions & way of life, despite discrimination & marginalization. This is episode 17 of Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by...

Apr 07, 20254 min

Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, April 7, 2025

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, April 7, 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 07, 20257 min

The vigil that freed a president | Stories of Resistance Ep 16

On April 7, 2018, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was jailed on charges of corruption. But his supporters said he was innocent — convicted on trumped-up charges by a biased judge hell-bent on power, and taking down the Workers Party. They launched an around the clock vigil that would last for 580 days. Finally, Brazil’s Supreme Court tossed out the conviction. Lula was free. Less than three years later, he once again won the presidency. This is episode 16 of Stories of Resistance — a ...

Apr 04, 20256 min
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