The year is 1968. Summertime. Washington, DC. And covering the National Mall are endless rows of shacks built by hundreds of poor families from across the United States. It’s called Resurrection City, and they have come to Washington to demand an end to poverty and a new economic bill of rights… for the poor. This was Martin Luther King Jr’s dream. The Poor People’s Campaign is what he’d been working for in the months before he was killed in April 1968. The city would last for six weeks. It woul...
Jun 24, 2025•10 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 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...
Jun 24, 2025•7 min
In Los Angeles, CA, armed, masked agents of the state are snatching and disappearing immigrants off the street, peaceful protestors and journalists are being attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets, National Guard troops and active-duty Marines have been deployed to police and intimidate American citizens. Fear and uncertainty have gripped America’s second largest city as a barrage of misinformation obscures the reality on the ground; nevertheless, Angelinos continue to defy the Trump administ...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 21 min
For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year. But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations. They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance. And it’s not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Rea...
Jun 23, 2025•7 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 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 sustainer...
Jun 23, 2025•8 min
On June 16, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace in Chicago—Ash Bohrer, Becca Lubow, Avey Rips, Seph Mozes, Audrey Gladson, and Benjamin Teller—began an indefinite hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, unconditional military aid for Israel, and the blockade of food and medical aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians now living amongst the rubble. In this urgent episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with two of the Chicago hunger strikers, Ash Bohrer and Avey Rips, about th...
Jun 21, 2025•30 min
If you walk down the street in Paraguay, you will hear people speaking Spanish, the official language of most of the countries of Latin America. But, particularly if you are in the countryside, you will also hear something else: Guaraní. It’s one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in the Americas; a mother tongue of roughly six and half million people. In particular, in Paraguay. There, most Paraguayans speak Guaraní or a mixture of Guaraní and Spanish, regardless of whether or not t...
Jun 20, 2025•4 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, June 20, 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...
Jun 20, 2025•6 min
Q’eswachaka is the last Incan rope bridge. It’s located down in a valley in the Andes mountains of Peru. And in early June, the residents of four Quechua communities hold a three-day-long festival, where they rebuild the bridge from scratch. This is not just a task to be done, but an ancestral ceremony. A means of holding on to their traditions and the story—resisting modernity and the passage of time, by preserving this piece of their history and their culture. The bridge itself is a symbol of ...
Jun 18, 2025•3 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 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 sustai...
Jun 18, 2025•7 min
Raised in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, Rabbi Abby Stein has had a long, painful, beautiful journey to coming out as a transgender woman and becoming a fierce opponent of Zionism and Israel’s Occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show , Marc speaks with Rabbi Stein about her journey, and about the need to simultaneously fight Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the right’s fascist assault on the rights of LGBTQ+ people here in th...
Jun 17, 2025•49 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 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...
Jun 17, 2025•6 min
Bruce Springsteen has never shied away from expressing his political views. And he’s not gonna back down now. “In my home, the America I love. The America I’ve written about. That has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,” he told a crowd at a concert in Europe, in May. Donald Trump responded over Truth Social, calling him a “pushy, obnoxious jerk” and a “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker.” In dark times, ...
Jun 16, 2025•8 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 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 sustainer...
Jun 16, 2025•6 min
You might think that Ernesto “Che” Guevara's resistance came with the Cuban revolution. When he sailed on the yacht known as the Granma, picked up arms, fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra, and liberated the island of Cuba. Or when he denounced US intervention at the United Nations, or when he helped to lead Cuba and make it self-sufficient, despite the US embargo that still exists today. Or when he left it all behind to try and spark a revolution in Bolivia. But Ernesto Guevara'...
Jun 13, 2025•6 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, June 13, 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...
Jun 13, 2025•6 min
Investigative journalists Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the insider knowledge surrounding Joe Biden’s decline—and how the Democratic Party’s culture of silence, conformity, and caution may have sealed its own fate. From the “get in line” politics that killed bold policy and risk-taking to focus groups calling Democrats “sloths,” Stephen and Taya explore why Biden was protected despite clear signs of decline, the Democratic Party’s aversion to bold candidates, what Bernie Sanders and D...
Jun 12, 2025•22 min
President Trump’s Executive Order calling for incarcerated transgender women to be housed in men’s prisons and halting gender-affirming medical care for prisoners has put one of the most vulnerable segments of the prison population in even greater danger. In this episode of Rattling the Bars , host Mansa Musa investigates the violent realities trans inmates face in the US prison system, and the impact that Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights is having inside prisons. Guest(s): Dee Deidre Farmer, Ex...
Jun 12, 2025•22 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, June 12, 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...
Jun 12, 2025•8 min
On June 6, thousands of veterans, union members, VA hospital nurses, elected officials, and more gathered on the National Mall in Washington D.C. at the “Unite for Veterans, Unite for America rally” to protest the Trump administration’s attacks on veteran jobs, benefits, and healthcare. In this on-the-ground edition of Working People, we report from Friday’s rally and speak with veterans and VA nurses about how Trump’s policies are affecting them now and how to fix the longstanding issues with t...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 27 min
Independent journalists say they are under threat in El Salvador. At least 15 journalists have fled the country in recent weeks. Roughly a dozen more are in hiding out of fear for their safety. “There's an atmosphere of fear, of anxiety. Of insecurity,” says Oscar Orellana, the head of the community media association ARPAS. But many continue to report. They continue to denounce the unjust detention of human rights defenders. They continue to tell the stories that need to be told. Resisting… desp...
Jun 11, 2025•6 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, June 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 sustai...
Jun 11, 2025•6 min
Move over, Jon Stewart. The Real News is here… We’re happy to announce that this episode of The Marc Steiner Show has been nominated for a prestigious Signal Award. Help us win by voting before October 9th and show that our scrappy team of former prisoners, organizers, and low-wage workers can go toe-to-toe with the best and biggest media organizations out there. Doctors Sarah Lalonde, Rizwan Minhas, and Yipeng Ge have all recently returned to Canada from volunteer medical delegations in Gaza wi...
Jun 10, 2025•39 min
During its reign as the dominant global superpower, the US imposed its will and wreaked imperialist havoc around the world. But as the power of US empire declines and the global order is restructured, hypernationalism and violent competition between imperial and regional powers are surging around the world, like they did before the great world wars. Can an internationalist, working-class movement of movements for peace, prosperity, and self-determination help humanity avoid a future of imperiali...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 32 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, June 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 sustaine...
Jun 10, 2025•6 min
Protesters have taken to the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. They’re protesting the detention and arrest of thousands of immigrants by Donald Trump’s immigration officials. Protests have carried on for days. They’ve shut down highways. They've shouted, “No.” Trump has responded, calling in the national guard, despite objections from local state officials. It’s the first time a president has unilaterally called in the national guard in 60 years. California governor Gavin Newsom says he’...
Jun 09, 2025•5 min
Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, June 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 sustainer....
Jun 09, 2025•7 min
If a picture is worth a thousand words, his spoke novels. He was Steinbeck, Tolstoy, and Tolkien, all in one. His images capture the spirit of the poor and working classes. And they grip the viewer. Refusing to let your eyes peal from the picture before you. Pictures in black and white. Pictures that seem to have been painted by brush strokes, but which are as real as the camera equipment he used. Sebastião Salgado was an artist. And he was a documentarian. Capturing the plight of the downtrodde...
Jun 06, 2025•7 min
Already burdened by years of funding cuts and understaffing, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities across the country are facing a crisis as the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce take effect. In this episode of Working People , Maximillian Alvarez speaks with VA nurses and union representatives for National Nurses United about how these cuts, coupled with Trump’s attempt to strip over one million federal workers of their col...
Jun 04, 2025•54 min
There is a boat sailing to Gaza right now. It carries aid for the people of Palestine. And it is called the Freedom Flotilla. It is a sign of solidarity. A sign of international resistance against Israel's war on the people of Palestine. Against the death, and destruction, and pain. Against the genocide. The goal is to break Israel's siege of Gaza. And deliver much needed humanitarian aid. The Freedom Flotilla left Sicily on June 1. It’s a seven-day voyage. If all goes as planned, it will arrive...
Jun 04, 2025•6 min
