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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:36 UTC

‘Palestine Remembers’ is a new documentary project that highlights memory as a form of resistance—but it can’t happen without your help

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:41 UTC

“We held the rally… to show [management] that we’re not afraid, that we’re not going to be intimidated, and that we’re not going to back down until we win a good contract for our patients and for ourselves”

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

Arik Ascherman speaks on the work of Torat Tzedek, which works to assist Palestinian shepherds in protecting their land from settlers in the West Bank.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

Student encampment organizers have shone a light on SOAS’s investments in companies that produce white phosphorus, an internationally banned incendiary weapon frequently used by the IDF.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

Supervised release replaced federal parole and probation decades ago, but it effectively extends punishments for people who’ve already served their time.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:14 UTC

Endowments are meant to insulate universities from politics. But far from being apolitical, the arrangement prioritizes the whims of the market, the authority of financial experts, and the preferences of donors over the concerns of students and faculty.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:48 UTC

Milton, West Virginia police raided and impounded Coty Cecil’s camper van over eight hemp plants. Yet Cabell County authorities also have a development deal with Trulieve—a billion-dollar cannabis company.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:53 UTC

The first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has set off a crisis in the Democratic party. The dismal performance of the media should also enrage us all.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:10 UTC

Atlanta’s Democratic leadership is trying to build a massive police urban-warfare training facility before the public can stop it. The outcome will set a precedent for the political future, with implications well beyond the city itself.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 20:53 UTC

The NTSB chair said the company tried to “manufacture” evidence, avoided sharing information, and threatened agency staff as she released findings from a 17-month investigation into the East Palestine disaster.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

Catastrophic flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul has working people searching for solutions, and accountability from local officials.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:07 UTC

Jen Perelman’s unapologetically anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian views have made her a potent challenger to incumbent Wasserman Schulz in the race for Florida’s 25th congressional district.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

“We thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom,” said WikiLeaks. “Julian’s freedom is our freedom.”

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

First incarcerated in 1970, Thomas ‘Tahaka’ Gaither remains a political prisoner of the US. Gaither and his daughter open up about the impact this has had on generations of their family.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 20:36 UTC

Almost nine months in, American news outlets keep Natural Disaster-izing Gaza

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 20:47 UTC

Living under Israeli bombardment, siege, and famine, Gaza’s children are growing up fast—and finding ways to endure.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

Joyce Ajlouny of American Friends Service Committee speaks on the escalation of Zionist terror against Palestinians in the West Bank since Oct. 7.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

Nearly 300 Pro-Palestine activists with Jewish Voice for Peace blockaded entrances and occupied an intersection outside a Biden campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles. therealnews.com/jvp-activist...

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

Alexia Pitter’s father was incarcerated when she was just three years old. Growing up, she never thought he would ever leave prison—until she started to fight back.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 16:09 UTC

In an attempt to crush progressive gains, Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Death Star Bill” ended the Lone Star State’s longstanding legal paradigm of ‘home rule,’ a concept activists have used to win local protections for labor, the environment, and more.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

Mexico’s first woman president has been elected in a landslide. Does this signal clear satisfaction with the progressive Morena party, or a deeper fear of the right-wing old guard?

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 18:43 UTC

Traumatologist Dr. Da’Mond Holt discusses the ways mass incarceration inflicts deliberate trauma as strategy to oppress working class people of color.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 15:02 UTC

Impacted residents say two new settlements with Norfolk Southern, the company involved in the accident, won’t provide their communities with the resources they need most.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 22:16 UTC

“Today is an historical day for labor in America as we now combine forces with one of the most powerful unions to take on Amazon together”

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 14:50 UTC

The theft of Palestinian land by Zionist settlers forces many Palestinians to turn to unregulated and dangerous electronic recycling factories in the West Bank as their only option for employment.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 16:07 UTC

Despite prior warnings that an invasion of Rafah would be a ‘red line,’ Biden continues to ply Israel with weapons and funding for its genocide in Gaza.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:59 UTC

Traumatologist Dr. DaMond Holt explains the medical reality of Black historical trauma, and what kinds of interventions and solutions are required to promote healing as a form of justice.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

The pier cost $320 million, delivered virtually no aid, then collapsed. But it achieved its primary goal: good headlines for the Biden administration.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 20:24 UTC

In Northern Alberta, First Nations leaders and their neighbours are uniting against an oil and gas company that has asked a court to arrest and jail a chief and members of his nation so they can move ahead with a drilling project.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 21:46 UTC

In the 1980s, the Reagan administration’s drive to crush Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution would lead to one of its greatest scandals: the Iran-Contra Affair.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

Rising global temperatures should force us to reconsider everything about how we do sports—from the number of breaks to whether mega-events like the Olympics are really worth it.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 20:46 UTC

The ancient, sacred grounds of Apache Native territory are under threat from a looming giant — a massive copper mine that promises riches for the locals, and a pathway to the so-called green transition. But, as is often the case, it comes at a cost.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

At least nine Goucher College students involved in a pro-Palestine encampment on the campus received emails on May 14 placing them on probation and threatening their suspension if they did not agree to comply with the campus’s demonstration policy by the next day.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

“It’s time for us to stand up against what is happening to Palestinians in our name,” Lily Greenberg Call says in an interview with In These Times.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

A victory in the Southern state, said one organizer, “would show workers across all different industries that they can stand up together and fight for more.”

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 17:54 UTC

When the anti-imperialist Sandinista Revolution took power in Nicaragua from the Somoza family, the Reagan administration responded by funding the Contras.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

The scandals we’ve seen over players’ and fans’ gambling behavior are just the tip of the iceberg—Danny Funt’s new book on the sports betting industry shows us just how deep the rot could reach.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 20:31 UTC

Widespread outrage at Biden’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza has turned the Democratic primary into a battleground for the party’s future.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

Representatives from the university handed out forms on Wednesday, May 8 asking demonstrators to agree to leave and not return

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

The Real News reports from Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, where the IDF recently killed 14 Palestinians and destroyed a neighborhood, including a local school.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

“We had already run out of words to describe how catastrophic the situation is in Rafah—but this next chapter will take it to indescribable new levels,” said Save the Children International’s CEO.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

Instead of support and resources, formerly incarcerated women face surveillance, fees, and stigma.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 02, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

The former MLB catcher has some choice words of his own about Oakland A’s owner John Fisher’s decision to move the team to Las Vegas.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] May 02, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

The broadcast media giant has been unrelenting with its reporting on Baltimore’s problems and miscues; at the same time, Sinclair has failed to disclose its own ties to the city government and the generous tax breaks it’s received.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

Joining students at over 100 campuses and encampments on every continent, students, grad students, and faculty at the University of Michigan join the call for divestment.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

Surgeons Osaid Alser and Simon Fitzgerald speak about supporting surgeons at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis—where mass graves of Palestinians massacred by Israeli soldiers have since been discovered.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Cop watchers James Freeman, LackLuster, The Battousai, Tom Zebra, Laura Shark, and Otto The Watchdog join a special livestream panel to discuss the impact of the grassroots cop watcher movement and the possibility of police reform in America today.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Vina Colley developed cancer after just three years working at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, where her employers knowingly exposed her to radioactive material. Her fight for justice has spanned decades.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 20:12 UTC

‘We, the people of Yemen, say to America, the Big Satan, that any actions and aggression will only increase our commitment and joy in achieving our goal of ending the aggression and siege on the people of Palestine.’

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