Four years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then.

Railroad jobs have ‘gotten worse’ since Biden and Congress blocked workers from striking

Four years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then...

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Lawyers are appealing to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had urged the release of Leonard Peltier.

Legal team of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal appeals to the UN for support

Lawyers are appealing to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had urged the release of Leonard Peltier.

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Baltimore City! This Sat, Aug 8 at 3 PM, join Dr. S. Rasheem & organizers at The Real News Network for a screening of Beyond the Wire—a film placing grassroots organizing, not street crime, at the heart of its story. Q&A to follow. Don't miss it!

Beyond the WIRE screening and Q&A

Beyond the Wire is a powerful documentary that challenges media distortion of Baltimore City popularized by the WIRE.

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This is great news! 📰

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 6d ago

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

The news media needs to be run by actual journalists, people who know how the 4th estate is supposed to work and hold that responsibility sacred. Support independent news media and starve the billionaire-run corporate news media. The latter has already sold you out.

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 6d ago

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

As GOP lawmakers push “tough-on-crime” policies in Washington, D.C., re-entry advocates argue these backward measures will only increase recidivism, not prevent it.

Voices for a Second Chance: Returning citizens demand investment in re-entry, not incarceration

As GOP lawmakers push "tough-on-crime" policies in Washington, D.C., re-entry advocates argue these backward measures will only increase recidivism, not prevent it.

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Immigrant rights advocates say more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations

Hunger strikes are spreading in ICE jails amid widespread due process violations, advocates say

Immigrant rights advocates say more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations

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Worker run cooperative news organizations are the antidote to current issues regarding news Remove the capitalists from the equation and eliminate many of the obstacles to providing accurate truthful news

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 6d ago

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

It’s always great to be on Max’s show and it was especially so to be on with Steve Mellon to talk about what we’ve been working on for months! Follow @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social for updates and check out our website (where one of stories is written by me!)

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 6d ago

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

“They're doing this with the active assistance of the U.S. and financial assistance from, up until very recently, institutions like the UAW.” @uaw.org delegates voted to divest $400K in Israel bonds—a historic first. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social talks with the workers who helped make it happen.

United Auto Workers Divests From Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

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Friends, familia. I want to share some wild/incredible news: After 9 seasons and nearly 400 episodes, the original Working People podcast feed I started has crossed 1 million downloads! I'm honestly kind of speechless (for once). There's so much I want to say but for now I'll just say this...

Michigan primaries are Aug 4! In the frigid cold of winter, I traveled all the way to Saginaw, Michigan, to get a chance to sit down with progressive Democratic Senate candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Here is our full, unedited conversation @therealnews.com therealnews.com/can-the-demo...

Can the Democratic Party be saved? TRNN’s full, unedited interview with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

“I'm a democrat with lowercase D, and I hope someday we can win the fight for what the Democratic Party can be. I'm not willing to let go of all that infrastructure because a few folks who can't let g...

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This is a great and necessary podcast. Congrats, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social! Solidarity.

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 5d ago

Friends, familia. I want to share some wild/incredible news: After 9 seasons and nearly 400 episodes, the original Working People podcast feed I started has crossed 1 million downloads! I'm honestly kind of speechless (for once). There's so much I want to say but for now I'll just say this...

Friends, familia. I want to share some wild/incredible news: After 9 seasons and nearly 400 episodes, the original Working People podcast feed I started has crossed 1 million downloads! I'm honestly kind of speechless (for once). There's so much I want to say but for now I'll just say this...

"[Some in our movement want us all] to agree on the critique—and we always break apart on the critique. It’s not about the critique; it’s about the outcome...the more you focus on how you want the world to be like...even if they come at it with different perspectives...the better off we are."

Maximillian Alvarez@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 5d ago

Michigan primaries are Aug 4! In the frigid cold of winter, I traveled all the way to Saginaw, Michigan, to get a chance to sit down with progressive Democratic Senate candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Here is our full, unedited conversation @therealnews.com therealnews.com/can-the-demo...

Michigan primaries are Aug 4! In the frigid cold of winter, I traveled all the way to Saginaw, Michigan, to get a chance to sit down with progressive Democratic Senate candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Here is our full, unedited conversation @therealnews.com therealnews.com/can-the-demo...

Can the Democratic Party be saved? TRNN’s full, unedited interview with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

“I'm a democrat with lowercase D, and I hope someday we can win the fight for what the Democratic Party can be. I'm not willing to let go of all that infrastructure because a few folks who can't let g...

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There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

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The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”

Can the Democratic Party be saved? Here is our full, unedited interview with Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social The Michigan Senate race is one of the most crucial battlegrounds for the future of the Democrats & the balance of power in DC. Primaries take place Aug 4 therealnews.com/can-the-demo...

Can the Democratic Party be saved? TRNN’s full, unedited interview with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

“I'm a democrat with lowercase D, and I hope someday we can win the fight for what the Democratic Party can be. I'm not willing to let go of all that infrastructure because a few folks who can't let g...

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Brava! As someone who grew up in the newspaper industry, KUDOS!

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 6d ago

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

This is a story of PATRIOTS

Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 6d ago

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Are cop watchers journalists? Provocatuers? Or something else? You don't want to miss tonight's LIVE DEBATE with (in)famous cop watcher Long Island Audit and our own @tayagraham.bsky.social and Stephen Janis on Police Accountability Report! Tune in at 8PM ET! www.youtube.com/live/DXqtoay...

Long Island Audit Debates: Is he a Copwatcher? Journalist? Or Gadfly?

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How Trump and DOGE made it easier for you to get diarrhea "DOGE’s handiwork should certainly allow for more efficient spread of diseases like cyclosporiasis..." @ceprdc.bsky.social therealnews.com/how-trump-an...

How Trump and DOGE made it easier for you to get diarrhea

This latest outbreak is unfolding in a system that is even more diminished and underresourced than it was in 2020.

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The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

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Former @post-gazette.com workers went on strike for 3+ years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social “owned and democratically run by its workers and members.” therealnews.com/worker-owned...

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

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BREAKING: Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old elder was brutally beaten in Baltimore. I was there on the ground for @therealnews.com therealnews.com/baltimore-co...

Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old was brutally beaten in Baltimore

A local elder and Black Panther veteran was attacked and brutally beaten by six teenagers at the same 7-11 in Baltimore where Victorious Swift was murdered in 2017. Now, the community is rising up to ...

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BREAKING: Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old elder was brutally beaten in Baltimore. I was there on the ground for @therealnews.com therealnews.com/baltimore-co...

Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old was brutally beaten in Baltimore

A local elder and Black Panther veteran was attacked and brutally beaten by six teenagers at the same 7-11 in Baltimore where Victorious Swift was murdered in 2017. Now, the community is rising up to ...

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Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged

Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.

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A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged... Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one @ahjohnson.bsky.social therealnews.com/a-new-centri...

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged

Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.

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“Workers are being killed and murdered everyday by Israel.” @uaw.org member Navruz Baum spoke about why rank-and-file workers pushed their union to divest from Israel, ultimately voting to sell $400,000 in Israel bonds. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social on the vote & the organizing behind it.

United Auto Workers Divests From Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

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Can the Democratic Party be Saved? Watch our full, unedited sit-down interview with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, Democratic candidate running to represent Michigan in the US Senate youtu.be/l9dBde8q0so?...

Can Abdul El-Sayed Reshape the Democratic Party? UNEDITED INTERVIEW

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