“These cuts are death sentences... If this bill is passed and its rules are codified, this will cause mass loss of insurance for many people in need for years to come. It’s not just gonna affect us now. It’s gonna affect us later.”
“I personally feel in such a desperate state about all of this that I said, ‘I don't care if I get arrested.’ I mean, what else are we going to do?”
“This is the way that we are able to continue our culture. We practice it and it’s not just about sport, it’s about our spirituality. That fills us and gives us the strength to continue.” This is episode 54 of Stories of Resistance.
Taya Graham breaks down what Bezos’s luxurious fete reveals about the massive wealth imbalance in the United States.
Can Democrats take a win? Or will they ignore the voters just to stamp out progressivism? That's the question Taya Graham and Stephen Janis debate after the victory by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary last week.
June 28, 1969, people rose up against a police raid on the NYC gay bar Stonewall Inn. It sparked a movement. This is episode 53 of Stories of Resistance.
We live in a country that has used machines to turn a dying person into a fetus incubator against the family’s wishes.
On June 28, 2009, a coup overthrew the democratically elected government in Honduras. The people responded. And one radio show took to the streets to report on the resistance. This is Episode 52 of Stories of Resistance.
A groundbreaking lawsuit representing prisoners forced to work in “inhumane” conditions could finally put an end to Angola prison’s notorious “Farm Line.”
"The people of New York City proved that a movement powered by hope, courage, and working people can beat the money of billionaires," said one Mamdani supporter.
Resisting the rain and the heat, 3,000 people lived in Resurrection City, on the Washington Mall, for weeks, to demand an end to poverty. This is episode 51 of Stories of Resistance.
“I think we are seeing, in this moment, this emergent struggle—this survival struggle that's happening across the country,” Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back tell us. “The question is: How do we bring greater organization and coordination to it?”
The war across the Middle East is part of a desperate effort to preserve Western superiority. All the fighting — whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran — is due to Zionism, and its role of enforcing the crushing force of the West.
“What I witnessed is primarily a peaceful protest. It never got violent until the police in riot gear and batons started firing munitions at protestors… This is an American protest. It was not an insurrection. I covered January 6, I know exactly what that looks like.”
Inti Raymi is the most important Indigenous celebration of the Andean countries of South America. And it is a revival of the people’s cultural history. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance.
“What wouldn’t you do to stop the slaughter of two million people?... In the face of atrocity, the lesson I have learned from my people is we cannot do nothing.”
Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where a Native American language has resisted assimilation into Spanish or Portuguese. This is episode 49 of Stories of Resistance.
Each June, the residents of four Indigenous communities in Peru rebuild the last Incan rope bridge. This is episode 48 of Stories of Resistance.
“Queer people know what it means to struggle against the government, know what it means to struggle against the status quo. And, most importantly, we're not as easily controlled…”
A breakdown of Bezos’ final coup and the bizarre pathology of right-wing ideologues really, really wanting you not to think they’re ideological.
