In this bilingual podcast, we speak with a panel of community and immigrant justice organizers from Baltimore’s Latino/Latine community about the Key Bridge collapse and the plight of immigrant workers in the US.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
The Key Bridge disaster was caused by the oppression of workers
From the substandard conditions aboard the Dali freighter to the preventable deaths of the Key Bridge 6, the fingerprints of a system that exploits and endangers workers are all over this catastrophe.
Posted inEdge of Sports TV
Jack McCallum’s ‘The Real Hoosiers’ chronicles the Crispus Attucks team’s historic championship victories
In 1950s Indiana haunted by the Klan, the all-Black Crispus Attucks High School basketball team won two state championships—striking a blow against segregation.
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‘This is unforgivable’: Israeli airstrike kills 7 World Central Kitchen workers
“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war,” said the aid group’s CEO.
Posted inPrisons and Policing
Controversial Colorado cop watcher who prompted groundbreaking legal precedent indicted federally
Already serving a 12-year sentence in Colorado, First Amendment activist Eric Brandt now faces unexpected federal charges handed down at the most inopportune time.
Posted inThe Chris Hedges Report
Hamas: How Israel created its own nemesis
By shutting the door to any peaceful resolution and leaving no other option for Palestinians, Israel created its own nemesis in Hamas.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
‘The killing in Gaza will stop when Hamas releases the hostages’ is a pro-war crime argument
Conditioning the starvation and bombing of children on the actions of combatants is the definition of collective punishment.
Posted inThe Chris Hedges Report
Norman Finkelstein on Israel’s ‘final solution’ in Gaza
The renegade historian speaks with Chris Hedges at Princeton.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Property developers are exacerbating the housing crisis
Hundreds of millions in tax breaks have been shelled out to corporate developers in Baltimore, showing how corruption and profiteering worked hand-in-hand over decades to worsen the housing crisis.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
‘An international crime scene’: How the US is stoking crisis in Haiti
For 20 years, the Western countries of the ‘Core Group’ have taken over Haiti’s politics and fueled the violence now being used as a pretext for intervention.