From plans to wreck the NLRB to the impending assault on immigrants, Trump’s policies will undermine unions from all sides. We speak about the oncoming attacks on organized labor with Jimmy Williams, general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Everything you’ve heard about this election is wrong. Dr. Richard Wolff explains why.
Wealth inequality affected voting in ways both extreme and unseen—and our ire should be aimed at the billionaire class.
Posted inWorking People
‘Ascension Hospital…is making a mockery of the Church doctrine’: Baltimore Catholic nurses picket Bishops for fair contract
“We are here to show solidarity with St. Agnes [nurses] and let the Bishops know that the Ascension Hospital chain is making a mockery of the Church doctrine in Baltimore. I have witnessed firsthand how Ascension focuses on profits over patient care.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
How Big Tech made Trump 2.0
The Silicon Valley oligarchy has remade the digital landscape and culture to our disadvantage, and to the benefit of Trump and his ilk.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Solidarity or Jewish supremacy? The moral choice facing Judaism
As leaders of Jewish institutions opt for the path of imperialism and war, everyday Jewish people must reach for the traditions of justice enshrined in our culture and faith.
Posted inRattling the Bars
New DC bill seeks to abolish solitary confinement
“Who would want to lock somebody in a room the size of your bathroom and leave them in there for three years…and expect them to come out in the same condition that they went in? That’s insanity.”
Posted inWorkers of the World
India ignites in anti-rape protests after doctor’s murder. Are authorities covering up the truth?
Protests across the nation have flared after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkota this August. Activists say that police are continuing to cover up the truth despite a recent arrest.
Posted inWorking People
“Let’s unite!”: Poisoned residents of America’s sacrifice zones are banding together
We speak with residents from four different sacrifice zones in the US about how the situations they’re facing in their own communities, and their struggles for justice and accountability, are interconnected.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
‘Let this election galvanize and radicalize us’: Abby Martin, Francesca Fiorentini, and Kat Abughazaleh respond to Trump’s win
“It is up to us to build the movement we know is the only thing that has ever pushed politics left—the social movements in the streets, the masses that shut down business as usual.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Why did Democrats lose? Just listen to the voters.
The losses keep coming for Democrats, but TRNN spoke to voters in Milwaukee who might offer some lessons for the Democrats as they seek to rebuild and rebrand.
