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  • Episode 22 | Writing as an act of resistance

    Episode 22 | Writing as an act of resistance
    2025/04/18
    The most powerful acts of resistance are sometimes the simple choices we make each day. The words we write. The pictures we take. The people we support. And the decision to step outside our home. To volunteer at migrant shelters. To stand with the most oppressed and marginalized. To fight against unjust systems. These are the daily acts of resistance of writer and reporter Tamara Pearson.

    You can follow her work at https://resistancewords.com/She tweets at https://x.com/pajaritaroja

    You can find Tamara Pearson’s latest novel, Eyes of the Earth, at https://resistancewords.com/novel-the-eyes-of-the-earth/

    This is Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting, and support at patreon.com/mfox.

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  • Episode 21 | Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony

    Episode 21 | Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony
    2025/04/16
    Federico Avalos is an Argentine poet. But he does not write the words. He recites them. And poetry is both Federico’s job and his activism. A theatric intervention. A temporal break in time from the digital monotony: The selfies, the tweets, the posts, the likes, the comments and the follows.

    This is Federico's resistance. Standing up to the cyber mayhem. Breathing art into the void. Magic. Reflection.

    This is episode 21 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.
    April is poetry month in the United States. We are taking advantage to feature three stories about poetry and writing this week. This is the second of those three.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting and support at www.patreon.com/mfox.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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  • Episode 20 | Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian

    Episode 20 | Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian
    2025/04/14
    Titles do not do Eduardo Galeano justice. He was writer, reader, journalist, editor. But he was also historian. Catching stories in the air. Writing and retelling them anew. But he did not write for the stuffy halls of the elites or academia. He wrote for the people. He was a truth teller. A myth maker. An essayist. A poet. Polishing his craft. Honing his art. Chiseling his sculptures with words, until they were perfectly symmetrical. Gorgeous bouquets of words.

    He was a storyteller. And his tales had morals. His vignettes — tiny packets of beauty that remind us who we are, and where we come from. The immense injustices carried out by the powerful and the profound insight of the people. He died on April 13, 2015. This week is the 10-year-anniversary of his passing.

    This is episode 20 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.
    April is poetry month in the United States. We are taking advantage to feature three stories about poetry and writing this week. This is the first of those three.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting and support at www.patreon.com/mfox.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    Here is a clip of Michael’s interview with Eduardo Galeano about the UN and international institutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57MLK0rmkU&t=16s

    You can watch Michael Fox and Silvia Leindecker’s full documentary, Beyond Elections, below
    In English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4YYYiQIco&t=114s
    En Español: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdXksT92uU&t=1246s
    En Portugues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5S_iKHjLBM&t=2111s

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    6 分
  • Episode 19 | Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup

    Episode 19 | Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup
    2025/04/11
    On April 11, 2002, a massacre occurred on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, as rebelling officers and members of the country’s Chamber of Commerce attempted a coup against the democratically elected president Hugo Chavez. The coup lasted just two days.

    The people were not having it. Chavez supporters descended from the hillsides of the poorest communities across Caracas and amassed outside of Miraflores, the presidential palace. They refused to recognize the de facto government.

    On April 13, Chavez’s presidential guard expelled the coup leaders and returned Chavez to power. Pressure from both the people and loyal military forces led to the collapse of the coup government. The people and the military united together to defend their democratically elected leader.
    If you’re interested in more background, you can check out the following documentaries.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    The Revolution Will Not be Televised (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH5nzZU0qCc

    Llaguno Bridge: Keys to a Massacre (2004): Host Michael Fox helped to translate and narrate this documentary in English.
    In English: https://vimeo.com/40502430
    In Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9jE1c0XPE

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  • Episode 18 | The Cochabamba Water War: Bolivia’s rebellion against neoliberalism

    Episode 18 | The Cochabamba Water War: Bolivia’s rebellion against neoliberalism
    2025/04/09
    April 10 marks the 25th anniversary of the people’s victory in the Cochabamba Water War against the privatization of of their precious resource. Community members protested and shut down the streets for months in defense of their right to water after Cochabamba handed the municipal water supply over to a subsidiary of the US construction firm Bechtel. Rates spiked. People stood up.

    This is episode 18 of Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting and support at www.patreon.com/mfox.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    If you are interested in more information on the Cochabamba Water War, we recommend you check out the 2010 movie Tambien La Lluvia, featuring Gael García Bernal. It is a tremendous look back at that time, amid a scathing critique of how the Spanish, foreign companies and white elites have always treated local Indigenous and campesino populations in Bolivia and across Latin America.

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  • Episode 17 | Chile’s Roma community: Maintaining an identity through resistance

    Episode 17 | Chile’s Roma community: Maintaining an identity through resistance
    2025/04/07
    April 8 is the International Day of the Roma, or Romani, people. It takes place each year to focus attention on the discrimination and marginalization of Roma communities across the world.

    According to researchers, there are upwards of 15 million Roma people worldwide, and 1.5 million Roma people in Latin America. They continue to hold on to their traditions & way of life, despite discrimination & marginalization.

    This is episode 17 of Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting and support at www.patreon.com/mfox.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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  • Episode 16 | Free Lula: The vigil that freed a president

    Episode 16 | Free Lula: The vigil that freed a president
    2025/04/04
    On April 7, 2018, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was jailed on charges of corruption. But his supporters said he was innocent — convicted on trumped-up charges by a biased judge hell-bent on power, and taking down the Workers Party. They launched an around the clock vigil that would last for 580 days. Finally, Brazil’s Supreme Court tossed out the conviction. Lula was free. Less than three years later, he once again won the presidency.

    This is episode 16 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    This week, in remembrance of the anniversary of Brazil’s military coup on March 31, 1964, we are taking a deep dive in Brazil. All three episodes this week look at stories of resistance in Brazil. From protest music, to general strikes against the dictatorship, to the Free Lula vigil in more recent times.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting, and support at www.patreon.com/mfox. There, you can also see Michael’s exclusive pictures of the Free Lula Vigil.

    You can check out more of Michael's in-depth reporting of the Free Lula vigil in the following reports for The Real News and his 2022 podcast Brazil on Fire:
    • Free Lula Samba at Brazil’s Carnival
    • Brazil’s Ex-President Lula Freed, Promises to Continue Fight for Justice
    • Brazil on Fire podcast
    • Episode 2 (Brazil on Fire podcast): Free Lula
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  • Episode 15 | Strike! How Brazil’s workers won democracy

    Episode 15 | Strike! How Brazil’s workers won democracy
    2025/04/02
    In 1979 and 1980, Brazilian metal workers held huge strikes, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. They were unprecedented, and a sign of the beginning of the end of the military dictatorship. They were led by one charismatic labor leader named Luís Inácio Lula da Silva.This is episode 15 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program.Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.This week, in remembrance of the anniversary of Brazil’s military coup on March 31, 1964, we are taking a deep dive in Brazil. All three episodes this week look at stories of resistance in Brazil. From protest music, to general strikes against the dictatorship, to the Free Lula vigil in more recent times.Written and produced by Michael Fox.Here is a link to a Spotify playlist of songs written in resistance to Brazil’s military dictatorship. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting, and support at www.patreon.com/mfox.Subscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast hereBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastResources:1980: The Strike with Lula Imprisoned – Memories of the DictatorshipMarch 13, 1979: The ABC Metalworkers' Strike is Launched – Strengthening Unionism and Weakening the Military Dictatorship (DMT em Debate)The ABC Strikes and the End of the Dictatorship – Mundo EducaçãoVideo: Assembly Line (1983) – How Lula Brought the Working Class to Its Feet in the 1978–1980 StrikesVideo: Documentary on the ABC Strikes – DMT em DebateVideo: Assembly Line (1983) – Lula and the Strikes of 1978 to 1980Video: Lula – Speech to Workers During the ABC Strike (1979)Video: ABC Strike – Historical Footage
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    4 分