This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on May 08, 2024. It is shared here under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license. In Cairo, representatives from Hamas held indirect negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire. The sticking point for several of the rounds was the order of events. Israel wanted the hostages to be released before it would stop the bombing, while Hamas said that the bombing must stop first. Israel has called for the disarming and dismantling of Hamas, which is a maximalist demand unlikely to be met. Hamas meanwhile would like ..read more

Across the country, Democrats are organizing campaigns to vote uncommitted in the primary elections. Yet the aims of this movement are to do more than simply register dissent against Biden’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Uncommitted Campaign will pick up delegates in every state and congressional district where more than 15% of voters cast an uncommitted primary ballot—creating the possibility of leverage within the party at the upcoming DNC. Vote Uncommitted organizers from the state of Maryland join The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the campaign and its implications f ..read more

This story originally appeared in Baltimore Beat on May 09, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Despite threats of disciplinary action, pro-Palestine demonstrators encamped at Johns Hopkins University remained there the following day.  Representatives for the university handed out forms on Wednesday, May 8, asking demonstrators who had been camped out on the area known as “the beach” since the week before to agree to leave and not return. If they did so, the school officials said, they would “defer taking conduct action” against them. “We refuse the University’s scare tactics ..read more

On April 24, activists from the around the country converged on Washington for the 10th anniversary march of the FreeHer campaign, a national movement against the prison industrial complex, focused on the release of incarcerated women and girls. Despite campaign promises to free 100 women in his first 100 days in office, the Biden administration’s record on clemency is among the worst in US history, granting clemency only 29 times in nearly four years—with 16 of these given on the day of the FreeHer march alone. Activists also called attention to the epidemic of sexual violence and abus ..read more

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on May 07, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. An alliance of unionized rail workers on Tuesday demanded that the U.S. Senate reject President Joe Biden’s nomination of former Trump administration official Ronald Batory to serve on the board of Amtrak, the nation’s passenger rail company. In a statement, Railroad Workers United (RWU) said Batory’s tenure as head of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) under former President Donald Trump “was marked by policies favori ..read more

While speaking to residents of Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank, TRNN reporters found themselves in the middle of the most destructive IDF raid since the Second Intifada. In this raid, Israeli troops killed 14 Palestinians and destroyed a neighborhood, including a local school. This video was co-produced with Shadowgraph Productions. Everything about this is normal. This film and its matching gallery present both a historic and an ordinary event. Historic, because we inadvertently captured Israel’s largest military operation in the West Bank since the Second Intifada. And ordinary, be ..read more

Critics of the prison industrial complex have long noted the system’s failure to properly rehabilitate those who are locked away in its bowels. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous return to Rattling the Bars for the second part of a two-part interview on the reality facing prisoners in Maryland’s only women’s correctional facility. Studio Production: David Hebden Post-Production: Cameron Granadino Transcript The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible. Mansa Musa: Welcome to Rattling Bars ..read more

I write to confirm that The Real News Network (TRNN) will unfortunately no longer be able to produce and co-publish The Chris Hedges Report. All past episodes produced by TRNN are freely available on TRNN and Chris’s Substack, and Chris has full rights to publish all other recorded and as-yet unpublished episodes. For the past two years, TRNN’s non-monetary agreement with Chris entailed producing The Chris Hedges Report for his independent Substack and for TRNN, in exchange for each party, including Chris himself, having full publishing rights to the show. Throughout the duration of that contr ..read more

Seven months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading across the US and beyond, hearkening back to the student protests of the ‘60s that played a pivotal role in ending the US war in Vietnam. In what is being called the “student intifada,” with over 100 encampments going up at different college and university campuses, students, faculty, grad students, and other campus community members are exercising civil disobedience, occupying space on campuses, defying brutal repression from administrators and police, combatting skewed and wildly lopsided narra ..read more

After more than 50 years, the Oakland A’s announced their departure from the city last year, leaving Oakland bereft of its sports teams after the flight of the Warriors in 2019 and the Raiders in 2020. To the dismay of fans, the A’s plan to temporarily relocate to a minor league stadium in Sacramento before permanently moving to Las Vegas in the 2028 season. Former A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell joins Edge of Sports to discuss the move, its impact on the local community and workers, and the trajectory of his own career and the place of the A’s in his life story. Studio Production: Davi ..read more