Editor’s note: Over the past month, journalist Brandi Morin has made multiple trips to the Woodland Cree First Nation and the Peace River area to report on this story for Ricochet, IndigiNews, and The Real News Network. This kind of on-the-ground reporting is costly, but essential. You can support our journalism by making a donation today. In Northern Alberta, First Nations leaders and their neighbours are uniting against an oil and gas company that has asked a court to arrest and jail a chief and members of his nation so they can move ahead with a drilling project.  Obsidian Energy has ..read more

The spread of the “Student Intifada” around the globe has transformed universities into sites of anti-Zionist struggle, triggering brutal repression from school administrations, police, and vigilantes. In this special livestream event, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner sit down with student organizers from the University of Michigan, Purdue, and Oxford to discuss the state of the international student movement in solidarity with Palestine. Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino & Kayla Rivara Transcript The following is a rushed transcript and may co ..read more

This story originally appeared in The Maple on May 23, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Since Israel began its brutal attack on Gaza last October, public opinion in Canada has shifted toward sympathy for the Palestinians, with 50 per cent of Canadians believing Israel’s war has been too “heavy handed,” according to pollster Angus Reid. At the same time, poll after poll points to Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, a life-long supporter of Israel, winning the next federal election with a comfortable majority, thanks in large part to a range of domestic i ..read more

In the early 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan launched a covert war to destroy the fledgling Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. It was brutal: Paramilitary war, CIA attacks, economic blockade, and more. It would wreak havoc on the country, killing tens of thousands and ravaging the economy. But an international solidarity movement stood up in response. And the Reagan government’s hubris, and drive to fuel its war on Nicaragua, would break U.S. laws and lead to a shocking scandal in Washington: Iran Contra. In this episode, host Michael Fox walks back into the 1980s, to the U.S. response ..read more

This story originally appeared in The Breach on May 16, 2024. It is shared here with permission. The executive producer peered at me with concern. It was November 16, 2023 and I had been called into a virtual meeting at CBC. I was approaching my sixth year with the public broadcaster, where I worked as a producer in television and radio. He said he could tell I was “passionate” about what was happening in Gaza. His job, he told me, was to ensure my passion wasn’t making me biased. He said I hadn’t “crossed the line” yet, but that I had to be careful. The conversation ended with him sugges ..read more

A dozen activists were arrested in an act of civil disobedience at the US Capitol in Washington DC on Wednesday, May 22, to urge President Joe Biden to “fund education not genocide.” A dozen Debt Collective members were just arrested after a hundred protestors marched from the Department of Education to the U.S. Capitol to demand the Biden administration Fund Education, Not Genocide. pic.twitter.com/fUU8CYuZs9 — The Debt Collective ? (@StrikeDebt) May 22, 2024 Ahead of the November rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump for the White House, activists are calling for Biden ..read more

This story originally appeared in Jacobin on May 22, 2024. It is shared here with permission. On Monday, May 20, 2024, the British High Court granted Julian Assange his first legal victory in four years. The court found that the WikiLeaks founder could appeal his extradition to the United States on the basis that he may be denied free expression rights and face discrimination if tried there. In the UK system, leave must be granted to appeal. Courts have previously refused to grant Assange leave to appeal on key issues. Assange remains locked up in the notorious Belmarsh Prison. And while ..read more

Nearly two months have passed since the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and the city is still reeling from the disaster. The bridge collapse immediately rendered the Port of Baltimore inoperable, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions in wages, business revenue, and state taxes. While channels into the port have begun to open back up slowly, workers on the waterfront have been deeply affected, and the road to recovery will be long. As questions linger about the root causes of the Key Bridge collapse and what sort of future Baltimore can salvage for its ..read more

It’s been six years since the IPCC released its 2018 report warning that mean global temperatures would rise past 1.5 Celsius unless drastic action was taken by 2030. While climate change is already impacting all aspects of our lives, there is one area where relatively rapid and meaningful steps could be taken, but have yet to materialize: sports. Rising temperatures, seas, and emissions all call into question the sustainability of current sports practices. Can athletes continue to compete outdoors under current game conditions in scorching climates? What happens to athletes from island nati ..read more

This story originally appeared in Labor Notes on May 17, 2024. It is shared here with permission. A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union. In addition to anti-union videos and mailings, captive-audience meetings, firings, and an onslaught of pressure from state politicians and even a local pastor, the winning move was to fire the company’s U.S. CEO and replace him with a vice president who promised to care about the “team members.” A team leader named Ray Trammell, who voted no, said h ..read more