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Listen to story:https://dn721904.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-06-03-RUWS/2025_06_03_Cassie_Owens.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:57) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (It's easy to make this paywall disappear--just click the link below!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING CASSIE OWENS - Journalism is meant to be a practice that informs and educates the public to make good decisions for a democratic society. But, journalism in a white supremacist setting has been, well, white supremacist, which in turn, has deeply harmed communities of color. When journalism is steeped in racist framing, it does more harm than good. ✍️New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.Now, a new project in Philadelphia aims to fix that. The Philadelphia Safer Journalism Project brings together community members, journalists, therapists, researchers, lawyers and artists to change harmful crime coverage. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721904.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-06-03-RUWS/2025_06_03_Huwaida_Arraf.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:28) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but if you can think of another way journalists like me can sustain our work, let me know!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING HUWAIDA ARRAF - A dozen anti-genocide international activists are on board a ship called the Madleen, sailing to Gaza to break Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid. A previous ship, the Conscience, was attacked by drones earlier this year while in waters near Malta, in an incident that has been linked to Israel. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.Now, the Madleen will make another attempt to enter Gaza and deliver humanitarian supplies. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla has sailed to Gaza for years, creating a powerful moral lifeline for Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid and genocide. Fifteen years ago, Israeli forces attacked one of the flotilla’s ships, the Mavi Marmara, killing ten activists on board and wounding dozens more. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_27_Mara_Einstein.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 30:29) Access this video by subscribing for LESS than half the cost of Netflix's cheapest plan. Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING MARA EINSTEIN - Ever watch people in line at the grocery store or the post office scrolling their phones on Instagram or TikTok? Perhaps you are one of those people, swiping up from one video to the other, enjoying entertaining content created by ordinary people just like you. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.A new book makes the compelling case that most social media feeds are now filled with content that’s been created using the same marketing tactics as cults do. You’re not watching content as much as you’re endlessly scrolling through ads. Former marketing executive and media studies professor Mara Einstein helps us sharpen our radar for branded content. Extended Cut of Dr. Mara Einstein on her book Hoodwinked CLICK HERE - Available to Benefactor & Angel Subscribers only This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_27_Mara_Einstein.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 30:29) FEATURING MARA EINSTEIN - Ever watch people in line at the grocery store or the post office scrolling their phones on Instagram or TikTok? Perhaps you are one of those people, swiping up from one video to the other, enjoying entertaining content created by ordinary people just like you. 📖New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.A new book makes the compelling case that most social media feeds are now filled with content that’s been created using the same marketing tactics as cults do. You’re not watching content as much as you’re endlessly scrolling through ads. Former marketing executive and media studies professor Mara Einstein helps us sharpen our radar for branded content. Extended Cut of Dr. Mara Einstein on her book Hoodwinked CLICK HERE - Available to Benefactor & Angel Subscribers only This post is for subscribers on the only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_Noah_Nyla.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:47) This video content is only available to those who shell out 13 cents a day (It's worth it, promise!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING NOAH WEIGHT & NYLA MOXLEY - When the Boeing corporation donated $10 million to the University of Washington campus for a new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB), university officials likely didn’t expect it to become the focus of student activism. In early May 2025, dozens of students and activists occupied the building in protest of UW’s ties to Boeing, a company whose weapons Israel is actively using to massacre Palestinians in an on-going genocide. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below the video.University officials, rather than meeting student demands, appear to be siding with Boeing and Israel, and have suspended students involved in the IEB occupation. Students have organized themselves into a formation called SUPER, which stands for Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return.  This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721707.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-27-RUWS/2025_05_27_Christine_Neumann-Ortiz.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 20:25) This video is only available to paid subscribers. (Yep, it's a paywall... BUT if you click the button you can make it go away - like MAGIC!) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING CHRISTINE NEUMANN-ORTIZ - The state of Wisconsin has become a frontline in the fight for immigrant rights against Donald Trump’s regime. Not only did federal agents arrest Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan and charge her with breaking federal law over an immigrant’s capture by ICE agents, but Homeland Security Secretary Tom Homan has threatened to arrest Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. Homan warned Evers with arrest for issuing guidance of their rights to state employees. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.But Wisconsin’s immigrant rights movement is strong and is standing up to the Trump regime’s attacks creatively and persistently. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721604.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-20-RUWS/2025_05_20_Rev_Jennifer_Gutierrez.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 16:58) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but journalists deserve a living wage.) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING REV. JENNIFER GUTIERREZ - Two thousand four hundred mental health workers with Kaiser Permanente in Southern California are celebrating a major union win after more than half a year on the picket line. The workers, who are members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers won a contract that is retroactive to September 2024, that includes a 20% pay raise over four years and a new pension plan. The struggle was tough, with union members engaging in civil disobedience, risking arrest, and suffering without work for more than six months. The strike came just as the demand for mental health therapies in Southern California skyrocketed with tens of thousands of people losing their homes to wildfires. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.The success of Kaiser’s mental health workers comes at the same time as more than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers went on strike in late April, and, just as the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution raising the minimum wage for tourism workers to $30 an hour, the highest minimum in the nation.  This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721604.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-20-RUWS/2025_05_20_Melina_Abdullah.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 17:31) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (We hate paywalls too, but a healthy democracy is worth it, no?) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING MELINA ABDULLAH - Five years ago on May 25, 2020, just months into a global shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the videotaped brutal murder of a Minneapolis Black man named George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer sparked a historic movement. The streets of US cities erupted into one of the most massive movements for social justice in history. Black Lives Matter, a rallying cry coined years earlier, now emerged from the lips of politicians and pundits as a broad consensus was reached that police had gone too far. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.This latest chapter in the movement for racial justice didn’t come from nowhere. It was simmering for years, even decades, and leaders demanded an abolition of police and prisons, or at the very least, a defunding of police and a re-funding public safety institutions. Where is that movement today? This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://dn721604.ca.archive.org/0/items/2025-05-20-RUWS/2025_05_20_Mara_Kronenfeld.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 19:30) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (Yes it's a paywall, but it's a REALLY CHEAP one.) Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING MARA KRONENFELD - This May 15 marked the 77th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the “catastrophe” that led to a mass displacement of Palestinians upon the creation of the state of Israel. Palestinians in Gaza are struggling for their very existence as Israel continues to bombard the narrow strip of land with full throated logistical and moral US support. Israel has launched a ground assault, escalating an already-fully fledged genocide, killing hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza each day. Meanwhile, Israel also continues to enforce a policy of mass starvation, largely blocking UN aid trucks from entering. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below.Most mainstream media are missing the mass global solidarity movement rising up in support of Palestinians. An estimated hundred thousand people protested in the Netherlands, and half a million in London. Large protests have also been held in US cities.  This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in

Listen to story:https://ia601503.us.archive.org/35/items/2025-05-13-RUWS/2025_05_13_Ibram_X_Kendi_extended.mp3Download: mp3 (Duration: 33:56) This video content is only available to paid subscribers. (Hate paywalls? Blame the billionaires!)  Subscribe for as little as $4 a month (5-day free trial) FEATURING IBRAM X KENDI - On May 19, 2025, the great American revolutionary Malcolm X would have been 100 years old. To mark the centennial of the birth of an extraordinary human, we turn to Dr. Ibram X Kendi, one of the nation’s leading intellectuals and academics, whose latest book is a biography of Malcolm X for young readers. In it, Dr. Kendi explains how, “This book tells the story of a single life navigating racism on a course to be antiracist—to revolutionize society, to be free. 💡New feature for paid subscribers! Read the rough transcript of the interview below. Learn why Malcolm X's life matters even today Extended cut, available ONLY to Benefactor and Angel Subscribers! This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in