Land of the Free? Woman Receives 4 Years in Prison for Free Speech Against Police
Brittany Martin has been sentenced to four years in prison for speaking her mind to South Carolina police. She was protesting in the 2020 uprising against racism along with 35 million others throughout the country. She was arrested and recently convicted of “high and aggravated breach of the peace,” although there was no injury or […]
Ecuador’s Epic Indigenous-Led Strike | Interview with Correa’s Foreign Minister
After 18 days, the national strike in Ecuador led by Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) ended with major concessions to the people’s demands. Guillaume Long, Ecuador’s former foreign minister and UN representative under the Correa government, now a senior policy analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, explains.
US Immigration Policies Produce Violence & Tragedy: 51 People Die in Trailer Near Border
More than 50 people were found dead this week, trapped in a tractor trailer in the Texas heat in San Antonio, likely after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Another 23 or more died crossing the Morocco border into Spain this week. Todd Miller, independent journalist & author of 4 books, including “Border Patrol Nation” and most […]
Understanding Mexico’s Fourth Transformation
Since the 2018 election of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO, Mexico has taken center-stage in the regional politics of the Americas. Mexico has been critical of US policy on the blockade of Cuba, sanctions on Venezuela and failed paradigms of Central American development and US migration policies. What’s behind Mexico’s policies and how […]
Dr. Cornel West: ‘The People Will Have the Last Word’
Dr. Cornel West speaks at the 2022 People’s Summit for Democracy on justice, resistance, and love. The People’s Summit ran from June 8-10, 2022, and he spoke on the panel Workers Run the World: Transnational Organizing for Labor Justice.
International Peoples’ Assembly: New Global Movement Against Capitalism & For Socialism
Working class communities around the world are organizing against capitalism. They are also forging a new international movement of solidarity and cooperation in the International People’s Assembly. How can organizers build international unity, and oppose the tools used by the ruling class to divide and defeat the popular movements that are expanding democracy while fighting […]
Bullets and Beatings Can’t Crush Sudan’s Struggle
Despite over 100 peaceful protestors having been killed, and countless numbers beaten, tear gassed, arrested and jailed, the anti-coup movement in Sudan continues. Large numbers continue to take to the streets all over the African nation demanding political democracy as well as social and economic change. BT News spoke with Sajida El Mubarak, Karari Resistance […]
Oscar López Rivera: We Will Struggle “Until Our Last Breath” For Puerto Rico’s Independence
Former political prisoner of 35 years and Puerto Rican independence leader Oscar López Rivera discusses colonialism, environmental racism, the hypocrisy of the U.S. accusing Cuba of “authoritarianism” with so many sitting behind bars in the US, and the long history of racist colonial practices in Puerto Rico. Oscar discusses all this and more with BT […]