Stories of Resistance
by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox, The Real News Network · 90 episodes
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Stories of Resistance is a new podcast featuring vignettes pulled from journalist Michael Fox's 20 years of interviews, research, and reporting from across the Americas. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance. Inspiration for dark times.Each episode is an example of investigative journalism, prose, poetry, historical memory, reflection on struggle—and, above all, story. Stories that remind us of the struggles that have come before, and the ones we are living now. Stories about workers' struggles; resistance to dictatorship; alternative media; Indigenous and environmental organizing; and more. Eduardo Galeano-inspired vignettes for a Trump 2.0 world.Stories of Resistance is co-p...
Latest episodes
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16 min
Fifty Years After the Coup, Argentina Still Marches for Justice
This week, March 24th, is the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Argentine coup that sunk the country into a brutal U.S.-backed military dictatorship. The regime would unleash terror acr…
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43 min
NEW: When The Bombs Fell on Caracas
This is a preview for Season 2 of Michael Fox's podcast Under the Shadow, about Trump's onslaught on Venezuela and in Latin America. On January 3, 2026, the United States invaded V…
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6 min
Free America Walkout marks a year of resisting Trump
Today, people are protesting across the United States. They’re rallying. They’re walking off their jobs to mark the one-year anniversary of the inauguration of president Donald Tru…
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9 min
‘Yankee Go Home’: How Venezuela’s greatest protest singer denounced US intervention
They called Ali Primera “The People’s Singer.” The Venezuelan ambassador of the Nueva Cancion, protest song, movement, which spilled across Latin America in the 1960s and ’70s, and…
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7 min
The 1994 Zapatista Uprising: Resisting NAFTA and Corporate Capitalism
On January 1, 1994, Indigenous peoples from Chiapas, Mexico, rose up. They took control of city halls in towns across the state. They took the state capital San Cristobal de las Ca…
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7 min
The 1914 Christmas Truce: Resisting on the front lines of WWI
It's late 1914. December cold in the trenches of the Western Front of World War I.Rations are in short supply. Men shiver… dreaming of home. Wishing they were far away. For months,…
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7 min
Holding the US accountable for the 1989 invasion of Panama
On Dec. 20, each year, people march in Panama City. They march to remember the fallen. They march to continue to demand justice for the violence, the destruction, and for those who…
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5 min
Thousands march across US against Trump’s drive for war in Venezuela
On Dec. 6, people across the United States marched. They protested. They carried banners: No war on Venezuela. No blood for oil. US hands off Venezuela. They chanted and waved Vene…
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8 min
Remembering the resistance to US intervention in Latin America
In the 1980s, the United States wreaked havoc in Central America. Backing authoritarian dictatorships. Fueling massacres and violence. Funding, training, and organizing the Contras…
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9 min
Thanksgiving on Alcatraz: Remembering the 1969 Native American Occupation
On Thanksgiving morning before dawn, the ferries run every 15 minutes, taking people to a sunrise gathering. An Indigenous People’s Alcatraz Thanksgiving ceremony. The boats arrive…
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6 min
Zumbi dos Palmares: Brazil's hero of Black resistance
Nov. 20 is Black Consciousness Day in Brazil. A day celebrating the struggle of Black organizations, people, and movements in Brazil. Celebrating the ongoing fight against racism.…
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4 min
How farmers fought the banks and won: Penny auctions in the Great Depression
It was the Great Depression. Early 1930s. United States. More than a thousand mortgages a day were being foreclosed on. Hundreds of thousands of families were losing their homes ea…
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6 min
Tupac Amaru II’s Indigenous uprising against colonial Spain
In the late 1700s, Indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Andes were forced to work for the Spanish. They tilled the land, worked in the textile mills and the mines. Tho…
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7 min
Zohran Mamdani: Building working-class power in NYC
Just a year ago almost no one had ever heard of him. Just a name in a crowd. A fairly obscure member of the New York State Assembly. Just one in a packed pool of Democratic candida…
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7 min
Resisting ICE
ICE agents are detaining thousands of people a day from communities across the country. But people are resisting. And it’s having an impact. Millions have protested in recent weeks…
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7 min
The Chilean band overcoming police violence with music
On October 18, 2019, protests erupted in Santiago, Chile, over a hike in the cost of public transportation. But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than that. Those in the st…
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17 min
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
It was once called Columbus Day, and it still is in many parts. A day to celebrate the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who supposedly “discovered” America. But America was t…
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6 min
Gaza flotilla capture inspires global solidarity protests and strikes
Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in recent days. They've marched in dozens of cities. They're demanding respect and safety for the flotilla passengers kidnapped and…
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6 min
Ecuador’s Indigenous movement launches ‘indefinite national strike’
In Ecuador, the country's largest Indigenous movement has been leading mass protests in the streets for nearly two weeks against President Daniel Noboa’s lifting of diesel subsidie…
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8 min
Harriet Tubman showed how to act bravely in dark times
Harriet Tubman is an icon for freedom. She first fled slavery with two brothers on September 17, 1849. By the following year, she was returning to save others. She traveled by nigh…