by Michael Fox | Jan 20, 2026 | Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Stories of Resistance
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 Trump.
It’s part of a nationwide protest called the “Free America Walkout.” It’s organized by the Women’s March, the group that led the huge women’s marches against Trump in his first term.
More than 400 events, rallies, and actions are happening throughout the United States. People are braving the cold weather, walking out of jobs and schools and standing up.
Today also marks the one-year anniversary of Stories of Resistance. This is the last episode of Season 1 of Stories of Resistance. Stay tuned for season 2 later this year.
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by Marc Steiner | Jan 20, 2026 | Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, The Marc Steiner Show
The Trump administration has said that the “second phase” of the ceasefire in Gaza is now in effect, but the fire has yet to cease. “What’s happening now is that we are still being settled silently, we are still being killed slowly, away from the world’s cameras,” Eyad Amawi, a father living in Gaza and a representative of the Gaza Relief Committee, tells The Marc Steiner Show this week. “That’s the real meaning of the ceasefire.”Get new weekly episodes of The Marc Steiner Show on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Credits:Studio Production: Cameron GranadinoAudio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Speaker 1:
Papa!
Speaker 2:
[foreign language 00:00:14].
Eyad Amawi:
As the father for four children, really every night my children asked me, my little daughter ask me, “Papa, we will survive until tomorrow morning, or no?” This is the big questions, but my answer depends on my belief here. “Don’t worry, we will still alive, but you must sleep.”
Marc Steiner:
I’m Marc Steiner. Today we’re joined by Eyad Amawi. He lives in Gaza, he’s a Palestinian, a father and a husband. He’s the coordinator for the Gaza Relief Committee, trying to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. It’s hard for many of us to fathom the depth of destruction taking place in Gaza. The land, homes, hospitals, schools have been laid to waste. Starvation is rampant. And as we begin this conversation, over 75,000 people have been killed, including more than 25,000 children. And Eyad, welcome. It’s good to have you with us.
Eyad Amawi:
First of all, thank you. I have been following you for some times.
by Michael Fox | Jan 16, 2026 | Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Under the Shadow, Venezuela
by Marc Steiner | Jan 13, 2026 | Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, The Marc Steiner Show, Venezuela
Marc Steiner speaks with Geo Maher, abolitionist scholar and author of We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution, about the untenable goals behind President Trump’s invasion of Venezuela, and what the US bid to reassert imperial dominance in the Western hemisphere reveals about its declining place on the global stage.
Additional links/info:
Geo Maher Facebook page and Instagram
Geo Maher, Duke University Press, “We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution”
Geo Maher, Verso Books, “Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela”
Mike Fox, Under the Shadow / The Real News Network, “The Americas will never be the same”
Credits:
Production: Cameron Granadino
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Marc Steiner: Welcome to the Marc Steiner Show here on The Real News. I’m Marc Steiner. It’s great to have you all with us. As we begin this conversation, Trump is meeting with all executives from 17 companies. Secretary of State Rubio, Energy Secretary Wright, and Interior Secretary Bergen are looking at a hundred billion dollar investment as US and private corporations are about to seize the oil and the wealth of Venezuela. And as we air, we all know that the Venezuela president, Nicholas Madoro and First 80 Flores have been kidnapped and imprisoned by the United States. So to parse us out today, we’re talking with Geo Maher, who’s an abolitionist, educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He’s taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar, Drexel, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezueela School of Planning in Karacas. He spent a lot of time in Venezuela, he’s taught there and in Mexico.
He’s the author of five books,
by Michael Fox | Jan 9, 2026 | Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Stories of Resistance, Venezuela
Transcript
MICHAEL FOX [NARRATION]: “Yankee go home,” that’s the refrain. The crowd sings it in unison in this old black and white video. “Yankee go home. Yankee go home.” The man leading them stands at the mic. He has a thick beard. He plays the Venezuelan quarto. His gaze is defiant… His name is Alí Primera.
He is El Cantor del Pueblo — The People’s Singer
The Venezuelan ambassador of the nueva canción or protest song movement, which spilled across Latin America in the 1960s and ‘70s, and includes others like Mercedes Sosa or Victor Jara.
Alí Primera sings in solidarity. He sings for rights and for justice. He sings in defense of the people… The humble and the working class. He sings against poverty. He sings for change. For social justice. He sings for El Salvador in the 1980s. He sings for Nicaragua. He sings for revolution and for peace.
He sings to demand an end to US imperialism. An end to US intervention and aggression throughout Latin America.
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Alí Primera was born on Oct. 31, 1941, in Coro, Venezuela. Born into poverty. From a young age, he worked odd jobs to help his family.
He moved to Caracas in 1960 and began singing and writing songs while studying chemistry at the Central University of Venezuela. Songs like this, played here by the Venezuela band Los Guaraguao.
[MUSIC — LOS GUARAGUAO]
Alí Primera wrote this song in 1967. He first performed it at a Festival of Protest Songs that same year. It’s called, “It’s Not Enough Just to Pray.” It’s a brutal critique of inequality and the US war in Vietnam.
“And they pray in good faith / And they pray
by Maximillian Alvarez and Michael Fox | Jan 6, 2026 | Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Trump, Venezuela
In the early, pre-dawn hours of Saturday, Jan. 3, the US invaded and bombed the sovereign country of Venezuela, and kidnapped Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro and the First Lady of Venezuela, Cilia Flores. This is the first time the United States has used its own military to invade a South American country, and President Trump made the purpose of the invasion very clear: oil. What will happen to Venezuela’s government now? What will be the geopolitical fallout in the Western Hemisphere from this stunning act of imperial intervention? How does this period of US intervention in Latin America compare to previous ones? TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez and Latin America correspondent Michael Fox break down your questions.
Additional links/info:
Michael Fox, The Real News Network, “Trump invades Venezuela, kidnaps Maduro, and hurls the Western hemisphere into chaos”
Michael Fox, Under the Shadow / The Real News Network, “Trump’s piracy in the Caribbean won’t end with Venezuela”
Michael Fox, Under the Shadow (podcast series)
Credits:
Production: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: David Hebden
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Maximillian Alvarez:
In the early pre-dawn hours of Saturday, January 3rd, the US administration of self-proclaimed Peace President Donald Trump invaded and bombed the sovereign country of Venezuela and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and the First Lady of Venezuela, Celia Flores. As our Latin America based correspondent, Michael Fox reports for the real news, “This is the first US invasion of another country in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama, when the US kidnapped and detained Panamanian President Manuel Noriega under charges of drug trafficking. The Trump administration used the same
