by Michael Fox | Oct 31, 2025 | elections, New York, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Stories of Resistance
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 candidates running for mayor of New York City. A longshot.
Now he is the leading candidate in the city’s mayoral race next Tuesday, November 4. A democratic socialist who has ignited a movement. A glimmer of hope amid dark days. Hope for not just New York City, but elsewhere around the country, and a road map for other progressive candidates.
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
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The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also been in the running for best episode host. And he also won a Gold Signal Award. We are so excited. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.
Written and produced by Michael Fox.
All clips in this episode were taken from Zohran Mamdani’s Instagram page.
Resources
Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026
4 Reasons why Trump is afraid of Zohran Mamdani
CNN Anchors shill for Cuomo as mainstream
by Michael Fox | Oct 27, 2025 | ICE, immigration, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Stories of Resistance
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, from the #NoKings rally to demonstrations in front of immigration detention centers, and protests against ICE in their communities.
Neighbors in one Chicago suburb pushed back by yelling and honking car horns when ICE agents descended on their community. Elsewhere they’ve handed out thousands of whistles to neighbors at risk. And people are lifting up their cell phone cameras and their voices, and putting their bodies on the line to foil ICE raids in cities around the country.
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, or wherever you listen.
And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.
The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also been in the running for best episode host. And he also won a Gold Signal Award. We are so excited. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. Written and produced by Michael Fox.
Transcript
There’s this video that’s gone viral.
Two unidentified and masked ICE agents are trying to wrestle a man into their vehicle.
He’s doing his best not to go.
A crowd
by Michael Fox | Oct 19, 2025 | chile, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Prisons and Policing, Stories of Resistance, The Cultural Front
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 streets demanded change—real change. They demanded more rights. They demanded a new Constitution.
Police cracked down with impunity. Videos went viral of riot police beating people in the streets. Chemical water guns. Shooting rubber bullets at point blank range. The number of the dead and wounded skyrocketed.
Throughout the protests, which would ripple on for almost 6 months, Chilean state security forces would cause more than 400 eye injuries to protesters in the streets. Many people would never see out of those eyes again. But some of them also found each other… and began to sew their lives back together, with music.
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, or wherever you listen.
And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.
The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner was in the running for best episode host, and he also won a Gold Signal Award. You can listen and subscribe to The Marc Steiner Show here on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.
Written and produced by Michael Fox.
Resources:
Here is the YouTube channel for Hasta La Victoria
Hasta La Victoria’s Instagram Page
Camilo Galvez Bugueño Instagram page
Michael Fox’s story for The World on
by TRNN | Oct 16, 2025 | Article, awards, Press Release, Press Releases, Stories of Resistance, The Marc Steiner Show
The Signal Awards Judging Academy has awarded Gold to two of our premiere podcasts, The Marc Steiner Show and Stories of Resistance.
Our brilliant colleague and Baltimore radio legend Marc Steiner won Gold for Best Host of an Individual Episode for this masterful, powerful, perspective-changing interview he conducted with three Canadian doctors returning from a medical mission in Gaza.
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Latin-America-based journalist and longtime TRNN contributor and collaborator Michael Fox is also won Gold in the History Podcast category for his truly unique, rich, and inspirational weekly series Stories of Resistance.
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The Signal Award Judging Academy is a large, esteemed body made up of media professionals, scholars, and practitioners across the industry. To get this recognition from our peers is humbling and motivating validation of the importance and quality of the work we do, and of the impact our unique brand of grassroots storytelling has on those who hear it.
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by Michael Fox | Oct 13, 2025 | Ecuador, Indigenous communities, Peru, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Stories of Resistance
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 there long before Columbus came. And so were millions of people up and down the continent. Experts estimate that there were anywhere from 60–90 million people in the Americas at the time. Possibly even more people in the Americas than in Europe at the time.
But disease and successive wars by waves of invading Europeans decimated the local Indigenous populations. Over the next century, roughly 90% of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere had been wiped out.
But they have constantly resisted to this day.
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, or wherever you listen.Written and produced by Michael Fox.
Stories of Resistance Indigenous resistance episodes:
Episode 4: How Indigenous peoples in Brazil fought COVID-19
Episode 8: Celebrating Indigenous roots in Chile’s Arica carnival
Episode 23: Reforesting the Andes, one tree at a time
Episode 48: Protecting Q’eswachaka, the last Incan rope bridge
Episode 50: Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
Episode 54: How Indigenous field hockey is reviving Mapuche culture
Episode 56: Karipuna resistance: Defending the Amazon
Transcript
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 there long before Columbus came. And so were millions of people up and down the
by Michael Fox | Oct 6, 2025 | Gaza, Israel, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Stories of Resistance
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 detained by Israeli forces. They’re demanding an end to the violence in Gaza and an end to their countries’ complicity in the genocide in Palestine.
BIG NEWS! This podcast is a finalist for this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast. It’s a huge honor just to get this far.
And you can help us win. Your vote can make a difference. Anyone can vote.
Here’s the link: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2025/shows/genre/history
All you have to do is click on the link. That will take you to a page where you can click on the Stories of Resistance icon. Register your email and you’re all set.
While you’re there, please also vote for The Real News’s Marc Steiner. He’s in the running for best episode host. You can vote for him here: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2025/individual-episodes/craft/best-host
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.
If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.
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Written and produced by Michael Fox.
Resources:
“The Freedom Flotilla: Sailing to break Israel’s siege of Gaza,” TRNN
“Palestino: Chile’s soccer club standing in defense of Palestine,” TRNN
“How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down for Gaza,” The Nation
Here is the link to the website for the Global Sumud Flotilla: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/
As of Monday, October 6, Israel had freed 166 passengers of the flotilla. Israel was
