by Marc Steiner | Nov 25, 2025 | Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, The Marc Steiner Show
Having witnessed relentless horrors over two years of genocidal war in Gaza, former Israeli and Palestinian combatants are coming together in nonviolent co-resistance and shared struggle. In this episode of the Marc Steiner Show, Palestinian educator and healer Nimala Karoufeh and former Israeli soldier Noa Harrell of Combatants for Peace explain how their binational movement has held together since Oct. 7, 2023, and what real peace-building from the ground up would require.
Guests:
Noa Harrell joined Combatants for Peace in 2016 and directly witnessed the power of nonviolent resistance to Israel’s occupation in the West Bank. This life-changing experience led her to participate in binational activities across Israel and Palestine, including dialogues, educational programs, demonstrations, protective presence, joint grief ceremonies, and rehabilitation of demolished West Bank communities. In October 2023, shortly after the Hamas attacks on Israel, Harrell was elected Israeli General Coordinator of Combatants for Peace, coordinating actions between Israeli and Palestinian members, supervising programs, and serving as Israeli chair.
Nimala Karoufeh is a Palestinian Christian from Beit Jala, now living in Jerusalem. She holds a master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Düsseldorf and a bachelor’s in Social Work and Psychology from Bethlehem University. For more than 15 years, she has led transformative programs with local and international NGOs focused on women’s and youth empowerment, leadership, community development, and peacebuilding. Karoufeh joined Combatants for Peace in 2022 as educational expert and director of the Palestinian Freedom School Program, where she empowers young Palestinians through nonviolent education and activism.
Credits:
Producer: Rosette Sewali
Studio Production: Cameron Granadino
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. An updated version will be made available as soon
by Marc Steiner | Nov 13, 2025 | Civil Rights, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Racial Justice, The Marc Steiner Show
Historian David Hollinger connects the history of the 1964 Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, to the protest movements and repressive crackdowns on free speech gripping universities today. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, co-hosted by Marc Steiner and Michael Fox, Hollinger draws on his firsthand experience and decades of research to explain the lessons we can learn from 1960s civil rights activists and antiwar organizers about how to defend free speech and academic freedom from extinction today.
Guest:
David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and earlier taught at the University of Michigan, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Oxford. Hollinger’s books include Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (Princeton, 2017), After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (Princeton, 2013), Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (Princeton, 1996) and Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (New York, 1995, 2000, and 2006). He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former President of the Organization of American Historians.
Credits:
Producer: Rosette Sewali
Studio Production: David Hebden
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Marc Steiner:
Welcome to the Marc Steiner Show here on The Real News. I’m Marc Steiner. It’s good to have you all with us. My cohost today is my colleague Mike Fox, who hosts Stories of Resistance for the Real News and covers Latin America and world issues. Today we’re talking with David Hollinger about free Speech, the movement that
by Marc Steiner | Nov 7, 2025 | Chicago, Fascism, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Racial Justice, The Marc Steiner Show, Trump
by Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner | Oct 29, 2025 | AI, Economy, Economy and Inequality, labor, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, The Marc Steiner Show, Working People
In this special crossover edition of Working People and The Marc Steiner Show, hosts Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner examine how the “artificial intelligence” (AI) boom is shaping the economy and the impact it is already having—and will continue to have—on working people’s lives, livelihoods, and jobs. Alvarez and Steiner speak with two members of a new mutual aid and advocacy group called Stop Gen AI, which formed this year out of the critical need to provide material support for creatives, knowledge workers, and anyone else impacted by generative AI.
Guests:
Kim Crawley is a former cybersecurity professor and co-author of The Pentester Blueprint. She founded Stop Gen AI in May 2025 in response to the immense socioeconomic harm generative AI has done to her and her peers, and to the vast environmental, cultural, scientific, psychological, and economic harm it does to the world. Stop Gen AI is unique for its anticapitalist focus and commitment to raising survival funds for people who are struggling.
Emmi is an information security expert with experience across many niches of the industry, including application security across a number of verticals, and she is a specialist in insider threat and cyber threat intelligence. She joined the efforts of Stop Gen AI in 2025 due to the overwhelming amount of friends she has seen lose their entire lives and careers due to the out-of-control AI bubble. She also has nearly two decades of experience with boots-on-the-ground union organizing, protesting, and activism.
Additional links/info:
Stop Gen AI website and Mastodon page
Stop Gen AI Twitch Fest information
Khiree Stewart, WBALTV 11, “‘Just holding a Doritos bag’: Student handcuffed after AI system mistook bag of chips for weapon”
Marc Steiner & Maximillian Alvarez, The Marc
by Marc Steiner | Oct 23, 2025 | Civil Rights, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Racial Justice, The Marc Steiner Show
While each period is historically unique, veterans and scholars of the civil rights movement say there are some important similarities between the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation and our current moment. One similarity, as author and professor Joshua Clark Davis notes, is the role that local law enforcement plays in enforcing regimes of racial oppression and attacking the movements opposed to them. But, as civil rights Icon Judy Richardson argues, there are also critical similarities when it comes to organizing and executing successful resistance efforts then and now. In this extended episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Richardson and Davis about the hardwon lessons from the civil rights movement that must be applied to the growing anti-authoritarianism movement today.
Guests:
Judy Richardson is an American documentary filmmaker and civil rights activist. She was an early participant in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966 and was mentored by Ella Baker. Richardson was the educational director for the PBS docuseries Eyes on the Prize, widely recognized as the most important documentary ever produced on the Civil Rights movement, and she co-edited the book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts By Women in SNCC. She was a distinguished visiting lecturer of Africana Studies at Brown University.
Joshua Clark Davis is associate professor of US history at the University of Baltimore. He’s the author of multiple books, including Police Against The Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, a retelling of the civil rights movement through its overlooked work against police violence—and the police who attacked the movement with
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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