by Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi, Belal Awad and Leo Erhadt | Oct 14, 2025 | documentary, Gaza, Israel, October 7: One Year Later, Palestine, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, video
After two years of Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza, Palestinians have welcomed the tenuous ceasefire that began last week. However, there is little hope that the ceasefire will lead to lasting peace or an end to the occupation. “There is no optimism,” one Gaza resident, Nusfat Modin, says. “You can’t negotiate with these people. A deal, no deal—we have no hope. No one—ask anyone.”
TRNN asked Gazans what they thought about the latest ceasefire deal. This is what they told us…
Credits:
Producers: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt
Videographers: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi
Video Editor: Leo Erhardt
Transcript
NUSFAT MODIN:
The Sumud Flotilla is a very beautiful thing: to break the siege and to show the world who the Zionist occupiers are. They detained them, and people have seen what Ben Gvir did to them. These people are not terrorists. It’s not terrorism; it’s about breaking the siege. These are heroes of humanity and heroes of freedom.
ADAM KHIDR HAMMOUDEH:
These are the ones who embodied dignity and who responded to the call for help and the call of humanity. They brought this message of love, peace, and security to the people of Gaza.
ABU MUSTAFA AL ABID:
Free people—you are free people—you began something good, and you should continue on your path, steadfast. The whole world is with you, all free people are with you, and all nations are with you.
MAZEN ABBAS ABU JABAL:
This is not the first flotilla; there were many attempts before by peace-loving activists and supporters of the Palestinian cause around the world. Every time, they are faced with brute military force, with the support, approval and blessing of the U.S., through the Israeli navy, which abducted and
by Mansa Musa, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis | Oct 13, 2025 | Economy and Inequality, ICE, police accountability, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Racial Justice, Trump, video
President Trump repeatedly promised that his mass deportation efforts would target “the worst of the worst” criminals, yet the government’s own data reveals that immigrants with no criminal record are the largest group in US immigration detention today. How can the Trump administration justify its deployment of federal agents, and even the military, to US cities based on the factually disprovable fictions that American cities are crime-ridden “war zones” overrun with criminal “illegal aliens”? To answer that, one must study the long-established precedent in the USA of overpolicing poor communities of color that are painted as inherently violent, chaotic, and crime-ridden. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with TRNN reporters Stephen Janis and Taya Graham about what the history of policing in America can teach us about Trump’s authoritarian deployment of law enforcement agencies today.
Credits:
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Mansa Musa:
Welcome to this edition of Rattling the Bars. I’m your host Mansa Musa. The Watts Riots, sometimes referred to as Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in Watts neighborhood and surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11th and 16th from 1965. The rise was motivated by anger at racist and abusive practices of Los Angeles Police, as well as his grievances over unemployment discrimination and residential segregation of property. The backdrop of it was that they arrested our individual that they claimed didn’t pass the drunk driving test. Out of that grew a conversation about police kicking a pregnant woman. At any rate,
by Michael Nigro | Oct 7, 2025 | ICE, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, video
For over four months, masked federal officers have been arresting and disappearing immigrants attending their mandatory asylum court dates. Photojournalists in New York City fought to maintain their First Amendment right to observe the chaotic, cruel, and often violent breach of due process occurring daily in NYC’s immigration courts.
A documentary by Michael Nigro.
Transcript
Brad Lander (NYC Comptroller): These buildings have ceased to be courthouses. They are not places where judges are having hearings that are a meaningful part of the rule of law. These buildings are essentially abduction traps.
[TEXT] On May 29, 2025, journalists gained access to film in the hallways of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and the Ted Weiss Federal Building in lower Manhattan.
Both buildings contain multiple immigration courts open to the public
Dan Goldman (US Representative D-NY): They are now literally arresting people who are coming to court, who are following the law, who are doing things the right way. These are the exact opposite of convicted criminals and worst of the worst that Donald Trump said he was going to deport. These are people doing it the right way.
[TEXT] Hundreds have been detained, deported, and disappeared to other cities or other countries.
Dan Goldman (US Representative D-NY): This is gestapo-like behavior, where plainclothes officers wearing masks are terrorizing immigrants who are doing the right thing by going to court, following up on their immigration proceedings, and trying to come into this country lawfully, which is through asylum.
Speaker 1: You have the right to remain silent.
[Repeats in Spanish].
Speaker 2: [Speaking Spanish] No, please… My dad…
Speaker 3: [Shouting] Where’s my son? Where’s my son?
Speaker 4: You guys ask people to
by Maximillian Alvarez | Oct 6, 2025 | Gaza, Israel, October 7: One Year Later, Palestine, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, video
Sparking global outrage and condemnation, Israel has illegally intercepted every vessel and captured every volunteer sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Protests over the flotilla’s capture have erupted around the world, from Buenos Aires to Barcelona, and hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Italy in a one-day general strike called by Italian unions in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. And another, smaller fleet of ships with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition is currently sailing to Gaza. Recorded on Saturday, Oct. 4, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Mskwaasin Agnew, a Cree & Dene healthcare worker from the Salt River First Nation, who is sailing with the flotilla on board the Conscience.
Guest:
Mskwaasin Agnew is Cree and Dene from Salt River First Nation, born and raised in Toronto. She is a first responder to people who use drugs and an Indigenous harm reduction practitioner. She is an organizer, land defender, abolitionist, and is well versed in Palestinian and First Nation solidarity.
Additional links/info:
Freedom Flotilla Colation linktree and Instagram
Marc Steiner, The Real News Network, “US veterans’ final message from the Global Sumud Flotilla before being intercepted by Israel”
Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “‘If I’m killed on this mission…’: Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail for Gaza despite Israel’s threats”
Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “Why US veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla”
Credits:
Studio Production / Post Production: Maximillian Alvarez, 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:
Sparking global outrage in condemnation. Israel has illegally intercepted every single vessel and captured every volunteer sailing to Gaza with
by Mansa Musa | Oct 6, 2025 | Prison Industrial Complex, prison reform, Prisons and Policing, Rattling the Bars, video
Eric King is a father, poet, activist, and anarchist who was imprisoned in 2014 for acts of solidarity with the Ferguson, MO, uprising in the wake of the police killing of Michael Brown. While locked up, King endured years of documented physical and psychological torture, spending the last 18 months of his sentence in the ADX supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with King about how he survived his incarceration “with heart and soul intact,” and about King’s new book, A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, in which he “opens the doors of America’s most secretive prison and lets the reader step into the cell to experience all the horrors the Federal Bureau of Prisons tries to keep hidden underground.”
Guest:
Eric King is an anarchist who was imprisoned in 2014 for acts of solidarity with the Ferguson, Missouri, uprising. While in federal custody King was indicted for a self-defense incident at FCI-Florence. King took it to trial and is one of the few people to ever win such a case at a federal trial. After his legal victory, King was sent to the federal supermax ADX, where he spent most of his final two years of his prison bid. During his time in prison King coedited the political prisoner anthology Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners. King survived years of documented physical and psychological torture and made it out of prison with heart and soul intact. He is an activist, antifascist, and loving father and husband who lives in Denver, CO.
Additional links/info:
Eric King, PM Press, A
by Maximillian Alvarez | Oct 2, 2025 | Gaza, Israel, labor, October 7: One Year Later, Palestine, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, video
