by Magdy Abu Asr | Apr 16, 2026 | Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Politics and Movements: International, video
Israel’s daily bombing of Gaza may have slowed down since a ceasefire was implemented in October, but the destruction and violence have not stopped. In the bombed-out ruins of Gaza, Palestinian refugees who have managed to survive Israel’s genocidal onslaught are clinging to life in tattered tent cities overwhelmed by rats, rain, cold, and illness. In this on-the-ground report from Gaza, 15-year-old refugee Magdy Abu Asr takes you inside the tent city where she and her family are struggling to survive so you can see it for yourself.
Credits:
Filmed by: Magdy Abu Asr
Producer: Ruwaida Amer
Voiceover: Dana Ballout
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.
Hello, how are you? Today I’m going to introduce myself. My name is Magdy Abu Asr, I’m 15 years old. As you can see, today I’m going to show you the entrance to our tent. We live by the sea. As you can see, today I’m going to show you the entrance to our tent and how we live. We’re right next to the street. Come, let me show you. This is the entrance to our tent. This is our tent’s screen instead of the wall of our house. You can see how it’s torn apart by the wind and the air. Let me also show you the water container. Of course, we don’t carry water here, unlike at home. We used to open the water tank and water would come out. Now you have to carry water from a far place to find water to wash, perform ablution for prayer, or anything
by Mansa Musa | Apr 13, 2026 | Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Politics and Movements: International, Prison Industrial Complex, Prisons and Policing, Rattling the Bars, video
While international attention has decreased in recent months, the horrors Israel continues to systematically unleash on Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank have not. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa—a former Black Panther and political prisoner—speaks with renowned scholar-activist Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi about Israel’s apartheid system of incarceration and the urgent fight to free Palestinian political prisoners detained by Israel.
Additional Links:
Stop the Torture of Palestinian and Lebanese Prisoners – Open the Prisons to the Red Cross petition
Credits:
Producer / Videographer / Editor: 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 number of Palestinian detainees in Israel custody has been on the rise. A population now marked by a revolving door where ceasefire releases are being eclipsed by new arrest campaign. Despite the release of nearly 2000 prisoners during the October 2025 ceasefire, or I must say so- called ceasefire, a massive wave of new detentions and occupied territories of Palestine has effectively reset the scales of incarceration. Join us today is Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, the founding director and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Studies Program at SFSU, a Yale educated sociologist. She is the principal investigator of Teaching Palestine. Welcome, doc. How you doing today?
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi:
I’m okay. I’m okay. I’m as best as could be expected under the terrible conditions that we’re living under.
Mansa Musa:
Before we go into a more detailed thing what’s going on with our occupation, give update as
by Maximillian Alvarez | Apr 10, 2026 | ICE, immigration, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, video
In the small town of Williamsport, Maryland, about an hour and a half from Baltimore, the Department of Homeland Security purchased a massive shipping warehouse for $102 million with plans to turn it into an ICE detention center. But local efforts to expose, delay, and shut down the Trump administration’s heinous plans for this makeshift concentration camp are growing. A broad coalition of local officials, faith leaders, and civil rights organizations have filed an amicus curiae brief in the State of Maryland v. Noem lawsuit, urging the US District Court for the District of Maryland to halt DHS’s rushed plan to convert the massive Williamsport warehouse into a large-scale immigration detention center. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Sonia Kumar, a senior staff attorney at ACLU of Maryland, who is part of the team of legal representatives who filed the brief.
Additional links/info:
ACLU of Maryland website, Facebook page, X page, and Instagram
ACLU of Maryland, “Community leaders, elected officials, and civil rights organizations challenge DHS’s secret, rushed plan to convert Hagerstown warehouse into mass immigration detention center”
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland”
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “The chilling truth behind ICE’s detention warehouses”
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “Meet the data analysts exposing ICE’s plans“
Credits:
Studio Production / 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.
Maximillian Alvarez:
Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Maximillian Alvarez. In the small town of Williamsport on the western border of Maryland, which is about an hour and a half from where I’m sitting right now in
by Maximillian Alvarez | Apr 9, 2026 | Economy, ICE, immigration, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, video
To execute its mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration has big plans for small-town America. In the rural town of Williamsport, Maryland, just next to Hagerstown, the Department of Homeland Security recently purchased a massive shipping warehouse for over $100 million and plans to convert the facility into an immigrant detention center that will hold upwards of 1,500 human beings per day. In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you to the site of the proposed ICE detention facility and speaks with local residents who are fighting back and demanding more transparency and accountability from the government.
Additional links/info:
Hagerstown Rapid Response Network website, Facebook page, Bluesky page, and Instagram
Washington County Indivisible website
Project Salt Box Substack, Bluesky page, TikTok, and Instagram
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “The chilling truth behind ICE’s detention warehouses”
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “Meet the data analysts exposing ICE’s plans
ACLU of Maryland, “Community leaders, elected officials, and civil rights organizations challenge DHS’s secret, rushed plan to convert Hagerstown warehouse into mass immigration detention center”
Credits:
Videographer: Maximillian Alvarez
Post-Production: Maximillian Alvarez, Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Claire Connor:
We are on the outskirts of Hagerstown very close to Williamsport, Maryland, and we are standing in front of a gargantuan warehouse facility that has recently been purchased by DHS for use of detention center.
Laura Spivak:
We were recently informed actually by the Washington Post via some leak documents that an ICE facility was planned for our county. We were not informed by any of our local politicians. We were not informed by the federal government. And the community
Claire Connor:
In light of this has been
by Maximillian Alvarez | Apr 7, 2026 | Iran, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, video, War
From the Trump administration’s lies and flip-flops to social media feeds filled with AI slop and misinformation, it is infuriatingly difficult to get accurate and honest information about what is actually happening in the US-Israeli war on Iran. But award-winning journalist, lawyer, and former TRNN board member Dimitri Lascaris has been reporting on the ground in Iran for the last two weeks, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Minab elementary school where US tomahawk cruise missiles killed 168 students and teachers on Feb. 28. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Lascaris about what he’s seen in Iran, and the sides of war people in the West are not seeing.
Guest:
Dimitri Lascaris is an award-winning lawyer and journalist based in Montreal, Canada, and Kalamata, Greece. Lascaris was named by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada, and by Canadian Business Magazine as one of the 50 most influential persons in Canadian business. For ten years, while practicing law, Lascaris served as a Board member of, and correspondent for, The Real News Network. He is now a freelance journalist and host of the YouTube channel Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris, reporting on Western government criminality.
Additional links/info:
Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris YouTube channel
Maximillian Alvarez & Dimitri Lascaris, TRNN, “This Canadian journalist is in Iran to show the sides of war corporate media won’t”
Credits:
Studio Production / 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.
Maximillian Alvarez:
Welcome back to the Real News Network. I’m Maximillian Alvarez. So the US-Israeli war in Iran is now in its second
by Mansa Musa | Apr 6, 2026 | history, Prisons and Policing, Rattling the Bars, video
When state violence and systemic denial of full citizenship by the state makes true belonging impossible for Black people, Black anarchists have envisioned and fought for a free life beyond the state. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, author William C. Anderson explores the rich, radical tradition of Black anarchism and its connection to prison abolitionist movements.
Guests:
William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, AL. His work has appeared in outlets ranging from The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, to Pitchfork. He is the author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast.
Credits:
Producer / Videographer / Editor: 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 Rattling Bars. I’m your host, Mansa Musa. When you hear the term “anarchy” and “anarchist,” what comes to mind? Joining me today is William C. Anderson, author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, and a columnist for Prism News where he writes the series Another Way Out. Welcome, William. Welcome to Rattling the Bars.
William C. Anderson:
Hey, thanks for having me on.
Mansa Musa:
First start out, could you introduce yourself to our audience and share how some of your background?
William C. Anderson:
Yeah. So my name’s William C. Anderson. I’m a writer, an activist, do some organizing here and there, and a person who’s just generally committed to struggle. I
