Stories of Resistance
Stories of Resistance is a new podcast featuring vignettes pulled from journalist Michael Fox's 20 years of interviews, research, and reporting from across the Americas. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance. Inspiration for dark times.
Each episode is an example of investigative journalism, prose, poetry, historical memory, reflection on struggle—and, above all, story. Stories that remind us of the struggles that have come before, and the ones we are living now. Stories about workers' struggles; resistance to dictatorship; alternative media; Indigenous and environmental organizing; and more. Eduardo Galeano-inspired vignettes for a Trump 2.0 world.
Stories of Resistance is co-produced by The Real News Network and Global Exchange.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 69
- Years Active
- 2025
Argentine students continue to march against the crimes and disappearances of the past
High school students are still marching in Argentina to remember the disappeared—kids like them who were kidnapped, detained, tortured and disappeared nearly a half century ago during the country’s m…
00:06:56 |
Wed 17 Sep 2025
September 11: Remembering the Resistance to Pinochet’s Chile
On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected …
00:15:30 |
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Episode 65 | Tupamaro Prison Break: Montevideo, 1971
It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971.
Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip out silently. They move into a tunnel tha…
Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip out silently. They move into a tunnel tha…
00:05:24 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Episode 64 | Remembering the Haitian Revolution
In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted, rising up by the thousands. Within ten days they've taken over the whole northern province. By the following year, they control…
00:05:59 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Episode 63 | El Salvador’s guerrilla Radio Venceremos
The 1980s were a time of war El Salvador. The government openly attacked its citizens. Repression. Murder. Massacres.
Radio Venceremos broadcasted twice a day. And it was a voice of truth. A voice of …
Radio Venceremos broadcasted twice a day. And it was a voice of truth. A voice of …
00:06:42 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Episode 62 | Chile's Bulnes Bridge: Remembering the past, honoring the victims
It is not a pretty bridge. Four lanes of busy traffic rush across Puente Bulnes during most hours. To the North, it buttresses against two overpasses that lead to a bustling highway. Below it, run th…
00:04:18 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Episode 61 | Mexican salt farmers are holding on to an ancient tradition
There is a place, tucked into the mountains and hills near the border between the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, where local campesinos continue to practice an ancestral tradition. They are sal…
00:04:37 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Episode 60 | In the Land of the Condor
In the land of the Condor, near the base of the tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere, an Incan community lived. The people hunted, along the sheer hillsides, they farmed, they collected water f…
00:04:06 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Episode 59 | Defending Their Land: Black communities resist Brazilian space center
On the Northeastern Brazilian coast, in the region of Alcântara, Maranhão, there are dozens of traditional villages of Black communities. Their families have lived here for generations — farming and …
00:04:47 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Episode 58 | Fighting fascists in Spain: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
On July 17, 1936, the Nazi-backed Spanish General Federico Franco led an armed rebellion against the Spanish government. It began a bloody civil war that would last for years.
Thousands of people lef…
Thousands of people lef…
00:06:01 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Episode 57 | Brazil: Thousands protest Trump's tariffs and interference in Brazilian courts
Thousands on the streets of Brazil, Sao Paulo’s Paulista Avenue packed, angry and protesting US President Donald Trump and his imposition of 50% tariffs on Brazilian products. Trump’s new tariffs on …
00:05:06 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Episode 56 | Karipuna Resistance: Defending the Amazon
There are less than a hundred members of the Karipuna tribe. They live on their land in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. Their territory is demarcated, which means that it’s legally theirs.But many o…
00:04:29 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Episode 55 | July 4 and the long tradition of US protest
Over the last two and a half centuries people in the US have used July 4 to make their stand against injustice, inequality, and oppression, and demand their rights. From an infamous speech by Frederi…
00:09:11 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Episode 54 | How Indigenous field hockey is reviving Mapuche culture
Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have played their own version of field hockey for countless generations. Roughly 2 million Mapuche Indigenous people live across Chile and Argentina. Many have moved…
00:05:57 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Episode 53 | Stonewall: The uprising that sparked the LGBTQ movement
Stonewall. They say it was the spark that set the fire ablaze. The start of the modern LGBTQ movement. Protests and riots that lasted for days in defense of gay rights. And from it, came gay pride pa…
00:07:38 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
Episode 52 | The voice of the resistance against the 2009 Honduran coup
On June 28, 2009, Honduras exploded and the people took to the streets after the president was overthrown in a coup. One radio show followed them, reported from the protests, and became the voice of …
00:09:08 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Episode 51 | Resurrection City 1968: Demanding an end to poverty
The year is 1968. Summertime. Washington, DC. And covering the National Mall are endless rows of shacks built by hundreds of poor families from across the United States. It’s called Resurrection City…
00:10:19 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Episode 50 | Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year. But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. Today, communities, cities, towns and …
00:06:45 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Episode 49 | How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language
If you walk down the street in Paraguay, you will hear people speaking Spanish, the official language of most of the countries of Latin America. But, particularly if you are in the countryside, you w…
00:04:21 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Episode 48 | Protecting Q’eswachaka, the last Incan rope bridge
Q’eswachaka is the last Incan rope bridge. It’s located down in a valley in the Andes mountains of Peru. And in early June, the residents of four Quechua communities hold a three-day-long festival, w…
00:03:22 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
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