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
- 70
- Years Active
- 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…
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Wed 18 Jun 2025
Episode 47 | Bruce Springsteen: Resisting Trump, standing for America
Bruce Springsteen has never shied away from expressing his political views. And he’s not gonna back down now.
“In my home, the America I love. The America I’ve written about. That has been a beacon of…
“In my home, the America I love. The America I’ve written about. That has been a beacon of…
00:07:40 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Episode 46 | Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: A symbol of revolution
You might think that Ernesto “Che” Guevara's resistance came with the Cuban revolution. When he sailed on the yacht known as the Granma, picked up arms, fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Sierra Ma…
00:05:31 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Episode 45 | Independent journalists resist threats in El Salvador
Independent journalists say they are under threat in El Salvador. At least 15 journalists have fled the country in recent weeks. Roughly a dozen more are in hiding out of fear for their safety.
“There…
“There…
00:05:53 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Episode 44 | Los Angeles Resistance: Standing Against ICE
Protesters have taken to the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. They’re protesting the detention and arrest of thousands of immigrants by Donald Trump’s immigration officials.
Protests have ca…
Protests have ca…
00:05:25 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Episode 43 | Sebastião Salgado: Capturing Humanity in Pictures
If a picture is worth a thousand words, his spoke novels. He was Steinbeck, Tolstoy, and Tolkien, all in one. His images capture the spirit of the poor and working classes. And they grip the viewer. …
00:06:54 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Episode 42 | The Freedom Flotilla: Sailing to Break Israel's Siege of Gaza
There is a boat sailing to Gaza right now. It carries aid for the people of Palestine. And it is called the Freedom Flotilla. It is a sign of solidarity. A sign of international resistance against Is…
00:05:34 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Episode 41 | The Chinchorro Mummies
The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world. Thousands of years older than the Egyptian mummies. And these were not pharaohs. They were everyday folks looking to hold on to …
00:06:25 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Episode 40 | Palestino: Chile’s soccer club standing in defense of Palestine
Chile’s Club Deportivo Palestino is a soccer team founded more than a century ago by Palestinian immigrants in Santiago, Chile. Chile is home to the largest Palestinian community outside of the Middl…
00:03:59 |
Fri 30 May 2025
Episode 39 | How one Peruvian community fought a mine and won
Parán is a small Indigenous community in the hills of Huaura, in central Peru. They are peach farmers. Their orchards line the mountainside. The same mountain where a new Canadian mine, known as Invi…
00:06:24 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Episode 38 | The Women of Calama: Searching in the desert
For nearly 20 years, the women of Calama traveled into the desert each day to search for their loved ones — their husbands and partners who were ripped from them, detained, tortured, executed, and di…
00:06:12 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Episode 37 | Oaxaca, Mexico: Fighting for teachers
On May 22. 2006, teachers struck across the Mexican state of Oaxaca against dismal resources for schools, kids, and themselves. They were met with widespread repression. It would kick off months of p…
00:04:41 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Episode 36 | Pepe Mujica: From political prisoner to Uruguayan president
José “Pepe” Mujica was a former political prisoner who suffered more than a decade of prison and torture under Uruguay’s military dictatorship. He rose to become the country’s president from 2010 thr…
00:07:12 |
Tue 20 May 2025
Episode 35 | Malcolm X and the fight for liberation—by any means necessary
Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925, exactly 100 hundred years ago. He would grow to become one of the greatest Black leaders in US history. Revolutionary Muslim minister. Black civil rights leader. H…
00:09:57 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Episode 34 | Augusto Sandino fought the US occupation of Nicaragua—and won
Augusto Sandino. The man who would lead the six-year rebellion against the US occupation of Nicaragua. The man who would become a legend across the country and also far from the shores of Central Ame…
00:06:33 |
Fri 16 May 2025
Episode 33 | Liquor Store Resistance: 1973 Chile
In times of repression and state violence, there is only one way to continue: Together. In 1973 Chile, people did what they could to survive and help others being hunted down by the regime.
This is ep…
This is ep…
00:03:28 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Episode 32 | The Sanctuary Movement
In the early 1980s, one church in Tucson, Arizona, began to open its arms to the waves of migrants and refugees who were fleeing US-backed wars in Central America. They would take in migrants and ref…
00:06:16 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Episode 31 | A Mother’s Day for peace
After the Civil War, three women in different times and places celebrated the idea of a Mother’s Day for peace. For unity and solidarity. But when Mother’s Day finally did come, it was co-opted by bu…
00:06:39 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Episode 30 | El Salvador’s Revolutionary Poet, Roque Dalton
Roque Dalton is considered one of El Salvador’s greatest writers of the 20th century.
His poems are pure art, mixing politics with poetry, blending verse and prose. Humor and reality. History and curr…
His poems are pure art, mixing politics with poetry, blending verse and prose. Humor and reality. History and curr…
00:08:52 |
Wed 07 May 2025
Episode 29 | Midwives under attack: Justice for Ric & Neusa Jones
Ricardo and Neusa Jones are from the Southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. Birth is their calling. But not just any birth. Home birth. Natural birth. Humanized birth. Ricardo Jones is an obstetric…
00:06:31 |
Mon 05 May 2025
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