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 28 | Pete Seeger: Singing for change
Folk musician. Banjo player. Singer of songs of unity. He sang songs of joy. He sang for the unions. He sang for the people. For the workers and the downtrodden. He sang songs for change. Civil Right…
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Fri 02 May 2025
Episode 27 | May Day 1971: ‘If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government.’
It’s been called the most influential protest you’ve never heard about. In April and May 1971, week-long protests rippled across Washington, DC. Thousands in the streets. Their slogan: “If the govern…
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Wed 30 Apr 2025
Episode 26 | Marching against El Salvador’s police state
In El Salvador, thousands of innocent people have been locked up in Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs. They have been held without due process for years. But family members are standing up. And on Ma…
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Mon 28 Apr 2025
Episode 25 | Harry Belafonte—Using art for good
Harry Belafonte. The King of Calypso. Incredible singer and actor. He performed in more than a dozen movies throughout his career. But above all else, he was an activist. A fighter against racism and…
00:06:47 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Episode 24 | Flamingos: Resisting in the driest desert on the planet
The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet, and one of the most inhospitable. But salt lagoons dot the barren landscape, and flamingos are one of a number of species that have adapted to li…
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Wed 23 Apr 2025
Episode 23 | Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time
In recent years, local organizations, together with dozens of Indigenous communities, have planted more than 10 million trees up and down the Andes, with almost half of them in the Peruvian mountains…
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Mon 21 Apr 2025
Episode 22 | Writing as an act of resistance
The most powerful acts of resistance are sometimes the simple choices we make each day. The words we write. The pictures we take. The people we support. And the decision to step outside our home. To …
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Fri 18 Apr 2025
Episode 21 | Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony
Federico Avalos is an Argentine poet. But he does not write the words. He recites them. And poetry is both Federico’s job and his activism. A theatric intervention. A temporal break in time from the …
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Wed 16 Apr 2025
Episode 20 | Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian
Titles do not do Eduardo Galeano justice. He was writer, reader, journalist, editor. But he was also historian. Catching stories in the air. Writing and retelling them anew. But he did not write for …
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Mon 14 Apr 2025
Episode 19 | Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup
On April 11, 2002, a massacre occurred on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, as rebelling officers and members of the country’s Chamber of Commerce attempted a coup against the democratically elected…
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Fri 11 Apr 2025
Episode 18 | The Cochabamba Water War: Bolivia’s rebellion against neoliberalism
April 10 marks the 25th anniversary of the people’s victory in the Cochabamba Water War against the privatization of of their precious resource. Community members protested and shut down the streets …
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Wed 09 Apr 2025
Episode 17 | Chile’s Roma community: Maintaining an identity through resistance
April 8 is the International Day of the Roma, or Romani, people. It takes place each year to focus attention on the discrimination and marginalization of Roma communities across the world.
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Mon 07 Apr 2025
Episode 16 | Free Lula: The vigil that freed a president
On April 7, 2018, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was jailed on charges of corruption. But his supporters said he was innocent — convicted on trumped-up charges by a biased judge hell-bent…
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Fri 04 Apr 2025
Episode 15 | Strike! How Brazil’s workers won democracy
In 1979 and 1980, Brazilian metal workers held huge strikes, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. They were unprecedented, and a sign of the beginning of the end of the military dict…
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Wed 02 Apr 2025
Episode 14 | The soundtrack to the resistance against the Brazilian dictatorship
On March 31, 1964, the Brazilian military carried out a US-backed coup against the democratically elected government, installing a dictatorship that would last for 21 years. Hundreds of people were d…
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Mon 31 Mar 2025
BONUS Episode | Cesar Chavez and standing for those who pick our food
Today, March 31, is Cesar Chavez Day. The day, celebrating the birth and life of the great U.S. farmworker labor leader. In 1962, Cesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers, alongside Dolores Hu…
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Mon 31 Mar 2025
Episode 13 | Standing for Mahmoud Khalil
On March 8, 2025, ICE agents detained, without a warrant, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil at his home in New York City. Khalil is a U.S. resident, but Trump officials said they’d stripped him of …
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Fri 28 Mar 2025
Episode 12 | The Panama protests that defeated a Canadian copper mine
In late 2023, Panamanians shut down their country for months to demand the closure of a Canadian copper mine. And they won. It was not just a protest against a foreign company. It was about the count…
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Wed 26 Mar 2025
Episode 11 | Still Marching: The Mothers of Argentina's Plaza de Mayo
Today, March 24, is the anniversary of the 1976 coup that led to the brutal Argentine dictatorship. In Argentina, it’s known as the National Day for Memory and Truth and Justice. It honors the victim…
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Mon 24 Mar 2025
Episode 10 | Monsignor Óscar Romero, El Salvador’s Bishop of the Poor
Monsignor Óscar Romero was the archbishop of San Salvador. They called him la voz de la sin voz, The voice of the voiceless. He spoke out against the government repression, violence and killings in t…
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Fri 21 Mar 2025
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