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14 NOV 2025 · Over 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers in over 40 cities across the US walked off the job on an indefinite Unfair Labor Practice strike on Thursday, Nov. 13. The union, Starbucks Workers United, says more workers at more unionized stores will be joining the picket line during the busy holiday season to pressure Starbucks to return to the bargaining table with proposals that seriously address workers’ ongoing demands regarding better pay and work hours, safe staffing, and resolving the hundreds of Unfair Labor Practice charges that have been filed against the coffee giant. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez reports on the ground from the picket line in Philadelphia, PA.
Videography: Maximillian Alvarez
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14 NOV 2025 · Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 14, 2025.
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14 NOV 2025 · It was the Great Depression. Early 1930s. United States. More than a thousand mortgages a day were being foreclosed on. Hundreds of thousands of families were losing their homes each year.
Times were hard for everyone. Especially hard for farmers. But neighbors found a way to push back and help their friends in a very creative way. They called it a penny auction.
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13 NOV 2025 · Historian David Hollinger connects the history of the 1964 free speech movement in Berkeley, California, to the protest movements and repressive crackdowns on free speech gripping universities today. In this episode of the Marc Steiner Show, co-hosted by Marc Steiner and Michael Fox, Hollinger draws on his firsthand experience and decades of research to explain the lessons we can learn from 1960s civil rights activists and antiwar organizers about how to defend free speech and academic freedom from extinction today.
Guest:
David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and earlier taught at the University of Michigan, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Oxford. Hollinger’s books include Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (Princeton, 2017), After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (Princeton, 2013), Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (Princeton, 1996), and Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (New York, 1995, 2000, and 2006). He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former President of the Organization of American Historians.
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- Studio Production: David Hebden
- Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.
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13 NOV 2025 · Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 13, 2025.
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12 NOV 2025 · Four years after the first Starbucks store in the US unionized in 2021, workers across the country are still facing rampant union busting and still fighting for a first contract with the coffee giant. That is why a supermajority of unionized baristas with Starbucks Workers United recently voted to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike, which is set to begin on Thursday, Nov. 13, on “Red Cup Day,” in over 25 cities around the US. “Union baristas mean business and are ready to do whatever it takes to win a fair contract and end Starbucks’ unfair labor practices,” says Michelle Eisen, Starbucks Workers United spokesperson and 15-year veteran barista. “If Starbucks keeps stonewalling, they should expect to see their business grind to a halt. The ball is in Starbucks’ court.” In this urgent episode, we speak with Eisen about the impending strike and the state of the yearslong union struggle at Starbucks.
Additional links/info:
- “No Contract, No Coffee!” https://www.nocontractnocoffee.com/
- Starbucks Workers United https://sbworkersunited.org/, https://www.facebook.com/sbworkersunited page, https://bsky.app/profile/sbworkersunited.bsky.social page, https://www.instagram.com/sbworkersunited/, and https://www.tiktok.com/@sbworkersunited?lang=en
- Starbucks Workers United press release: “https://sbworkersunited.org/strike-authorization/”
- Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press, “https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-union-workers-plan-strike-week-company-agrees-127232931”
- Alina Selyukh, NPR, “https://www.npr.org/2025/09/25/nx-s1-5553386/starbucks-closes-stores-cuts-900-jobs”
- Michael Sainato, The Guardian, “https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/07/starbucks-brian-niccol-union”
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- Jules Taylor, Working People Theme Song
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12 NOV 2025 · Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
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11 NOV 2025 · Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
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8 NOV 2025 · Rattling the Bars's Mansa Musa explores how a one-woman play, The Peculiar Patriot, reveals the human cost of mass incarceration and the enduring ties between slavery and the prison system. The artist behind the play, Liza Jessie Peterson, has worked with incarcerated youth for decades, bringing their stories to the stage and to national audiences. Performed in more than 35 US prisons and filmed at Louisiana’s Angola Prison—once a plantation, now a maximum-security facility—the play became the basis of the documentary, Angola: Do You Hear Us? (Paramount Plus / Amazon Prime). As the fight for abolition and prison reform gains momentum, this story reminds us that art is not decoration—it’s a tool for awakening, organizing, and freedom.
🎥 Watch the full interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcDuOs80ya0
Resources
- Official site — https://www.lizajessiep.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.lizajessiep.com/angola-do-you-hear-us — Paramount+ / Amazon Prime
- Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/lizajessiepeterson
- Voices of the Experienced (VOTE Louisiana) — https://voiceoftheexperienced.org/
- National Black Theatre (Harlem, NY) — https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.
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7 NOV 2025 · Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 7, 2025.
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