Stories of Resistance

By: Michael Fox | The Real News Network
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  • 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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  • Episode 14 | The soundtrack to the resistance against the Brazilian dictatorship

    Episode 14 | The soundtrack to the resistance against the Brazilian dictatorship
    Mar 31 2025
    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 disappeared. Thousands imprisoned and tortured. But musicians stood up, singing songs that were a sometimes subtle — sometimes not-so-subtle — critique of the dictatorship.

    The military regime responded by censoring songs, music and artists. Some, like Chico Buarque, went into exile. Others were detained, jailed and even tortured. But still the music played on. Still, artists found a way for their music to reach the people. Still, the music gave hope that “tomorrow would be another day.”

    This is episode 14 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    This week, in remembrance of the anniversary of Brazil’s military coup on March 31, 1964, we are taking a deep dive in Brazil. All three episodes this week will look at stories of resistance in Brazil. From protest music, to general strikes against the dictatorship, to the Free Lula vigil in more recent times.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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    To mark this anniversary, Michael Fox created a Spotify playlist of songs written in resistance to Brazil's military dictatorship. You can check it out on his Patreon: www.patreon.com/mfox
    There, you can also follow Michael’s reporting, and support his work.

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    6 mins
  • BONUS Episode | Cesar Chavez and standing for those who pick our food

    BONUS Episode | Cesar Chavez and standing for those who pick our food
    Mar 31 2025
    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 Huerta.

    The organization would go on to wage strikes and boycotts, winning tremendous victories for workers picking the crops in the fields of California and elsewhere in the United States. In 1969, he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. In 1970, Chavez and the UFW won higher wages for grape pickers, after a 5-year-long California grape strike.

    Chavez’s legacy lives on.

    But that legacy is also complicated. Cesar Chavez and the UFW fought for immigration reform, but also fought undocumented immigration (and pushed for deportations), under the pretext that undocumented migrants were used to drive down wages and break UFW strikes.

    This is our special Cesar Chavez Day bonus episode of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    Below are the links mentioned in the close of this episode:

    United Farm Workers of America website: https://ufw.org/
    Coalition of Immokalee Workers: https://ciw-online.org/
    2014 Cesar Chavez Biopic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1621046/
    Footage of United Farm Workers grape strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azbxTAGgs2E

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael’s reporting, and support at www.patreon.com/mfox.

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    8 mins
  • Episode 13 | Standing for Mahmoud Khalil

    Episode 13 | Standing for Mahmoud Khalil
    Mar 28 2025
    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 his green card. His crime? Standing up and speaking out against the U.S.-backed Israeli attack on Palestine. As a graduate student at Columbia University last year, he helped to lead protests against Israeli genocide in Gaza.

    And just as he stood up for the Palestinians, others are standing up for Khalil. People have rallied for his freedom across the country.

    The Real News has been reporting on Khalil’s detention and the Trump administration’s attack on free speech. Here are links to some of the stories:
    My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a Political Prisoner
    Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction and Trump’s Escalating War on the Palestinian Movement

    Folksinger David Rovics latest song is called Mahmoud Khalil, you can listen to it here. You can check out and subscribe to Rovics’ Substack, here, and sign up for his podcast on Spotify.
    This is episode 13 of Stories of Resistance — a new podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    You can see his exclusive pictures of many of the episodes and support Stories of Resistance at www.patreon.com/mfox.

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    6 mins

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