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  • Episode 43 | Sebastião Salgado: Capturing Humanity in Pictures

    Episode 43 | Sebastião Salgado: Capturing Humanity in Pictures
    Jun 6 2025
    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. Refusing to let your eyes peal from the picture before you. Pictures in black and white. Pictures that seem to have been painted by brush strokes, but which are as real as the camera equipment he used.Sebastião Salgado was an artist. And he was a documentarian. Capturing the plight of the downtrodden, but also their soul. Their beauty.Sebastião Salgado passed away on May 23, 2025, at the age of 81.Today, we dedicate this episode to the incredible life and work of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. His legacy lives on. This is episode 43 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed, either in Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, or wherever you listen.Visit patreon.com/mfox for exclusive pictures, to follow Michael Fox’s reporting and to support his work.Written and produced by Michael Fox. ResourcesHere is Sebastião Salgado’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/sebastiaosalgadooficial/ Here is a beautiful written piece about Sebastião Salgado’s work on workers: https://www.holdenluntz.com/magazine/new-arrival/sebastiao-salgados-workers-an-archeology-of-the-industrial-age/Subscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast hereBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
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    7 mins
  • Episode 42 | The Freedom Flotilla: Sailing to Break Israel's Siege of Gaza

    Episode 42 | The Freedom Flotilla: Sailing to Break Israel's Siege of Gaza
    Jun 4 2025
    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 Israel's war on the people of Palestine. Against the death, and destruction, and pain. Against the genocide.The goal is to break Israel's siege of Gaza. And deliver much needed humanitarian aid.The Freedom Flotilla left Sicily on June 1. It’s a seven-day voyage. If all goes as planned, it will arrive in Gaza this weekend.This is episode 42 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed, either in Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, or wherever you listen.Visit patreon.com/mfox for exclusive pictures, to follow Michael Fox’s reporting and to support his work.Written and produced by Michael Fox.You can find more information on the Freedom Flotilla at https://freedomflotilla.org/On their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gazafreedomflotillaOr X: https://x.com/GazaFFlotillaSubscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast hereBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
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    6 mins
  • Episode 41 | The Chinchorro Mummies

    Episode 41 | The Chinchorro Mummies
    Jun 2 2025
    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 what was most dear to them: The people they loved.

    An embrace from the past that would last for thousands upon thousands of years. That would last until today. And, hopefully, far into the future.

    This is episode 41 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.

    Visit patreon.com/mfox for exclusive pictures, to follow Michael Fox’s reporting and to support his work.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    You can check out Michael Fox’s reporting on the Chinchorro mummies for the world here: https://theworld.org/stories/2025/02/27/preserving-the-worlds-earliest-mummies-in-chile

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    6 mins
  • Episode 40 | Palestino: Chile’s soccer club standing in defense of Palestine

    Episode 40 | Palestino: Chile’s soccer club standing in defense of Palestine
    May 30 2025
    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 Middle East: half a million people.

    The team wears the country’s colors: white, green and red. In the stands, fans wear them too, as well as keffiyehs, the black-and-white scarves that represent Palestinian identity and resistance. Their slogan is: “More than a team, it is an entire people.”

    The team, the players, and the fans have remained outspoken in defense of Palestine. And outspoken against the violence in Gaza.

    This is episode 40 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.

    You can see exclusive pictures of Club Deportivo Palestino in Michael Fox’s Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chiles-soccer-in-130263594.

    There you can also follow his reporting and support his work at Patreon.com/mfox

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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    4 mins
  • Episode 39 | How one Peruvian community fought a mine and won

    Episode 39 | How one Peruvian community fought a mine and won
    May 28 2025
    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 Invicta, was beginning to operate. They feared for their future and that the mine would contaminate their precious springs, their only source of fresh water for their town and their peach trees.

    In 2018, they began an around-the-clock roadblock against a new mine. When they were attacked by armed thugs, they held a community meeting and the entire village—all adult men and women—agreed to participate in the protest against the mine.

    They were finally successful.

    This is episode 39 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.
    If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.

    You can see exclusive pictures, drone footage, and pictures of the Parán community in Michael Fox’s Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also follow his reporting and support his work.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    Resources: You can find out more about Lupaka Gold’s case against Peru through the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement over the Invicta Mine here: https://gtwaction.org/egregious-isds-cases/#lupakagoldvperu

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    6 mins
  • Episode 38 | The Women of Calama: Searching in the desert

    Episode 38 | The Women of Calama: Searching in the desert
    May 27 2025
    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 disappeared in the weeks following Chile’s US-backed 1973 coup d’état.Monday through Sunday, sun-up to sundown, they scoured the harsh desert earth with strainers and rakes, searching and hoping.And finally, in 1990, on the edge of a hillside overlooking the expansive Atacama desert, the women found fragments of bones and pieces of teeth. This was the location their loved ones had laid buried for 17 years. This is the May Week of the Disappeared — a week to remember and honor those who have been forcibly disappeared and the fight for truth and justice for their families.This is episode 38 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review.You can also follow Michael Fox’s reporting and support his work and this podcast at www.patreon.com/mfox.Written and produced by Michael Fox.Resources:Filmmaker Patricio Guzman’s masterpiece of a documentary, Nostalgia for the Light:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1556190/Spanish singer, Victory Manuel wrote a song for the Women of Calama:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pkzzsK-uuAMujer de Calama Afeddep Calama Dictadura Chile:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hG5m3BYhwActo de conmemoración de Afeddep a 45 años del paso de la Caravana de la Muerte por Calama:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__pUZR-68OEMemorial for the Disappeared Detainees of Calama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2D6-es9NnwSubscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast hereBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
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    6 mins
  • Episode 37 | Oaxaca, Mexico: Fighting for teachers

    Episode 37 | Oaxaca, Mexico: Fighting for teachers
    May 23 2025
    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 protests that would unexpectedly turn Oaxaca into ground zero for one of the most radical movements Mexico has seen in the 21st century.

    They started holding people’s assemblies. They set up barricades across the city. Teachers, housewives, Indigenous organizers, health workers, and students took over 14 different radio stations to defend their struggle.

    This is episode 37 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

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

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    Resources:
    Oaxacan teachers strike against Governor, 2006:
    https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/oaxacan-teachers-strike-against-governor-2006
    The Long Struggle of Mexican Teachers: https://jacobin.com/2016/08/mexico-teacher-union-strikes-oaxaca/
    Documentary: Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (Many of the clips in this episode came from this documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dWP-dBPL4

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    5 mins
  • Episode 36 | Pepe Mujica: From political prisoner to Uruguayan president

    Episode 36 | Pepe Mujica: From political prisoner to Uruguayan president
    May 20 2025
    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 through 2015.

    They called him the world’s humblest president. He was often seen driving himself in his 1987 baby blue VW bug. He lived on a farm. His clothes were simple. So were his words and his actions. Yet he created tremendous change and left an indelible mark on the tiny country of Uruguay and the entire region of Latin America.

    This is episode 36 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times

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

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    Resources: Below are some excellent videos in Spanish.
    Las frases más memorables de Mujica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIEphwjxKwo
    PEPE MUJICA se despide por sorpresa: "Hasta siempre, les doy mi corazón": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2Erk16boU
    Here is a video of people staying goodbye to Mujica on the streets of Uruguay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWK4INMcnqw

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    7 mins
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