Episodes

  • Episode 26 | Marching against El Salvador’s police state

    Episode 26 | Marching against El Salvador’s police state
    Apr 28 2025
    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 May 1 they march, carrying the pictures and the names of their innocent loved ones detained and held without rights, with the ever-increasing support of the United States.This is episode 26 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’s reporting and support at patreon.com/mfox. Written and produced by Michael Fox. Below are some links to Michael Fox’s previous reporting on this issue with The Real News: FAMILIES OF THE DETAINED SEE ECHOES OF DICTATORIAL PAST IN EL SALVADOR’S GANG CRACKDOWN https://therealnews.com/families-of-the-detained-see-echoes-of-dictatorial-past-in-el-salvadors-gang-crackdown Nayib Bukele: El Salvador's mega-prison president detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia for Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGDw_NxfA0 DOES NAYIB BUKELE’S REELECTION VIOLATE EL SALVADOR’S CONSTITUTION? https://therealnews.com/does-nayib-bukeles-reelection-violate-el-salvadors-constitution EL SALVADOR. BUKELE, PRESIDENTE. | UNDER THE SHADOW, UPDATE 2 https://therealnews.com/el-salvador-bukele-presidente-under-the-shadow-update-2 EL SALVADOR’S CIVIL WAR | UNDER THE SHADOW, EPISODE 4 https://therealnews.com/el-salvadors-civil-war-under-the-shadow-episode-4Subscribe 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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    5 mins
  • Episode 25 | Harry Belafonte—Using art for good

    Episode 25 | Harry Belafonte—Using art for good
    Apr 25 2025
    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 oppression, in the United States and around the world.

    Belafonte joined the Civil Rights Movement. He marched alongside Martin Luther King. And he remained active into his 90s, working for prison reform, denouncing the Iraq War, George W. Bush, Trump and so much more. Harry Belafonte passed away on April 25, 2023.

    This is episode 25 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’s reporting and support at www.patreon.com/mfox.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    Links for some old clips of Harry Belafonte:
    Harry Belafonte Interview on Activism Through Art (1958)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUoAYilBgRY
    Harry Belafonte on racism, patriotism & war, 1967: CBC Archives | CBChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XUlCuW7Drc
    Harry Belafonte’s Best Crime Thriller? Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) | BlackTree TVhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zizXTmtGlKs
    Harry Belafonte in Concert (Japan, 1960)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnswQxvfci8
    Harry Belafonte Television and Video Archivehttps://www.youtube.com/@harrybelafontetvvideoarchive

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    7 mins
  • Episode 23 | Flamingos: Resisting in the driest desert on the planet

    Episode 23 | Flamingos: Resisting in the driest desert on the planet
    Apr 23 2025
    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 live in this harsh environment, and are battling to survive.

    This is episode 24 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.
    This week, we celebrate Earth Day, April 22. April 26 is also Flamingo Day. So, Happy Flamingo Day!

    You can see exclusive pictures of the flamingos of the Atacama desert, in Michael Fox's Patreon page. You can also follow Michael’s reporting and support at patreon.com/mfox.

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

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    This is Stories of Resistance — a new 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.

    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 patreon.com/mfox.

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    4 mins
  • Episode 23 | Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time

    Episode 23 | Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time
    Apr 21 2025
    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 around Cusco. Many of the tree species are threatened, and many of the ecosystems at risk.

    The trees help to protect and preserve the local environments and ecosystems and in particular help retain water. The communities are also holding on to their local cultures, beliefs and religion. Making offerings and prayers to Pachamama and the Apus. Offerings for the resistance of their peoples on the hillsides of the Andes. Offerings for their children and their communities. Offerings for the future.

    This is episode 23 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.
    This week, we celebrate Earth Day, April 22. This is a perfect story to highlight the incredible work Indigenous peoples and communities are doing in the highlands of Peru.

    This is Stories of Resistance — a new 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.

    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 patreon.com/mfox.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 22 | Writing as an act of resistance

    Episode 22 | Writing as an act of resistance
    Apr 18 2025
    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 volunteer at migrant shelters. To stand with the most oppressed and marginalized. To fight against unjust systems. These are the daily acts of resistance of writer and reporter Tamara Pearson.

    You can follow her work at https://resistancewords.com/She tweets at https://x.com/pajaritaroja

    You can find Tamara Pearson’s latest novel, Eyes of the Earth, at https://resistancewords.com/novel-the-eyes-of-the-earth/

    This is Stories of Resistance — a new 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.

    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 patreon.com/mfox.

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    4 mins
  • Episode 21 | Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony

    Episode 21 | Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony
    Apr 16 2025
    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 digital monotony: The selfies, the tweets, the posts, the likes, the comments and the follows.

    This is Federico's resistance. Standing up to the cyber mayhem. Breathing art into the void. Magic. Reflection.

    This is episode 21 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.
    April is poetry month in the United States. We are taking advantage to feature three stories about poetry and writing this week. This is the second of those three.

    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.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 20 | Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian

    Episode 20 | Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian
    Apr 14 2025
    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 the stuffy halls of the elites or academia. He wrote for the people. He was a truth teller. A myth maker. An essayist. A poet. Polishing his craft. Honing his art. Chiseling his sculptures with words, until they were perfectly symmetrical. Gorgeous bouquets of words.

    He was a storyteller. And his tales had morals. His vignettes — tiny packets of beauty that remind us who we are, and where we come from. The immense injustices carried out by the powerful and the profound insight of the people. He died on April 13, 2015. This week is the 10-year-anniversary of his passing.

    This is episode 20 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.
    April is poetry month in the United States. We are taking advantage to feature three stories about poetry and writing this week. This is the first of those three.

    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.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    Here is a clip of Michael’s interview with Eduardo Galeano about the UN and international institutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57MLK0rmkU&t=16s

    You can watch Michael Fox and Silvia Leindecker’s full documentary, Beyond Elections, below
    In English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4YYYiQIco&t=114s
    En Español: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdXksT92uU&t=1246s
    En Portugues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5S_iKHjLBM&t=2111s

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    6 mins
  • Episode 19 | Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup

    Episode 19 | Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup
    Apr 11 2025
    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 president Hugo Chavez. The coup lasted just two days.

    The people were not having it. Chavez supporters descended from the hillsides of the poorest communities across Caracas and amassed outside of Miraflores, the presidential palace. They refused to recognize the de facto government.

    On April 13, Chavez’s presidential guard expelled the coup leaders and returned Chavez to power. Pressure from both the people and loyal military forces led to the collapse of the coup government. The people and the military united together to defend their democratically elected leader.
    If you’re interested in more background, you can check out the following documentaries.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    The Revolution Will Not be Televised (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH5nzZU0qCc

    Llaguno Bridge: Keys to a Massacre (2004): Host Michael Fox helped to translate and narrate this documentary in English.
    In English: https://vimeo.com/40502430
    In Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9jE1c0XPE

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    6 mins
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