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  • Episode 67 | Paulo Freire and education for freedom

    Episode 67 | Paulo Freire and education for freedom
    Sep 19 2025
    Brazilian educator Paulo Freire inspired and he resisted. He was imprisoned and exiled during the Brazilian dictatorship and he carried his teachings around the world. He believed literacy and learning could be tools to empower. He helped people learn to read and write, but also understand their place of oppression and rise above it.He wrote, “Education doesn’t transform the world. Education changes people. People transform the world.” This is episode 67 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times. You can check out Michael's exclusive pictures of this student march here, on his Patreon.Michael's Panamerican Dispatch podcast episode and pictures on the voices of resistance in Washington, DC, are here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/voices-of-in-dc-138421404 Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. 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.Written and produced by Michael Fox. Resources:Reading the World documentary trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5jSYp253w Reading the World documentary website: https://www.lendoomundo.com/english Paulo Freire conversation with the International Literacy Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFWjnkFypFA Short black and white documentary about the Angicos literacy project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64qUSQbc1fkBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Follow Stories of Resistance on Spotify or Apple PodcastsSign up for our newsletterFollow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetwork
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    9 min
  • Argentine students continue to march against the crimes and disappearances of the past

    Argentine students continue to march against the crimes and disappearances of the past
    Sep 17 2025
    High school students are still marching in Argentina to remember the disappeared—kids like them who were kidnapped, detained, tortured and disappeared nearly a half century ago during the country’s military dictatorship. Kidnapped during an operation known as the Night of the Pencils—carried out on September 16, 1976. This is episode 66 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.You can check out Michael's exclusive pictures of this student march here, on his Patreon.Michael's Panamerican Dispatch podcast episode and pictures on the voices of resistance in Washington, DC, are here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/voices-of-in-dc-138421404Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. 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.Written and produced by Michael Fox.Resources:The Night of the Pencils movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXM6S5oh47QShort teleSUR video - The Night of the Pencils: When Argentine Hunted Its Youth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vo4JvFWDWkTen life sentences handed down in emblematic dictatorship trial: https://buenosairesherald.com/human-rights/ten-life-sentences-handed-down-in-emblematic-dictatorship-trialBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Follow Stories of Resistance on Spotify or Apple PodcastsSign up for our newsletterFollow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetwork
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    7 min
  • September 11: Remembering the Resistance to Pinochet’s Chile

    September 11: Remembering the Resistance to Pinochet’s Chile
    Sep 11 2025
    On September 11, 1973, tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago, Chile. Planes bombed La Moneda, the presidential palace, as US-backed General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. It was a dark, dark moment in Chile’s history. Pinochet would unleash a bloody regime that would grip power until 1990. During his rule, thousands were rounded up, detained, tortured, and executed.But there was resistance.In this special bonus episode of Stories of Resistance, we showcase four different vignettes of people standing up to the evil in which Pinochet enveloped the country in the early 1970s, and the fight for truth, justice, and memory that continues to this day. These stories have been published at different times in this podcast series over the last year. Here are links to the individual stories. They were all researched and reported by journalist and host Michael Fox.Episode 1 - The Last Words of Victor JaraEpisode 33 - Liquor Store ResistanceEpisode 38 - The Women of CalamaEpisode 62 - Chile’s Bulnes Bridge This is the latest episode of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times. You can check out exclusive pictures of Bulnes Bridge and the mural painting session there late last year here on Michael Fox's Patreon. Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. 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.Written and produced by Michael Fox.Become a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Follow Stories of Resistance on Spotify or Apple PodcastsSign up for our newsletterFollow us on:Bluesky: @therealnews.comFacebook: The Real News NetworkTwitter: @TheRealNewsYouTube: @therealnewsInstagram: @therealnewsnetwork
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    16 min
  • Episode 65 | Tupamaro Prison Break: Montevideo, 1971

    Episode 65 | Tupamaro Prison Break: Montevideo, 1971
    Sep 5 2025
    It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971.

    Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip out silently. They move into a tunnel that has been chiseled and dug slowly and silently for eight months, and they creep one by one underneath the prison.

    It is the stuff of movies. Or of legends. Or of cartoons. The only sound is the ruffle of their prison uniforms and the occasional scrape of knees and hands on the ground.

    A total of 111 men escape from the Punta Carretas prison that night. The prison break was known as “El Abuso.” The abuse. Because that’s exactly what the prison guards felt by the escape.

    This is episode 65 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews. 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.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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    5 min
  • Episode 64 | Remembering the Haitian Revolution

    Episode 64 | Remembering the Haitian Revolution
    Aug 29 2025
    In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted, rising up by the thousands. Within ten days they've taken over the whole northern province. By the following year, they controlled a third of the colony. It was the spark that would ignite the Haitian revolution — a 13-year-long endeavour. Independence would finally come on January 1, 1804. But they would have to defeat three European countries to get there.

    This is episode 64 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.

    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.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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    6 min
  • Episode 63 | El Salvador’s guerrilla Radio Venceremos

    Episode 63 | El Salvador’s guerrilla Radio Venceremos
    Aug 22 2025
    The 1980s were a time of war El Salvador. The government openly attacked its citizens. Repression. Murder. Massacres.

    Radio Venceremos broadcasted twice a day. And it was a voice of truth. A voice of reason. A voice of resistance amid the violence and the government repression and the military bloodshed. They spoke truth to power. They offered hope to the masses—the people praying for change. Praying that El Salvador could be different. That one day they would not have to live in fear.

    This is episode 63 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    You can check out exclusive pictures of the Radio Venceremos archive at the Museum of Word and Image in San Salvador here, on Michael Fox’s Patreon.

    Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.

    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.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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    7 min
  • Episode 62 | Chile's Bulnes Bridge: Remembering the past, honoring the victims

    Episode 62 | Chile's Bulnes Bridge: Remembering the past, honoring the victims
    Aug 15 2025
    It is not a pretty bridge. Four lanes of busy traffic rush across Puente Bulnes during most hours. To the North, it buttresses against two overpasses that lead to a bustling highway. Below it, run the milky grey waters of the Mapocho River, after passing through downtown Santiago, Chile.

    50 years ago, in another time, this bridge was a favorite execution site for the military and police of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Today, Aquiles Cordova will not let it be forgotten—ever.

    This is episode 62 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times.

    You can check out exclusive pictures of Bulnes Bridge and the mural painting session there late last year here on Michael Fox's Patreon.

    Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.

    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.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

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    4 min
  • Episode 61 | Mexican salt farmers are holding on to an ancient tradition

    Episode 61 | Mexican salt farmers are holding on to an ancient tradition
    Aug 6 2025
    There is a place, tucked into the mountains and hills near the border between the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, where local campesinos continue to practice an ancestral tradition. They are salt farmers. And they are the last of their kind. But they are holding on. Holding on to the past in the present. Holding on to their tradition, culture and livelihood. Resisting amid the ancient salt pools in the cactus-studded hills of Mexico.

    This is episode 61 of Stories of Resistance—a podcast produced by The Real News. 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.

    Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his Patreon account: patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.

    Written and produced by Michael Fox.

    RESOURCES
    The last of Mexico’s artisanal salt-makers preserve a 2,000-year-old tradition: http://theworld.org/stories/2023/03/03/last-mexico-s-artisanal-salt-makers-preserve-2000-year-old-tradition

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    5 min