Explosions rocked the Kabul, Afghanistan airport just a week after the Taliban took the city as the US military acknowledged defeat in a 20-year war. What is happening and what is the context for the Taliban takeover of the country? Hear from Ann Wright, US Army Colonel & State Department official in Afghanistan who resigned in protest of the invasion of Iraq and became an anti-war activist. Indigenous leaders are fighting back against the Line 3 pipeline project that would violate treaty territory of Anishinaabe peoples in Minnesota. Protestors have faced horrendous abuse by police agencies for fighting back, including tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets, and pepper bullets. Line 3 leader Tara Houska joins The Freedom Side LIVE to describe just what’s happening and what they’re fighting for. Tara is also founder of the Giniw Collective, a tribal attorney, and a Couchiching First Nation citizen. Workers at Nabisco plants and facilities around the country are on strike. Hear from Local 364 President Jesus Martinez in Portland, Or. and 20-year baker Steven James with Local 358, Richmond, Va. Federal pandemic benefits are expiring soon, but workers are still laid off, making less, and endangering their health to go into work as the Delta variant rages. Senior Staff Attorney with the National Employment Law Project Jenna Gerry breaks it down. Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, a socialist, is facing an ongoing coup against the democratically elected government. Denis Rogatyuk, international editor for El Ciudadano media and Jacobin America Latina, writer & journalist, joins The Freedom Side to update us on what’s going on and how we should fight back. » Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/BreakThroughNews -------------------------------- » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BTnewsroom » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btnewsroom/ At Breakthrough News we believe in the power of independent media. Five mega-corporations dominate the media landscape — controlling 90% of what we read, watch and listen to. They control the news cycle, to which social media and even most “alternative” media is forced to respond. We are breaking through that cycle. We tell the untold stories of resistance from poor and working-class communities — because out of these stories we will construct a different narrative of the world, as it is and in real time. People’s movements in every corner of the globe are changing history and shifting consciousness. But these movements barely receive any coverage from the corporate media. They need visibility. They need amplification. They need a media arm to break through. We can be that media arm, but only with your help. Become a Patron and join us on the front lines in the battle of ideas. Subscribe and follow us! https://www.youtube.com/breakthroughnews @BTNewsroom #afghanistan #afghan #line3pipeline #waterislife #BreakThroughNews #BTnews #socialistnews #socialist #raniakhalek #eugenepuryear
