Best Kiss My Working Class Podcasts (2025)

1
Zumbi dos Palmares: Brazil's hero of Black resistance 6:03

Play Pause

1h ago6:03

6:03

Nov. 20 is Black Consciousness Day in Brazil. A day celebrating the struggle of Black organizations, people, and movements in Brazil. Celebrating the ongoing fight against racism. And, above all, celebrating the history of Brazil’s most historic Black leader: Zumbi dos Palmares. He was leader of the great Palmares Quilombo, present-day Alagoas, an …

1
What does it mean to be a union member in these times? 58:11

8h ago58:11

58:11

Making ends meet in today’s economy is difficult enough, but with so many societal crises affecting working people’s lives on and off the shop floor—from mass layoffs to untenable costs of living, from an authoritarian federal government to AI and the climate crisis—it can feel all but impossible. What does it mean to have a union job, to be a unio…

1
At COP30, humanity must choose: Fossil fuel industry profits or a livable planet? 28:04

1d ago28:04

28:04

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP30, began on Nov. 10 in Belém, Brazil, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. This year’s COP conference has more fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance than any previous conference, but it has also drawn the biggest delegation of Indigenous peoples from around the world—each …

1
'The Alabama Department of Corrections is a drug cartel' 46:29

3d ago46:29

46:29

The Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor, violence, and deliberate neglect. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with journalist Matthew Vernon Whalan about his book Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 17, 2025 6:49

24m ago6:49

6:49

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 17, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Tal…

1
Starbucks workers strike nationwide 10:31

2h ago10:31

10:31

Over 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers in over 40 cities across the US walked off the job on an indefinite Unfair Labor Practice strike on Thursday, Nov. 13. The union, Starbucks Workers United, says more workers at more unionized stores will be joining the picket line during the busy holiday season to pressure Starbucks to return to the bargaining…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 14, 2025 7:49

13m ago7:49

7:49

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 14, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Tal…

1
How farmers fought the banks and won: Penny auctions in the Great Depression 4:10

4d ago4:10

4:10

It was the Great Depression. Early 1930s. United States. More than a thousand mortgages a day were being foreclosed on. Hundreds of thousands of families were losing their homes each year. Times were hard for everyone. Especially hard for farmers. But neighbors found a way to push back and help their friends in a very creative way. They called it a…

1
‘This is the hill to die on for universities’: Free speech can survive Trump, but not without a fight 48:21

3h ago48:21

48:21

Historian David Hollinger connects the history of the 1964 free speech movement in Berkeley, California, to the protest movements and repressive crackdowns on free speech gripping universities today. In this episode of the Marc Steiner Show, co-hosted by Marc Steiner and Michael Fox, Hollinger draws on his firsthand experience and decades of resear…

2
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:49

36m ago6:49

6:49

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 13, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora T…

1
'We're done': Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike 53:02

2h ago53:02

53:02

Four years after the first Starbucks store in the US unionized in 2021, workers across the country are still facing rampant union busting and still fighting for a first contract with the coffee giant. That is why a supermajority of unionized baristas with Starbucks Workers United recently voted to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike, which is…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 12, 2025 6:20

7m ago6:20

6:20

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 12, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora …

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 11, 2025 7:22

2h ago7:22

7:22

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 11, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Ta…

1
Inside the modern-day plantation: How theater confronts incarceration 47:24

7m ago47:24

47:24

Rattling the Bars's Mansa Musa explores how a one-woman play, The Peculiar Patriot, reveals the human cost of mass incarceration and the enduring ties between slavery and the prison system. The artist behind the play, Liza Jessie Peterson, has worked with incarcerated youth for decades, bringing their stories to the stage and to national audiences.…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, November 7, 2025 8:15

43m ago8:15

8:15

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, November 7, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

1
We’ve reached the ‘show me your papers’ stage of American authoritarianism 35:34

6h ago35:34

35:34

Just 11 months into his second term, President Trump has harnessed the brutal power of the federal government to go to war with American cities, communities, and citizens. Since the launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” in September, Chicago has become the epicenter of the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants, protestors, and political opponen…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, November 6, 2025 5:20

1h ago5:20

5:20

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, November 6, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Ta…

1
Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: ‘There’s so many cops everywhere’ 57:21

15d ago57:21

57:21

Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last 10 months. While institutions of higher education continue to reel from the Trump administration’s top-down attacks and scramble to adjust, workers on campus say that their universities are simultaneously expanding their own internal repression and surveillance apparatuses to squash diss…

1
Why more mega-prisons won’t fix Alabama’s crisis 34:02

22h ago34:02

34:02

From chronic overcrowding and inmate deaths to systematic abuse and lawbreaking by corrections officers, prison conditions in the state of Alabama have reached a crisis point. And yet, state leaders continue to push an “Alabama solution” that involves building more mega-prisons and expanding qualified immunity for officers. In this episode of Rattl…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, November 5, 2025 8:23

23h ago8:23

8:23

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, November 5, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora T…

1
Tupac Amaru II’s Indigenous uprising against colonial Spain | Stories of Resistance 6:13

2d ago6:13

6:13

In the late 1700s, Indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Andes were forced to work for the Spanish. They tilled the land, worked in the textile mills and the mines. Those that didn’t faced heavy taxes. But in early November 1780, Indigenous Incan leader Tupac Amaru II led an uprising against the Spanish that he hoped would end it all. I…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, November 4, 2025 5:50

2d ago5:50

5:50

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, November 4, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Tal…

1
NYC Voters want real change. They hope the next mayor can deliver it. 4:23

18d ago4:23

4:23

Taya Graham and Stephen Janis speak with voters in Harlem just 24 hours before the NYC mayoral election about what issues are important to them, what they think of the frontrunner candidate Zohran Mamdani, what they think of his opponent, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, and what they want the mayor to do for them. Credits:Pre-Production: Taya Graham/…

1
NYC taxi drivers remember: Mamdani didn’t forget them 13:10

18d ago13:10

13:10

In 2021, when New York City taxi drivers were dying by suicide and others were going on hunger strike, begging City Hall for relief from the debt trap that had set them up for failure and financial ruin, a young NY Assemblyperson named Zohran Mamdani stood with them. Now, taxi drivers are standing with Mamdani in his bid to become the next mayor of…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, November 3, 2025 6:15

18d ago6:15

6:15

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, November 3, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

1
Zohran Mamdani: Building working-class power in NYC 6:47

21d ago6:47

6:47

Just a year ago almost no one had ever heard of him. Just a name in a crowd. A fairly obscure member of the New York State Assembly. Just one in a packed pool of Democratic candidates running for mayor of New York City. A longshot. Now he is the leading candidate in the city’s mayoral race next Tuesday, November 4. A \Democratic socialist who has i…

1
Life after genocide: A Gazan’s message to the world about the ceasefire 17:22

21d ago17:22

17:22

In September, before the current ceasefire deal was announced, we spoke with two Palestinians in Gaza—Mohamed Abu Tawila (a former English teacher) and his nephew Abdul Rahman (a would-be college student)—about surviving 700 days of genocidal destruction at the hands of Israel’s military and with the full backing of the United States. In this criti…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 31, 2025 8:11

21d ago8:11

8:11

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 31, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 30, 2025 7:54

22d ago7:54

7:54

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 30, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Ta…

1
Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world 50:47

23d ago50:47

50:47

In this special crossover edition of Working People and The Marc Steiner Show, hosts Maximillian Alvarez and Marc Steiner examine how the “artificial intelligence” (AI) boom is shaping the economy and the impact it is already having—and will continue to have—on working people’s lives, livelihoods, and jobs. Alvarez and Steiner speak with two member…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 29, 2025 6:54

23d ago6:54

6:54

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 29, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora T…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 28, 2025 8:58

24d ago8:58

8:58

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 28, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Tal…

1
Resisting ICE 6:41

25d ago6:41

6:41

ICE agents are detaining thousands of people a day from communities across the country. But people are resisting. And it’s having an impact. Millions have protested in recent weeks, from the #NoKings rally to demonstrations in front of immigration detention centers, and protests against ICE in their communities. Neighbors in one Chicago suburb push…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 27, 2025 5:04

25d ago5:04

5:04

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 27, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 24, 2025 9:03

28d ago9:03

9:03

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 24, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

1
A civil rights icon’s advice for combatting Trump, ICE, and fascism today | The Marc Steiner Show 50:58

29d ago50:58

50:58

While each period is historically unique, veterans and scholars of the civil rights movement say there are some important similarities between the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation and our current moment. One similarity, as author and professor Joshua Clark Davis notes, is the role that local law enforcement plays in enforcing regimes of racia…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 23, 2025 5:56

29d ago5:56

5:56

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 23, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Ta…

1
This government shutdown is not like the others: Furloughed federal workers explain 51:58

1M ago51:58

51:58

The federal government shutdown is now in its fourth week. Over 700,000 federal employees have been furloughed, with nearly as many continuing to work without pay, yet there are still no signs that an end to the shutdown is near. “Unlike past presidents, Mr. Trump appears to feel little urgency to strike a deal to reopen the government,” Luke Broad…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 22, 2025 6:11

1M ago6:11

6:11

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 22, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora T…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Tuesday, October 21, 2025 7:14

1M ago7:14

7:14

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, October 21, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Tal…

1
Nebraska inmate punished for speaking on wife’s podcast 31:11

1M ago31:11

31:11

Calling from a prison phone in Nebraska, Nicholas Ely joined his wife, Julie Montpetit, for an episode of Montpetit’s podcast, “More Than an Inmate’s Girlfriend,” which aims to destigmatize relationships like theirs. Afterwards, Montpetit lost all contact with her husband. Now, Ely is suing several employees in the Nebraska Department of Correction…

1
Their kids were all killed by police. Now, they’re leading a movement 9:04

1M ago9:04

9:04

In the USA, so many Black parents have seen their children killed by police that, now, growing numbers of those same parents are building a grassroots movement for accountability and justice. On Oct. 14—the birthday of George Floyd, who was murdered by Minneapolis police in 2020—a coalition of parents, allies, and community organizations gathered i…

1
'This is what Antifa looks like': Baltimore's "No Kings" protests 7:50

1M ago7:50

7:50

TOWSON, MD: What brought millions of Americans out to over 2,500 "No Kings" protest sites across the US on Saturday,? Were these protests really "Hate America" rallies, as Republicans accused? What are the hopes, expectations, and goals of these protests, and what comes next? Reporting on the ground from one of the multiple protests that took place…

1
‘Mike Johnson can kiss my ass!’: Voices from the DC “No Kings” protest 28:12

1M ago28:12

28:12

WASHINGTON, DC: Amid threats of police crackdowns and accusations from Republican officials that protesters “hate America,” millions of people defiantly turned out to the “No Kings” Day protests that took place in cities and towns across the US on Saturday, Oct. 18. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez was on the ground in Washington, DC, speak…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Monday, October 20, 2025 6:17

1M ago6:17

6:17

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, October 20, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk…

1
The Chilean band overcoming police violence with music 7:20

1M ago7:20

7:20

On October 18, 2019, protests erupted in Santiago, Chile, over a hike in the cost of public transportation. But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than that. Those in the streets demanded change—real change. They demanded more rights. They demanded a new Constitution. Police cracked down with impunity. Videos went viral of riot police beatin…

1
31,000 workers ON STRIKE at Kaiser Permanente 16:23

1M ago16:23

16:23

Around 31,000 registered nurses and front-line healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike, demanding better wages, working hours, and proper staffing. The strike began on Tuesday, Oct 14, and spans hundreds of medical centers and offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaii. Calling in from the picket line in Portland, Oregon, Registered Nu…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Thursday, October 16, 2025 7:49

1M ago7:49

7:49

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, October 16, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Ta…

1
Nora Loreto's news headlines for Wednesday, October 15, 2025 5:17

1M ago5:17

5:17

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, October 15, 2025. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide. Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora T…

1
Will Texas State University fire a tenured professor based on a Nazi apologist’s doctored video? 1:05:53

1M ago1:05:53

1:05:53

“In Texas, a socialist professor is now in the fight of his life against MAGA’s New McCarthyism,” scholar and author Bill V. Mullen writes in Jacobin. “Tom Alter, a labor historian and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired from his job on September 10 after a far-right troll doctored a videotape of Alter speaking at a vi…