Maximillian Alvarez

“I got into publishing because I was in the Black Panther Party and we had people in jail,” Paul Coates—legendary activist, publisher, and founder of Black Classic Press—tells TRNN.

Just as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was set to shutter, it was purchased by the Venetoulis Institute, which also owns the Baltimore Banner. Then, they fired most of the union workers who participated in the recently ended strike at the PPG.

“We can't effectively teach or do research if we are afraid of ICE coming onto campus and our colleagues being deported.”

This is a class war happening on two fronts: A war in reality, and a war on reality and our capacity to perceive it. And it's high time we all start seeing and responding to all of this in the terms of a war that we are not just reporting on but on the frontlines of.

In 2021, workers in Buffalo, New York made history by becoming the first Starbucks store in the United States to form a union. Five years later, and after a

Independent journalist Dimitri Lascaris gained access to a closed-door business conference in Athens designed to deepen Israel's ties to (and influence in) Greece. What he saw and filmed was “extraordinarily enlightening, if not utterly nauseating.”

In the wake of retaliatory firings, ex-Gazette-Post seek to keep Pittsburgh journalism alive.

“We don't expect anything good to come out of the kind of people that Trump puts in charge of these agencies, or Trump himself, but it's like, what is the constituency for ‘Kill More Coal Miners’”?

“The rest of the world is ready to go. They're waiting for Americans. They're looking at us and saying, ‘It's time for you guys to wake up, because we don't want our planet destroyed [by] your out-of-control government and military empire.”

“If you're only seeing this in Democrat or Republican terms, if you're only looking at the headlines and not the history behind these toxic disasters, then you are not gonna see the full picture here.