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.

It was the largest revolt against colonial Spain. Thousands would join the months-long rebellion. It would inspire uprisings elsewhere across the continent, and independence leaders. South America would gain its freedom from Spain just 40 years later.

See photos of the Tupac Amaru II statue in the Yanaoca town square here on Michael Fox's Patreon.

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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 ignited a movement. A glimmer of hope amid dark days. Hope for not just New York City, but elsewhere around the country, and a road map for other progressive candidates.

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All clips in this episode were taken from Zohran Mamdani’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/zohrankmamdani/

Resources:

• Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026
• 4 Reasons why Trump is afraid of Zohran Mamdani
• CNN Anchors shill for Cuomo as mainstream media attacks Mamdani again
• Corporate media is trying to take down Mamdani. This is why they’re failing.
• Democrat elites try to destroy Zohran Mamdani’s chance at NYC mayor—will they succeed?
• Zohran Mamdani delivers stunning blow to ‘billionaire-backed status quo’ in NYC

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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 pushed back by yelling and honking car horns when ICE agents descended on their community. Elsewhere they’ve handed out thousands of whistles to neighbors at risk. And people are lifting up their cell phone cameras and their voices, and putting their bodies on the line to foil ICE raids in cities around the country.

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Resources:

• Community residents stand up against ICE – man goes free
• Neighbors confront ICE in Chicago suburb
• Chicago residents push back on ICE — October 15
• Illinois State Senator Karina Villa Confronts ICE — September 15
• Video shows neighbors 'boxing in' federal agents making ICE arrests in Hillsboro
• Protests erupt as ICE agents conduct raids in New York City's Chinatown
• New Yorkers Confront ICE and Homeland Security Agents During Chinatown Raid
• New Yorkers Protest ICE - October 21, 2025
• People in NYC protest ICE — October 21, 2025

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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 beating people in the streets. Chemical water guns. Shooting rubber bullets at point blank range. The number of the dead and wounded skyrocketed.

Throughout the protests, which would ripple on for almost 6 months, Chilean state security forces would cause more than 400 eye injuries to protesters in the streets. Many people would never see out of those eyes again. But some of them also found each other… and began to sew their lives back together, with music.

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Resources:

• Here is the YouTube channel for Hasta La Victoria
• Hasta La Victoria’s Instagram Page 
• Camilo Galvez Bugueño Instagram page
• Michael Fox’s story for The World on the 5-year anniversary of Chile’s 2019 protests 

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It was once called Columbus Day, and it still is in many parts. A day to celebrate the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who supposedly “discovered” America. But America was there long before Columbus came. And so were millions of people up and down the continent. Experts estimate that there were anywhere from 60–90 million people in the Americas at the time. Possibly even more people in the Americas than in Europe at the time. 

But disease and successive wars by waves of invading Europeans decimated the local Indigenous populations. Over the next century, roughly 90% of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere had been wiped out.

But they have constantly resisted to this day.

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Stories of Resistance Indigenous resistance episodes:

• Episode 4: How Indigenous peoples in Brazil fought COVID-19
• Episode 8: Celebrating Indigenous roots in Chile’s Arica carnival
• Episode 23: Reforesting the Andes, one tree at a time
• Episode 48: Protecting Q’eswachaka, the last Incan rope bridge
• Episode 50: Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
• Episode 54: How Indigenous field hockey is reviving Mapuche culture
• Episode 56: Karipuna resistance: Defending the Amazon

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Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in recent days. They've marched in dozens of cities. They're demanding respect and safety for the flotilla passengers kidnapped and detained by Israeli forces. They're demanding an end to the violence in Gaza and an end to their countries’ complicity in the genocide in Palestine. 

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Resources

• “The Freedom Flotilla: Sailing to break Israel’s siege of Gaza,” TRNN
• “Palestino: Chile’s soccer club standing in defense of Palestine,” TRNN
• “How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down for Gaza,” The Nation

Here is the link to the website for the Global Sumud Flotilla: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/

As of Monday, October 6, Israel had freed 166 passengers of the flotilla. Israel was still holding the other 296 people.

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In Ecuador, the country's largest Indigenous movement has been leading mass protests in the streets for nearly two weeks against President Daniel Noboa’s lifting of diesel subsidies. Gas prices have spiked. They say it will impact the price of food.

They’re calling their protests an “indefinite national strike.” The country is now on fire. They have faced repression. But they have vowed to continue in the streets, demanding justice. Demanding their rights. Standing in defense of their communities, their lives, and their future.

This is 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 keep an eye out for Michael’s latest article about the Ecuador protests. It’ll be online with Truthout. You can visit www.Truthout.org for more. 
 
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Resources:

• "Indigenous-Led Movement Against Austerity Is Gaining Momentum in Ecuador," Truthout
• “Ecuador’s President Emulates El Salvador’s Bukele as He Builds Ties With Trump,” Truthout
• “‘It’s political persecution’: How the US is helping Ecuador’s right-wing government persecute political opponents,” The Real News Network

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Harriet Tubman is an icon for freedom. She first fled slavery with two brothers on September 17, 1849. By the following year, she was returning to save others. She traveled by night, from safe house to safe house, supported by a network of abolitionists known as the Underground Railroad. Walking north to Pennsylvania—a free state. She would make 13 trips back and forth throughout the 1850s and early 1860s. She rescued roughly 70 people from enslavement. But she didn’t stop there.
This is episode 68 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.

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Resources:

• Harriet Tubman and the battle for America's symbols
• There's resistance happening all around us, we're just not seeing it

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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

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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=64qUSQbc1fk

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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-138421404

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Resources:
The Night of the Pencils movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXM6S5oh47Q
Short teleSUR video - The Night of the Pencils: When Argentine Hunted Its Youth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vo4JvFWDWk
Ten life sentences handed down in emblematic dictatorship trial: https://buenosairesherald.com/human-rights/ten-life-sentences-handed-down-in-emblematic-dictatorship-trial

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