https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ad8e6759-751d-4018-9a37-34c73f37667e The United States sends another $700 million of advanced missiles to Ukraine while the war grinds on. Russia has scored some battlefield victories and now even Republican warhawk Henry Kissinger is asking when negotiations will get underway. BreakThrough’s Editor-in-Chief Ben Becker discusses the U.S. push for war and the realities that are setting in. Uvalde police let the mass shooter at Robb Elementary School last week shoot and kill 21 people, including 19 children, before stopping the gunman after 80 minutes. This isn’t the first time that police in the United States have failed to stop such shootings, or deployed violence themselves against disproportionately Black and Latino working-class people and their children. Concerned Chicago resident Kofi Ademola and GoodKids MadCity youth organizer Miracle Boyd, talk about the Chicago police attacking Boyd, knocking out two front teeth, and the uselessness and violence of police around the country. President Biden has excluded Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas, a meeting on June 8-10 that Biden’s office has said is to “advance this administration’s agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean.” The People’s Summit for Democracy has sprung up in resistance, asking “On what grounds does the United States have the right to push its agenda on the rest of the hemisphere?” Spokesperson for Unión De Vecinos & the California Poor People’s Campaign, Kenia Alcocer explains the purpose of the People’s Summit and how the interests of working-class Americans from all nations will be better represented. Leftist Gustavo Petro won first place with more than 40% of the vote in the first round of Colombian presidential elections this weekend, with the second of two rounds on June 19. The guerrilla-turned-mayor Petro has campaigned on free college, pension redistribution, and implementing the peace deal with FARC guerillas. What would it mean for the country if Petro wins in June? Alina Duarte, independent journalist and senior research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, explains. Sherman Dilla Thomas went viral on TikTok for his videos on the history of Chicago — not what TikTok is normally known for. IBEW Local 15 electrical worker & historian Dilla Thomas talks about the real history of Chicago and how a good-paying union job allowed him to create and produce these popular and important videos. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:42:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ad8e6759-751d-4018-9a37-34c73f37667e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.