https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ea1f8515-f08a-4289-948d-6970245e96dc On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday, 6/12 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, hosts Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear are joined by special guests: Michelle Zuno, an immigrant rights organizer in Los Angeles, joins the show to discuss the mass anti-ICE protests that have erupted and Trump’s ensuing crackdown. Nearly 5,000 military personnel have been deployed to the streets of LA, LAPD has unleashed brutal force to suppress the protests, and Mayor Karen Bass has imposed a curfew. Zuno will share what’s unfolding on the ground and how Angelenos are continuing to rise up in defense of immigrant families. Ann Wright, a US military veteran and long-time antiwar activist who serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, joins the show to discuss Israel’s illegal hijacking of the Madleen Freedom Flotilla. Twelve activists onboard a ship bringing desperately needed aid to Gaza were intercepted by Israeli forces Sunday. Everyone onboard was subsequently detained – two activists have been deported and the rest remain in Israeli capture. Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, joins the show to discuss the escalation of Trump’s mass deportation war is also an escalation of his war on political dissent. Trump is setting the stage to invoke the Insurrection Act, and Becker will discuss how Los Angeles is the testing ground for a wider crackdown on American’s basic civil liberties that will crush dissent. Ahmed Alnaouq, a Palestinian journalist with Palestine Deep Dive and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, joins the show to discuss the corporate media’s complicity in Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza. Alnaouq, who has lost over 20 family members to Israeli airstrikes, will also discuss his book We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth and the urgency of amplifying Palestinian voices in the face of Western media silence. On the eve of Eid al-Adha, Israel launched its most severe attack since the November 2024 ceasefire, bombing dozens of residential buildings in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh. Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear will discuss the attack and Israel’s ongoing violations of the Lebanon ceasefire as it escalates genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing throughout the region. #breakthroughnews Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:54:44 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/ea1f8515-f08a-4289-948d-6970245e96dc All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.