The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Introducing The Secret History of Estonia Feb 21, 2023

The Secret History of the Estonia from Crowd Network investigates Europe’s worst peacetime shipping disaster since the Titanic. How did a passenger ferry sink in the Baltic Sea back in 1994, killing 852 people? Was there a cover-up? Journalist Stephen Davis investigates a mysterious trail that leads back to the Cold War.

The Secret History of the Estonia is out now across all podcast platforms with new episodes every Monday. The entire series is available ad-free on the Crowd Stories channel on Apple Podcasts. This is episode one. For episode two, hit this link: https://podfollow.com/the-secret-history-of-the-estonia

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Dying For A Fight | 10. An arrest has been made Oct 31, 2022

Nearly three years after Sean’s death an arrest has been made. Senior producer Ryan Haas is joined by reporter Jonathan Levinson to discuss why the Portland police finally charged someone with murder.

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Inside Rose City Antifa Nov 15, 2021

We sat down with Rose City Antifa, a different kind of anti-facist group in Portland than we've previously discussed.

We get a window into what it's like to be a member of the only antifa group with a website in Portland.

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Dying For A Fight | 9. No Justice No Peace Nov 08, 2021

After the largest year of protests in recent memory, an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and sometimes deadly fights between political factions at the fringes of society: What has changed? And what are the consequences of government inaction?

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Dying For A Fight | 8. Who Gets Justice Nov 01, 2021

Laura Kealiher doesn’t believe the state has made a good faith effort to solve Sean’s case.

We attempt to get answers from Portland’s progressive district attorney. And, we uncover a new witness who raises questions about why this case is still unsolved.

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Dying For A Fight | 7. Life Is Cheaper Oct 25, 2021

In some ways, Sean Kealiher’s homicide has remained a mystery because people closest to him have long declined to talk publicly about what happened the night he was killed.

For the first time ever, two antifascists who were with Sean the night of his homicide tell their side of the story.

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Dying For A Fight | 6. Summer 2020 Oct 18, 2021

The uprising of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 swept the country.

As many as 1 in 10 adult Americans attended a protest. They got a taste of the world Sean Kealiher had been inhabiting for years before he was killed.

And in Portland, the culture war over race and politics would turn deadly.

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Portrait of a Young Anarchist: An Interview with Ani Raven Oct 12, 2021

Ani Raven is a longtime activist and community radio host in Portland.

She was also one of Sean Kealiher’s mentors when he joined the Occupy movement at 15 years old.

In 2011, Raven met Sean at the camps that Occupy protesters had set up in Portland city parks.

In this episode, released on the two-year anniversary of Sean’s killing, Raven discusses how she watched Sean grow as a young activist, and start to lead people in the street.

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Dying For A Fight | 5. It’s Personal Oct 11, 2021

After Sean Kealiher was killed, his mother Laura was subjected to brutal harassment from conservative trolls at her home and online—and it was Sean’s antifascist friends who provided her security, not the Portland police.

Meanwhile, we ask the former head of police detectives in Portland why there has been no progress in solving Sean’s homicide.

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Dying For A Fight | 4. This Isn't a Game Oct 04, 2021

When Sean Kealiher and his friend Micah Fletcher began confronting racists in their community, neither one could have predicted the consequences.

In 2017, Micah would nearly lose his life when he was attacked on a Portland train as he defended two teenage girls from a racist tirade.

Now, he reflects on how he was lauded as a hero while his friend Sean was treated as a thug for doing the same things.

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Dying For A Fight | 3. It’s a Conspiracy Sep 27, 2021

Oregon’s long history of racism was what brought Sean Kealiher and so many protesters like him to the streets.

The fights between anti-racist skinheads and neo-Nazis in the 80s and 90s set the stage for Portland to found America’s first official Antifa chapter.

And Laura Kealiher says the way police are intertwined with those past fights makes her skeptical they will ever solve Sean’s homicide.

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Dying For A Fight | 2. A Fight Brews Sep 20, 2021

Portland, Oregon, had been a hotbed for political clashes between the far left and the far right for years before 2020.

Sean Kealiher was among the people who regularly took to the streets to fight — sometimes physically — with people who opposed Black Lives Matter and other social justice movements.

We look at who was in the streets leading up to one of the most significant years in American protests.

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Dying For A Fight | 1. The Death of Sean Kealiher Sep 13, 2021

Sean Kealiher was killed on Oct 12, 2019, near a popular bar for Portland’s antifascist scene.

An SUV ran him over and crashed outside the Democratic Party of Oregon office. Gunshots rang out through the night, and whoever was driving fled the scene, leaving the vehicle behind.

Now, almost two years later, his mother Laura Kealiher is demanding police answer why his killing remains unsolved.

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Introducing The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight Aug 30, 2021

Portland-based anti-fascist Sean Kealiher was killed in 2019, months before the uprising that would bring Portland international attention.

Nearly two years later, his homicide remains unsolved. His mother, Laura, believes she hasn't received justice because of police hatred for her son and his politics.

Dying For A Fight, the second installment in Somethin’ Else’s Fault Line series, goes in search of answers: What happened the night Sean was killed? Why have no arrests been made? Who are the Americans living at the political extremes? And how did things escalate from Portland to the Capitol?

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9: Iraq Nov 24, 2020

After the arguments over intelligence, the debates between politicians and the meetings behind closed doors in this final episode we ask what happened next? What happened to Iraq and what happened to Iraqis after Bush and Blair sent their troops into the country in March 2003?

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 8. The Pieces Of The Puzzle Nov 17, 2020

Tony Blair finally has to come face to face with his party and his country. To sell his war to parliament and to the public. Little does he know that in a few short months the weapons' inspectors, searching through the rubble in Iraq, will find something that will haunt him for the rest of his life and career. And it will leave us, the people, asking - can we ever trust our politicians again?

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 7. Seven Days and Seven Nights Nov 10, 2020

US Secretary of State Colin Powell is tasked with making a public case for war at the United Nations. As he tries to sort fact from fiction he alights upon evidence from the mysterious Iraqi defector known as Curveball. Meanwhile, weapons inspector Rocco Casagrande is searching the Iraqi desert. How will Powell’s speech match with the reality on the ground?

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 6. With You Whatever Nov 03, 2020

Tony Blair writes to George Bush “I’m with you whatever”. But now he needs to do two things: persuade the UK that war against Saddam is necessary, and the Americans that they need to seek international support for military action. The result is a decision by Bush to try and win round the United Nations, and an intelligence dossier that will haunt Blair forever.

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 5. Curveball Oct 27, 2020

An Iraqi defector’s evidence becomes crucial to the case for regime change in Iraq. His codename is Curveball. Meanwhile journalists at the Knight Ridder news organisation investigate whether the White House is using bogus intelligence to make the case for war.

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 4. The Alpha Dog Oct 20, 2020

How did WMD become central to the case for war in Iraq? We go back to 1991 - just after the first Gulf War - to find out why the argument for invading Iraq focussed on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. We look at how the Iraqis tried to hide these weapons and meet the two men who did the most to try and find them.

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 3. Shoulder To Shoulder Oct 13, 2020

On September 11th 2001 the world changes in an instant. George Bush calls his greatest international ally, Tony Blair, and the two leaders stand shoulder to shoulder. But where and how should they strike back? A team of intrepid reporters in Washington investigates why the Bush administration is turning its attention towards Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 2. Up The Arse Of The White House Oct 06, 2020

How did Bush and Blair get so close? We go back to the late 90s and hear how British Ambassador in Washington Christopher Meyer carried out Blair’s instruction to ‘get up the arse of the White House and stay there’. Meyer tries to find out what Bush’s position is on foreign policy and gets to know the influential group of conservatives advising him. They’re known as the neocons.

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Blair, Bush & Iraq | 1. The Truth Shall Set You Free Sep 29, 2020

Was there a chance to stop the 2003 invasion of Iraq before it even began? In February 2003 CIA agent Bill Murray chased a high level, top secret new source across the middle east. Bill was looking for a piece of information so valuable he might be able to use it to stop a war.

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Introducing... The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq Sep 15, 2020

On September 11th 2001, as he faced incalculable losses after the terrorist attacks that day, President George W Bush made a call to his greatest international ally: British Prime Minister Tony Blair. 18 months later, Bush and Blair led a coalition into a war that went horribly wrong. David Dimbleby, one of the BBC’s best known news hosts and reporters, takes us back to those crucial 18 months. Talking to prime ministers, politicians, spies and weapons inspectors he asks how and why we came to invade Iraq. And as we experience an era of lies and mistrust - did the events of 17 years ago set the stage for the world we live in now? Coming September 29th......

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