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Progressive-leftist news on current events, radical activism, grassroots organizing info, and more, aggregated and curated by Grateful Dread Peace Media's Verdant Square Network. Spotlight on antiracism, mutual aid, antipoverty, diversity, peace, revolutionary love, and socialism/anticapitalism.
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VSN Revolution4m ago
Oliver Stone Goes to Washington https://jacobin.com/2025/04/oliver-stone-declassified-files-jfk/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
Oliver Stone Goes to Washington

Jacobin sat down with legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone to talk about his recent testimony before Congress on the JFK assassination, the CIA’s continued stonewalling, and why we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.

VSN Revolution31m ago
Winning the Rank-and-File Vote https://jacobin.com/2025/04/unions-bernie-trump-endorsements-democracy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
Winning the Rank-and-File Vote

A look at recent bottom-up efforts to win endorsements for Bernie Sanders and mobilize trade unionists against Donald Trump offer insights into how the labor movement can better and more democratically engage its members in politics.

VSN Revolution32m ago
How to Beat a Presidential Bully https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/harvard-vs-bully-trump?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
How to Beat a Presidential Bully | Common Dreams

While Columbia University capitulated to Trump’s demands, Harvard is offering U.S. institutions a lesson in fighting back.

Common Dreams
VSN Revolution1h ago
Will Trump Come for the Climate Movement on Earth Day? https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-attack-climate-movement?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Will Trump Come for the Climate Movement on Earth Day? | Common Dreams

After decimating federally funded climate science, the administration is targeting those who take that science and try to turn it into change.

Common Dreams
VSN Revolution2h ago
Why April 20, 2025 Could Alter the Course of American Democracy https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/change-course-american-democracy?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Why April 20, 2025 Could Alter the Course of American Democracy | Common Dreams

April 20 is the deadline Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Agency head Kristi Noem have for submitting a joint report to President Donald Trump with their recommendations for invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 and the National Emergencies Act of 1976.

Common Dreams
VSN Revolution2h ago
Why the History of the Wilmington Coup Can Help Make Sense of Our American Present https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/racism-history-u-s?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Why the History of the Wilmington Coup Can Help Make Sense of Our American Present | Common Dreams

If people knew about the Wilmington Coup, they would understand that white supremacist violence has long been a feature—not a glitch—of the American political system.

Common Dreams
VSN Revolution2h ago

Spiritual Women of the Wilderness https://newlinesmag.com/essays/spiritual-women-of-the-wilderness/

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Spiritual Women of the Wilderness

While the Desert Fathers have long been an inspiration for Christian retreats, the Desert Mothers are now coming to the fore

New Lines Magazine
VSN Revolution2h ago
The Historical Revision of Buchenwald https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/11/vijay-prashad-the-historical-revision-of-buchenwald/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialist #canada
Vijay Prashad: The Historical Revision of Buchenwald

On April 11, 1945, the U.S. took over the Buchenwald concentration camp. But it was communist prisoners who organised and liberated the Nazi camp. Today, such heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Eighty

Consortium News
VSN Revolution2h ago

The War of Narratives in Jordan https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-war-of-narratives-in-jordan/

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The War of Narratives in Jordan

A recently foiled Muslim Brotherhood plot symbolizes the challenge of growing popular discontent over the war in Gaza, in the Hashemite kingdom and across the region

New Lines Magazine
VSN Revolution2h ago
Why Is It Happening Here? And Why Now? https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-is-it-happening-here?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Why Is It Happening Here? And Why Now? | Common Dreams

In the early 1970s the corporate elite, conservatives, and neoliberals launched what became a 50-year-long class war from above against the hard-won rights of working people in all their American diversity.

Common Dreams