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Hands Off! Trump-DOGE backlash packs DC
On April 5, 100,000 gathered at the Washington Monument to tell the Trump administration in no uncertain terms that the DOGE attacks on federal workers at Veterans Affairs, Social Security, the...
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Chile’s Roma community: Maintaining an identity through resistance
In the town of Vallenar, in Chile’s Southern Atacama region, a group of families live in rows of striped circus tents, on the edge of the highway under a never-ending heavy sun. Theirs is a life on...
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TRNN wins 2025 Izzy Award for coverage of East Palestine, OH, trainwreck &...
The Real News Network (TRNN) is honored to be one of the 2025 recipients of the Izzy Award, recognizing “outstanding achievement[s] in independent journalism/independent media,” for our on-the-ground...
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Birju Dattani lost his job for criticizing Israel—but he’s fighting back
Birju Dattani’s tenure as Canada’s chief human rights commissioner was short-lived. After holding the post for less than a year, Dattani was forced to resign by a smear campaign targeting him for his...
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Will the Philippines be a battleground for US-China war?
Since 1565, the Philippines has been in the grip of one imperialist power after another. Even after independence, the archipelago remains a kind of functional US colony. Now, territorial conflict in...
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The Cochabamba Water War: Bolivia’s rebellion against neoliberalism
Water. The most precious resource on the planet. And yet, in many places, there has been a push to privatize it. This was the case in 1999, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, when the city privatized the city’s...
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‘Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE...
On Tuesday, April 8, unions, unionized federal workers, and their supporters around the country mobilized for a national “Kill the Cuts” day of action to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to...
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Fetterman joins GOP in voting to confirm Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel
This story originally appeared in Truthout on Apr. 09, 2025. It is shared here with permission. The Senate has confirmed former Arkansas governor and fervent Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee as the...
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‘People are hiding in their apartments’: Inside Trump’s assault on universities
International students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal...
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Venezuela, 2002: When the people overturned a coup
These were days of marches. Huge marches. That wrapped themselves around the capital, Caracas And, in particular, the higher-class eastern side of the city. It was April 2002. President Hugo Chavez...
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Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian
A man sits at a dark wooden table in a bar in the old city of Montevideo, Uruguay. The bar is old. Historic. It’s been around for more than a hundred years. And it looks it. The decor hasn’t changed...
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‘Full-blown constitutional crisis’ deepens as Bukele refuses to release...
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Apr. 14, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. “Everyone here is pretending,” said immigration...
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Poetry and resistance: Breaking through the digital cacophony
Federico Avalos is an Argentine poet. But he does not write the words. He recites them. He walks the white sands, weaving through the sunbathing crowd that lays near the turquoise waters of the...
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‘A tremendous chilling effect’: Columbia students describe dystopian reality...
One year ago, Columbia University became ground zero for the student-led Gaza solidarity encampment movement that spread to campuses across the country and around the world. Now, Columbia has become...
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‘Dirtiest campaign we’ve ever seen’: Ecuador’s President Noboa accused of...
Ecuador’s president and Trump ally Daniel Noboa has declared victory in the recent election, claiming 56% of the vote in Sunday’s presidential election, according to the country’s National Electoral...
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Tamara Pearson: Writing as an act of resistance
Tamara writes. She writes in her tiny apartment in bustling Puebla, Mexico, where street vendors hawk vegetables and fruits, clothes, and electronics. Where their calls ring like birdsong and the...
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Freddie Gray: A Decade of Struggle
On April 12, 2015, lifelong Baltimore resident Freddie Gray was arrested, hogtied and thrown into the back of a police van by six officers. When Gray was pulled from the van less than an hour later,...
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Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time
The trail leads across the vast horizon traversing sharp green slopes. A row of travelers walks on an overgrown path of stone chiseled half a millenium ago into the hillside. Thousands of feet above...
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International observers are defending Palestinians in the West Bank with...
Even before the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli attacks on the West Bank were escalating in 2025. By Feb. 5, 70 Palestinians were reported killed this year alone. Anna Lippman, a member of...
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A bitcoin mine in Texas is “killing us slowly,” local residents say
“I would like to see Texas become the center of the universe for bitcoin and crypto,” US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in 2021. In 2024, Republican Governor Greg Abbott said Texas “wears the crown...
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Flamingos: Resisting in the driest desert on the planet
The Atacama Desert is the driest place on the planet. And one of the most inhospitable. But salt lagoons dot the barren landscape and they have given life. Laguna Chaxa lies in the salt flats, 7,500...
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Abrego Garcia family flees to safe house after Trump DHS posts home address...
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Apr. 23, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The Trump administration has not only sent...
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‘Fascism getting turned up’ as Trump FBI arrests Wisconsin county judge
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Apr. 25, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Federal agents arrested a sitting Wisconsin...
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Inside the campaign to disrupt the REI board elections
In the midst of a nationwide campaign to restructure their board and a contentious fight at the bargaining table, the members of the REI Union were dismayed to learn that REI’s culture of union...
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Harry Belafonte—Using art for good
A smooth velvet voice. A voice that sang folk songs From the shores of the Caribbean. But Harry Belafonte was so much more than that. He was born in Harlem, New York. 1927. To parents from Jamaica....
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