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Norman Stockwell is publisher of The Progressive magazine, a one-hundred-nine year-old Madison-based progressive monthly. Prior to that, he served over two decades as WORT's Operations Coordinator. He worked at the station in music and news programming since 1983. In addition to working as a journalist in the U.S., Cuba, Nicaragua & Mexico, he co-hosted Pacifica Radio’s national coverage of the 2016 Iowa presidential caucuses. His reports and interviews have appeared on Free Speech Radio News, …

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Remembering the Jesuits: Seeking justice in El Salvador after a quarter-century

Remembering the Jesuits: Seeking justice in El Salvador after a quarter-century

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Nov. 16, 1989, a squad of the elite counter-insurgency unit of the Sa…

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The Other 9/11: Seeking the Truth About Frank Teruggi | The Progressive

The Other 9/11: Seeking the Truth About Frank Teruggi | The Progressive

Frank Teruggi would have been 65 years old this year, had he not been brutally murdered by the Chilean milita…

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Esquipulas II: Looking Back at the Successes of Central America's 1987 Peace Accords

Esquipulas II: Looking Back at the Successes of Central America's 1987 Peace Accords

On August 7th, 1987, the five Central American presidents signed a peace accord known as Esquipulas II named …

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Norman Stockwell: IndyMedia, born in Seattle, celebrates 10 years

Norman Stockwell: IndyMedia, born in Seattle, celebrates 10 years

An important anniversary passed fairly quietly this month: the birth of http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.sht…

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How McCain Turned His Back on the Vietnamese Man Who Saved His Life

How McCain Turned His Back on the Vietnamese Man Who Saved His Life

Sunday, Oct. 26 marked the 41st anniversary of John McCain's plane being shot down over Hanoi. It's a narrati…

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Looking Back at the 7th World Social Forum

Looking Back at the 7th World Social Forum

A s the snow-covered alpine resort in Davos, Switzerland prepared for the arrival of 2,400 business and polit…

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‘Queer History Is Found Not in Books, But in Bars’

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| The Progressive Verified
Sometime shortly after the quarantine portion of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself wandering the aisles of a popular resale shop in Madison, Wisconsin. I was looking for a used picture frame, but the one that seemed to be the right size had a photo in it. Someone else’s color snapshot of what looked to be a friendly, treasured space—a bar in some other city. It looked like something of value—not for the cost of the frame, but for the memories it inspired.
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No Place Like Home

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By Norman Stockwell Verified
| Portside
No Place Like Home Published April 25, 2026 In There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, journalist Brian Goldstone showcases America’s “working homeless” by sharing the lives of five families in Atlanta, Georgia.
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No Place Like Home

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By Norman Stockwell Verified
| The Progressive Verified
In There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, journalist Brian Goldstone showcases America’s “working homeless” by sharing the lives of five families in Atlanta, Georgia.
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