FSRN Weekly Edition for May 30, 2014
Violence escalates in eastern Ukraine as fears of civil war grow U.S. Supreme Court rules IQ is not enough to determine mental fitness for execution Residents of southern Appalachia regard coal slurry dams as...
Monthly Archive: May 2014
Hindu nationalist party takes power in India
In what many describe as a major turning point in India’s political history, the Hindu Nationalist group Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP has stormed into power with a landslide victory in the recent parliamentary...
Journalists continue to seek justice, 30 years after the La Penca bombing
Thirty years ago today a bomb went off at a press conference in Nicaragua during the height of the Contra war. Today, journalists in Costa Rica remember the bombing and look for answers to...
Slideshow: EZLN “destroys” Subcomandante Marcos to revive the fallen Galeano
All photos – copyright Tim Russo. Hear and read the audio and text report, available here. Click on any image to launch slideshow.
Zapatistas call attention to violence targeting their communities
Nearly 4000 people traveled over the weekend to the depths of Mexico´s Lacandon Jungle to pay homage to a murdered Zapatista teacher who had been deeply involved in the rebels’ latest initiative and autonomous...
Violence escalates in eastern Ukraine as fears of civil war grow
In Ukraine, voters overwhelmingly elected a candy-maker tycoon to be the country’s first elected president since pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was forced from power in February following Kiev’s populist Maidan movement. Billionaire Petro Poroshenko...
Residents of southern Appalachia regard coal slurry dams as looming threats
A report released earlier this month details the public health and environmental impacts from coal ash, where a spill in North Carolina in February sent 27 million gallons of toxic wastewater connected to a...
Dr. Maya Angelou: April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014
Influential author, poet and humanitarian Dr. Maya Angelou died Wednesday May 28,2014. download Dr. Maya Angelou: April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 A woman called Maya, 1928 – 2014. Maya Angelou had to...
U.S. Supreme Court rules IQ is not enough to determine mental fitness for execution
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in favor of a developmentally disabled man on Florida’s death row, saying states must consider more than just an intelligence test score to determine if a prisoner with...
Thai forces arrest another former gov’t offical after he speaks publicly against coup and crackdown on protests
In Thailand Tuesday, police arrested a former education minister in the recently deposed elected government as he publicly warned the Thai military against cracking down on protesters of last week’s coup d’état. The Thai...
