Monthly Archive: November 2014
November 21, 2014 Greeting FSRN supporters, listeners and readers. It’s been an intense few weeks here in southern Mexico, where the case of 43 missing students has cast a spotlight on the gap between...
Obama takes executive action on immigration; temporary legal status in reach for 5 million people Keystone XL pipeline defeated in the U.S. Senate by a one-vote margin Street Beat: Watch party reaction to Obama’s...
President Barack Obama announced an executive action allowing about 5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States to obtain temporary legal status. Download Audio The president made the major immigration policy announcement Thursday night...
President Barack Obama announced several executive orders Thursday evening to fix what he calls, “a broken immigration system.” Addressing the nation from the White House, Obama laid out a sweeping plan that will ease...
People across Mexico are marking the anniversary of the start of the 1910 revolution by demonstrating in solidarity with the parents of 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college. The parents have spent...
Authorities in India are investigating the possible link between sub-standard and contaminated drugs and sterilization deaths in a central state this month. More than 15 women died and scores of others fell seriously ill...
In Turkey, the government has revived plans to demolish Istanbul’s Gezi Park the flashpoint for last year’s anti-government protests that left at least eight people dead and 8,000 injured across the country. Jacob Resneck...
The U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation by a one-vote margin late Tuesday to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The dramatic vote, which comes just days after the House voted to approve...
New legislation on prostitution was recently voted into law by the Canadian Senate after months of debate and controversy. Although sex work abolitionists have praised the bill, dozens of associations of sex workers and...
The U.S. Senate is due to vote on cloture – a move to end debate – on the USA Freedom Act this evening. The bill was originally introduced to reform the NSA’s dragnet surveillance...