FSRN’S 15th Birthday Celebration
FSRN’S 15th Birthday Celebration When: Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 What: Celebrate 15 years of grassroots news What to bring: $15.00 for 15 years Where: FSRN’s Birthday Celebration Please join us in...
Monthly Archive: February 2015
300 people assumed dead in mass drowning while trying to reach Europe from Africa
As many as 300 people trying to migrate from Africa by sea are missing and presumed dead in the Mediterranean in one of the deadliest mass drownings in more than a year. According to...
Anti-corruption party wins by an electoral landslide in India’s Delhi state
The Aam Aadmi – or “Common Man’s” – Party has won a landslide victory in Delhi Assembly Elections. Political analysts say the sharp left turn in the state which includes India’s capital is a...
Q&A: Yale scientist on examining mass mortality events among non-human species
Mass mortality events — or large-scale die-offs — appear to be on the rise among various species of birds, fish and marine invertebrates. This, according to a study by scientists from the University of...
Independent, international experts question Mexico’s handling of missing students case
Argentine forensic anthropologists contracted as independent experts in the investigation of the 43 students that went missing in the Mexican state of Guerrero have publicly distanced themselves from the federal government’s official story about...
Slideshow: Demonstrators call for a fracking ban in California
All photos by Andrew Klein. Hear/read the accompanying report.
Californians call for statewide fracking ban
About 8,000 Californians took to the streets of Oakland on Saturday calling on Governor Jerry Brown to follow the lead of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and issue a statewide ban on fracking. Fracking,...
FSRN Weekly Edition – February 6, 2015
Proposed reforms to corporate tax code included in Obama’s $4 trillion budget request The wheels of Congress begin to move on bilateral relations with Cuba Deadly airstrikes and rocket attacks across Syria Turkish authorities...
Mexican authorities find 61 bodies in an abandoned crematorium in Guerrero state
In Mexico, authorities have discovered 61 decomposing bodies in an abandoned crematorium in Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero. Shannon Young reports from Oaxaca. Download Audio Residents of the community near the facility...
Deadly airstrikes and rocket attacks across Syria
Airstrikes and rocket attacks across Syria this week have killed at least 185 civilians and injured as many as five thousand. That’s according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organization that documents...
