Mumia Abu Jamal: Unsaid at Selma
Who can question whether President Barack Obama is a master when it comes to speeches? Such a quality literally put him on the map when he mesmerized a crowd at the 2004 Democratic National...
Monthly Archive: March 2015
Black Lives Matter activists move forward while looking back
Tens of thousands of people converged on the city of Selma, Alabama over the weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a march for voting rights that was a milestone of the Civil Rights...
Slideshow: New generation of civil rights activists taking grassroots struggles to ivory towers
All photos by Lena Nozizwe. Read/hear her accompanying report. Click on any image to launch slideshow.
FSRN Weekly Edition – March 6, 2015
Justice Department probe finds overwhelming evidence of racial bias in Ferguson, Missouri policing and courts National movement for police accountability renews interest in civilian review boards Homeless veterans in Los Angeles struggle for access...
Bedouin protest camp against eviction from sensitive E1 area near Jerusalem
A new Palestinian protest camp was recently set up in the outskirts of Jerusalem. It has already been demolished several times by the Israeli authorities – only to be rebuilt – and it is...
Flood Wall Street case comes to a close in Manhattan
Ten activists who took part in a nonviolent civil disobedience protest in Lower Manhattan ahead of the UN Climate Summit last September stood trial this week for disobeying a lawful order. They were found...
Justice Department report finds evidence of racial bias in Ferguson policing and court system
The U.S. Justice Department released its long-awaited findings on allegations of abuse and racial bias within the Ferguson, Missouri police department and municipal court system. Nell Abram has more. Download Audio The 105-page document...
National movement for police accountability renews interest in civilian review boards
New Haven, Connecticut is just one of many U.S. cities that have taken a new or renewed interest in civilian review of police conduct after multiple police shootings of African American men and boys...
Displaced Zimbabweans still waiting for promised government compensation a year later
It’s been a year since the government of Zimbabwe forcibly relocated at least 20,000 villagers from their traditional homelands in Masvingo to make way for a dam project. At the time of the relocation,...
Q&A: Jericho Movement’s Paulette D’Auteuil on U.S. political prisoners
Paulette D’Auteuil is on the advisory board in of the National Jericho Movement. She recently delivered remarks to the 12th International Symposium Against Isolation in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference brings together political prisoners held...
