Monthly Archive: July 2015
After more than fifty years, the U.S. and Cuba each reopened their respective embassies this week. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio Cuba’s national anthem filled the air Monday morning and hundreds of...
Hundreds of Black civil rights activists are converging in Cleveland this weekend for a national gathering known as The Movement For Black Lives. Download Audio “I think this is more the midpoint of the...
Until the 1970s the U.S. military used the small island of Culebra in Puerto Rico as a bombing practice site. Culebra is about 16 miles (27 km) east of the main island of Puerto...
The debt crisis in Puerto Rico has escalated in the weeks since Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla announced that the U.S. territory’s $73 billion in debt is not payable. The island is now under pressure...
After traveling across the country by caravan for the past few weeks, a group of about 100 Apaches and their supporters rallied in Washington, D.C. Wednesday. They’re drawing attention to move to reverse a...
The Texas Department of Safety released a second version of the dashcam video recorded during the controversial July 10th arrest of Sandra Bland, who died three days later in a Waller County jail. The...
A 12-year-old boy is dead after a deadly encounter between civilians and military forces in a coastal town in the Mexican state of Michoacán known for a popular uprising against organized crime. Shannon Young...
This month marks one year since 298 people died when Malaysia Air Flight 17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down near the border between Russia and Ukraine in the contested...
In Japan, the country’s lower house of parliament has passed controversial laws to expand the role of the country’s military. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants the military to play a greater role in...
After three weeks, banks are open again in Greece. Withdrawal limits remain in place, but have shifted to a weekly limit of 420 euros rather than 60 a day. That’s just shy of 460 dollars...