Monthly Archive: April 2016
Workers protest and strike nationwide, including 40,000 from Verizon Week-long Democracy Spring protests in D.C.; more than 600 activists arrested Occupy-style Nuit Debout movement persists in Paris’ Place de la République Yale University announces...
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is leaving office in January 2017 and the process to find his successor is underway. In the past, that process has taken place behind closed doors, with...
Picket lines sprouted across the northeast Wednesday as nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job. The strike in 9 states and Washington, D.C. was called by two unions, Communications Workers of America and...
Climate news can often be depressing. One study after the other confirms grim “worse than we thought” predictions while policymakers take little to no action. But occasionally there are small victories to report, and...
More than 600 activists have been arrested so far this week while protesting the corrupting influence of money in politics. The sit-ins are part of a week-long Democracy Spring unfolding in Washington, D.C. Tanya Snyder...
Tensions at the Greece-Macedonia border remain high after weekend violence. Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of refugees and migrants who attempted to force their way across the fenced Greek-Macedonian...
After more than a week of an Occupy-style gathering called Nuit Debout, or “Rise Up At Night,” Paris police cleared the Place de la République Monday morning. The movement began March 31 as a...
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Panama Papers open a window of opportunity to reform shady business as usual EU starts deporting migrants and refugees to Turkey; first Syrians arrive in Germany under deal “Nuit debout” movement grows in France...
Bills allowing discrimination against LGBT people are also gaining traction in several states. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio On Tuesday, the governor of Mississippi signed House Bill 1523, which explicitly legalizes anti-LGBT...