Category: Weekly Edition

FSRN Weekly Edition – December 9, 2016

No court ruling for Dakota Access; Missouri River crossing still stalled Portland approves tax hike for corporations based on CEO pay disparities Los Angeles to enact ‘ban the box’ ordinance for public and private...

FSRN Weekly Edition – December 2, 2016

U.S. military veterans self-deploy to construction site of controversial pipeline Standing Rock Sioux invoke treaty terms in response to notice to vacate riverfront camp First Nations Treaty Alliance says newly-approved tar sands pipelines will...

FSRN Weekly Edition – November 25, 2016

Indigenous activists mark Thanksgiving with ceremony on occupied sacred land Canadian opposition mounts to Kinder Morgan tar sands oil pipeline expansion Philippines mulls opening unused Bataan Nuclear Power Plant India struggles to deal with...

FSRN Weekly Edition – November 18, 2016

More senior Trump officials named including Sessions for U.S. Atty. General Immigrants and ‘sanctuary cities’ brace for promised crackdown under Trump administration ProPublica launches post-election initiative to independently track hate crimes in U.S. Students...

FSRN Weekly Edition – November 11, 2016

Electoral college system hands Trump presidency, Clinton leads popular vote Street Beat: Reactions to the 2016 U.S. presidential election results Missouri voters pass ballot measure to erode voting rights protections Recreational marijuana legalized in...

FSRN Weekly Edition – November 4, 2016

DAPL nears completion, encounters resistance at and away from construction site Crow Creek Sioux cut ties with South Dakota over police deployment to pipeline protests Los Angeles voters face controversial ballot initiative on medical...

Weekly Edition – October 28, 2016

Police forcibly move Dakota Access protesters; 141 arrested Trump campaigners seek out American voters in Israel Carbon wolf in solar clothing?: Criticism rains down on Florida’s ‘sneaky’ Amendment 1 Idlib province school bombing, the...

FSRN Weekly Edition – October 21, 2016

Two new murders of campesino leaders in Honduras underscore climate of violence and impunity El Salvador wins long-running legal fight with Pacific Rim mining company Thailand observes year of mourning after death of King...

FSRN Weekly Edition – October 14, 2016

Boko Haram releases 21 kidnapped Chibok girls held more than two years UN extends Haiti mandate; death toll exceeds 1000 and full scope of destruction still unclear Chicago Public Schools narrowly avoid teachers strike...

FSRN Weekly Edition – October 7, 2016

Hurricane Matthew spirals up Florida coast; hundreds dead in Haiti After catastrophic bleaching of Great Barrier Reef, prospects for recovery look grim India-Pakistan tension grows along with unrest in Kashmir Colombian victims continue to...