Dietary choices and drought in California
For more than 20 years, March 22nd has marked World Water Day – a day to celebrate water and focus attention on efforts to manage the essential resource. This year, World Water Day comes...
Monthly Archive: March 2015
Student/Farmworker Alliance announces Wendy’s boycott
An alliance between student groups and farmworkers is organizing a nationwide boycott against Wendy’s restaurants. On Saturday in St. Petersburg, Florida the Student/Farmworker Alliance unveiled plans to boycott Wendy’s on several college campuses and...
FSRN Weekly Edition – March 20, 2015
Netanyahu back peddles; U.S. still to reevaluate backing Israel at UN Netanyahu reelection raises concerns in Gaza and renews calls for unity among Palestinans Regional elections in Spain will be first test for anti-austerity...
Top Mexican journalist fired on heels of whistleblower platform’s launch
[Editors note: The following story was originally posted Monday, March 16, 2015 but updated with new information on March 20th for the Weekly Edition. Audio of original version available here.] The sudden firing of...
House Oversight Committee grills FCC commissioners regarding internet rule change
House Republicans got their chance to grill Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler this week, after the agency voted in favor of regulating the internet as a utility. Internet freedom advocates celebrated the FCC’s...
Wrongful arrest leads TV producer to become law enforcement reform advocate
The detention of black TV and film producer Charles Belk in Beverly Hills last summer led him to a second career: advocacy for law enforcement reform. Now Belk is educating police on how to...
Netanyahu reelection raises concerns in Gaza and renews calls for unity among Palestinians
Israel’s elections have delivered another term in office to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu. In Gaza, Netanyahu is closely associated with the war waged against the blockaded Palestinian territory last summer. Rami Almeghari got...
Israel’s Netanyahu claims decisive victory after 11th hour hard-line push
Just before Israeli voters went to the polls yesterday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled out the hard-line rhetoric and it looks like it hit its mark, earning him a victory in the election. But...
Regional elections in Spain will be first test for anti-austerity Podemos
In just a year, Spain’s anti-austerity Podemos party has grown from nothing to become the most popular party in opinion polls. Its rapid rise – and the recent victory of an anti-austerity party in...
Man charged in Ferguson police shooting says he was targeting someone else
St. Louis County officials have arrested and charged a 20-year-old St. Louis-area man in connection with last week’s shooting in which gunfire injured two police officers who were standing guard outside the Ferguson Police...
