Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Charleston Shooting
Imprisoned journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal has released a new Prison Radio commentary addressing last week’s massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where a gunman killed nine Black parishioners during evening Bible study. Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther and award-winning journalist who has spent decades on Pennsylvania’s…
New York Parents Urge Boycott of High-Stakes Testing in Public Schools
On the eve of another round of Common Core-aligned math exams, parents and students rallied in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park this week, urging families across New York to refuse the tests entirely — part of a boycott movement that has swelled to unprecedented numbers this spring. Organizers say more…
Did Israel Use “Cancer Bombs” in Recent Gaza Attack?
In the weeks following Israel’s three-week military offensive in Gaza, doctors treating the wounded began reporting something they said they hadn’t seen before: injuries that didn’t match the wound patterns typically caused by conventional explosives. The unusual injuries have fueled speculation that Israeli forces used a class of…
Puerto Rico Halts Controversial Vía Verde Pipeline Project
After years of sustained public opposition, Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority has withdrawn its permit application for the Vía Verde natural gas pipeline, effectively halting a project that had become one of the island’s most contested environmental fights in recent memory. The utility, known by its Spanish acronym…
Egyptian Blogger Wael Khalil on What Opposition Activists Plan Next
Egyptian blogger and longtime activist Wael Khalil has spent more than a decade at the center of his country’s opposition movements — and in a wide-ranging conversation, he laid out the hard questions facing activists as they weigh what comes next. Khalil, a software engineer by training, began…
Activists Urge End to US Foreign Military Bases
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Okinawa this spring, delivering an unmistakable message to Japan’s government: honor the promise to close a controversial US Marine Corps air station and remove it from the island entirely, not simply relocate it to another part of Okinawa. An estimated 90,000…
Energy Companies Eye Argentina Shale Deposits, Meet Fracking Opposition
International energy companies are racing to tap Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation, one of the largest untapped shale gas and oil reserves in the world — and they’re running directly into sustained resistance from the Indigenous Mapuche communities whose ancestral lands sit on top of it. Vaca Muerta,…
Trans-Pacific Partnership Text Released — A Look at What’s Inside
After more than five years of closed-door negotiations, the public finally has access to the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The Obama administration released the complete 30-chapter agreement this week, roughly a month after negotiators from the twelve participating countries announced they had reached a final deal…
Uruguay Passes Bill to Allow Citizens to Choose Gender Identity
Uruguay’s Senate unanimously approved a bill this week granting transgender citizens the legal right to change their name and gender marker on official identification documents — a measure that positions the small South American nation among the most progressive in the world on transgender rights. The bill, formally…
FSRN Announces Its Last Newscast Will Air September 27
After more than a decade producing a daily national newscast, Free Speech Radio News is preparing to sign off from its familiar weekday format. The organization’s final daily broadcast is set to air September 27, closing a chapter that began in dramatic fashion in 2000. FSRN was born…
