The Senate has moved forward with Trade Promotion Authority, or TPA this week, bringing it one step closer to becoming law. Also known as “fast track” authority, the legislation sets up a framework for...
Amid a nationwide #Fightfor15 movement by low-wage workers, the Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to increase its base wage to $15 an hour by 2020, up from the statewide minimum of $9....
The Los Angeles City Council voted to gradually raise the city’s minimum wage from $9 to $15 an hour, making LA the largest city in the U.S. to move towards a $15 minimum. FSRN’s...
The Texas Legislature is in the final days of its 84th session and in the process of debating and pushing through some controversial measures. One that has already been signed into law by the...
The plights of farmers in India is drawing global attention after a recent spate of suicides. More than a quarter-of-a-million farmers have killed themselves in the past two decades, their deaths often linked to...
SE Asian nations “push back” boats crowded with migrants, leaving thousands stranded at sea EU calls for migrant resettlement quotas and maritime military action Millions in limbo as DACA/DAPA case winds through courts Striking...
Farmworkers at export-oriented megafarms in northwestern Mexico have secured a tentative victory in their two-month-long strike. Shannon Young has more. Download Audio Thousands of farmworkers gathered under the open sky in Mexico’s San Quintin...
The European Union is mulling a different set of strategies to respond to an increase in migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. EU leaders hinted at a policy shift last month after about 800...
Millions of Palestinians, inside the occupied Palestinian territories and in the Diaspora, mark today what Palestinians call their Nakba or “catastrophe” day. In 1948, Zionist militias expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from 450...
Each May 15th, about five million Palestinian refugees worldwide commemorate the ‘Nakba’ (Arabic for ‘the Catastrophe’) – when nearly half of the Arab population within the borders of what used to be the British...
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