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Skip to content HomeAudioNews SegmentsWeekly EditionInterviewsDocumentariesStreet BeatHindsightReporter’s NotebookPhoto EssaysPodcastAbout UsFSRN Mission StatementStationsFSRN Board of DirectorsFSRN HistoryDonateContact Audio / News Segment April 28, 2017 FSRN signs off the air after 17 years of grassroots radio journalism Since 2000, Free Speech Radio News’ mission has been to provide factual reports on important international and domestic news stories often missing in the corporate press — and to amplify the voices of the... Audio / Weekly Edition April 28, 2017 FSRN Weekly Edition – April 28, 2017 Lawmakers go through the motions of appropriations showdown ritual Texas House passes most hardline immigration bill since Arizona’s SB 1070 Turkish officials carry out fresh purges; opposition contests referendum results Snake charmers in India... News Segment April 28, 2017 Lawmakers go through the motions of budget request showdown ritual In what’s become a ritual on Capitol Hill, the U.S. House and Senate faced off in a government shutdown showdown this week. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio Friday morning, the House authorized... Audio / News Segment April 28, 2017 Turkish officials carry out fresh purges as opposition continues to contest referendum results The government of Turkey carried out a fresh series of raids this week, arresting another 1000 people and purging the police force of more than 9000 officers allegedly connected to the US-based cleric who... Audio / News Segment April 27, 2017 Texas House passes most hardline immigration bill since Arizona’s SB 1070In the wee hours Thursday morning, the lower house of the Texas state legislature passed a bill immigration policy observers say is the most radical state legislation since Arizona’s controversial SB 1070. It comes... Audio / News Segment April 27, 2017 Snake charmers in India lament loss of culture following outlawing of their practiceIn India, snake charming has been a popular form of entertainment since ancient times. It has also been the only source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of snake charmers. But several years ago,... Audio / News Segment April 26, 2017 Whistleblowers play a key role in Nigerian anti-corruption push…at their own riskIn Nigeria, millions of dollars of stolen public funds have been recovered in recent months, as President Muhammadu Buhari wages a war against corruption. Whistleblowers are playing a major role in the government’s anti-corruption... Audio / News Segment April 26, 2017 Indigenous Brazilians protest stalled process for legal protectionsAn Indigenous protest in Brazil’s capital Brasilia erupted in violence Tuesday, with police firing gas and rubber bullets to push back the protesters from the seat of Congress. The demonstration is part of a four... Audio / News Segment April 25, 2017 Trump administration budget requests highlight aims to expand detentions and deportationsThe Trump administration now has pending budget requests before Congress to expand the federal government’s ability to detain and deport immigrants. This, as three progress reports mandated by Trump executive actions on immigration and... Audio / News Segment April 24, 2017 Earth Day 2017: When support for science and evidence-based research became motives for a marchOn Saturday – Earth Day 2017 – hundreds of thousands of people in more than 600 locations around the world demonstrated in support of empirical evidence and scientific research. In the U.S. recent executive... Weekly Edition April 21, 2017 FSRN Weekly Edition – April 21, 2017French voters prepare for first round of presidential elections amid surge in right-wing nationalism Turkey referendum results test country’s polarized political system Brazilian public workers push back against unelected government’s austerity plans Lakota immersion... Audio / News Segment April 21, 2017 Residents of Seattle’s South Park immigrant community build the kind of walls they can supportHear the phrase “green walls” and you might think perhaps the southern border wall proposed by the Trump administration is taking on a eco-friendly theme. But the green walls going up in Seattle’s South Park... Audio / News Segment April 21, 2017 French voters prepare for first round of presidential elections amid surge in right-wing nationalismAs voters in France gear up for the first round of presidential elections this weekend a gunman opened fired on police in Paris Thursday. One officer died, two others were injured and the gunman... Audio / News Segment April 20, 2017 Brazilian public workers push back against unelected government’s austerity plansBrazil is in a collective crisis. In 2016, an impeachment -which many likened to a legislative coup – forced leftist president Dilma Rousseff from office. The biggest political corruption scandal in memory continues to unravel, as... 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