Current Events

An interview with a protester at the #ParisMarch that was recently held in response to the Charlie Hebdo attack in France.

An on the ground description of the recent Right2Water protest in Ireland, describing how serious this issue actually is.

A firsthand account of the events that occurred this New Year’s celebration on the Bund in Shanghai.

Climate Lima is a running series documenting the going on’s of different people, groups and activities around the climate conference this December in Lima, Peru.

Nearly a quarter of a million Cambodians have fled Thailand in fear of a violent crackdown on undocumented workers by the new junta. Here’s the story of one such escape.

To really find out what’s going on somewhere, head to the source.

TAIZHOU, China- Two crashing booms rattled windows and shook the ground through central Jiangsu province last Wednesday. I heard them but was not alarmed, as random loud noises are common in China. I figured that it was just the sound of rampant progress or maybe a factory exploded or something — nothing too out of [...]

Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas, otherwise known as Alfonso Cano, the latest leader of the FARC insurgents, was killed during a military raid of his mountain top hideout in Cauca, in the southwest of Colombia. Cano, a Marxist, lead the FARC since 2008 when their co-founder and legendary leader, Manuel “Sureshot” Marulanda, died of a heart [...]

“THESE DEATHS WILL NOT BE IN VAIN…They cannot kill us all!!” remarked a blogger who goes by the handle Ovemex (Borderland Beat) in reaction to the decapitation and torture of a fellow digital activist by members of a drug cartel in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Allegedly, a forum moderator for a site [...]