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FSRN Weekly Edition - February 27, 2015
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* FCC approves measure to categorize internet service
as a public utility
* DHS budget becomes the latest partisan funding
impasse on Capitol Hill
* Prisoner transfers continue after weekend uprising in
Texas tent city facility
* Wisconsin Republicans fast track right-to-work
legislation through State Senate
* Youth unemployment crisis in mineral rich Mozambique
* Education of refugee diaspora another casualty of
Syria s civil war
* Canadian government to attend conference on
missing/murdered indigenous women
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FCC approves measure to categorize internet service as a
public utility[2]
Net neutrality activists are hailing this week s FCC vote
to categorize internet service as a public utility. The
move ensures that providers like Verizon, Comcast and A T
can t create two-tiered service for internet content. The
plan also addresses mobile access to the web.
Last November, President Barack Obama gave his blessing
to stricter rules for the web after the FCC received a
record nearly four million public comments on the issue
of net neutrality. Just before the vote, FCC Commissioner
Mignon Clyburn applauded the move, noting however that
reclassifying the internet does not solve the problem of
the digital divide.
For scores of Americans, the choice of one let alone
multiple broadband networks is a dream deferred and the
promise of universal access remains unkept, said Clyburn.
Today s vote seeks to draw a line in the sand once and
for all by removing barriers to deployment and fostering
competition consistent with the FCC s core mission and
values.
Conservatives accuse the White House of executive
overreach, and heads of the powerful House Oversight and
House Energy and Commerce Committees have called for
hearings to discuss the effects of the commission s
regulation.
The FCC also voted this week to overrule two states
limits that block cities from building their own internet
infrastructure. The move is likely to set a precedent for
19 other states where municipal wifi faces similar
restrictions.
DHS budget becomes the latest partisan funding impasse on
Capitol Hill [3]
Congress found itself in familiar territory this week
with an impasse over funding federal agencies. The
sticking point continues to be the extent of executive
power on immigration policy. A deal is now on the table
for funding the Department of Homeland Security which
includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the
eleventh hour maneuver is not certain and lawmakers
continue to work in both the U.S. House and Senate to
keep the department running. Anthony J. Rivera has the
story from Washington.
Prisoner transfers continue after weekend uprising in
Texas tent city facility[4]
Prison officials continue to transfer inmates from the
Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas
after a prisoner uprising over the weekend left the tent
city prison complex uninhabitable.
Bob Libal, executive director of Grassroots Leadership,
says the Raymondville facility, owned and operated by the
for-profit Management & Training Corporation, is one of
13 so-called Criminal Alien Requirement prisons.
These are facilities that have a long record of really
abysmal conditions. In fact, the facility where the
uprising happened this weekend was so plagued with abuse
and mismanagement that Immigration and Customs
Enforcement actually ended its contract in 2011, but then
the Bureau of Prisons stepped in a gave this facility a
new contract worth more than half a billion dollars to
incarcerate 2800 immigrants on any given day in a series
of Kevlar pods. The facility is nicknamed tent city or
Ritmo the Raymondville Gitmo because of both the
appalling conditions and just how huge of an
incarceration camp it is.
Criminal Alien Requirement - or CAR - prisons hold non-
citizens who ve been prosecuted for criminal offenses,
including what used to be civil offenses before Operation
Streamline took effect ten years ago.
Increasingly, the people who are held in these facilities
are people who have been criminally prosecuted for re-
entering the country after being deported. The two most
prosecuted crimes in the federal judiciary now are
entering the country without authorization, which is a
misdemeanor, and then re-entering the country after being
deported, which is a felony.
The uprising in the Raymondville prison camp came on the
same day a federal judge halted the practice of jailing
mothers and children in immigration detention while they
awaiting the outcome of asylum claims. President Obama
ordered the detentions last summer after a massive influx
of unaccompanied minors and single mother family units
from Central America.
Listen to the full Q&A here[5].
Wisconsin Republicans fast track right to work
legislation through State Senate[6]
Wisconsin could soon become the next right-to-work state.
State Republicans are fast-tracking a bill that would
allow union workers to opt out of paying dues, a move
largely seen as another GOP attempt to weaken organized
labor. This comes four years after Governor Scott Walker
cut union rights for public workers. From Madison,
Wisconsin Molly Stentz reports.
Youth unemployment crisis in mineral rich Mozambique[7]
Mozambique is one of the fastest growing economies in
Africa thanks to an abundance of natural resources like
coal and gas. But the impressive economic growth on paper
belies a serious youth unemployment crisis as young
people who form the majority of the 25 million population
struggle to find work. From Maputo, FSRN s Sam Cowie
reports.
Education of refugee diaspora another casualty of Syria s
civil war[8]
The multi-sided civil war in Syria continues, with no end
in sight. The so-called Islamic State is now targeting
Assyrian Christians in the country s northeast. The
number of people captured by the group is difficult to
verify, but reports suggest as many as 350 people are
missing and dozens of villages are empty. In recent
weeks, there has been heavy back and forth fighting as
Kurdish militia members retake towns IS militants had
occupied. Meanwhile, according to the online news site
SyriaDirect.org, the Assad regime has been carrying out
airstrikes targeting civilian and medical infrastructure
in rebel-held East Ghouta.
The civil war in Syria erupted after the government led
by Bashar al-Assad used military force to crack down on
what had been peaceful pro-democracy protests,
splintering the opposition movement into various armed
factions. In the four years since more than three million
Syrians have fled the country, mostly to regional
neighbors.
More than a million of those refugees are now living in
Turkey, and about half of them are children according to
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Most
of those children have lost out on years of school. FSRN
s Michael Kaplan reports from cities near the Turkish-
Syrian border on the growing education crisis.
Canadian government to attend conference on
missing/murdered indigenous women[9]
In Canada, indigenous women disappear and are murdered at
far higher rates than their non-indigenous counterparts
in both cities and rural communities. After years of
denying the problem, the Canadian government has agreed
to attend a national roundtable seemingly in solidarity
with some indigenous organizations. But some community
organizers are skeptical -- sparking discussion about
what should be done next. Erin Hudson has the story from
Toronto.
References
1. https://fsrn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150227hifiFINAL2.mp3 (link)
2. http://fsrn.org/2015/02/fcc-approves-measure-to-categorize-internet-service…
3. http://fsrn.org/2015/02/dhs-budget-becomes-the-latest-partisan-funding-impa…
4. https://soundcloud.com/fsrn/prisoner-transfers-continue-after-weekend-upris…
5. http://fsrn.org/2015/02/immigration-conditions-spark-uprising-in-texas-pris…
6. http://fsrn.org/2015/02/wisconsin-republicans-fast-track-right-to-work-legi…
7. http://fsrn.org/2015/02/youth-unemployment-crisis-in-mineral-rich-mozambiqu…
8. http://fsrn.org/2015/02/education-of-refugee-diaspora-another-casualty-of-s…
9. http://fsrn.org/2015/02/canadian-government-to-attend-conference-on-missing…
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