A decade has elapsed since the protests that sparked the Arab Spring and ousted Tunisia’s long-standing dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Despite significant democratic reforms in the North African nation, Tunisians are still taking to the streets en masse in 2021. To understand why, in this episode, War News…
War News Radio’s Katherine Kwok is in Hong Kong this summer interning at Radio Television Hong Kong’s English Channel, Radio 3. She’s done some wonderful news pieces and is sharing them with WNR–descriptions by Katherine and links are below: Hong Kong Political Reform “I did a two-part feature about the…
Allison Hrabar: From War News Radio at Swarthmore College, I’m Allison Hrabar. Henry Zhang: And I’m Henry Zhang. Tensions rose between pro-Russian and pro-Western protesters in Ukraine this week following the collapse of the government under Viktor Yanukovych. Pro-Russian separatists brawled with supporters of the new government outside the regional…
Gregg.carlstrom/Flickr Young protesters in Turkey, Brazil and Egypt took to the streets this summer in the name of democracy and social justice. Reporter Sadie Rittman spoke with these youths about their perspectives and experiences in what turned out to be much more than summer festivals. SADIE RITTMAN: This summer, between…
