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• Thousands protest Zimmerman verdict as DoJ vows to restart hate crime inquiry

  By The Red Phoenix on July 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Thousands took to streets across the US on Sunday, as protests against the acquittal of George Zimmerman entered their second day. Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012. The Justice Department said Sunday… Read More ›

• McDonalds’ suggested budget for employees shows just how impossible it is to get by on minimum wage

  By The Red Phoenix on July 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Robyn Pennacchia McDonald’s has partnered with Visa to make a website dedicated to showing its employees how to properly budget their meager peasant salaries. However, what it actually does is illustrate the fact that it is nearly impossible to get by on minimum wage,… Read More ›

• George Zimmerman will get back gun used to kill Trayvon Martin now that trial is over

  By The Red Phoenix on July 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Sasha Goldstein / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS George Zimmerman’s attorney says his client, who has been in hiding since Saturday night’s verdict, needs the weapon now more than ever. The 29-year-old has taken to wearing disguises and a bulletproof vest as… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Murdering Trayvon Martin twice!

  By The Red Phoenix on July 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• I saw “The Lone Ranger” so you don’t have to

  By The Red Phoenix on July 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s been 12 hours since I saw The Lone Ranger, and I still have the darn William Tell Overture stuck in my head. I wonder how long that lasts. It’s like waking up with a Tonto hangover, I guess. I have so… Read More ›

• Sioux Nation Chief Oliver Red Cloud dies at age 93

  By The Red Phoenix on July 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A lifelong champion of Lakota culture. A delegate to the United Nations. A descendant of one of the most important leaders in Native American history. On Friday, those were a few of the terms that family and friends used to… Read More ›

• South Dakota commits shocking genocide against Native Americans

  By The Red Phoenix on July 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by: ALBERT BENDER Genocide is not too strong a term for what is now happening in South Dakota. The huge, shocking violation of legal and human rights being carried out by the state is tantamount to genocide against the Native American… Read More ›

• California prisons sterilized female inmates without permission

  By The Red Phoenix on July 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Prison doctors in California sterilized nearly 150 female inmates during the course of four years without ever obtaining proper approval from the state, a new investigation reveals. According to The Center for Investigative Reporting, at least 148 women at a… Read More ›

• 30,000 California prisoners refuse meals in apparent hunger strike

  By The Red Phoenix on July 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Protesting California prison policies of indefinite isolation, inmates signal beginning of a hunger strike by refusing meals. By Paige St. John SACRAMENTO — Officials said 30,000 California inmates refused meals Monday at the start of a prison strike involving two-thirds of the… Read More ›

• 36 dead, over 1,000 injured in clashes between Egyptian protesters

  By The Red Phoenix on July 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Mohammed Sultan, deputy head of Egypt’s national ambulance service said that 36 people were killed on Friday during violent clashes between supporters and opponents of deposed President Morsi. 1,138 more were injured, according to the Health Ministry. Some of the… Read More ›

• New mayor of Miss. capital rejects gentrification

  By The Red Phoenix on July 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A one-time black nationalist was inaugurated as mayor of Mississippi’s capital city Monday, saying he wants Jackson to be a unified community where people of diverse backgrounds can make a living…. Read More ›

• Statement by PCR Brazil on events in that country

  By The Red Phoenix on July 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, mostly young people, are in the streets to demand the reduction of the absurd buses fares and a free pass. Public transport in our country is of poor quality, though it is one of the… Read More ›

• On the Day of American Independence

  By The Red Phoenix on July 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›

• FARC and ELN Call for Colombian Left-wing Alliance

  By The Red Phoenix on July 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Bogota, July 1 (Prensa Latina) The insurgent Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) called today for an alliance and mobilization of all sectors of society and the left. In a document titled Declaration… Read More ›

• Egyptian deadline: President rejects army ultimatum to resolve conflicts within 48 hours

  By The Red Phoenix on July 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Egypt’s president has rejected an army ultimatum to resolve the ongoing crisis within 48 hours. The military insisted that unless a solution is found, they will introduce a roadmap for the country’s future, stressing that national security was at risk…. Read More ›