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June Vass (she/her) is the editor-in-chief of the Red Phoenix, the Director of the Information Bureau of the American Party of Labor, and a member of the National Writers Union. She is based in Orlando, FL.

• 3 men charged with terror conspiracy ahead of NATO

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By SHANNON MCFARLAND and TAMMY WEBBER CHICAGO (AP) — Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO… Read More ›

• Video: Protester in Chicago NATO Summit rips NATO banner down

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

• New Trayvon Martin Evidence: 10 Things You Should Know

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The most relevant new pieces of information in the trial of George Zimmerman from the the Florida special prosecutor’s new 183-page report. By Madison Gray The trove of evidence released by Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey seems to shed more… Read More ›

• Trayvon Martin Witness Believes ‘He Intended for This Kid to Die’

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By MATT GUTMAN (@mattgutmanABC) and SENI TIENABESO (@senijr_abc) May 18, 2012 A closer look at the witness statements and audio testimony taken in the immediate aftermath Trayvon Martin’s death provides the first insight into George Zimmerman’s behavior after he shot… Read More ›

• Teamsters close down Coca Cola bottling plant

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Coca Cola worker in Connecticut walk off the job in response to attempts to reduce pay and benefits, and implement redundancies. Workers from the Teamsters 1035 branch in Connecticut went on strike yesterday over job security, pay rises, health benefits,… Read More ›

• The Subsidized Student Loan Scam

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  How the US Government is Profiteering Off of Struggling Students by DAVE LINDORFF The Senate is currently deadlocked on taking action to prevent the interest on new Stafford guaranteed student loans from rising on July 1 from 3.4% to 6.8%,… Read More ›

• Organizing Against Bank of America

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by LAURA GOTTESDEINER This week, thousands are descending on North Carolina for the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting. The protest comes on the heels of the successful Wells Fargo shareholder event in San Francisco, where thousands of protesters shut down… Read More ›

• New Account: Zimmerman Told Cops Trayvon’s Last Words Were ‘Okay, You Got It’

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the court’s decision on Friday, Apr. 20, to release Zimmerman on $150,000 bail. Last December, George Zimmerman hosted a small gathering at a clubhouse in Lake Mary, Fla. He invited family members… Read More ›

• Are Guns the Problem?

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse Your average American is no stranger to murder. Periodically, we hear of another senseless crime, another mass murder, another tragedy taking innocent life. Like clockwork, whenever a high-profile shooting takes place in America, two… Read More ›

• New Jersey dad unveils a culture of teacher abuse in autistic son’s elementary school

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NJ dad bugs son over suspicion of school mistreatment (CNN) — A New Jersey man has launched a website to publicize what he calls “a culture of bullying” by teachers in his son’s Cherry Hill classroom after sending the boy… Read More ›

• Youth of Color: Watched and Shot

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  For Trayvon, Mumia & the Many More by Mark Louis Taylor Trayvon Martin and Mumia Abu-Jamal. One is dead. One languished on death row for thirty years. They are separated in age by a generation, separated by different locations and… Read More ›

• Florida fire captain: Trayvon died because of ‘sh*tbag… welfare dependent’ parents

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A Miami-Dade fire captain is under investigation after he asserted that the death of an unarmed Florida teen was the fault of “failed, shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent excuses for parents.” According to the Grio, Miami-Dade fire captain Brian Beckmann… Read More ›

• N.C. man no longer faces death after judge invokes ‘Racial Justice Act’

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (CNN) — A North Carolina judge set aside the death sentence of a convicted killer after concluding Friday that race played a role in the case, a landmark ruling that may call into question a number of death row cases… Read More ›

• Obama Under Fire For Refusing To Sign Gay Protections Order

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  President Barack Obama is coming under heavy criticism for deciding against signing an executive order protecting LGBT workers. Senior Obama administration officials on Wednesday said the order which would ban federal contractors from employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and… Read More ›

• The liberal betrayal of Bradley Manning

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Charles Davis More than three years into the presidency of Barack Obama, it’s almost a cliché now to ask: What if George W. Bush did it? From dramatically escalating the war in Afghanistan to institutionalizing the practice of indefinite… Read More ›