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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.

• Kony 2012 campaign criticized for dumbing down conflict

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

    In perhaps the most ambitious viral marketing campaign in the history of the internet, Kony 2012 looks to use the web and social media to hunt down and arrest an indicted war criminal before year’s end. Critics have accused… Read More ›

• On “Kony 2012” and Invisible Children

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

  

  You must have heard of the viral video created by Invisible Children (IC), a U.S. organization that has launched a one-year campaign (expires December 31, 2012) to eliminate Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel… Read More ›

• Invisible Children called out for its policies and monetary distribution

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

  

  March 7, 2012 by Bryne Yancey A new blog post from at Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada) sociology and political science student Grant Oyston has called into question the practices of non-profit Invisible Children. In the post, Oyston highlights the… Read More ›

• Miami Valedictorian Gets Support In Fight Against Deportation

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A federal judge’s decision to deport a high school valedictorian who has lived in the United States since she was 4 has sparked her Miami community to rally around her. And now student Daniela Pelaez, 18, also seems to have… Read More ›

• Update on Menominee girl punished for speaking native language in classroom

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  MILWAUKEE – While the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has apologized to the Menominee Tribe and the family of a seventh-grader who was punished for using her native language at school, the girl’s mother said Tuesday that she still wants… Read More ›

• The CIA, Cuba and Operation Peter Pan

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Where’s Captain Hook in NPR’s Fairy Tale? by SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES “Los niños nacen para ser felices.” – José Martí On November 19, 2011 NPR broadcast “Children Of Cuba Remember: Their Flight To America.” Reporter Greg Allen… Read More ›

• Oakland police shoot Oscar Grant’s cousin

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Jorge Rivas Oakland Police shot and seriously injured Tony Jones, 24, late Sunday. Jones’ mother says he is a cousin of Oscar Grant, whose murder by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year’s Day, 2009, sparked a movement… Read More ›

• Agent: Informant in militia case got about $31K

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

  

  By ED WHITE The Associated Press DETROIT — An undercover informant was paid about $31,000 in cash for his critical role in an investigation that led to charges against members of a Midwest militia accused of plotting rebellion against the… Read More ›

• Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase

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

  

  The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns and evictions in the past week…. Read More ›

• Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests

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

  

  (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the… Read More ›

• Glenn Beck: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Will ‘Kill Everybody’

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

  

  Glenn Beck made several gruesome predictions about where the Occupy Wall Street movement is headed. Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck made his already-crystal-clear disdain for the protests, which have spread across the U.S., even more plain. He took… Read More ›

• Four wounded in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

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

  

  GAZA CITY: Three people were wounded early Sunday morning in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man. According to the sources, the latest air strike, which targeted a home in the… Read More ›

• Rick Santorum Supporter Says Women Should Keep Their Legs Closed for Birth Control

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The comment made by Foster Friess is not simply the case of one man making a chauvinist comment. Rather, it reveals anti-choice campaigners for their inherent patriarchy and misogyny, implying that women should have no right over their own reproduction… Read More ›

• From Pelican Bay: CDCR to offset prison population cut by putting more men in solitary

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Three letters from core hunger strike organizers: Todd Ashker, Mutope Duguma (James Crawford), Arturo Castellanos by Todd Ashker Written Jan. 22, postmarked Jan. 27, 2012 – As soon as I first heard during our face to face meeting with former… Read More ›

• What’s Missing From Black History Month

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

  

  by JON HOCHSCHARTNER In honor of Black History Month, I’d like to briefly highlight two courageous black socialists, Lucy Parsons and A. Phillip Randolph, whose commitment to justice should inspire a resurgent Occupy movement. Lucy Parsons (c. 1853-1942) Lucy Parsons… Read More ›