ACT NOW! All anti-death penalty activists in the U.S. and worldwide should prepare NOW to organize coordinated actions before Sept. 21. The IAC will send out a proposed date for these actions in conjunction with Georgia activists. SIGN ONLINE PETITION… Read More ›
On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) strongly condemned the scheduled execution of Troy Anthony Davis. The NAACP believes that there is too much doubt surrounding the conviction of Mr. Davis, whose… Read More ›
Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies The scale of the CIA’s rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out… Read More ›
Eric Perez died after suffering all night long, screaming and throwing up. An 18-year-old Florida man has died after suffering a medical emergency while in jail on a marijuana charge. Records show that Superintendent Anthony Flowers of the Palm Beach… Read More ›
Senators vote overwhelmingly to extend the anti-terrorism law for four years despite objections of a coalition of conservatives and liberals. The House is expected to follow suit. Reporting From Washington— The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to extend expiring provisions of… Read More ›
In March of 2011, Republican Congressman Peter King initiated hearings at the House Homeland Security panel on the “radicalization of American Muslims.” What followed from this first hearing was a largely hyperbolic expression of fear and loathing for “radical muslims”… Read More ›
Poverty is the main cause of most violent crime in the United States today. Some cite violence in media as creating a mentality of willingness to harm others that would not otherwise exist; others see it as a problem of… Read More ›
< Officials Shrugged Off Data Suggesting Beatings by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2011 A newly released study details a number of cases in which government doctors at Guantanamo Bay ignored strong evidence of torture and other signs of detainee abuse…. Read More ›
In May 2009, when U.S. President Barack Obama was defending his decision to close Guantanamo’s prison, he vowed to review the intelligence files of every remaining detainee. “We’re cleaning up something that is, quite simply, a mess — a misguided… Read More ›
In any society, police forces and other agents of organized repression do their work on behalf of that society’s ruling class. In capitalism, the police are the reserve army of capital, protecting bourgeois property and society from working people and… Read More ›
by Maya Schenwar On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They… Read More ›
(Original article here) Today marks the end of a seven-day strike where tens of thousands of inmates in Georgia refused to work or leave their cells until their demands had been met. The odd thing is, that until today, no… Read More ›
Sign the Statement! A Moment for Movement-Building: Statement of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoner Strike On December 9, 2010, thousands of prisoners in at least six Georgia state prisons initiated the largest prisoner strike in U.S. history, uniting across racial boundaries… Read More ›
Join us in Georgia from November 19-21 to remember the victims and to celebrate the resistance! Thirty years have passed since Maryknoll missioners Maura Clark, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel were brutally killed by graduates of the SOA… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 