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• Join the APL for May Day 2012 in Chicago!

  By The Red Phoenix on April 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Join Occupy, union, immigrants rights, community and other activists to organize a March and Rally on May Day 2012 in Chicago. Get involved in a committee: Media, Outreach, Logistics, Education, Program, Fundraising….. … For more information visit: May Day Facebook… Read More ›

• The Violence of Poverty

  By The Red Phoenix on April 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by ALYOSHA GOLDSTEIN On April 22, 1968, the National Welfare Rights Organization held a vigil on Capitol Hill in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been murdered eighteen days earlier. This was to have been the day that… Read More ›

• Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan’s brutal occupation

  By The Red Phoenix on April 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war Recent attacks in Kabul confirm the occupation is falling to pieces. Claims about “decisive years” and “turned corners” are little… Read More ›

• Nearly a million Russians have committed suicide since collapse of Soviet Union

  By The Red Phoenix on April 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  An urgent public health campaign must be launched as rates are dangerously high, warn experts Russia’s number of suicides has reached nearly a million since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Although the rate has dropped from 42 per 100,000… Read More ›

• Hundreds march in Phoenix against Arizona immigration law

  By The Red Phoenix on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading “no to racial profiling,” marched through downtown Phoenix on Wednesday to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to block Arizona’s two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigrants. “My message to the Supreme Court… 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 ›

• Spokeswoman: Bachmann ‘Tar Baby’ Quote Not Racial

  By The Red Phoenix on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A spokeswoman says U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann wasn’t referring to race when she used the term “tar baby” to attack President Barack Obama’s energy policy. The Minnesota Republican told a conservative blog Wednesday that Obama’s calls for more regulation of… Read More ›

• Romney urged mothers on welfare “need to go to work”

  By The Red Phoenix on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Mitt Romney last week declared his belief that “all moms are working moms,” but he insisted as recently as January that women on welfare need to get jobs, even if they have young children. Romney defended his wife, Ann, a… Read More ›

• In Turkey, hundreds mark Armenian genocide

  By The Red Phoenix on April 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  ISTANBUL, Turkey: Hundreds demonstrated in Istanbul’s central Taksim square on Tuesday to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turks during World War I. The large group of Turkish, Armenian and Kurdish protesters staged a sit-in, holding… Read More ›

• “Three Strikes” Strikes again

  By The Red Phoenix on April 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  $1 felony: Local authorities in Florida say a man faces felony charges after refusing to pay for a cup of soda at a McDonald’s restaurant. A Florida man faces felony charges after refusing to pay $1 for a cup of… Read More ›

• Police chief in Florida teen death case remains under scrutiny

  By The Red Phoenix on April 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Federal probe » Justice department to analyze how the city’s police department handled the investigation. Sanford, Fla. • While George Zimmerman is free on bail, the police chief criticized for not charging him after Trayvon Martin’s slaying remains under scrutiny,… 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 ›

• The Shame of Nations

  By The Red Phoenix on April 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A New Record for Military Spending By Lawrence S. Wittner On April 17, 2012, as millions of Americans were filing their income tax returns, the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released its latest study of world military spending…. Read More ›

• NYPD: Captain Told Officers To “Treat Black People Like Animals”

  By The Red Phoenix on April 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Racism exposed in discrimination lawsuit Considering their behavior and tactics over the last 20 years, this isn’t too much of a surprise, but it has been revealed that NYPD officers are trained and instructed to “treat black people like animals.”… 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 ›

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