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• Police Cause Miscarriage After Beating/Pepper Spray at Occupy Seatle

  By The Red Phoenix on November 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  AN OCCUPY protester claims she suffered a miscarriage after police allegedly used pepper spray on her and kicked her in the stomach. Jennifer Fox, 19, who says she was two months pregnant, told weekly newspaper The Stranger that she attacked… Read More ›

• Israel Shuts Down “All for Peace” Radio Station

  By The Red Phoenix on November 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station’s operators said on Sunday. The station and other critics said the move was politically motivated, and part of a broader assault on… Read More ›

• Editorial: Newt Gingrich’s child labor plan cleans up

  By The Red Phoenix on November 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Fire janitors so that school kids can learn the joy of a worthwhile job? Wow, the guy’s a one-man, walking thinktank! Who doesn’t love Newt Gingrich’s idea to fire school janitors and replace them with actual school children? I mean,… Read More ›

• Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by FRANKLIN LAMB On the edge of the Sahel, Niger “Sahel” in Arabic means “coast” or “shoreline”. Unless one was present 5000 years ago when, according to anthropologists, our planets first cultivation of crops began in this then lush, but… Read More ›

• Pizza is a Vegetable? Congress Defies Logic, Betrays Our Children

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable. The United States Congress voted to rebuke new USDA guidelines… Read More ›

• Worth A Thousand Words: Cop Pepper-sprays Sitting Protesters

  By The Red Phoenix on November 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• Videos: National Day of Action in Chicago

  By The Red Phoenix on November 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  On November 17th, 2011, there was a rally at the Thompson Center as part of the National Day of Action in Chicago. Pre-arranged speeches took place for a half an hour, after which the demonstration marched to a LaSalle Street… Read More ›

• Myths About Socialism: Under Socialism, is Everyone Equal?

  By The Red Phoenix on November 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This is one of the most common myths about socialism, often trotted out to explain why socialism “doesn’t work,” how it goes against “human nature,” that there is a lack of incentive to work, and so on. As is the… Read More ›

• Review of “Genocide and the Second Reich”

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Intro The genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes of Namibia is a part of the history of the German Empires, and imperialism and colonialism in general, which has been forgotten and blanked out. It is not commonly known that… Read More ›

• Police arrest 13 people protesting Alabama’s new immigration law

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Police arrested 13 protesters in Alabama’s capital Tuesday as they demonstrated against the state’s strict new law clamping down on illegal immigrants. About 100 people, most of them Hispanic and college-aged, chanted slogans as they marched in… Read More ›

• Judge upholds eviction of Wall St. protesters

  By The Red Phoenix on November 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – A judge upheld New York City’s right to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park on Tuesday after baton-wielding police in riot gear broke up a two-month-old demonstration against economic inequality. Protesters who had been kicked out… Read More ›

• Department of Justice Court Filing: Alabama’s Immigration Law is Unconstitutional

  By The Red Phoenix on November 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  ATLANTA (CNN) — Alabama’s immigration law is unconstitutional and aims to threaten “the most basic human needs,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing. “The Constitution leaves no room for such a state immigration-enforcement scheme,” the department… Read More ›

• Palestinian ‘freedom riders’ stopped at Israel’s separation wall

  By The Red Phoenix on November 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Drawing parallels between Israeli policies in the West Bank and the laws in the Jim Crow American South, Palestinian activists emulating the ‘freedom riders’ of 1961 attempted to ride into Jerusalem on an Israeli bus today. Decked-out in T-shirts bearing… Read More ›

• Occupy Wall Street: NYPD attempt media blackout at Zuccotti Park

  By The Red Phoenix on November 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Journalists report aggressive treatment as media blocked from protest camp during surprise police raid New York police attempted to impose a media blackout as they cleared Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park late last night. As police swooped on… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Israeli-occupied territory of the United Nations

  By The Red Phoenix on November 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

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