Caleb Maupin

Caleb Maupin is an American journalist and political analyst. Tasnim News Agency described him as “a native of Ohio who has campaigned against war and the U.S. financial system.” He is a member of Workers World Party, and Fight Imperialism – Stand Together. He is also a youth organizer for the International Action Center and was involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement from its planning stages. His political activism began while attending Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio. In 2010, he video recorded a confrontation between Collinwood High School students who walked out to protest teacher layoffs and the police. His video footage resulted in one of the students being acquitted in juvenile court. He was a figure within the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. Maupin writes on American foreign policy and other social issues. Maupin supports New York City politician Charles Barron, and has also made numerous appearances on RT and Press TV. He was a featured guest at the 2014 New Horizon Conference in the Islamic Republic of Iran. On September 6, 2013, he appeared on CNN as a representative of those protesting US intervention in Syria. In May of 2015, he accompanied a mission of the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Yemen, on the Iran Shahed Rescue Ship. The ship did not reach Yemen, but was diverted to the port of Djibouti after massive Saudi bombing of the port of the Hodiedah, and a plot to attack the ship was discovered.