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Queen Mother Ann B. Walker: Columbus Has Lost a Legend, but Her Blueprint Lives...

On Sunday, October 5, 2025, Columbus would learn that afternoon the news that shook its soul: Queen Mother Ann B. Walker — broadcaster, journalist, community matriarch, civil...

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Trump Coin

Unless the law prevails, and in most situations that involve Donald Trump, it doesn’t, there will be a coin issued by the United States Treasury Department with Donald Trump’s face on it.

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Local democracy at stake in Clintonville Area Commission election

Power struggles and spats within local Area Commissions are nothing new, but the events unfolding within the Clintonville Area Commission appear to be reaching a disturbing...

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Action Alert

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Thursday, 09 October 2025
Why Does America Support Israel?
Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 6:00pmJacob's Porch, 45 E 13th Ave, Columbus, OH 43201Join Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists, @fsjp_osu, and @workersvoice.ohio, for a presentation and discussion examining the reasons for the...
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08 October 2025
Solar News This Week-October 6, 2025
Jay Warmke

Data Centers sparking rate increase

Data centers in PJM, the largest U.S. regional power grid that serves...
News
Tom Hayes
08 October 2025
Tom Hayes, Associate Professor at Ohio University’s School of Film, Kidnapped by Israel Military in Illegal Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

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Politics
People protesting
08 October 2025
The Traps of "If You Build it They Will Come"-Have Event Maps Displaced Organizing?
Paul Loeb

Will the Oct 18 ...
Music
Details about event
26 September 2025
Spanish language songs on Everybody Knows
Suzanne Patzer

Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Spanish language songs including Buena Vista Social Club, Lila Downs, Gloria Estefan...
Arts
Turnstile on stage
28 September 2025
Bus Stile Adventures:Turnstile Columbus, Ohio 9-23-2025 Kemba Live
Wes Flexner aka ANONANONANON

Turnstile’s singer Brenden Yates singer thanked Columbus for Turnstile’s bassist Franz
Lyons...
Editorial
Jesse Vogel with four volunteers
08 October 2025
Jesse Vogel: Building A Progressive Coalition Around The Things That Matter
Justin Michael

This year’s Columbus City Council race is a battle between grassroots progressives and well-heeled incumbents. Challenging the status-quo, Jesse Vogel is a...
People
Strikers
09 October 2025
Historical Strike Alert! East Side cannabis dispensary union is first to go on strike in Ohio
Free Press Staff

A relatively new union at a Columbus east side cannabis dispensary remains on strike as they demand their corporate owner come back to...
Action Alerts
Details about event
09 October 2025
Why Does America Support Israel?

Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 6:00pm
Jacob's Porch, 45 E 13th Ave, Columbus, OH 43201

Join Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists, @fsjp_osu,...
Human Rights
People protesting
09 October 2025
No New Bonds coalition makes case that OH Treasurer is laundering taxpayer funds through Israel bonds
David Hill

Organizers from across the state held a press conference marking two years of war on the people of Gaza and renewing calls for No New Bonds - divestment of...