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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables.  At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that.  We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide.  It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students.  This article will be updated as long as is necessary.

Feminism has a crucial role to play in modern life, but I sometimes wish it would leave our fairy tales alone. The results of its revisionist meddling are too often unconvincing and unsatisfying.

Remember last year’s Maleficent? It turned an age-old story on its head by revealing that the fairy (Angelina Jolie) who turned a princess into a “Sleeping Beauty” was not evil at all. No, she was merely wronged and misunderstood. Worst of all, we learned that the somnambulant princess could not be awakened by a kiss from the handsome prince, but only by a motherly peck from that same fairy.

How heartwarming. And how utterly unromantic.

Thank goodness Disney’s new live-action version of Cinderella doesn’t wear its feminism on its sleeve. It has nods to modern sensibilities, to be sure, but they’re handled with a lighter touch.

Divest protest

Stop Ohio’s Investment in Israel Bonds (No New Bonds) 

Campaign focus: Ohio State Treasurer & public funds

Primary demand: No new investment or reinvestment in Israel Bonds

Opportunity to address the treasurer directly 

January 21st at 10am Rhodes tower 

**Even if you do not want to speak, please try to attend! We need to have a large turnout to show the treasurer that our movement is growing and that the pressure to stop investment in Israel Bonds is not going away. 

How to Prepare testimony: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1862bnwXU7h4j5Wdekkdy-q331oeBITE8dsDwBRrgiWg/edit?usp=drivesdk 

Zoom Testimony training Jan. 15th 7pm est. : https://zoom.us/j/92021624402?pwd=PffWudbfBcv7I3M56TNKn2VgvFjnfJ.1 

📄 Ohio Divest Resource Page:

https://www.ohiodivest.org/

✉️ Email the Treasurer Action:

http://bit.ly/NoNewBondsOhio

Details about event

Sunday, January 11, 12:30pm
United Methodist Church for All People, 946 Parsons Ave.
Learn how to protect our community and to take action when there are ICE sightings

I have spent most of my adult life working at the intersection of food, health, and public policy. I did not come to this work through ideology. I came to it through lived experience, long before I ever held a policy title.

My mother reversed severe, debilitating Crohn’s disease decades ago after being advised to undergo radical intestinal surgery. Doctors told her there were no other options. She refused to accept that verdict and changed what she ate. Through a whole food, plant-based approach, she regained her health. That decision reshaped our family’s relationship to food and planted the seed for my life’s work.

My mother’s healing journey is also rooted in land and farming history. Her family were pasture raised cattle farmers. They raised animals on grass, with care for land, animals, and food quality long before industrial confinement systems existed. I grew up understanding that animals, soil, and human health are inseparable, and that how food is produced matters as much as what is eaten.

It is interesting to observe how United States foreign policy, such as it is, often appears to have an Israeli back story that explains at least in part how Donald Trump’s mindless aggression against much of the world is driven by Zionist imperatives rather than actual American interests. Ukraine is supported by Israel and the US Israel Lobby in part because the roots of many diaspora and Israeli Jews are “Kazarian,” i.e. they derive from that part of Eastern Europe. Plus, Ukraine’s acting head of state Volodymyr Zelensky is a Jew whose mother and father reportedly live in Israel in a posh residence paid for by the money stolen by their son from US and European donations to Kiev to fight Russia. Also, the Jewish antipathy towards Moscow in large part derives from the belief that Imperial Russia was the source of many pogroms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That narrative fails, however, to mention how Russian Jews turned Bolshevik and, becoming enforcers of the Communist Revolution, subsequently got their revenge a hundred-fold on Russian and other Eastern European Christians.

Kids holding signs

The Care Economy Organizing (CEO) Project unequivocally condemns the fear, intimidation, and threats targeting child care providers and immigrant communities in Ohio. Political extremists and bad-faith actors are deliberately stoking panic and hostility, placing families, small business owners, and the workforce that protects our children at risk. This behavior is dangerous, destabilizing, and has no place in Ohio or in our democracy. 

We specifically denounce the actions and rhetoric of self-described “investigators”, who are targeting publicly funded child care centers. This misinformation and intimidation threatens the safety of Ohioans. These tactics, rooted in xenophobia and political opportunism, are designed to terrorize the community, not uncover the truth. 

Civil War? It is necessary for the citizens to confront the government, but now, we can expect the government to escalate.  This is uncharted territory but encouraging and necessary. The idea of Americans in uniform shooting at other Americans in uniform is now a possibility.

Occupy Democrats (and verified elsewhere)

BREAKING: Governor Tim Walz preps the National Guard to EVICT Trump's goons from Minnesota after an ICE agent killed a woman on camera in Minneapolis.
This is the kind of leadership that the moment demands!

"From here on, I have a very simple message. We do not need any further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: You've done enough," Walz announced.

"There's nothing more important than Minnesotans' safety," he continued. "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary."

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