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ICE Report on FY18 Deportation “Statistics”: We Are Deeply Disgusted and...
On Friday, December 14, 2018, the federal government released a ...
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The Top Ten Most Censored News Stories of 2018

What did you miss this year that was really important? We depend on Project Censored to fill us in. The Free Press would like to cover everything – but just can’t do it in our monthly...

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Decolonizing Human Rights

Human Rights Day – December 10

On December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Since 1950, countless...

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Monday, 17 December 2018
Columbus DSA Socialist Night School presents: Serve the People. Political Lessons from the Chinese Revolution
Monday, December 17, 2018, 7:00 PM.   “The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”  In 1949, hundreds of millions of Chinese people liberated themselves from colonial...
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12 December 2018
Voters Silenced, Democracy Suspended Yet Again at the Board of Elections

Toledo, OH: At a meeting held on Monday, December 10, to certify the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) to the special election ballot in February,...
Politics
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14 December 2018
Mandating Peace Officers to Report Child Abuse and Neglect Just a Pen Stroke from Becoming State Law
James Whitaker

State Representative Bernadine Kennedy Kent’s House Bill 137 that passed through the House unanimously and the amended version passed through the Senate 78...
Editorial
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04 December 2018
Bob Bites Back: The Purge-Election Year
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Well it took all of two weeks after the election, but as expected, our newly-elected Lieutenant Governor and objectively racist Ohio Secretary of State Jon...
Music
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05 December 2018
Bobby Rush – Superfly
John Petric

How to put it politely? Naughty-naughty-naughty 85-year-old blues bandleader and singer Bobby Rush and his two equally naughty female dancers emphasized...
People
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04 December 2018
Minor Party Election Consequences are NOT Minor: Libertarian and Green parties’ future in peril
Travis Irvine

In Ohio, the 2018 election held consequences for the third party candidates for governor – both myself (the Libertarian Party candidate) and Constance...
Geek Speak
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05 December 2018
Technology Gifts that Protect and Respect Your Privacy
Robb Ebright

It’s that time of the year when conspicuous consumption disguises itself as altruism, and we are encouraged to purchase unnecessary goods for the people we...
Arts
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04 December 2018
Coming to America – hoping to surf Ohio
John Petric

Who knew the war-torn Congo and Hollywood would meet in Ohio and make for a good movie subject?

Keida Mascaro – that's who. 

"I gotta make...
Protest Reports
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17 December 2018
Ohioans rally for Forests, Not Fascism!
Becca Pollard

Recently the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the US Government both issued...
Dining
05 December 2018
Socially Just Dining: Comune
Eriyah Flynn

Comune opened in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital corridor on Parsons Avenue in mid-November to the delight of the surrounding neighborhood. The...
Action Alerts
Chinese words and above the English words describing the event
17 December 2018
Columbus DSA Socialist Night School presents: Serve the People. Political Lessons from the Chinese Revolution

Monday, December 17, 2018, 7:00 PM.  
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”  In 1949, hundreds of...
Human Rights
Two Latino men, one hugging the other, looking very sad
14 December 2018
ICE Report on FY18 Deportation “Statistics”: We Are Deeply Disgusted and Utterly Ashamed
On Friday, December 14, 2018, the federal government released a ...
Feature
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06 December 2018
Copwatch: Will the real Columbus police Vice officer please stand up?

When it comes to going incognito online and spouting-off on how you really feel about African-Americans, immigrants, leftists and poor people, the unhinged...