Words Families Belong Together against a black background
31 May 2018
June 01, 2018 • 12:00 PM
US Attorney’s Office
303 Marconi Blvd
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Dark gray handgun lying sideways on a table with gold bullets strewn around it
29 May 2018

I sat down last week ready to say how the week before had bruised my ego. Some (very, very few) progressives won Democratic primaries and the Korean negotiations collapsed overnight. I hadn’t expected any progressives to even...

Dark-skinned men and women in green shirts at a demonstration marching to the left one holding a sign saying Penniless because of and two others holding big rust colored buckets
29 May 2018

Five years ago, five activists and I set up a protest action at the Wendy’s restaurant located on South High Street in Columbus, Ohio. We lined up on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant with a 30-foot-long banner that stated, “Wendy...

Book cover with photo of John F Kennedy and and MLK both shouting with their fists in the air and the word Kennedy and King
28 May 2018

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Already a surfeit of books about the two men are in the stores. Indeed, books about the sixties in...

Gray haired man in red shirt waving his arms in front and talking to a group seated before him with a projected image on a screen behind him
28 May 2018

In building an organization for social change it is clear to everyone that the group should be nonprofit, but what does that really mean?  Talking to other people there seems to be an automatic assumption that nonprofit means the same...

Little boy holding a glass of water to the right and the words Safe water for our kids, Columbus no place for frack waste
26 May 2018

There’s something Nasty in the Columbus Watershed.  In the Upper Scioto Watershed, farm crops are growing, cattle and sheep are grazing and in the middle of 13 of these farm fields, one can see an old oil well from days gone by -...

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