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In a symbolic gesture, proactive residents of Ashland, Holmes and Richland County temporarily blocked access to an exploratory well pad under construction in Green Township, Ashland County, Ohio. The horizontal drilling being conducted by Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation is extremely unwanted and unwelcome. The vast majority of folks who live here, about 98% according to door to door polling, are against this type of extractive industrialization in this north central Ohio country community known for beautiful scenery, rural farming and the millions of visitors  who have come to enjoy outdoor recreation in the area’s two state parks, Malabar farm and Mohican.

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Tuesday, May 22, 5:30-8pm
St.  James Taverm, 1075 N. 4th St.
Calling out all Repro allies, supporters, and advocates to join us for the May Reproductive Health Happy Hour at our favorite watering hole, St. James Tavern! 

This month's Happy Hour will benefit Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio. PPAO is committed protecting access to reproductive health care and rights for all Ohioans through advocacy, education, lobbying, and electoral activity. With threats of Title X funding and a slew of anti-reproductive rights bills in the Statehouse, your support is crucial in our continued success! Read more about our work, join our email list, and sign up to volunteer atPPAO.org 

For those of us who fully expected most U.S. peace activists to vanish once Barack Obama became president but expected them to come back once Donald Trump ascended the throne, the failure of our second expectation has been hard, crushingly hard. But there are a few silver linings.

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Monday, May 21, 7:30-9pm
Whetstone Library, 3901 N. High St.
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While many European parliamentarians have been outspoken in their disgust at the “horrific” one-sided atrocity being clearly observed in the Israeli slaughter of Palestinian demonstrators last week, most of their U.S. counterparts appear to have lost their ability to express themselves over the egregious human rights violations being committed by the Israeli Army in Gaza. Sixty-two unarmed Palestinian demonstrators were shot dead and nearly three thousand more were injured by gunfire and tear gas versus no Israelis killed or wounded while a leading Knesset parliamentarian has assured the public that the Army has plenty of bullets left to kill all the Gazans if necessary.

By David Swanson

 

Virginia ought to be in the running for worst U.S. senators in the country, a couple of walking catastrophes empowered in part by their status as Democrats and, in one case, the status of rightful Vice President if not for various outrages, real (the Electoral College, vote suppression) and imagined (Vladimir Putin’s evil manipulation of the time-space continuum). While Senator Mark Warner loves him some torturers he can confirm to high office, Tim Kaine has bigger plans.

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