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OSU student encampment

I’ve watched the developing protests around our nation, here in Columbus,
with a feeling that some things just haven't changed.

Fifty-four years ago I’d gotten off work, was at the Neil Avenue entrance to OSU,
watching a small, peaceful, student protest develop. Someone for a Black
Student Union had just called for Black Studies to be part of basic education at OSU, and a
young student started saying something about Vietnam. A fearsome looking line
of troopers in riot gear were just off the campus line.

Suddenly, a cartoonish looking guy with an obvious Woolworth’s wig
stepped from behind the police line, and closed the street gate to the campus.
A young student with a crude armband quickly reopened it.

This was repeated 3-4 times, when the police line surged forward, using
their batons on protestors. That got the expected reaction, bottle/rock, they
were quickly reinforced, escalated and began grabbing, arresting protesters.

That was the start of the so-called “student riots!” Peaceful protests had
been going on there for weeks. Within a few days, similar actions cost four young

Sign saying Don't mess with my vote

State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Westlake) today responded to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s plans for another statewide voter purge clouded in darkness that will happen two weeks before voting in the upcoming presidential election. The Cleveland-area lawmaker sent a third letter to LaRose’s office after his refusal to provide public records requested related to LaRose’s quiet 2023 purge of nearly 27,000 people from Ohio’s voter rolls six days after November absentee ballots were sent out and reiterates a demand for transparency and cooperation with the public to ensure that no voter is incorrectly removed from the voter registry.   

“The secretary of state seems more excited about canceling Ohio voters than providing answers and transparency to his process, which seems plagued by politics and inexperience. That’s why I’ve repeatedly asked for an official audit and public records so we know exactly what’s going on, ”said Rep. Sweeney in her letter to Sec. LaRose’s office. “ The problem with purging is that it has removed eligible voters. That’s unacceptable. We need answers.” 

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Rocco Di Pietro’s The Normal Exception: Life Stories, Reflections, and Dreams from Prison is an outcome of the author’s ten years of teaching college courses to prison inmates in New York, Ohio, and California.

A thoughtful observer, Di Pietro offers illuminating commentary on people's roles and the relationship
between prison and life outside the walls. Incarceration, he points out, “was only one way to transgress
out of the matrix of society; the artist, the poor, the homeless, the ill, the addicts, and psychological
cripples of every sort were also some of the other ways one could slip through the cracks.”

The book consists of essays that Di Pietro had assigned his students to write, interspersed with the
author’s thoughts on the content. For me, the most striking impression taken from these stories is how
many of these individuals had been living in prisons of other sorts long before their incarceration. Many
of these stories are harrowing, and the words of one woman are indicative of the suffering: “Though I

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Sunday, June 2, 5-9pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

Get Your Free FrackStock w/ Justin Nobel Ticket/s Here:  https://events.humanitix.com/frackstock-w-justin-nobel
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1 NIGHT of LOVE, JUSTIN & MUSIC 

Justin Nobel is coming through Columbus on a nationwide tour to present his landmark book, "Petroleum-235: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It!" 

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Sunday, May 5, 12noon-4pm, Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale St.

Join us this Sunday, May 5 at Goodale Park for our May Day Picnic and Labor History Bike Ride Tour!

Picnic: 12noon-4pm

Bike Ride: 2-4pm

The picnic will begin at 12noon. We will be grilling burgers and hotdogs (meat and veggie of both) and will have lots of snacks and drinks. The bike ride will start at 2pm, be approximately two hours long, have nine stops, and will be around five miles in length. The ride will start and stop at Goodale Park.

• “May 1st, known as May Day, is also International Labor Day. This date was chosen to commemorate the Haymarket Affair, the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, in Chicago’s Haymarket Square; what better way to celebrate than learning about our own local labor history?”

• “Join Columbus DSA for our annual picnic and labor history bike tour of Columbus, this year at noon on May 5th!”

Rania was breastfeeding her miracle twins at night with her husband sleeping beside them. She held the twins tight to her chest and said, "If thousand people love you, I will the first one, if only one person love, it would be me, and if no one loves, I will be dead." An hour and a half later, she was awakened when her home was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the city of Rafah.
 
According to March 4, 2024, ITV News.' Rania screamed for her children and her husband. But there was an answer. "They were all dead." 
 
Farouq Abu Anza, a relative of Rania, said about 35 people were staying at the house, some of whom had been displaced from other areas. Total people murdered in the airstrike were 14 people, six were children, and four were women, according to the Hospital director where the bodies were taken. In addition to her husband and children, Rania also lost a sister, a nephew, a pregnant cousin, and other relatives.
 
The Abu Anza twins were named Wissam and Naeem, who were born after their parents spent 10 years trying to conceive.

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