Fri May 24 2013

FEATURED ARTICLES

Rape and Winning
by Robert C. Koehler
Maybe the problem is that rape is an extension of military culture. And it’s metastasizing, even as legislation to address it stays trapped in congressional subcommittee.
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Tales in a Kabul restaurant
by Kathy Kelly
Kabul--Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can't help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that's worth caring about but that is happening very far away.
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Boston Suspect's Writing on the Wall
by Ray McGovern
Quick, somebody tell CIA Director John Brennan about the handwriting on the inside wall of the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding before Boston-area police riddled it and him with bullets. Tell Brennan that Tsarnaev's note is in plain English and that it needs neither translation nor interpretation in solving the mystery: "why do they hate us?"
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Catholic “union” won’t back Carla Hale, AFL-CIO will!
by Bruce Bostick
Carla Hale, the 19 year teacher at Columbus Bishop Watterson High School who was fired after her mother’s obituary stated that she was “survived by Carla & her partner,” received word this week that the phony Catholic “Union” to which she has paid two decades worth of dues will not support her in her fight to be reinstated. In a public statement, the Central Ohio Association of Catholic Educators stated thru spokesperson Kathleen Mahoney they would not appeal her case to arbitration.
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Child poverty is the real scandal
by Rev. Jesse Jackson
Washington is descending into another silly season. Let’s end this diversion of dust and smoke as partisans hype mock “scandals” for political profit.
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Ohio labor, allies, mobilize against anti-worker legislation
by Bruce Bostick
In reaction to the introduction of three Right-to-Work bills by right-wing GOP Ohio legislators which would strip unions of negotiating power, organized labor and the huge We Are Ohio coalition are holding a series of 17 mass meetings in the state. The 14th such gathering was an overflow crowd last week at the Carpenters Union Hall in Columbus.
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RECENT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Time Warner Cable: Anti-Union
by Free Press reader
I don't like corporate monopolies but I needed to pay the rent, so I got a job at Time Warner Cable in the fall of 2012. My job title was Technical Support Representative. To a lesser degree, I was happy to be working for the company that produces Real Time with Bill Maher. Insight Cable Company was recently bought up by Time Warner Cable. The transition from Insight Cable to TIme Warner was happening gradually as I started working there. One thing myself, and many other employees, were concerned about was the number of people getting fired. It seemed like one employee would lose his or her job every two weeks. A co-worker approached me and told me she was interested in starting a union. She and I began talking to workers to see if they were interested in forming a union and we got a good response.
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Consequences of the socialization into the great distraction (an African American case study)
by Gyamfi Gyamerah
African American Ramification of Belief in the Great Distraction of Christianity (The backlash of self hate via assimilation)
”Think of the tragedy of teaching our children not to doubt.” ~Clarence Darrow
African Americans have been trying to prove their moral equivalence to euro America for so long they have forgotten their actual and natural human equivalence. Once America agreed African Americans would be better off led by preachers the damage had begun. African American thinker and author J.A.
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FEATURED COLUMNS

The real IRS scandal
by Bob Fitrakis
The following statement is by Robert Fitrakis, Chair, Federal Elections Commission, Green Shadow Cabinet:
No one should be shocked that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is once again using its power to harass grassroots patriot groups and local Tea Party organizations, as reported in the news recently.
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San Onofre at the no nukes brink
by Harvey Wasserman
In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cake walk.
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FEATURED EVENT

Thursday, May 23, 2013

International Sustainability Expert to Speak to Green Bldg Council

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. The Central Ohio Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council welcomes Professor David Orr to present on the subject of Sustainable Communities and designing for resilience in an increasingly unpredictable climate. Professor Orr will speak at the Chapter’s monthly “Lunch and Leaders” meeting from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM at the beautiful and sustainable Grange Insurance Audubon Center (505 W Whittier St 43215) near downtown Columbus. David Orr is an internationally acclaimed thought-leader on sustainability who is putting his ideas to into action in Oberlin, Ohio. “There is no one better qualified to discuss the global challenges to long-term sustainability and real-life replicable examples of solutions at a community scale”, said Chapter Chairman Tyler Steele. The Central Ohio Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council is a leading nonprofit organization working to transform our region’s built environment to be more healthy, prosperous and sustainable. To purchase tickets to the event, follow the link on the Chapter’s calendar of events at www.usgbccentralohio.org. Non-members $35.00/person.

Location: Grange Insurance Audubon Center (505 W Whittier St 43215) near downtown Columbus

Phone: Tyler Steele, Chair, USGBC Central Ohio Chapter, 614-638-3477

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Earthquakes near Fukushima
Earthquakes continue to rattle the damaged nuclear facility at Fukushima Daiichi. The list below shows only the strongest ones- there are weaker ones almost daily. The good news is that the radioactivity does decay with time, decreasing the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear fire. The bad news is that the buildings housing the spent fuel pools and melted-down reactor cores also decay with time, bombarded as they are with radioactivity, and shaken by earthquakes. Concrete crumbles, pipes break, rats gnaw at wire systems.
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