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Detective Richardson
Shelia sat in the chair at the police station smoking a Kool cigarette. She appeared on the outside to be cool, but inside she was shaking like a leaf in a thunderstorm. Detective Richardson watched her from outside the room in the two-way mirror. He was tall and thin, black as coal and handsome. Each time Shelia took a puff off her cigarette, he took a hit off his cigar. He raked his ebony eyes from her head to her heels.
Her brown hair was cut in a short pageboy that framed her oval shaped face, covering her dimples as she held her head down. Her skin was the color of a ripe peach with black flashing eyes that darted around the room like a doe caught in the headlights of a fast-approaching car. It was the only sign that resembled fear. The rest of her one-hundred-and-thirty-pound body was strong as steel. Her beautiful legs were crossed, and her right foot swung back and forth, but not at a fast-moving pace, but a slow deliberate one. She wore a black leather jacket, black mini skirt, red blouse, and black heels. He correctly guessed her age to be between thirty-five and forty.
There’s a cultural rule that holds one’s vote to be exceedingly private. The idea behind such secrecy is more than a matter of privacy: usually people refuse to discuss their political decisions because they lack the reasoning capability to justify their choices. Like the journalist’s pledge to objectivity, I’m breaking that rule.
To Hell with it. I’m a progressive advocate, not a journalist, so here goes: I officially endorse Yes votes on Ohio Issue 1 and Issue 2.
I’m voting Yes on Issue One. This Issue One enshrines certain reproductive rights into the Ohio Constitution in light of the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and Ohio’s increasingly draconian anti-birth-control measures. My reasoning for this is beyond the salaciousness of the story of the ten-year-old rape victim forced to carry a fetus to term here. For me, it’s an issue of human rights and self-determination, two tenets of which used to drive the political party whose extreme wing once used the issue as their primary recruiting tool.
Peace activist David Swanson will speak in Columbus on November 9 at the Free Press 2023 Awards Dinner on “War Abolition and the Ukraine Problem.” David is a regular guest at the Free Press Zoom salons and his weekly articles can be found on freepress.org. His podcast also plays on the local community radio station WGRN 91.9FM. David was one of the first to point out the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the war and the hypocrisy of the United States lies about them.
This bio is taken from David's website. David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is the director of World BEYOND War, a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace. He is campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org.
Peace activist David Swanson will speak in Columbus on November 9 at the Free Press 2023 Awards Dinner on “War Abolition and the Ukraine Problem.” David is a regular guest at the Free Press Zoom salons and his weekly articles can be found on freepress.org. His podcast also plays on the local community radio station WGRN 91.9FM. David was one of the first to point out the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the war and the hypocrisy of the United States lies about them.
This bio is taken from David's website. David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is the director of World BEYOND War, a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace. He is campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org.
Ohio Migration Anthology (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies: Ohio Migration Anthology, Volume Two by Lynn Tramonte (Editor), Marina Manoukian (Foreword by), Gloria Kellon (Illustrator). Proceeds from the sale of the anthology go to the immigrant writers and artists.
You can purchase the book from B&N here.
Ohio Migration Anthology (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies: Ohio Migration Anthology, Volume Two by Lynn Tramonte (Editor), Marina Manoukian (Foreword by), Gloria Kellon (Illustrator). Proceeds from the sale of the anthology go to the immigrant writers and artists.
You can purchase the book from B&N here.
A report from ABC 3 WEAR, reports:
“Chris Lambert is a decorated Vietnam veteran whose battled PTSD for more than 40 years. Lambert’s a three-time Purple Heart recipient, all before his 20th birthday. He says after hearing reports that the suspected gunman in the Maine shooting was treated and released from a facility only weeks later, it’s clear that more long-term care for veterans is needed. However, he feels the shooting suspect’s mental health issues during his service in the military is overplayed. ‘How many people have we watched in these mass shootings and none of them are veterans,’ Lambert said. Stillm, Lambert acknowledged the suspect’s service potentially played a major role in the high number of fatalities. ‘Being a firearms instructor, how accurate he could be, I don’t care if you’re 100-50 yards and you’re jerking a little bit, you’re missing that target. But if he’s instructed and he knows how to breathe, he can take down a lot of people, and that’s tragic,’ Lambert said.”
Saturday, October 28, 2023, 3:00 PM
In Israel, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank, the law is whatever Israel deems to be in the best interest of Jewish Israelis and to the detriment of Palestinians. Israel violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians as a matter of standard, accepted policy. However, there are brave, determined individuals who are trying to expose the destructive, unjust, and sometimes invisible ways in which Israel exploits and oppresses Palestinians.
The Law and the Prophets explains the mechanisms of control that Israel deploys to subjugate Palestinians which highlight our 2023 theme, “the 75th Year of the Nakba.”
Part Two
Private or Anti-Public Service is also responsible for public utilities of all varieties. This puts them in active relationships with private for-profit electricity, gas, and recycling companies.
In the Columbus Way, private interests trump public. Ginther is in close association with Rumpke Recycling who prevents any competitor from building a plant required to compete with them. Rumpke is best known for not completing its regular routes.
City Attorney Zach Klein only sues negligent private building owners for code violations after their buildings collapse or explode. He informed me that he is unable to sue grifting, consumer-violating electric utilities like American Electric Power after they repeatedly fail and make consumers pay for corporate malfeasance, while he sues Kia, Hyundai, and the State of Ohio.
One case in point: the eight young women who rent the HomeTeam property next to my house immediately learned that the house’s connection to the city water main did not work. Of course, there had been no inspection. After some days, the connection was repaired.
Friday, October 27, 12noon, Ohio Statehouse
Please join us as we rally for our Ohio state parks, climate, and democracy, on Friday, October 27, at 12noon, at the Ohio Statehouse, West Plaza, on the steps facing High Street.
This rally will bring together a diverse coalition of environmental, faith, health, and democracy groups to tell our state legislators — and the commission that will decide the fate of our beloved state parks and wildlife areas — that we the people own the public land and democracy in Ohio, and we want to see it protected, not fracked.
We have an incredible lineup of speakers that you will not want to miss, including:
• David Pepper, Ohio author, attorney, and democracy activist
• Robert Brecha, director of sustainability at University of Dayton
• Catherine Turcer, Ohio director for Common Cause
• Jess Grim, Ohio co-coordinator for Third Act
• Judy Comeau-Hart, director of Faith Communities Together
• Molly Jo Stanley, Ohio Environmental Council
• Joe Blanda, Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Randi Pokladnik, Save Ohio Parks