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As Columbus' Doo Dah Parade Celebrates its 40th Anniversary, Photo Exhibit at Short North Tavern, July 1 – August 4, 2023, Documents the Parade's 1990 Anti-Censorship Demonstration
Parade as a Protest Artform: Photographs of Doo Dah 1990 presents a small collection of printed images originally recorded by artist Carolyn P. Speranza on Kodachrome slide film. These photographs document that year's Anti-Censorship…
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Ohio students hold funeral at Statehouse for higher education, rallying against SB83
Today, students representing 10+ universities held a mock funeral for Ohio higher education in the face of continued efforts to pass SB83, best known as the Higher Education Destruction Act, bringing attention to how this dangerous…
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Busting Myths: Mike DeWine’s right wing Republican Party and the destruction of public higher education in Ohio
As in so many things, Gov. Mike DeWine and his cronies; led by party leaders in the State House and Senate who blindly copy the legislation of Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Arkansas; Lt. Gov. Jon Husted who publicly admits to disliking the arts…
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Austrian Censorship of Peace Conference Is An Outrage
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War; Kathy Kelly, President of World BEYOND War; John Reuwer, Board Member of World BEYOND War; Brad Wolf, Director of Peace Action, Lancaster, PA
Forty-eight hours before a global peace…
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