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Clay Jones wins Robert F Kennedy Human Rights cartoonist award

The Free Press is proud to announce that a cartoonist we publish, Clayton Jones of Virginia, is the 2022 winner of the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award in Editorial Cartooning. His work was awarded for its "unique style" which is "energetic…

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Workers holding signs outside the Wexner Center

OSU “stalling” on WWU vote, has hired lawyers to push back against potential union

Ohio State is “stalling” on giving their workers consent to vote or voluntarily allowing them to form a union, AFSCME Ohio Council 8, the local union helping Wex Workers United or “WWU” to organize, told the Free Press. OSU has also hired lawyers…

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Harvey J Graff

Ohio is 2022’s most successful voter suppression campaign: Anti-democracy in action

Lost in the attention accorded to the flurry of right-wing Republican legislatures’ passing and governors’ signing blatantly partisan and extralegal redistricting bills—and, in a growing number of states, both state and federal courts ruling them…

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Joe Motil

Corrupt and Unethical Columbus Politics puts Chicago’s Corruption to Shame

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community advocate who has begun circulating petitions to run for Mayor in the 2023 Mayoral primary election attended today’s Little Turtle “Thumbs Down” save the Turtle event. Mr.…

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