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Three U.S. Women Human Rights Defenders Deported from Western Sahara Will Protest in DC on Memorial Day
By Just Visit Western Sahara, May 26, 2022
https://worldbeyondwar.org/three-u-s-women-human-rights-defenders-depor…
Three US women heading to visit their friends in Boujdour, Western Sahara, were forcibly turned back on May 23rd, when…
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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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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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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…
// Opinion