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Socially Just Dining: Greenhouse Canteen
Greenhouse Canteen is a 100% plant-pure vegan restaurant chain headquartered in Australia. Local vegan owner operator Joshua Douglass launched its first US restaurant in Grandview in Oct 2020, in spite of covid. They have still managed to survive…
Bad cop or kidnapper? Jury deadlocks but federal trial looms
The jury deliberated for eighteen hours over three days but could not reach a verdict in the trial of Andrew K. Mitchell for murder or voluntary manslaughter in the death of Donna Dalton (aka Castleberry) in August 2018 during a botched…
The right-wing truck convoys arrive in Ohio: The unconstitutionality and inhumanity of book banners
I call the public’s attention to today’s radical, unprecedented, unconstitutional, and inhumane campaign to ban books in schools. It combines intersecting dimensions that span history, education, child development, and respect for the text and…
Caravan Condemns Savage Ravage
The Caravan for Water and Life has run through much of central Mexico, backed by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI). The Caravan’s goal is to raise awareness of how the subsidiary of Danone multinational corporation, Bonafont, for years has…