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What you missed at the Free Press October Salon
Here’s what happened at the October Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon on October 9.
Watch the salon video here
Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery kicked the salon off by announcing it was the Free Press’ annual “Libby…
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Esther Flores honored with Free Press 2021 Libby Award for Community Activism
The Columbus Free Press Libby Award for Community Activism for 2021 honors Esther Flores, born for such a time as this.
Esther Flores is a registered nurse fiercely committed to restoring the dignity and health of women…
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Can War Be Both Reformed AND Abolished?
A recent article and a recent book have raised this familiar topic anew for me. The article is a super uninformed dud of a hatchet job on Michael Ratner by Samuel Moyn, who accuses Ratner of supporting war by trying to reform and humanize rather…
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Stop Calling the Military Budget a ‘Defense’ Budget
It’s bad enough that mainstream news outlets routinely call the Pentagon budget a “defense” budget. But the fact that progressives in Congress and even many antiwar activists also do the same is an indication of how deeply the mindsets of the…
// Opinion