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Columbus Police continuously terrorize the Black community: Video

Days after Miles Jackson and Daunte Wright were murdered by police, this incident was recorded in a grocery store.


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First-hand accounts revealed that this cop was kneeling on this man's back because he stole a bottle of…

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Fighting Corruption in Ohio: Curbing the Influence of the Wealthy and Corporations in State Government

Saturday, April 17, 10-11:15am


This on-line event requires advance registration


The 2020 First Energy scandal was unprecedented in scale, yet the big money involved symbolizes the consistency in which the wealthy corporate…

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The Police Accountability Train Wreck

Since 1871 the Civil Rights Act has held state and local officials—including police officers—legally liable for damages if their actions violate a citizen’s Constitutional rights. 


That’s until the Supreme Court punched a huge hole in…

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Education For American Democracy

We have barely survived the most serious crisis to face American democracy since the Civil War. This nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” was faced with a coup attempt that would have…

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