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A Ban on Chemical Agents, Rubber Bullets and Flash-Bang Grenades is Demanded
Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime outspoken critic of the Columbus Police Department states, “Sunday’s use of tear gas and pepper spray on peaceful protesters in downtown Columbus should not have surprised anyone.…
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Back at it again - Columbus Police try to start a riot tonight
After a day including an LGBTQ-Black Lives Matter march at noon and other anti-police brutality gatherings at the Statehouse this evening, the Columbus Police and SWAT seemed to anticipate trouble with an unprecedented and unnecessry show of…
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Déjà Vu All Over Again – Is There a Remedy for Racism?
Back in the mid-sixties, in the heady days of Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society Program,’ I was working in my first job out of college as an ‘intergroup relations professional’ at the Detroit Commission on Community Relations. I spent my days…
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Free Press June Cyber-Salon Discussed Racism and Black Lives Matter Protests
Did you miss the June Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon?
If so, here's a run-down of what happened and how you can be involved next time!
Last Saturday, June 13, was the Second Saturday Cyber-Salon with the Columbus Free…
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