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Mayor Ginther: Why did you have Black activists arrested for peaceful protest at the MLK Breakfast?
Martin Luther King Jr: “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
January should have been a month to celebrate new beginnings and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy. Instead, in…
// Opinion
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On the Commemoration of the anniversary of the Greensboro 4
Staement from the Columbus Freedom Coalition:
The Google Doodle today honors the Greensboro Four, African American students in North Carolina who took a stand against racial injustice by staging a sit-in at a Woolworth’s counter. As you…
// Opinion
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Global Gag Rule Protest
Over 40 #Fight4HER activists protested January 23 outside Senator Rob Portman’s Columbus office against President Trump’s dangerous Global Gag Rule, a deadly policy that bans foreign health care providers that receive U.S. aid from discussing…
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Franklin County Dems launch campaign to thwart #RepYourBlock2020
Power players in the Franklin County Democratic Party think you’re stupid. At least the propaganda campaign they’re running around the FCDP Central Committee race makes it look that way.
In 2016 a number of progressive Democrats ran for…
// News