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Support Masonique Saunders - Victim of Columbus Police Injustice

https://youtu.be/9zMu9Y7aues


Featured during this esteemed film festival is a real life example of biased law-enforcement running roughshod over a community of color. A challenge to our solidarity, a plea to donate to the defense fund for…

// Opinion
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Book review: Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House by Joshua Zeitz

The legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson has been and forever shall be overshadowed by the war in Vietnam. But LBJ’s administration was about more than what he referred to as “that bitch of a war.” In the space of a little more than two years,…

// Opinion
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Six week abortion ban passes Senate

The Ohio Senate passed SB23 yesterday to restrict abortion to the first six weeks of a woman’s pregnancy, in a vote of 19 to 13.


Republican Senator Kristina Roegner, the sponsor of the bill, told the Columbus Free Press after the vote, “…

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Detroit Cobras at Woodlands

The Electric Hand.


The Torments.


The Detroit Cobras.


Three die-hard garage rock bands. Three gangs essentially. Their main religious belief: die with your boots on, rocking on 11!


Thus the last Saturday night in…

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Protest/Rally
Sat Apr4 9:30 am
Hilliard Pop-Up Protest
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Meeting
Sat Apr4 11:00 am
Central Ohio Cannabis Social Equity Forum and Panel Discussion
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Sat Apr4 12:00 pm
Clintonville Weekly Pop-Up Protest