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#MeToo: Farmworker women call on Wendy’s to stop supporting sexual violence

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers started a boycott of an iconic central Ohio-based fast-food chain over a year ago. This was after the company stopped sourcing its tomatoes from Florida instead of joining the CIW’s Fair Food Program to protect…

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Harvest Without Violence exhibit comes to Wendy’s home town

Women members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are in Columbus this week. Until 5 p.m. today the their new Harvest Without Violence mobile exhibit will be stationed in the South Oval on the Ohio State University campus. 


The OSU…

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Why the Minneapolis City Council race matters to Columbus

The City Council race in Columbus is shaping up to be an interesting one. Yes We Can candidates Jasmine Ayres and Will Petrik are running on progressive platforms that include affordable housing, policing reform, renewable energy, and a living…

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Ohio Prison Update

Over a hundred concentration camps now colonize Ohio’s landscape including a federal prison, 87 county jails, 25 state-funded adult prisons, three privately-operated adult prisons, seven juvenile prisons and five Immigration Custom and…

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This Weeks Events

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Meeting
Thu Apr23 12:00 pm
Thursday Action Group with two candidates
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Protest/Rally
Thu Apr23 4:00 pm
Sunbury Good Trouble Thursdays