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A colorful image of Columbus skyline in green, yellow and blue with white words in front at the bottom Yes We Can

About Yes We Can

In a primary race chock full of corporate-sponsored “establishment” candidates this past May, 5 candidates of the grassroots organization Yes We Can Columbuswon enough votes to run in the general elections for City Council and School Board this…

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Words in black Bob Bites Back

Bob Bites Back: Black-Identity Extremists BS

Just prior to Hitler-inspired neo-Nazis and their white supremacist allies descending on Charlottesville, Virginia in August, the FBI began characterizing the Black Lives Matter movement as “Black-identity extremists.” As best the Freep…

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Festival films tackle love and hate, music and dance, war and survival

A balcony collapses in a synagogue and sparks a women’s uprising in the first offering of the 2017 Columbus Jewish Film Festival. Despite venturing into the hazardous intersection of religion and gender politics, The Women’s Balcony has…

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Socially Just Dining: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters

Two Dollar Radio Headquarters on the corner of Parsons Ave and Cline St. (across the street from the new Columbus Metropolitan Library) is one of the latest new vegan businesses to open empowering Columbus towards a rapid vegan shift in…

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