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Lawsuit Launched Over Fracking in Wayne National Forest: Feds Fail to Address Danger to Wildlife Habitat, Streams

Conservation groups filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over invalid and outdated Endangered Species Act approvals of oil and gas leasing plans for the Wayne…

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Corporate State Attempts to Choke Off Citizens’ Initiatives

Many of us in Ohio were duped into voting against our own best interests on Election Day in November 2015. Issue 2 was presented by the 1% as an antimonopoly initiative, promising to protect We the People from monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels…

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The future looks bright, the future looks Green

January 21st 2017 was a great day for the Ohio Green Party. Greens, DemExiters, and progressive independents from all over the state came together for the first full statewide meeting of the year. Attendees from Bowling Green all the way down to…

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OSU students walk out on Inauguration Day, build united front against Trump

People on the radical left have criticized the 3 million Americans who protested the Donald Trump inauguration for not being radical enough, not being black or brown enough, not being working-class enough. There is some validity to these…

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