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The Free Press Salutes Central Ohio Activists Arrested in Washington DC: Bob Hart, Marilyn Welker, Ellen Baumgartner and Chuck Lynd

Central Ohio activists Marilyn Welker, Bob Hart, Ellen Baumgartner and Chuck Lynd were among the 400 people arrested on the steps of the US Capitol during the “Democracy Spring” – one of the largest civil disobedience actions since the…

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The Road to Reclaiming OSU

A coalition of student organizations at Ohio State University (OSU) occupied Bricker Hall, the administrative building, on April 6 to #ReclaimOSU and demand that school officials release information about the university's investments…

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Beyond Cinco de Mayo: Latino students demand respect at OSU

Manuel Cuellar-Rocha remembers his first Cinco de Mayo on the Ohio State University campus. The fourth-year design major from Dayton does not recall it fondly. “Ohio State doesn't necessarily aid you much with getting used to campus life...you…

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Crazy for Guns in the Most Unusual Places

When it began to go viral a Change.org petition was calling for open carry of guns at this summer’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the joke that followed was this: “The only way to stop a bad Trump delegate with a gun is a good Cruz…

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