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Rally to support prison hunger strike - Staughton Lynd helps negotiate deal

Supporters of the hunger strike in the supermax unit at Ohio State Penitentiary rallied in Columbus Tuesday, April 14, calling upon prisons director Gary Mohr to order the restoration of the inmates' constitutionally protected recreation and…

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You have the right to video tape a police officer; or do you?

Once upon a time if you were stopped by the police, and for whatever reason, found yourself being the victim of police brutality, even with witnesses, you would lose in a court of law based on the “word” of the police officer(s)…

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Columbus’ Free Trade Zone

Quietly and gradually since the 1980s, a bastion of free-market excess on Franklin County’s southernmost border has been selling-out the American worker while making piles upon piles of money for a select few. It is called “Free Trade…

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Plastic bags: In our trees, rivers and landfills

What if Columbus was a Zero Waste City by 2040? Sound impossible? Interestingly enough, a city with about 30,000 more people aims to reach that goal by 2020. San Francisco has a landfill diversion rate of over 80 percent. A “green team…

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This Weeks Events

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Community
Tue May12 4:00 pm
Drag Protest Against HB 249
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Meeting
Wed May13 6:00 pm
Fair Districts All Volunteer Huddle
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Music
Thu May14 7:30 pm
Concert for Humanity: The Sounds of 1976

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