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Free Press is committed to documenting the people taken by ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables.  At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that.  We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide.  It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students.  This article will be updated as long as is necessary.

Familiar tale gracefully blends feminism and fantasy

Feminism has a crucial role to play in modern life, but I sometimes wish it would leave our fairy tales alone. The results of its revisionist meddling are too often unconvincing and unsatisfying.

Remember last year’s Maleficent? It turned an age-old story on its head by revealing that the fairy (Angelina Jolie) who turned a princess into a “Sleeping Beauty” was not evil at all. No, she was merely wronged and misunderstood. Worst of all, we learned that the somnambulant princess could not be awakened by a kiss from the handsome prince, but only by a motherly peck from that same fairy.

How heartwarming. And how utterly unromantic.

Thank goodness Disney’s new live-action version of Cinderella doesn’t wear its feminism on its sleeve. It has nods to modern sensibilities, to be sure, but they’re handled with a lighter touch.

The Price of Genocide: How US Funding Sustains an Unraveling Israeli Economy

In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway's Government Pension Fund Global has decided to divest from yet more Israeli companies. 

From Guernica to Gaza

Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, “Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done.”

Assault Sandwich Ban

Statewide conference on policing

Details about event

Friday, August 29-Saturday, August 30, 10am-4pm

Virtual Statewide Conference on Policing, Criminal Legal System, and Immigration. We have some amazing speakers who will touch on topics ranging from immigration, wrongful conviction, to policy, etc. Guest speaker: Eric King

If you have not already, you can register with the link below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0jZLhNLkXoFNJk3cK95m1elgL70YXvIjIpgclEOZfE1sJwA/viewform?usp=header

Hot Times Music and Arts Festival is back at old location this year

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It's time for Hot Times in Olde Towne again! The free, family-friendly event includes great music, art cars, kid's activities, cultural Olympic games, lots of food, even beer, wine and liquor, community vendors, drum circles, a poetry slam and more!

The Hot Times Music and Arts Festival will be back at 240 Parsons Avenue this year, happening Friday, September 5 through Sunday, September 7.  The festival is on the front lawn of the Columbus Health Department building between Bryden Road and Main Street, on Parsons.

This year's lineup:

Hot Times 2025 Main Street stage schedule:

FRIDAY, September 5th, 5 to 11 PM

5:00 Ron Holmes - Eclecticism

6:00 Mendelsonics 

7:00 Just Another Mojo

8:00 Whitley Jean

9:00 Willie Phoenix

10:00 Shaun Booker Dammit 

SATURDAY, Sept.6th, Noon - 10 PM

12:00 TBA

1:00     Lungu VYBZ

2:00  New Legga-C Showband

3:00 Black Book

4:00 Chubby Slim 

URGENT: STOP OHIO FROM REINVESTING IN ISRAEL BONDS! 

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$10 million is up for reinvestment on September 1st.

Tell Ohio State Treasurer Robert Sprague NO MORE ISRAEL BONDS! CALL TREASURER ROBERT SPRAGUE'S OFFICE (614) 466-2160.

Ask to speak with a representative about the state's investment portfolio.

HERE'S A SCRIPT TO USE:

"Hello, my name is [Your Name], and I'm an Ohio taxpayer from [City/County].  I'm calling to urge the Treasurer's office to stop investing in Israel Bonds and put Ohio first.  Specifically, a $10 million Israel Bond investment is up for reinvestment on September 1st.

I urge the Treasurer's office to not reinvest this money. Will you please pass my message on to Treasurer Robert Sprague and his team? Talking points: Ohio has over $262 million of our taxpayer money in these bonds, which are now high-risk with a downgraded credit rating. This is a fiscally irresponsible use of our money.

Who will Trump drown next?

Imagine your town flattened overnight. No power. No water. Families trapped in rubble. For days, you wait for help that never seems to arrive.

The first thing that hit me in Gulfport, Mississippi, wasn’t the sight. It was the smell. Raw sewage from flooded treatment plants. Rotting seafood from capsized shrimp boats.

Diesel and gasoline spilled across the water. All mixed together in water so thick with debris it didn’t move like water anymore.

One of my shipmates handed me a jar of Vicks VapoRub. “Put it in your nose,” he said. “It’ll help.” It didn’t help enough.

A World Washed Away

What I saw looked like a scene out of an apocalyptic film. Whole neighborhoods gone. Homes ripped from their foundations and carried into the bayou.

Those that remained were filled with mud several feet high. I went building to building on search-and-rescue, marking walls with spray paint — an “X” and a number telling the world how many people, alive or dead, had been found inside.

It was devastating. It was lawlessness. And at times, it felt like we were the only ones left.

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