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The Free Press Salutes Bob Studzinski

Photos of indigenous man with rifle

The Free Press is proud to salute one of our contributors, local photographer Bob Studzinski, for the honor or having his work included in a digital art display at the Louvre in Paris, France on July 13, 2015. One of his photographs was displayed among work by an international group of photographers from over 191 countries.
   Studzinski’s photograph was part the Fifth Annual Exposure Award, was included in a digital display of images presented at the Exposure Award Reception at the Louvre and in a Documentary Collection book. The curators congratulated him on having his work seen by over five million photo enthusiasts from around the world. Sales of the book will benefit the charity Pencils of Promise which is working to build schools in developing nations.

Kasich for President? Greens say no way

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The latest politician to leap toward the GOP nomination is widely known as America’s most anti-green governor. But he has a critical decision coming up that could help change that. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has established a national reputation as a leading enemy of renewable energy and enhanced energy efficiency.
   When he took office in 2011, he opened fire by killing a $400 million federal grant to restore passenger rail service between Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Columbus is the largest capital city in the western world that people cannot get to by train. It also has no internal commuter rail, making it what some have called “the mid-sized town technology forgot.” The rail grant had been painstakingly crafted over the better part of a decade by a broad bi-partisan coalition. It was poised to create hundreds of jobs and provide new opportunity for a number of small towns languishing along the restoration route.

“Ghost Mounds” call on Columbus to “Get With It!”

Demolition at site

Sara Nuber Thomas is a local amateur archaeologist who writes a blog called Expedition Finn: things to do in Ohio with a kid. The blog is named after her son of course, and through her day-trip expeditions she came across a 100-year-old archaeological map that showed the Central Ohio region dotted with Native American mounds and other peculiar looking earthworks. They wanted to see the mounds for themselves, and so they set out.

But what they found probably won’t surprise anyone, and she took pictures of what they saw and posted them on her blog. She ended up capturing images of aging country roads and newly built suburban houses, and of farmland too, but all the pictures were barren of anything created by the Native American pre-history cultures that once flourished here.

Black Lives Shattered

Three activists

Black Lives Matter activists are under surveillance and attack here in Columbus.
   A Columbus Police report obtained by the Columbus Free Press indicates that the police would have been justified in shooting Torri Sablan, a prominent local civil rights activist, as she rode along with friend Ashley Henderson when they transported Alexander Paraskos to the hospital on August 1st this year.
    The police report included the chilling abbreviation Just. Hom. Circ. This means “justifiable homicide circumstance” – indicating the police would have been justified in killing Sablan.
   Police records describe LEOKA circumstances, indicating a “Law Enforcement Officer Killed or Assaulted.”
   How a going-away party thrown by activists and an innocent asthma attack turned into a potential police homicide situation is hotly disputed. Sablan and Henderson are black females and Paraskos is a transgender male -- all well-known political activists.

Ohio workers to Americans for Prosperity: The American Dream is not for sale

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"We're here today because we want all Americans to have the opportunity to succeed, to take care of their families, to improve their communities," said Ohio AFL-CIO secretary/treasurer Petee Talley on August 21. Talley was speaking to a crowd gathered at McFerson Commons in the Arena District to protest the Defending the American Dream summit at the Columbus Convention Center. The summit was held by Americans for Prosperity, a group sponsored by the Koch brothers.    "Americans for Prosperity don't speak for working people. The American Dream is not for sale," Talley said. "We here to let folks know that we are the defenders of our American Dream. That is a dream for economic and social justice for all people."   At 3,200 strong, it was the largest such rally since the Ohio Senate Bill 5 protests of 2011. The Ohio Education Association, UAW, SEIU, AFSCME, and other unions and pro-labor groups from across Ohio were represented. , 

Fascism From West Point

Fascism From West Point

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This headline in the Guardian is completely accurate: West Point professor calls on US military to target legal critics of war on terror.

Rally Opposing Bailouts for FirstEnergy’s Nuclear and Coal Plants

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Mon, August 31, 10am, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio [PUCO], 180 E. Broad St.

The PUCO has postponed the hearings for the third time, to August 31, for which date we will reschedule our rally. Postponing is likely a good sign. PUCO has gotten a lot of push-back from the public, showing statistics that contradict the propaganda being fed to them by FirstEnergy. They will have a harder time rubberstamping the request and any complicity with industry would stand out.

Rally with the Sierra Club and others at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Tell them, “Don’t charge electric ratepayers $3 billion to bail out FirstEnergy’s unprofitable coal plants and the aging, accident-plagued Davis-Besse nuclear reactor!”

FirstEnergy led the fight that overturned Ohio’s renewable and efficiency standards. Boo! Now the PUCO is going to decide whether to hand them an enormous monetary gift, at the expense of the public health and purse.

No bailouts! No kidding!

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