Over the past 45 years, I have been active on the streets and on the
internet for our people struggle for return and self-determination in the
face of a most brutal and merciless colonial regime. I read thousands of
books and wrote a few myself. I read tens of thousands of research and
analytical papers (and wrote hundreds myself). The problem of our country
can actually be described very briefly. Its solution (remedies) can also be
described briefly. Implementing the solution would be doable and is the
only way to avoid a catastrophic world war.

So briefly, we have 15 million indigenous Palestinians, over 8 million of
us are intentionally made refugees or displaced people (and that number
increases daily). So far over 250,000 Palestinians were killed or perished
prematurely thanks to genocidal policies since 1948. A million were injured
and another million imprisoned since 1948. The perpetrator Jews fell under
the spell of an idea called Zionism that tries to convince people that
Jewishness is a nationality (Constantinian Judaism as called by Marc Ellis)

Tonight, Saturday, August 10 from 6-9pm, you can try a "mocktail."

What is a mocktail?

Blossom Bar is coming to the salon to provide drinks -- water, non-alcoholic, alcoholic and "infused" mocktails. You can ask for a bit of CBD or THC or both added to your drink (each one costs a little bit). You decide what to add and tell the bartender. They provide hemp-derived, non-alcoholic cocktails infused with adaptogens and nootropics, catering to a health-conscious audience seeking an elevated social experience.

Dr. Bridget Williams of Green Harvest Health, who has spoken at a Free Press salon in the past, runs Blossom Bar and will be speaking about mocktails to tell us more about them.

The August Free Press Second Saturday Salon is tonight from 6-9pm at the Columbus Botanical Depot's event spacee at Pacemont and High Street in Clintonville. The actual address, 14 W. Pacemont is a dispensary which will be open tonight until 8pm.

Dear Mayor Johnson:

We are passionately asking that you not do during the upcoming Chicago Democratic Convention what then-Mayor Richard J. Daley did in 1968: plant the seeds of chaos and pave the way for a Republican President.

It’s widely expected there will be many thousands of marchers at this year’s DNC, protesting the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. It is essential the city do everything in its power to accommodate them and help keep the marches peaceful… as it did NOT do in 1968.  

During the ’68 protests, we were among the thousands there to march peacefully against the war in Vietnam. While standing at the corner of Michigan and Balbo, we were clubbed by police. To our immediate north, fellow demonstrators were pushed through a large plate glass window and into a restaurant. Infamously, angry police then poured inside and beat them and many astonished patrons who were trying to eat dinner.