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Greep Zoom 222 - Fascist Attacks On Judges & A Mayor * Cinco De Mayo * Winning Eco-Battles

We start with “Kidnapping the Rubicon” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.

The duly elected MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon has been arrested by a fascist city council in an attempted coup; the activist progressive Mayor shares her amazing tale as we hear her plans to get re-instated.

Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH assures us all that the fight-back will inspire deep regrets among the Trumpist attackers.

LAProgressive.com editor-publishers SHARON KYLE & DICK PRICE give us the scoop on the Trump attack against Wisconsin Judge Hanna Dugan and many others like her who are standing up for actual justice & the law.  Such judges, says Kyle, have been subjected to DOXing and other forms of Nazi-style attacks.

Emmy-winning documentarian DAVID SALTMAN explains the key elements to maintaining a lawful society.

Climate activist DIANE CAMERON talks about defeating a new highway proposed for Maryland.

Green campaigner MARGARET SCHOAP OF US-PIRG expands on the great grassroots work happening in Maryland to preserve what’s left of the state.

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Free Press May 2025 Second Saturday Salon

Details about event

This is a Zoom/Facebook event salon Saturday, May 10 from 7-8pm

Our theme is: Resistance in May

Speakers:
Lynn Tramonte -Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Theresa Hice-Formille - American Association of University Professors and Springfield Neighbors United
Mazen Rasoul - Immigration lawyer

Including:
Post-primary election discussion
Workers rights
Immigrant rights
Joining the fight against this administration

Questions or if you have an announcement about your event or group, let us know here: colsfreepress@gmail.com

Pope Leo XIV: A Papacy for Peace in a World at War

Prelude: As we welcome Pope Leo XIV, we do so with full awareness of the Church’s failures as an institution. Church-sanctioned teachings too often became instruments of empire, rather than channels of Christ’s peace. They upheld systems of enslavement, patriarchy, and racial hierarchy, instead of challenging institutions and bidding them to change. —

When Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost was proclaimed as Pope Leo XIV and then stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, for me it was a moment of disbelief and wonderment: The first American-born Pope in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Then came his Urbi et Orbi (to the City and the World) blessing, in which he repeatedly, and beautifully, invoked peace.

“Peace be with you all…Peace be with you…. The peace of the Risen Christ - - an unarmed and disarming peace, …uniting everyone, always in peace. …a Church that always seeks peace, …for peace in the world.”

77 years after Nakba, Israel's message to Palestinians: Surrender, leave, or die!

In the 1930s and 40s, many Jews escaped persecution in Europe by sailing to Palestine for safety. Palestinians treated them then with open hearts but later the Jewish refugees took arms and attacked Palestinians by committing massacres to drive them out of their lands.
 
Each year on May 14, Israel celebrates Independence Day and Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day (catastrophe in Arabic). Prior to 1948, Israel has never existed on the map. Israel was planted in the heart of the Arab world by Western imperial powers. I still have a picture of my village taken by a New York Times photographer on May 14, being erased by Jewish terror groups.

Fed Up with Benjamin Netanyahu?

I have in the past speculated that the day might come when President Donald Trump, he of a massive ego, might just become tired of his being manipulated and controlled by America’s Israel Lobby and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular. I thought, and hoped, that he might become so annoyed that he might move to take control of the so-called tail wags the dog relationship that has for so long put Israel in the driver’s seat. While I am loathe to read too much into several recent developments, the first suggestion that all is not well in Washington’s relationship with what has been euphemistically referred to as “America’s best friend and closest ally.”

Escape From Trumpatraz

The Only Winners in This Trade War Will Be Trump and His Fellow Billionaires

President Biden left behind an economy that was pretty healthy, conventionally speaking. Unemployment was low and wages were rising, but stubbornly high costs of living opened a door for Donald Trump’s political comeback.

Columbus Mothers and Others Standing Against Fascism

Details about event

Saturday, May 10, 1-3pm
Bicentennial Park, 233 S Civic Center Dr, Columbus 43215

On Saturday, May 10, join us in Columbus to say no to the bullies and billionaires who are threatening our freedoms and disappearing residents from our streets.

In honor of Mother's Day weekend, and as part of actions happening throughout the state, we invite mothers and others to join us in standing up and speaking out against fascism.

We will have speakers, music, sign language interpretation, a great sound system, and an opportunity to march. Please join us at Bicentennial Park as we build momentum against Trump, Musk, and the hostile takeover of our government.

 

State Legislators Seek to Use Taxpayer Funds to Deepen Trade Ties with Israel Amidst its Genocide in Gaza

Woman holding sign at rally saying Stop the Genocide

The Ohio House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would commit $10 million in taxpayer funds “to create the Ohio Israel Trade and Innovation Partnership.” House Bill 188 (H.B. 188) as introduced would create a “partnership” of 14 members who would seek to advance:

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