Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime advocate of everyday people, stated that” I received a Columbus City Council Media Release email regarding a public meeting of the Charter Review Commission at 6:46pm yesterday evening. This release stated that the public meeting would take place today, February 15th at 10:00am. This was the first public notification of this meeting and it was going to take place in 15 hours. As the District 6 representative of the Clintonville Area Commission, I asked the city liaison at our meeting this past Wednesday if she knew when the next meeting of the Charter Review Commission would be held. She told me she did not but she would follow up with me.” 

Tuesday, February 15, 5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join the ACLU of Ohio for an overview on bipartisan bail reform bills Senate Bill 182 and House Bill 315, practice role-play scenarios for conversations with legislators, and connect with pretrial justice advocates in your region

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Hosted by ACLU of Ohio.

John Cranley is the best candidate for governor. It is time for Democrats, Progressives, Independents and fed-up-with-Trump Republicans to get behind the former Cincinnati Mayor.

His running mate, State Sen. Teresa Fedor, is the best candidate for lieutenant governor, too.

The Cranley-Fedor ticket has the best chance of turning around moribund, but beautiful, Ohio that has been in the grip of the GOP corporate establishment and  socially unconscious right-wingers for the better part of three decades."The public be damned" is their motto (with apologies to railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt who uttered the phrase in the 19th century).

No wonder folks of all stripes did flips over the announcement of the proposed Intel plants in Licking County. We are used to factories leaving Ohio, not coming here.

When I suggest not stealing billions of dollars from Afghanistan, and thereby not causing mass starvation and death, otherwise intelligent and informed people tell me that human rights demands that theft. Starving people to death is a means of protecting their “human rights,” in fact. How else can you (or the U.S. government) stop Taliban executions?

When I respond that you (the U.S. government) could ban capital punishment, stop arming and funding the world’s top executioners from Saudi Arabia on down, join the world’s major human rights treaties, sign onto and support the International Criminal Court, and then — from a credible position — seek to impose the rule of law in Afghanistan, sometimes people think that over as if none of it had ever occurred to them, as if basic logical steps had been literally unthinkable, whereas starving millions of little kids to death for their human rights had somehow made sense.

Here’s a summary of the February 2022 Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon that happened Saturday, February 12 at 7pm by Zoom.

Watch the video here.

Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery facilitated the salon on Zoom and streamed Live on Facebook.

The first guest speaker was Rev. Susan Smith, from Crazy Faith Ministries and the Poor People’s Campaign. She spoke about how the phrase “Christian nationalists” is a misnomer since Christians are supposed to follow the teachings of Jesus and typically “nationalists” do not. She pointed out how the Jesus of the nationalists is one who caters to capitalists.