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Chicago: Peace Town
by David Swanson
A huge crowd gathered for several hours and marched for over two miles in the hot sun to oppose NATO and U.S. wars on Sunday in Chicago. Finishing the march outside the NATO meeting, numerous U.S. veterans of current wars denounced their previous "service" and threw their medals over the fence, a scene not witnessed since the U.S. war on Vietnam.
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Bank the Knife
by Dave Lippman
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Is peace getting in the way of our war plans?
by David Swanson
What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably.
The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily.
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FBI seizes server from progressive internet service provider
by Jamie McClelland, May First/People Link
In an attack on our infrastructure, our movement and the democratic
Internet, the FBI seized a server April 19 from one of our cabinets in
a colocation facility.
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Republican retreat - Ohio House Republicans defeat their own voter suppression bill
by Bob Fitrakis
The Ohio House Republicans tactically retreated and repealed House Bill 194 – the controversial voter suppression bill. The bill was slated to be on Ohio’s November 6 ballot, and was thought by political strategists to have aided Obama’s re-election campaign in the key battleground state.
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The moral arc of the universe
by Robert C. Koehler
The city of Chicago and the federal government will be putting on a $55 million security extravaganza later this month to protect NATO delegates, representing the most powerful military force on the planet, from nonviolent protesters who want to see an end to war.
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From the Kent State killings to Occupy Cleveland, this is the face of the new COINTELPROby Bob Fitrakis
Recent events in northern Ohio underscore the new COINTELPRO assault on activism. On Tuesday, May 1, federal authorities arrested five "anarchists" charging them with conspiracy in trying to bomb property used in interstate commerce, according to the Associated Press (AP). The target of this alleged plot was a bridge running through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 15 miles south of downtown Cleveland.
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Will you pay as new reactors jump $900 million in three months? by Harvey Wasserman
The projected price for Georgia's Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months....and that's just for starters.
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FEATURED EVENT
Tuesday, May 22, 2012Free Press Movie, Knocking on the Devil’s Door: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy
7:30 PM. This film features Columbus' own anti-nuke activist Harvey Wasserman, who will lead the discussion after the movie While the ongoing meltdown continues at Fukushima, this 2011 film gives us information and motivation to act for change. Award-winning documentary director Gary Null deconstructs the corporate and political rhetoric that low level radiation emitted from nuclear plants is safe and that our future energy needs depend upon nuclear reactors. Events at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima remind us that a specter hovers over the security of people worldwide. We need to eliminate the ongoing threat of meltdown, nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorist attack. The US is prepared to give billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize new nuclear power stations. Profits go to the industry while liability for nuclear accidents and meltdowns falls upon taxpayers. Aging and brittle reactors are being relicensed past their engineered lifetimes. Disregard for safety concerns, falsification of safety records, and inaccurate information abound. Nuclear energy is neither clean nor green. From the mining of radioactive materials to their transportation, from reactor fusion to the storage of radioactive waste, nuclear is contaminating natural habitats, rivers and aquifers while rates of cancer around the facilities increase. Since nuclear energy only provides less than ten percent of America’s energy needs, and cheaper, safer and greener alternative technologies are readily available, the message is clear: replace nuclear as quickly as possible with efficiency and renewables. Knocking on the Devil’s Door features many of the world’s most vital voices now demanding for the cessation of nuclear power including Helen Caldicott, Harvey Wasserman, Vandana Shiva, Michio Kaku and many others. The 2-hour film is co-sponsored by the Sierra Club, the Film Council of Greater Columbus, the Drexel, the Central Ohio Green Education Fund and The Free Press. It is free and open to the public.
Location:Drexel Theater, 2254 East Main Street in Bexley
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Governor Kasich’s deeply flawed energy plan on fast track for approval - Support No Frack OhioStatement of No Frack Ohio
On May 14, Governor Kasich’s energy bill, which will benefit the oil and gas industry at the expense of consumers and their vital resources, was approved by the Ohio State Senate. Members of No Frack Ohio, a coalition to stop fracking, denounced the development.
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