Bob Fitrakis January 18, 2010 President Obama should know that his silence in regards to the military industrial complex is a betrayal of the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Rev. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 – exactly one year after, to the day, he profoundly indicted U.S. militarism. Obama unleashed same militarism […]
Join us in celebrating the Free Press’ 40th anniversary year at the Second Saturday Salon Saturday, January 9, 2010 from 6:30pm-midnight 1021 East Broad Street – side door, parking in rear Find out about the origins of the Free Press back in the late 60s and early 70s. Socializing with refreshments, art, music, and progressive […]
10/09/1996 by Bob Fitrakis They’re here. Yes, indeed. New evidence published in this week’s issue of The Nation directly links Columbus’s own Southern Air Transport to the Contra cocaine network reputedly protected by the Central Intelligence Agency. In December 1985, Robert Perry, now the director of The Nation Institute’s Investigative Unit, co-wrote the first news […]
Tuesday, December 22 – 7:30pm Drexel Theater, 2254 E. Main St., Bexley Door Prizes! Discussion to follow. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system? This documentary examines five capitalist democracies and how they do it – each has a health care system that […]
Greetings, You may be interested in two new items from The Free Press: The Fitrakis FIles: Cops, Cover-Ups & Corruption – $15 by Bob Fitrakis In this sixth volume of “The Fitrakis Files,” columnist and investigative reporter for the Columbus Free Press and Columbus Alive Bob Fitrakis exposes the corruption that law enforcement officials and […]
Tuesday, December 15 – 7:00 pm Drexel Theater, 2254 E. Main St., Bexley CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of […]
Bob Fitrakis December 2, 2009 There can be no greater gift that you can give your loved ones, or the world, this holiday season than Robert Greenwald’s documentary “Rethink Afghanistan.” While President Barry Obama was busy resuscitating Lyndon Johnson’s “bright and shiny” Vietnam lies in his national address Tuesday night, the American people should instead […]
Tuesday, December 1 at 11pm
Bob Fitrakis November 24, 2009 Colonel Muammar al-Gathafi lives in a really big air-conditioned tent with cushy rugs and incredible chandeliers. How do I know? I visited the tent on the 40th anniversary of the Libyan revolution, when a 27-year-old al-Gathafi overthrew the Libya government, Che Guavera-style (his hero). The controversial Libyan leader, who helped […]