by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman May 12, 2009 As hundreds of our hard-earned billions are being poured into corrupt, greed-driven, lethally inefficient banks, the Administration, Congress and corporate media have studiously avoided the one sector of the banking industry that actually works—the credit unions. Throughout the United States there are hundreds of these people-powered […]
Bob Fitrakis March 25, 2009 Ohio election officials purged more than a million voters between the 2004 and 2008 elections. The number is three times that of voters purged between the 2000 and 2004 elections in that key swing state. The Free Press Election Protection Project requested data from Boards of Elections in all of […]
Saturday – March 14 Free Press Second Saturday Salon 6:30pm – midnight Join progressives for a night of food, drink, music and art. Socialize or network for your causes. Women’s Beauty Deception display. 1021 E. Broad St., side door, parking in rear Co-sponsored by the Central Ohio Green Education Fund Board
The 2009 Citizens Grassroots Congress Saturday, February 28 9:30am-5pm Please RSVP Doug Todd, 614-308-5681, dougsftc@yahoo.com www.cgcongress.org Proposed Agenda Morning Session 9:30am Presentation of Resolutions – revisit, revise and add new resolutions 10:30 am – Prioritize resolutions Lunch – pizza and bring your own side dish Afternoon Session Discussion of implementation of resolutions and activities Possibilities […]
The Free Press began to print the names and addresses of known Klan and neo-Nazi members, and also began to publish “Wanted” posters with their photos and vitals attached. All of this culminated with buses of anti-racist activists demonstrating outside the homes of the white supremacists.
The Citizens Grassroots Congress
will convene again on
Saturday, February 28
We hope to have the participation of many local individuals and groups to set
a citizen’s agenda for central Ohio.
THE 2009 CITIZENS GRASSROOTS CONGRESS WANTS YOU! On February 28, 2009 from 9:30 to 5:00 At Room 100 of the Northwood Building. (2231 N. High Street in Columbus). Bring a potluck item for snack / salad. Pizza will be provided for lunch. To help advance an enlightened, reform agenda for Central Ohio in the areas […]
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman January 23, 2009 The welcome news that President Obama is taking steps to shut Guantanamo and right other Bush-era human rights abuses must quickly be joined by a proclamation of freedom for Leonard Peltier. Peltier is the nation’s best-known native activist and has become a global symbol of abject […]
On Sunday, JANUARY 25 @ 7PM, come hear our friend Dave Lippman Singer – Satirist – Social Justice Advocate and George Shrub the world’s only singing CIA agent Free Press office – 1021 East Broad Street Donation requested $5-$10 AND DON’T FORGET: Free Press Free Film Night – Tuesday, January 27 at 7:30pm “MEAT THE […]
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman January 14, 2009 The parallels between the 1933 coming of Franklin Roosevelt and the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama must include the issue of Prohibition: alcohol in 1933, and marijuana today. As FDR did back then, Obama must now help end an utterly failed, socially destructive, reactionary crusade. Marijuana […]