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Via WCRSFM: Fight Back Aug 16 2011 Stand Up for Ohio


See podcast at the bottom.
Bob and Connie interview Kris Harsh from Stand up for Ohio Progressive coalition in response to the last election right wing swing about the Aug. 20 festival.

Saturday, Aug 20 Free Parking for Bike Riders
Expo Center Fairgrounds 17th ave. Parking Pedestrians, 11th ave.
Free MUsic, Grand Funk Railroad. Ohio Players, Cincinnati’s Over the Rhine
Come to the
Stand Up for Ohio Festival:
Rebuild the American Dream of Good Jobs and Strong Communities
Saturday, August 20 from 12noon-8pm
Political groups, speakers, children’s activities, refreshments
It’s all free!
Nikki Giovanni
Music: Grand Funk Railroad, Ohio Players, Happy Chichester and more!

Ohio State Fairgrounds (near the giant slide)
If driving come into the 17th Avenue gate and you’ll be directed to a lot ($8)
If biking, you can bike near the festival
standupforohio.org/
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Audio/Podcast Info
29:48 minutes (38.72 MB)

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Free Press Second Saturday Salon August 13 from 6:30pm – midnight

Free Press Second Saturday Salon
Saturday, August 13 from 6:30pm – midnight
1021 E. Broad St., side door, parking in rear
Join progressive activists for fun, food, music, art, and progressive networking.

…Discussion of voting rights and HB 194 and of WOSU TV repressing progressive independent films.

truth@freepress.org
253-2571

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Fight Back this week: Saul Landau On His Film, Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up

Bob Fitrakis on “Fight Back” this week:
Bob and guest Saul Landau
Discussing his new film “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up” chronicling half a century of hostile US-Cuba relations
Saul Landau is an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau’s most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights
Listen and call in this Wednesday August 3
7 – 8 PM
Call 877-932-9766

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Here’s how to call in to the LIVE INTERNET radio show:
(on your computer – not on your broadcast radio dial)
On Wednesday nights at 7:00 pm
Go to: http://talktainmentradio.com
Click on “Listen Live”
Call 877-932-9766

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Free Press Second Saturday Salon, July 9th

Free Press Second Saturday Salon
Saturday, July 9, 6:30pm-midnight
With a presentation by the SPORE Infoshop and music by Steve Dodge,
progressive friends, good food and drink, art and culture.
1021 E. Broad St., Columbus (side door, parking in rear)
truth@freepress.org
253-2571

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Upcoming Franklin County Green Party Events not to miss!

Upcoming Franklin County Green Party Events not to miss!

Monday, June 13, 2011
Franklin County Green Party Monthly Meeting.
WTF? What the Frack?
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Central Committee meeting (open).
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Presentation by Teresa Mills on “fracking” and its impact on the environment. Mills works for the Center for Health, Environment and Justice as its Ohio Children’s Health organizer.
Location: Northwood Building, 2231 North High St., Room 100. (Corner of Northwood and N. High St., free parking behind the building)
Free and open to the public.
For more information contact us at FCGreenParty@gmail.com .

Saturday, June 18, 2011
Pride Parade: Join us as we march together behind our new Franklin County Green Party banner in the Gay Pride Parade. We will gather on Front Street between W. Broad Street and Town at 10:00 am on Saturday morning, with a noon start for the parade, which ends at Goodale Park in the Short North. Final details will be provided in a subsequent email. Shoot us an email at FCGreenParty@gmail.com if you plan on participating. For more information on Columbus Pride 2011, visit www.columbuspride.org.

Friday – Sunday, June 24–26, 2011
Comfest: The Franklin County Green Party asks its members and supporters to either volunteer for cleanup [sign up at www.comfest.com] or to work with our friends at the Free Press wine booth by the jazz stage at Comfest [contact Simone Morgen at smorgen@juno.com].

Monday, July 11, 2011
Franklin County Green Party Monthly Meeting.
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Central Committee meeting (open).
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Speaker and discussion topic TBA.
Location: Northwood Building, 2231 North High St., Room 100. (Corner of Northwood and N. High St., free parking behind the building)
Free and open to the public.
For more information contact us at FCGreenParty@gmail.com .

Join us on Facebook: Search term “Franklin County Green Party”

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Fight Back with Mark Crispin Miller June 8, 2011 Podcast

Bob’s guest this week: Mark Crispin Miller
Listen and call in this Wednesday, June 8 from 7 – 8 PM.

Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University, and the author of the book: Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections. He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and Mad Scientists, a study of war propaganda. He graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in 1971, Johns Hopkins University with an MA in 1973, and a Ph.D. in 1977.

Here’s how to call in to the LIVE INTERNET radio show:
(not on your broadcast radio dial – on your computer)
On Wednesday nights at 7:00 pm
Go to: http://talktainmentradio.com
Click on “Listen Live”
Bob’s program “Fight Back!” will be on
Call 877-932-9766

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Free Press Second Saturday Salon, Saturday, June 11

Free Press Second Saturday Salon

Saturday, June 11 from 6:30pm-midnight

1021 E. Broad St., east side door, parking in rear

We have food, drink, music, art, good friends and acquaintances for socializing, networking, and just relaxing and having fun. Update on SB5.

truth@freepress.org
253-2571

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Free Press 4th Tuesday Free Film Night: Gasland

Free Press 4th Tuesday Free Film Night

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 7:30PM

followed by discussion

“Gasland”
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown. Co-sponsored by the Central Ohio Sierra Club, the Drexel Theater, Central Ohio Green Education Fund, and the Film Council of Columbus
253-2571, truth@freepress.org
Drexel Theater 2254 E. Main Street, Bexley

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Call-In Author “Cannabinomics” Podcast

Listen Live and Call-in recorded, FIGHT BACK with Bob Fitrakis on Medical Marijuana Policy http://www.talktainmentradio.com
Wednesday night
May 18, 7-8:00PM EDT
877-932-9766 (call-in number)

Cannabinomics Cover

Clearing the Air: Christopher Glenn Fichtner, M.D. writes wrongs with
“Cannabinomics” – The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point

Cannabinomics is not a medical handbook, a drug war treatise, or an economic model, so much as a work of patient and public policy advocacy. It looks at real-world medical cases, recent trends in successful policy reform, drug war costs, and the potential economic benefits of cannabis change. Brilliantly, Dr. Fichtner examines—then debunks—many of the common misconceptions about marijuana. The gutting of our economic democracy has been occurring for years and can be found in reams of books and volumes of eyewitness testimony, but nowhere has the case for the theft of American health by their supposed corporate protectors been laid out as brilliantly as when Dr. Christopher Glenn Fichtner clears all the smoke and mirrors with his new book, Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point (Well Mind Books, 2010).
A firestorm of controversy has erupted over Dr. Fichtner’s new book Cannabinomics that proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what happens behind the iron medical curtain when Americans are shown how to take ownership of this homegrown commodity and facilitate system-learning that could help solve larger global drug war problems.

Here’s how to call in to Bob Fitrakis’ new radio show:
Go to: http://talktainmentradio.com
Click on “Listen Live”
Bob’s program “Fight Back!” will be on
Call 877-932-9766

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Fight Back: Vote Suppression Via Ohio Legislature Using Your Social Security Number

A talk on the current Ohio legislation to suppress the Vote in Ohio.
Recorded May 13, 2011
ACLU Forum May 24, Tuesday at Delaware County Library
7:00 PM
Hilliard

Mom with cancer loses kids in North Carolina.

Sign Repealing SB5 Saturday
Ohio Student Organization Network
Batavia 10am-12 pm, at the Court House Saturday.
Eaton, Ohio Saturday 12-2pm @ Taffeys
Whetstone Library Columbus 11-2pm
MLK Library 11 am 2 pm 1600 E. Long St.

Clintonville Farmers Market 9am till noon N. High between Orchard Ln. and W. Dunedan
Hilliard Branch Library 11am-2pm 4772 Cemetary Rd. Hilliard, Ohio
South High Branch Library, 3540 S. High 11am-2pm
Southeast Branch Library 3980 S. Hamilton Rd 11am-2 pm
Gahanna Branch Library
Karl Road Library 5590 Karl Rd 11am-2pm
Pomeroy, Ohio Gazeebo River Parking Lot on Main St.9am-4pm
Akron at the Cuyahoga Falls FOP Lodge 9am-1pm

WORLD Naked Bike Ride June 11, 11:59 PM
Starts 174 E. 5th ave.
Safe Space

Fracking: Ohio Sierra Club, Tuesday May 17, 10am-4pm Declaring Ohio a Frack Free Zone

Dennis Kucinich targeted by redistricting.

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