Wombat, David S. Lewis, Za and Trin discuss the masses, images, idealism and realistic potentials
Za and David S. Lewis on attitudes towards the community in community housing. David S. Lewis plays a couple songs. Wombat and David S. Lewis discuss spontaneous and intentional activities in the context of resistance and Sadaruchi closes with a song.
Today President Gordon Gee of The Ohio State University is cowering in his office, denying a meeting with representatives of student group Free the Planet! OSU and fellow supporters of The Grassy Narrows First Nation. Protesters serenaded the building with a drum circle, chants, banners, and signs. Chants included: “Gordon Gee, yes you could, stop buying old-growth wood!” and “Tell me what solidarity looks like! This is what solidarity looks like!”
About two hours ago, five students at Ohio State began a sit-in to demand ethical standards for the purchase of wood and paper. Members of Free the Planet!, a student group on campus, vow to stay until President Gordon Gee signs an agreement to stop the University from buying wood products obtained from Indigenous conflict areas and to include more recycled content in paper and lumber used on campus.
* Issue #52 of El Libertario is out www.nodo50.org/ellibertario. In its editorial we reaffirm the commitment of this voice of Venezuelan anarchism to maintain a critical viewpoint on the country's realities, as well as our stand in solidarity with the struggle for liberty and equality.
[TN: (B)oligarchy is a play with words meaning Bolivarian oligarchy]
OHIO
John Edwards http://www.johnedwards.com has called
for an end to questions about death penalty belief in selecting
juries, since this question stacks the jury in favor of
prosecutors.
In December, New Jersey became the first state in over 40 years legislatively to abolish the death penalty.
The American Bar Association has called on Governor
Strickland to end the death penalty in Ohio, for many reasons
including the fact that those accused of killing a white
person are twice as likely as those accused of killing
a black to be sentenced to death.
Career minded prosecutors, the illegal withholding of exculpatory evidence, lazy investigative work, confessions obtained by torture, jail house snitches, witnesses for the
New Study Says:
SEVEN CORPORATIONS DOMINATE CINCINNATI’S ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND POLITICS LEADING TO “DISTORTED DEVELOPMENT,” POVERTY
A NEW STUDY titled “Who Rules Cincinnati?” published on the Internet today argues that seven corporations have dominated the City of Cincinnati’s economy, society and politics leading to “distorted development” and “grotesque contrasts between rich and poor” with “a particularly damaging impact on the African American population.”
The study, a compendium of information on Cincinnati-based corporations, their revenues, profits and the salaries of their officers, and their political contributions, also describes the role of corporate coalitions such as Cincinnati Business Committee (CBC), Downtown Cincinnati Incorporated (DCI), and Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC).
Patients in an intensive-care unit at University of Maryland Medical Center have been isolated by medical personnel after lab tests demonstrated that they have a rare bacterial, antibiotic resistant infection. By Gene Koprowski, Editor-in-Chief