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The Columbus Free Press ("Now more than Ever!") is Central Ohio's independent progressive voice. Born in the aftermath of Kent State the Free Press has been speaking Truth to Power for over half a century. https://columbusfreepress.com/ & Freepress.org
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Every election we keep voting for the approved Franklin County Democratic Party (FCDP) “endorsed candidates.” And for all of our loyalty, our schools earn TWO STARS. No, it’s not the fault of the teachers or the students. It’s a MONOPOLY OF FAILED LEADERSHIP.
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Headlines Oct 15, 2025

Pressure Grows on Israel to Allow More Aid into Gaza

Amazon Fires Software Engineer Who Criticized Cloud Computing Project with Israel

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Clash with Authorities During Soccer Match Between Israel and Italy
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Daily Show for October 15, 2025
A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering; Historian Joel Beinin on Gaz...
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Pro-Democracy Group Vows to Block MO's GOP U.S. House Gerrymander from Taking Effect: Today's #BradCast

Guest: Richard Von Glahn of @peoplenotpolsmo.bsky.social; Also: Gaza's fragile ceasefire; 'Shock' election in AK; NC GOPers plan new 2026 gerrymander...

FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15530
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Project 2025 seeks to curtail federal oversight and reshape the civil service, the Ohio initiative, much like the historic 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, aims to intensify and reinforce the accountability of government officials who’ve committed civil rights violations. columbusfreepress.com/article/proj...
Project 2025 clashes with both historic KKK Act and modern Ohio initiative: Protecting Ohioans Constitutional Rights
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Headlines Oct 14, 2025

Israeli Military Forces Kill at Least 5 Palestinians Despite Ceasefire Agreement

Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank Celebrate Return of Nearly 2,000 Prisoners

Families Demand Hamas Return Bodies of 24 Israeli Hostages

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A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. “Recognize Palestine”: Israeli Knesset Member Ofer Cassif on Protesting Trump, Netanyahu Speeches; Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Gro...
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Several dozen people from Central Ohio and some from Athens in Ohio came to Columbus airport to give Tom Hayes the welcome he deserves: A hero's welcome! After all, he risked his life for the people of Gaza and for justice. columbusfreepress.com/article/tom-...
Tom Hayes receives a hero's welcome at Columbus airport
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Headlines Oct 13, 2025

Trump Addresses Knesset as Israel and Hamas Exchange Captives

Israel Threatens to Arrest Palestinians Caught Celebrating Release of Prisoners

Israel Releases Remaining Gaza Flotilla Participants It Abducted on High Seas
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A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. “We Lost Everything”: Palestinian Writer Ahmed Abu Artema on Gaza Ceasefire, Hostage Exchange & More; Israeli Historian Ilan Papp...
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In honor of this day, here is a poem by longtime local activist Michael Eckhardt, from his recently published book, Navigation: In these uncertain times.
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Indigenous People's Day
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Abolish ICE.
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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This is what ice is doing
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George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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No Kings, KPFK, Hartmann/Palast Event, Ukraine, 2026, Portland, Chicago

NO KINGS DAY2
OCTOBER 18

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Denim Revolution &
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Will Portlandia
Resist Martial Law?

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A large group of people turned up on “The Square,” a small park in the center of downtown Mount Vernon, to protest the racist violence brought upon the peaceful community by violent armed federal agents
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Protesting immigrant raids in Mt Vernon, Ohio
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The Day After: Gaza’s Dawn Beyond Genocide How Two Years of War Exposed the Moral Collapse of a Nation and the Enduring Spirit of a People. freepress.org/article/day-...
The Day After: Gaza’s Dawn Beyond Genocide
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The Nobel Committee did the next best thing, hoping in vain that Trump manages to understand that. It gave the prize to an opponent of "the Venezuelan regime" and practically insisted on the Trumpian overthrow and takeover of Venezuela in the name of"democracy."
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Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize
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