The Columbus Free Press

03/21/2025

Given what’s going on in Trump II, this is not one of these things that is someone else’s problem, where other groups can look the other way and tut-tut about what they shoulda, coulda, woulda done better or differently. They will be coming after us all, and, if they win this fight against Greenpeace, many groups can kiss their work and futures goodbye, because the clock is ticking, unless everyone comes together.

Greenpeace is well known around the world as an activist environmental organization over the last more than fifty years. Internationally, it’s based in the Netherlands, but has huge branches in many countries. To say the organization is high-profile is almost an understatement. Its ships have trie...

03/21/2025

Join Dr. Bob and Dan-o discussing the changes the current administration have done with the Kenendy Center and listen to some songs by past musician award winners.

Dr. Bob and Dan-o highlight musicians honored through the years at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, inclduding Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin, Mavis Staples, Linda Ronstadt and more! Unfotunately Trump has fired the whole Board of the Kennedy Center and replaced them with himself and his...

03/21/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/fourth-community-iftar-fundraiser

We, at MY Project USA, invite you to join us for a special CommUnity Iftar & Fundraiser to foster Kinship and Strengthen our Village to Protect & Empower the most vulnerable in our community. Calling on community leaders, elected officials, interfaith and corporate leaders to join hands for a collab...

03/21/2025

Headlines Mar 21, 2025

Israel Pushes Further into Gaza; Genocide’s Death Toll Rises, with 200 Children Killed Since Tuesday

Trump Signs Executive Order to Dismantle the Education Department

U.S. Judge Blocks DOGE from Accessing Personal Info at Social Security Administration

U.S. Judge Slams DOJ for Again Defying Orders as Immigrants Targeted for Deportation over Tattoos

ICE Issues New Contract for GEO Group as NLRB Drops Detainee Abuse Case Against the Prison Co.

Trump Rescinds Order Targeting Law Firm After It Agrees to Provide $40M in Legal Services

Reports: Elon Musk Attending Pentagon Briefing on Possible China War Plans

M23 Fighters Capture Another Town in Eastern Congo After Rwanda and DRC Leaders Call for Ceasefire

Sudanese Army Recaptures Presidential Palace in Khartoum

“A Coup to the National Will”: Arrests and Mass Protests in Turkey After Arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu

Mediterranean Shipwreck Claims at Least 6 Refugee Lives, with 40 Missing, Off Italian Island

UCLA Students Sue over Suppression of Gaza Protests, Violent Attack by Angry Mob Last Spring

International Student Activist Momodou Taal Sues to Block Trump Orders Targeting Protesters

1,000+ Jewish Activists and Allies Rally for Mahmoud Khalil

House Democrats Start to Openly Call for New Leadership After Schumer Budget Debacle

AOC Joins Bernie Sanders on His Hugely Popular “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour in Red and Swing Districts

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. Trump vs. Public Schools: Executive Order Aims to Dismantle Department of Education; Mahmoud Khalil Update: From ICE Jail, Khalil Warns of Trump’s War on Dissent & Targeting Palestinians; “Catch and Revoke”: AI-Driven Stat...

03/21/2025

Clay Jones

03/20/2025

harvey wasserman | LA The New York Times

the real criminal is the fossil/nuclear industry that's destroying our ability to live on this planet for the sake of their own personal profit.

the future of the human species depends on Greenpeace & organizations like it that serve as the immune system against the lethal virus of these murderous corporations.

hero attorneys like Steve Donziger and others pay a terrible personal price for doing this work. this pipeline, & others like it, is a deadly infectious disease with no impact other than to threaten our survival while enriching a few fascist billionaires.

we owe a huge debt to the Indigenous and to Greenpeace for fighting for our ecosystem. we pay them now, or we pay with our lives & our future if they ultimately lose....which we all must hope & work to guarantee that they don't...

The environmental group had said the lawsuit, over its role in a protest movement, could mean an end to its operations in the United States.

03/20/2025

Headlines Mar 20, 2025

Israel Kills Another 100 Palestinians; Death Toll Tops 700 in 3 Days Since Gaza Ceasefire Withdrawal

Israel Forces Gazans to Flee Once Again in Renewed Genocidal Campaign

“This Was Not an Accident”: U.N. Condemns Deadly Israeli Attack on U.N. Facility

International Legal Coalition Will Pursue Israelis Involved in Gaza War Crimes

U.S. Continues Attacks on Yemen and Houthi Movement

Global Protests for Gaza Continue After Israel Resumes All-Out War

Zelensky Agrees to Pause Energy Attacks; Trump Says He Wants Ownership of Ukraine’s Nuclear Plants

“An Attack on the 1st Amendment”: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M over Standing Rock Protest

Trump to Issue Executive Order to Dismantle Education Department

Education Department Sued for Freezing Student Loan Repayment Plan

Justice Department Removes Guidance to Businesses on Disability Rights

ICE Detains Georgetown Researcher Who Spoke Out For Palestinian Rights

Trump Administration Freezes $175 Million in Funds to UPenn over Trans Athletes

Judge Transfers Case of Jailed Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil to New Jersey

Mar 20, CAIR Calls on Harvard and UNH to Cancel Professorships of Former Biden Advisers

Immigrant Rights Groups Sue ICE over “Enforced Disappearance” of 48 People

Pentagon Appeals Judge’s Order Freezing Purge of Transgender Military Members

Pentagon Purges Thousands of Articles About Minority and LGBTQ+ Personnel

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests; “Murder the Truth”: David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalists & Protect the Powerful; Disappeared: U.S. Se...

03/20/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/hands-post-office-rally-and-national-day-action

For 250 years, the U.S. Postal Service has been a public, self-funded agency that processes, sorts, and delivers essential mail to every address, no matter where you live. In the U.S., postal correspondence remains one of the most secure and resilient forms of communication.

03/20/2025

The migration of "Tech Bros" from California to Austin (Texas) not only skyrocketed housing costs but also made the working-class scoff at their arrogance and lack of social skills. Also concerning for a potential Columbus migration is that our West Coast “Tech Bros” could lean conservative and be very much “America First.”

The South Side of Columbus – often forgotten and maligned by the rest of Central Ohio – could someday be transformed by two massive mixed-use developments with their developers seeking greater density (building higher) with little to no parking. One at the Great Southern Shopping Center, after i...

03/20/2025

Says a million words from today's protests.

03/19/2025

They found that the solar farms resulted in a greater number of bird species and more birds overall than surrounding cropland. According to the study, the number of species on mixed habitat solar farms were about two and a half times higher than nearby farmland.

EPA cancels grantsThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has terminated grant agreements totaling $20 billion. The grants were issued under the Biden administration to form a Green Bank program, designed to finance clean energy and climate friendly projects.https://apnews.com/article/green-bank-e...

03/19/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/new-cartoon

03/19/2025

Headlines Mar 19, 2025

At Least 27 Palestinians Are Killed as Netanyahu Says Renewed Gaza Strikes Are “Only the Beginning”

Protests Demand End to U.S. Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

“I Am a Political Prisoner”: Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Sends Letter from ICE Jail

Supreme Court Chief Justice Rejects Trump’s Call to Impeach Federal Judges

ICE Agents Detain Colorado Immigrant Rights Activist Jeanette Vizguerra

Russia Bombs Ukraine Hours After Trump Discusses Ceasefire Plan with Putin

Federal Judge Rules DOGE’s Dismantling of USAID Is Likely Unconstitutional

Trump Fires Democratic Commissioners at Federal Trade Commission

laware Lawmakers Advance “Billionaires’ Bill” Shielding Corporate Executives from Accountability

Residents of Rwanda and DR Congo Call for Ceasefire After Peace Talks in Qatar

Turkish Police Arrest Erdoğan Rival and Restrict Free Expression Ahead of Elections

Hungarian Lawmakers Outlaw LGBTQ+ Pride Events

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career; “We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump’s Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary; ICE Agents Detain Immigr...

03/19/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/students-and-community-members-and-leaders-march-save-higher-education-ohio

On Wednesday, March 19th, the Ohio Student Association is marching from the Ohio State University to the Ohio Statehouse while the House votes to pass Senate Bill 1, the Higher Education Destruction Act. We call on DeWine to Stand Up for Students: Veto SB 1.WHO: Ohio State Students and higher educat...

03/18/2025

Have you been tuning in to Robert Reich? All Progressives should be checking in.

03/18/2025

Headlines March 18, 2025

Israel Unilaterally Ends Gaza Ceasefire with Airstrikes That Kill Hundreds of Palestinians

Prosecutors Cancel Netanyahu’s Testimony in Corruption Trial Amid Renewed Gaza Assault

U.N. Calls Israel’s West Bank Settlements a “War Crime” Amid Settler Attacks on Palestinians

UNICEF Says U.S. Attacks on Yemen Killed Civilians, Contradicting Pentagon’s Claims

Lebanon and Syria Halt Cross-Border Fighting; Israel Strikes Syrian Military Sites

“I Don’t Care What the Judges Think”: Trump Administration Rejects Court Orders on Deportations

U.S. Deports Brown University Surgeon to Lebanon Despite Judge’s Order

Trump Administration Begins Dismantling EPA’s Scientific Research Office

Hundreds Rally in Houston Against Cuts at NASA’s Johnson Space Center

DOGE Operatives Force Entry into U.S. Institute of Peace

Trump to Discuss Ukraine Ceasefire Plan in Phone Call with Russian President Putin

M23 Withdraws from DRC Peace Talks

Texas Health Workers Arrested for Providing Abortions Amid Near-Total Ban

Trump Tours Kennedy Center After Installing Himself as Chair

Documentary on U.S. Reporter Killed by Russian Forces in Ukraine Wins SXSW Award

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. “Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+; “Endless Trauma”: Israeli Strikes Shatter Gaza Ceasefire as Blockade Starves Palestinian Population; U.S. Kills Dozens in...