The Columbus Free Press

12/31/2025

Imagine a major polluting facility moving in next door to you – and not only did you have no say in the matter, you didn’t even find out until it was too late. Even worse, no one knows what will happen when a fuel cell this large goes directly next to thousands of homes, businesses, parks, and nonprofits.

There’s no precedent for this anywhere in North America.

Last March during the hearings on Ohio House Bill 15, I was the only representative of an environmental organization in Ohio to testify against it.

12/31/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/yusra-and-muslim-american-society-mas-blow-whistle-ice

ICE attacks in Columbus are rampant, and our community needs to show up for one another! Join us on Wednesday, Dec 31 at 7 PM at MAS Columbus to take action by building whistle kits and learning how to use them. Whistle kits are a simple, low-tech tool neighbors use to alert one another when ICE or....

12/31/2025

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https://columbusfreepress.com/article/dr-bob-and-dan-o-are-duelin-daltons

Listen live at 11pm Fridays, January 2 and 9 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FMandMondays at 2pm streaming January 5 and 12 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM

12/31/2025

A year-end recap that reads like a scrapbook misses the point. Columbus is a paperwork town pretending to be a destiny town. The only way to understand 2025 is as a ledger — what happened, what changed, and who absorbed the cost.

The experiment was straightforward: Can a region stack national-scale industrial development on top of local-scale fragility and call it progress? It can — if the definition of progress is press conferences, ribbon cuttings and renderings that stop before the line item titled “who pays.”

12/31/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/sign-indivisible-stop-ice-say-how-you-want-be-involved

12/30/2025

Trading Lives for Aid: The Unstable Nations Paid to Take America’s Immigrants by Dissent in Bloom. But this is what the Trump administration has labeled “safe,” a place it can now send not only the 232 South Sudanese people who just lost protected status, but anyone who dares to seek asylum in the United States.
According to the U.S. State Department, Americans should not travel to South Sudan for any reason because it’s full of, “carjackings, shootings, ambushes, assaults, robberies, and kidnappings” and, “foreign nationals have been the victims of r**e, s*xual assault, armed robberies, and other violent crimes.” And if you do go, they urge to make sure you have your will written.

When you imagine being safe, you imagine comfort and predictability. You imagine your bed, your backyard, a warm shower. You do not imagine kidnapping, armed conflict, or countries so unstable that U.S. troops are ordered to stay behind fortified walls.

12/30/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/emergency-webinar-illegal-orders-under-us-military-law

Attorney James M. Branum of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild (NLGMLTF.org) and the Oklahoma Objector Community (OKObjector.org) will be teaching a 2-hour live webinar on the topic of Illegal Orders Under U.S. Military Law. Veterans For Peace.

12/30/2025

12/29/2025

The recent Epstein files release indicates that Trump or another pe*****le impregnated a 13 year old, who delivered the baby on a yacht on Lake Michigan. The yacht was owned by Donald Trump. Another pe*****le, not Trump, threw the baby into Lake Michigan. This is of course very believable. I believe that Trump r**ed children, I believe he is capable of standing by while a baby was delivered into this world and then killed by drowning. No doubt the r**es of this girl continued.

According to a women's FBI tip from 2020 included in the Epstein files, she was 13 and pregnant when she was s*x trafficked on Lake Michigan yachts.

12/28/2025

https://columbusfreepress.com/article/kwanzaa-celebration

Dec 27 & 28, Noon–4 p.m. at the Ohio History Center.Dec. 27, 6–9 p.m. at the William H. Thomas Art Gallery.Dec. 29, 2 p.m. at the Millenium Community School.Dec. 30, 5–7 p.m. at the All People Arts Gallery.

12/28/2025

Slavery, Genocide, and Kidnapping: The State Violence That Never Ended by Pete Johnson: From genocide and slavery to ICE raids and forced disappearance, the United States has repeatedly normalized state violence against targeted populations.

The United States did not emerge accidentally as a global power. It was built through two foundational crimes: the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the system of chattel slavery. Both were morally indefensible, both were economically indispensable to the formation of the American state, and both w...