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Ohio House Bill 86/Ohio Revised Code 2961.21:Lawsuit
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Lawsuit filed 1-27-12 United States District Court Southern District Ohio (Cincinnati, Ohio) regarding Ohio Revised Code Section 2961.21 et seq., which permits any prisoner as of September, 2011, to apply and obtain a ‘certificate of achievement and employability’ which can be used to avoid numerous ‘collateral sanctions’ typically attached to ex-offenders as a result of their criminal conviction(s), yet is not available for ex-offenders prior to September, 2011 resulting in the collateral sanctions being enforced against one set of ex-offenders while being waived for another set of ex-offenders.  This violates the equal protection and due process clauses of the United States Constitution and there has been very little attention drawn to this Ohio Revised Code by media outlets as well as some areas of State government.

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Here’s the trailer for Cincinnati Goddamn
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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Alex Triantifilou: Miss the blog?
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

On Oct. 3rd Hamilton County GOP head Alex Triantifilou asked at his blog if people “miss the blog”. The answer must have been a resounding “no” since nobody has posted on the blog ever since. I suppose he didn’t feel like saying much since four incumbents from his party are no longer occupying council seats anymore.

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Urban gardens: The future of food?
Sunday, January 22, 2012

This article in Salon says “it’s easy to make fun of, but as more and more farming moves downtown, eating local is taking on a new flavor”. I think urban farming will play a big role in our food future.

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R.I.P. Etta James
Saturday, January 21, 2012

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Occupy Cincy’s Occupy the Courts: Rally and Flashlight Vigil to End Corporate Personhood
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Friday, January 20th on Fountain Square at 4:30 pm there will be a rally in solidarity with the national day of action to Occupy the Courts. We are supporting the Move to Amend the 28th amendment of the constitution to essentially say, “A corporation is not a person and can be regulated” and ‘Money is not speech and can be regulated”. The event is sponsored by Occupy Cincinnati, the Cincinnati League of Woman Voters, Common Cause, Occupy the Hood, Coffee Party Cincinnati, 350 Ohio and Southwest Ohio Green Party.

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Ohio’s 31st District House race heats up, Brockmeier says he’s the only “true” Dem
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Bill Sloat at the Daily Bellwether has a great report here. It’s a solidly Democratic district that leans very much to the left.  Terry Tranter, Denise Driehaus and newcomer Luke Brockmeier will battle it out in the upcoming March primary. Luke Brockmeier is the only pro-choice candidate running for the seat in this liberal leaning district. If the Democratic Party doesn’t stand for women’s reproductive rights what do they stand for? Nothing!

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New Report Affirms ACLU Study on Private Prisons
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Study from The Sentencing Project Finds Private Prisons Yield Little or no Savings and Provide Inferior Facilities. The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform organization based in Washington D.C., has released a new report entitled Too Good to be True: Private Prisons in America. The report details the history of private prisons in America and comes to many of the same conclusions as the 2011 ACLU of Ohio report, Prisons For Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization.

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Conservatives Gone Wild
Monday, January 16, 2012

I don’t really have much to add about this.  But in Arizona, the schools have banned books by Chicano and Native authors.  Apparently, the study of Mexican literature lies outside the context of “Greco-Roman knowledge,” and therefore is not part of “Western Civilization.”  I’ve never seen such blatant promotion of the American mythology till I read that article.  This is shameful.

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My time inside the Warren Correctional Institution
Saturday, January 14, 2012

It was bone chilling outside as we walked towards the entrance. We went through the security process which takes some time. Then we had a long cold walk in two single file lines across a long courtyard and into the chapel.

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BAR: Stop-and-Frisk As a Weapon of Gentrification
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report has a great article about how massive stop-and-frisk styled policing is really a weapon for removing blacks from urban areas. He provides some numbers from New York City that are just staggering.

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Michelle Alexander & Randall Robinson on the Mass Incarceration of Black America
Saturday, January 14, 2012

This excellent Democracy Now! interview features TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson and author Michelle Alexander about the mass incarceration of African Americans that has rolled back many achievements of the civil rights movement.

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CPD horse mounted officer endangers a child and peaceful protesters
Thursday, January 12, 2012

 

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Occupy the Hood’s Stop Foreclosures Now!
Monday, January 09, 2012

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On Monday, Jan 16, 2012, members of OccupyTheHood Cincinnati will honor Dr. King’s legacy with a march and rally to end foreclosures in the Greater Cincinnati area. The event , held at Martin Luther King Jr. Park (3740 Reading Rd), will share stories highlighting the impact of the foreclosure crisis on the city’s neighborhoods and present a list of demands aimed at ending the crisis. The event will feature high-visibility artwork, victims of the foreclosure crisis, and a march highlighting foreclosures in Avondale and elsewhere. This is the first of a series of planned, escalating actions that the group will hold over the next year.

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Hamilton County is slowest in Ohio to help hungry
Sunday, January 08, 2012

According to this report the poor and hungry in Hamilton County have less of a chance of getting food stamps on time than anywhere else in the state. Only 45% of applications filed in November for food stamps in Hamilton County were processed on time. Bad news in these tough economic times!

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UC Pays Tribute to the Legacy of Martin Luther King
Sunday, January 08, 2012

According to the Cincinnati Hearld the University of Cincinnati pays tribute to the memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the program, “His Voice, Our Voice,” beginning at noon, Wednesday, Jan. 11, in the MainStreet Cinema of Tangeman University Center (TUC). The event is free and open to the public.

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Cincinnati NAACP Encourages Construction Sites and Businesses to Close for MLK Holiday
Sunday, January 08, 2012

The Cincinnati NAACP encourages construction sites and businesses to close for the MLK Holiday.  The Martin Luther King Federal Holiday is still the least observed Federal Holiday by businesses in the United States of America.

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Multi-lingual signs?  You’re welcome!
Sunday, January 08, 2012

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I first started writing about the lack of multi-lingual signs at Fountain Square in 2009. I followed up in January, 2010 with more letters and posts on the subject.  Here is my letter to City Hall.  Shortly after that time, Roxanne Qualls moved my idea into action, and now, two years later, it’s happening.  So, thank you to Roxanne Qualls for championing my idea.  Thank you, City Council, for not letting the issue die.  Thank you, Enquirer, for your editorial that takes the right side of the issue.  Consider these signs a gift to Cincinnati from the mind of your humble Dean!

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NAACP: City Spending $4.4 Million on Wedding Atrium at City Hall
Friday, January 06, 2012

Five Members of Cincinnati City Council voted to move forward on a $4.4 million wedding atrium for city hall.  This is not the priority while our neighborhood streets are crumbling. 

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Obama Signs Defense Bill Allowing for Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Without Trial
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

According to this report President Obama signed a $662 billion military spending bill that authorizes the government to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial.
In his signing statement he said he was signing the bill even though he had “serious reservations” with parts of the bill dealing with detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

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Seismologists: Fracking Linked to 11 Ohio Earthquakes Since March
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

According to this report, “Seismologists believe a pair of earthquakes that rocked Ohio recently may have been the result of the controversial natural gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. A 4.0-magnitude earthquake shook the city of Youngstown Saturday, one week after another quake shook a nearly identical location.”

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Engineer, WWII War Resister – from the “Greatest Generation​” Turns 95
Monday, January 02, 2012

6pm Monday, January 2nd, friends and supporters will gather at Frisch’s at 3226 Central Parkway in Clifton to celebrate the 95th birthday of Gordon Maham - seasoned activist, humanitarian and “right hand man” of Cincinnati’s civil rights leader, the late Rev. Maurice F. McCrackin.  As a civil engineer, Maham placed much of 1-275 in the 1960’s. Maham has been arrested numerous times for issues ranging from supporting the homeless and affordable housing in Over the Rhine to anti-death penalty and anti-war (Peace) efforts and most recently supporting the Occupy movement in Piatt Park.

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How far in advance can public space be reserved?
Sunday, January 01, 2012

So a baby lamb was born this Christmas at Western and Southern’s live Nativity, and according to media reports, the Park Department is working to make sure this same lamb returns every year to Western and Southern’s display.  This begs an obvious, though perhaps overlooked, question:  how can Western and Southern already have this public space reserved for the foreseeable future?

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Enquirer In Depth: Westwood activists are making stuff up?
Sunday, January 01, 2012

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The Enquirer has what it’s calling an “In Depth” piece on the fighting about subsidized housing in various Cincinnati neighborhoods.  There is one simple sentence in the piece which exposes Westwood activists as being totally full of nonsense:  “Westwood, the city’s largest neighborhood, is a focal point of that anger because it now has about 1,100 subsidized housing units, or about 6 percent of all its housing units. That’s less than subsidized housing’s 11.5 percent share city-wide, but some residents say the concentration in pockets of Westwood has hurt property values and driven up crime.”  Linger over the meaning of this statistic for a moment, and then consider the absurd frenzy sounded by people like Mary Kuhl.

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No, the US is not leaving Iraq
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Justin Elliot reports here on how, “Thousands of armed U.S. private contractors will be based in the country, and the potential for violence is real.” He speaks with Spencer Ackerman, who has been covering the issue closely for Wired’s Danger Room.

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Black Agenda Report: The Wasteland of Democratic Politics
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Glen Ford of the BAR argues that the DLC, “Bill Clinton and Al Gore’s 1980s scheme to diminish the growing influence of Black voters, has reached its ultimate success with Barack Obama, the second DLC president. To put it another way, “Obamaism is simply Clintonism with a darker face.””

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3CDC destroys the historic Windisch Mulhauser Brewery building at 1314 Vine Street!
Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Despite opposition from Cincinnati’s Preservation Association and many citizens that care about OTR’s role as the largest historic district in the nation 3CDC is replacing the Windisch Mulhauser Brewery building with a non-conforming structure that doesn’t fit in with the historic neighborhood. They recently tore down 1314 Vines Street.

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The Grand Old (KKK) Party’s plan to block your vote
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Here’s a good article about how the Republican Party is working hard to make it harder to cast a ballot in the 2012 election. Old Jim Crow just never gives up. When will the Justice Department Act?

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Occupy Christmas!
Sunday, December 25, 2011

According to this article in Salon throughout much of the holiday’s history it was a celebration of rebellion against authority. Now it’s time to reclaim it.

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John Lennon’s Happy Christmas (War is Over)
Sunday, December 25, 2011

(Warning this video is very graphic in nature.)

 

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