Approximately 1 million people marched for alternatives to cannabis prohibition Sat May 4th collectively in 182 cities around the world.
Beginning as an annual day of protest and celebration 3 years ago, more and more people keep...
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18 July 2002
Central Ohio Pastors for Peace and Worldwide Humanitarian Aid is putting together a 40 foot container to add to a caravan for El Salvador leaving this fall. The special requests are for medicines such as:
antibiotics, vitamins,...
18 July 2002
Just like Resident Bush interchanges the arch-enemies Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, the former representing pan-Islamic fundamentalism and the latter pan-Arab secularism, the U.S. government’s campaign against terrorism relies on the...
18 July 2002
Free Press writers Bob Fitrakis and Marty Yant won a First Place award from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for their coverage of the John Byrd death penalty case in Columbus Alive. They are currently working on a book...
18 July 2002
Your abolition wardrobe is now available via the web, thanks to Bexley’s own national crusader for alternatives to the death penalty, Abe Bonowitz. His catalog of T-shirts, caps, buttons and bumper stickers can be found on the website for...
18 July 2002
Instead of the usual 5-4 split, the U.S. Supreme Court – in a 6-3 decision – declared it unconstitutional to execute mentally retarded people in the United States. Prior to this ruling, the U.S. was among a handful of “rogue nations” in...