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29 July 2012
Re-examining the Lucasville uprising Essay 2: What Caused the Uprising?
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Staughton Lynd
History books often contain a chapter that tries to answer the question: What caused such-and-such a revolt or revolution?
For example: What caused the “Boston Massacre” in 1770 when British troops stationed in Boston fired on a...
16 July 2012
“We’re fighting for our families” say striking Ohio refinery workers
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Bruce Bostwick
“We’re fighting for our families,” shouted Steelworkers (USW) District One Director Dave McCall, speaking at the Saturday rally of hundreds of striking Husky Energy refinery workers in Lima, Ohio. “The right-wingers like to talk of ‘...
11 July 2012
Transport settlement will strengthen Columbus
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Bruce Bostwick
This past week, braving blazing 100 plus degree temperatures and universal condemnation from the local, corporate owned media, Columbus bus drivers and maintenance workers, members of United Transportation Union, local 208, carried out a...
09 July 2012
Power outage in Athens County and global warming
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Bob Sheak
Our electric from American Electric Power came back on Thursday (July 5th) about 8 p.m. So we and our neighbors were about six days without power. We have been learned from the media that hundreds of thousands of households in AEP’s region...
05 July 2012
Prosecutor and judge oppose Ohio execution
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Amnesty International
John Eley, aged 63, is due to be executed in the US state of Ohio on 26 July for a murder committed in 1986. The prosecutor who obtained the death sentence, one of the judges who passed it, and the detective who obtained Eley's confession...
02 July 2012
At-large City Council elections and the suppression of free speech in Columbus
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Joe Sommer
To run a competitive campaign for a seat on Columbus city council, which consists of 7 members elected citywide (i.e., “at large”), a minimum of $250,000 is necessary. To raise that kind of money, political contributions are needed from...

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