On the speculative destruction of Poindexter Village
by Jonathan Beard
At midnight on Friday, the 2013 Budget Sequestration cuts went into effect, making CMHAs neighborhood-transformation-by-demolition strategy even more risky and speculative than before.
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Growing up hippy
by Abbie Wasserman Adamit
"Turn off the lights!" My dad would remind us. For the 1000th time. Yes, we took it for granted. But that was our way of life. Saving energy, saving electricity, saving the world one light at a time.
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Super Max Hunger Strike Suspended After 36 Days
by Ben Turk
Feb 15th, 2013, Youngstown Ohio-"I did break my hunger strike, with none of my issues satisfied" said Cornelius Harris, in a message to supporters sent on Monday. He says he "felt it was better to come off and do some ground work rather than risk my overall health". Mr Harris had been on hunger strike since January 4th, making him the longest known hunger striker at Ohio's super max prison, Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP).
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Super Max prisoner represents himself in court while on hunger strike and wins
by Ben Turk
Friday, February 8th, Mahoning County, OH-The jury largely sided with hunger striking super max prisoner Cornelius Harris in his criminal trial this week. Harris was facing nine felony charges stemming from fights with guards at The Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP). Harris has long maintained that these fights were actually initiated by guards who have targeted him for harassment and abuse. Earlier this week, a jury found largely in Mr Harris' favor.
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Ohio prisoner on hunger strike
by Ben Turk
An Ohio prisoner named Cornelius Harris (also known as Soja) has been on hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary since Jan 4th. He is at Correctional Medical Center (CMC) in Columbus. They haven't force fed him, but they warned him his organs may fail if he doesn't come off hunger strike soon.
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Re-examining the Lucasville Uprising: Essay 7
by Staughton Lynd
Note: This is Essay 7 in the series I have been writing on Re-Examining Lucasville. Two persons, one an experienced journalist and the other a prisoner at Lucasville in April 1993, have said the same thing. They believe the main idea that should tie our thoughts together is: THEY DONT KNOW WHO DID IT!
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CMHA tries to erase black history: Poindexter Village History Advisory Group cries "foul"
by Chief Baba Shongo, Convener of the Poindexter Village History Advisory Group
Poindexter Village, a public housing community on the Near East Side of Columbus, was threatened on Friday by illegal demolition activity by Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority ("CMHA"). In a pointed telephone conversation with CMHA Vice President of Business Development, Bryan Brown, City of Columbus Historic Preservation Officer Randy Black ordered the illegal activity to stop. Based on that emergency phone call, CMHA demolition has been temporarily halted.
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Unions, friends, need volunteers to help Columbus families in need!
by Bruce Bostick
For over two decades the Central Ohio Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, has been partnering with community organizations in the One New Toy campaign during the holiday season to aid needy families, giving out tons of food, toys for children and aid to families needing help. This year that program will kick off this weekend (12/14-15-16) at St. Stephens Community House, 1500 E. 17th St, Columbus, (43219), and they are still looking for more volunteers.
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Unions push back -- can manager pay raise!
by Bruce Bostick
The Middletown, Ohio story continues, like an old soap opera! In response to that citys council action raising the city managers pay, the citys unions have now pushed back, at least for now killing that increase. Middletowns city council had inspired last years attack on public workers bargaining rights by officially asking the Ohio state legislature to take action to limit public union contracts, so local governments can control their finances. After last years massive struggle by organized labor and regular Ohioans killed SB 5, the states attempt to destroy public worker bargaining rights, Middletowns city voted two weeks ago to change the rules under which the citys workers are compensated so that only the city manager could get a major pay increase. The council took this action after successfully urging that citys unions to agree to a wage freeze through the lifetime of their contracts with the city.
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Ohio city OK's raise for manager, shaft for public workers!
by Bruce Bostick
It was city council in Middletown, Ohio, a small city in southwestern Ohio, that provided the initial push for that states Republican dominated legislature to draft SB 5, the attack on public workers collective bargaining rights this past year. They passed a resolution calling on the state to take action against public workers contracts so local governments can control their own finances, which was used by the GOP majority in the legislature as the basis for drafting SB 5. While unions, their allies, organized a massive fight against SB 5, sending it down in flames, that same council this past week took another action that shows that they are far from learning from that huge defeat.
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Recent Ohio Articles

On the speculative destruction of Poindexter Village
  March 6, 2013
  Jonathan Beard

Growing up hippy
  March 4, 2013
  Abbie Wasserman Adamit

Super Max Hunger Strike Suspended After 36 Days
  February 15, 2013
  Ben Turk

Super Max prisoner represents himself in court while on hunger strike and wins
  February 11, 2013
  Ben Turk

Ohio prisoner on hunger strike
  February 5, 2013
  Ben Turk

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