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From a May 5 decision by the Ohio Court of Appeals in City of Nelsonville v. Nguyen, decided by Judge Michael Hess, joined by Judges Jason Smith and Kristy Wilkin: The State of Ohio, City of Nelsonville appeals the judgment rendered in this criminal case involving an offense of disturbing a lawful meeting. The State contends that the trial court erred when it added the element of “substantial” to the offense of disturbing a lawful meeting under R.C. 2917.12(A)(1) to its jury instructions…. The State presented witness testimony from the Nelsonville City Council President, Gregg Clement, that the Nelsonville City…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Cultural workers develop their work, in the short and long term, against the background of a terrible world scenario. This, as is hopefully clear, is the case especially in the ‘Middle East’, characterised by an ongoing genocide of a particular ethnic group and a war that can potentially escalate towards WWIII which, if this worse case scenario were to come to pass, may well be ‘the war to end all wars’ and the planet on which it is waged. This situation indeed furnished the global community with a series of pressing challenges. One is to…

The harrowing footage of Henry’s dying moments is a searing indictment of our bigoted, unfeeling state. Source link

From Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV yesterday in U.S. v. Nshimiye (D. Mass.): This is a criminal case arising out of a six-count indictment charging defendant Eric Tabaro Nshimiye with perjury, obstruction of justice, and knowingly concealing material facts in his application for refugee status in the United States. Nshimiye has moved to dismiss the indictment, asserting that the Rwandan government and its restrictions on speech will prevent the witnesses from speaking freely about the genocide, rendering their testimony unreliable, and that admitting such testimony would violate his due-process rights…. He [also] contends that the government cannot establish that the…

Drawing by Fernando Martí, from the new Labor Notes book Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard.  Ellen David Friedman Labor Notes Solidarity among co-workers is your source of power against the employer. And one essential ingredient for solidarity is respect. In the workplace we typically don’t experience respect—we experience coercion. No matter how much the boss may call us “partners” or claim “we’re a family here,” the employment relationship is fundamentally undemocratic: The employer makes the decisions, and workers are required to comply. The union must be different in its DNA. Starting with the first building…

International Man: It seems like a growing number of young people have concluded that saving, working hard, and investing prudently won’t get them anywhere. So they’re turning to sports betting, meme stocks, crypto speculation, and lottery-style trades. Is this simply bad judgment, or is it a rational response to a broken financial system? Doug Casey: First, we should define our terms. Namely, what’s the difference between saving, investing, speculating, and gambling? There’s no doubt that speculating and gambling are way up. But these are four very different things, although people conflate them. Saving is about producing more than you consume and setting…

Last night, Hampshire Police released body-worn camera video of Henry Nowak’s arrest. It shows officers responding to a dynamic incident, in the dark, having been sent to deal with an allegation of racially-motivated assault. The murderer, Vickrum Digwa, gave a shamefully persuasive performance as the victim, aided by his family. Yet, as Labour MP and […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Do Americans Know the World Hates Us? Source link

Ari Paul for FAIR The racism of Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective whose involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation helped sink the prosecution’s case, was so well-known comedian Dana Carvey once mocked him with a Nazi salute, calling him “Mark the Fuhrer-man.” Fuhrman’s death this month (New York Times, 5/18/26) took middle-aged and older Americans back to 1995, when the televised trial of Simpson, accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, dominated media for much of the year. During the trial, audio recordings and witness testimony revealed Fuhrman’s use of the n-word and other racist views, sinking his…

Image by Planet Volumes. This is my last article for TomDispatch. For over a decade, Tom Engelhardt has given me a platform to write about pretty much anything that grabs my — I’ll admit it, easily attracted — attention. It’s been a wonderful partnership for me, offering not just a place to publish, but a chance to think, talk, and often argue with the best editor I’ve ever worked with. A rarity in the age of Internet insta-publishing, TomDispatch subjects every article to the scrutiny of three separate proofreaders. Not for Tom the misplaced apostrophe or the confusion between “their” and “they’re.” Unlike the New…