On Sunday, January 8, friends and members of the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition will be holding a demonstration decrying the 15th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.  Please join us noon at the corner of Secor and Central in Toledo to urge president Obama to fulfill his campaign promises and close the illegal prison before he leaves office. January 11, 2017, will mark the 15th anniversary of the indefinite detention and obscene torturing practices at the notorious ...Continue Reading

COME ON ALL YOU ACTIVISTS, NOW MORE THAN EVER WE MUST REINVENT THE PEACE MOVEMENT BECAUSE TRUMP IS GOING TO REINVENT THE WAR MOVEMENT.   BUT BEFORE HE TAKES OFFICE, WE MUST HOLD OBAMA'S FEET TO THE FIRE TO DO AS HE PROMISED AND CLOSE GITMO.   JOIN US ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 8 AT SECOR AND CENTRAL FROM 12 TO 1:30 FOR A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION EMPHASIZING THE NEED TO CLOSE GITMO. TRUMP WON'T DO.   I HAVE 13 SIGNS READY TO BE HELD BY FOLKS WHO CARE. WOLF ...Continue Reading

Published on Monday, December 26, 2016 by TruthdigIn the Time of Trump, All We Have Is Each Other byChris Hedges 36 Comments Protesters ban together near Trump Tower in New York City in the aftermath of the presidential election. (Photo: Mary Altaffer / AP)This Christmas I mourn the long, slow death of our democracy that led to the political ascendancy of Donald Trump. I fear the euphoria of those who have embraced the atavistic lust for violence and bigotry stoked by him. These nativist forces, part of the ...Continue Reading

There will be no demonstration against the war this Sunday. Peace on Earth reigns on Christmas. (so wish that was true).   ...Continue Reading

JANUARY 1:  TALMADGE/SYLVANIA JANUARY 8:  LOUSIANA/FRONT JANUARY 15:  DOUGLAS/TREMAINSVILLE JANUARY 22: BANCROFT/SECOR JANUARY 29: REYNOLDS/AIRPORT FEBRUARY 5:  CONANT/ AW TRAIL FEBRUARY 12:  SECOR/LASKEY FEBRUARY 19:  SUMMIT/108 FEBRUARY 26:  HOLLAND-SYLVANIA/AIRPORT ...Continue Reading

The Death Penalty in Ohio and the Nation: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow * A discussion with Jeff Gamso, *Criminal Defense Attorney & Assistant Cuyahoga County Public Defender Date*: Thursday January 12, 2017 Time*: 7:00 pmLocation*: First Unitarian Church 3405 Glendale Avenue, Toledo OH 43614Light refreshments will be served after the lecture. Sponsored by*: Toledoans for Prison Awareness & American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio ...Continue Reading

This is not a spoof. The US nuclear weapons and waste programs will be overseen by Rick Perry.*From:* NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect@PROTECTED> *Date:* December 13, 2016 at 9:51:44 AM EST*To:* *Subject:* Breaking News: Donald Trump will pick Rick Perry as energy secretary. While running for president in 2012, Mr. Perry proposed scrapping the department. * Breaking News Alert - The New York Times Add nytdirect@PROTECTED to your address book. December 13, 2016 NYTimes.com » Breaking News Aler ...Continue Reading

Only the whistle blowers and the journalists exposing war crimes are being punished and prosecuted under the espionage act.  But the war criminals are free and praised.  It is a very sick world.On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [ToledoBDS] <ToledoBDS@PROTECTED> wrote: __ Because if we knew the truth, we might act on it and people might go to jail to rot and there might be a deterrent and there might be a final opening for the rule of law and being governed by som ...Continue Reading

Because if we knew the truth, we might act on it and people might go to jail to rot and there might be a deterrent and there might be a final opening for the rule of law and being governed by something other than money and power and watching Cheney and W and Colin and Rummie and Wolfie and most of the CIA and the Joint Chiefs do the perp walk would be therapeutic for the whole world.So, we can't be allowed to know the truth. Senate torture report to be kept from public for 12 years after Obama decisionhttps://www. ...Continue Reading

  Soon we'll have a mentally ill paranoid as National Security Adviser, a useful ingredient in the coming launch of war against Iran. The below article contains many examples of what Flynn tracks on Twitter, not the least of which is:    He also repeatedly promoted the theory that Hillary Clinton’s aide, Huma Abedin, was a Muslim Brotherhood operative, and, in a 2010 column for Breitbart.com, claimed that the Missile Defense Agency logo “appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent st ...Continue Reading