First Of Dr. Fitrakis Video Blogs: October 29, 2007 Local Progressive News
Posted by moderator on October 29th, 2007Published October 29, 2007
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Archive for October, 2007
Bob Bytes Back Archive: Hemp Seeds Sprout
Posted by moderator on October 26th, 20073/27/1996
by Bob Fitrakis
The Big Chill may be over in Columbus. Things are thawing out and some progressive seeds are being planted. Can the revolution be far behind? Well, if it’s the Hemp Revolution, it’s on this weekend at the Wexner Center from the same people who brought us the provocative Panama Deception. Since both President [...]
Bob Bytes Back Archive: Seeing Red (ACTV)
Posted by moderator on October 24th, 2007 3/13/1996
by Bob Fitrakis
Did you ever notice that if you look at Mayor Lashutka quickly from the side he looks a lot like former Soviet premier Brezhnev? When Greg speaks, it’s Leonid without the charisma. More importantly, the mayor’s policies are that same drab, debilitating 1970s Soviet gray. Hyperbole, you say?
Communism is known for its vehement [...]
Bob Bytes Back Archive: Uneasy Ecology (environment and media)
Posted by moderator on October 23rd, 20073/6/1996
Uneasy ecology (environment and media)
by Bob Fitrakis
San Francisco–Imagine my surprise while I’m sitting in a workshop called “(Un)covering the Environment” at the Media and Democracy Congress in San Francisco when someone hands a fax to the moderator–Columbus’ own Mr. Greenpeace, Harvey Wasserman–about the trash-burning power plant back home.
Harvey excitedly relayed the tortured tale of the [...]
Will The GOP Election Theft Machine Do It Again In 2008?
Posted by moderator on October 20th, 2007by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
October 19, 2007
With record low approval ratings for the Bush/Cheney regime and the albatross of an unpopular war hanging from the GOP’s neck, do you think that a Democratic presidential candidate will win the White House, get us out of Iraq, and end our long national nightmare?
Think again – the [...]
Bob Bytes Back Archive: Unfun mandates (paying for ADA)
Posted by moderator on October 19th, 20072/28/1996
by Bob Fitrakis
The Big Guy–the Mayor of Mayors–got a bit testy last week when people in wheelchairs finally called him on the carpet over at City Hall. Greg Lashutka’s claim that the Americans with Disabilities Act constitutes an evil “unfunded mandate” is ludicrous. In Lashutka’s analysis and rhetoric, any federal law requiring state or local [...]
“How Ohio Pulled It Off” - A FREE film showing at the Drexel Gateway
Posted by Bob Fitrakis on October 17th, 2007“How Ohio Pulled It Off” - a FREE film showing at the Drexel Gateway
This locally produced film chronicles the theft of the 2004 election in Ohio by Kenneth Blackwell and the voting rights activists that dogged him throughout his run for governor in 2006. After the 2004 election, Blackwell wrote an article in the Washington [...]
Bob Bytes Back Archive: Before The New Hampshire Primary–Dole, Buchanan, Voinovich
Posted by moderator on October 16th, 2007Revisited: Columbus Alive Dr. Fitrakis
2/16/1996
by Bob Fitrakis
It’s two days before the New Hampshire primary, and Bob Dole looks politically dead. Despite a poll or two that still shows him ahead of Pat Buchanan by a few percentage points, even the staunchest necrophile can’t repress the urge to hold old Bob down and drive a mercy stake [...]
Police Officers And Prejudice
Posted by moderator on October 16th, 20072/14/1996
by Bob Fitrakis
Recently, a white suburban woman who refused a lawful request to sign a traffic ticket became a cause celebre when she threw a fit about being groped by the police. Obviously she’s never exercised her First Amendment rights at a Klan rally where groping is the order of the day. Her story is [...]
The Real Fitrakis Files Coming Here, Going Back To 1996
Posted by moderator on October 15th, 2007Dr. Fitrakis has authorized me to release here, on a gradual basis, the Columbus Alive writings starting from 1996.
It IS history, it IS YOUR local revolution.
It will give you perspective as to where we came from and how far we have gone.
It’s a bumpy ride but it is truth and nothing but the truth.
So help me [...]