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  • Self Defense Corner

    by D. L. White (Plain Press, February 2016) Open up a newspaper, or your search engine, and the news is laced with violence and destruction. Walking into a restaurant, school, or waking up can make anyone apprehensive about the days’ events. What can be done about your day to day safety? Guns, stun guns, mace,…

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  • Cleveland Community Police Commission asks Monitoring Team’s help in “reset” of proposed City Charter provisions

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, January 2016) At the December 17, 2015 meeting of the Cleveland Community Police Commission (CCPC) held at West Side Community House, 9300 Lorain Avenue, members of the Monitoring Team, charged with overseeing compliance with the consent decree between the City of Cleveland and the Justice Department, talked to the commission…

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  • Protest highlights restrictions on free speech at Cleveland City Hall

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, January 2016) On December 7th about 40 protesters from The Committee for Social Justice and other civil rights groups gathered on the steps of Cleveland City Hall, prior to the evening City Council Meeting, to protest the “Cleveland Atrocity”, the involvement of 13 Cleveland Police Officers in firing the 137…

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  • Men Who Wish to Change reach out to Cleveland families of street violence victims

    Plain Press, December 2015 Men Who Wish to Change, a group of prisoners in the Trumbull Correctional Camp, a state prison in Trumbull County, used their resources and contacts in Cleveland and Akron to host a condolence dinner for families of street violence victims. Men Who Wish to Change founder Rawn Nash recruited his Godmother,…

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  • Forum highlights role of mental health in the reform of Cleveland Police Department

    Plain Press, November 2015 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio and Disability Rights Ohio held a forum on October 1 to highlight the role of mental health in the reform of the Cleveland Police Department. The forum held at the Max Wohl Civil Liberties Center at E. 45th and Chester featured a panel…

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  • Environmental activists trade notes on current fights

    by Randy Cunningham (Plain Press, October 2015) Social media has become an important part of activism, regardless of the issue.  But when all is said and done there is no substitute for activists getting together in the flesh to trade notes and war stories about their current organizing. They did just that on Sunday, September…

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  • Housing market in Cleveland rates as one of the worst in the nation

    (Plain Press, September 2015) A recent study, by WalletHub, compared 300 United States, large, midsize and small size cities on the health of their housing market. Cleveland ranked 294 out of the 300 cities studied. This means, according to the study, that Cleveland does not fare well as a place to purchase a home when…

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  • Meeting reveals City of Cleveland’s parking plans for West Side Market District

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2015) Ohio City Incorporated held a Community Meeting on July 16th to address changes to the West Side Market’s and Market District’s parking. The meeting was the third attempt to hold a meeting on the topic; two previously scheduled meetings, widely publicized in the Plain Dealer and other media,…

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  • Cleveland Leadership Development Program seeks 2015 applicants

    (Plain Press, August 2015) In 2006, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, along with former Cleveland Mayor Michael White, established a leadership-training program for neighborhood leaders. The Neighborhood Leadership Development Program is a free, 15 session community engagement training program for residents of Cleveland, and its inner ring suburbs, who are working on projects…

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  • West Side Market threatened as customers from other businesses take over its traditional parking area

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2015) A visit to the West Side Market on a recent weekday offered a demonstration of the parking problem. While the parking lot was full, the number of shoppers in the market did not come close to reflecting the number of cars in the parking lot. Vince Bertonaschi, a…

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