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  • Plain Press: Cleveland’s Westside Newspaper
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  • About: The Plain Press is an independent, nonprofit community newspaper serving the West Side neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio since 1971. The Plain Press covers neighborhood news not covered by the major media; gives critical support to the community (i.e. is an advocate, but criticizes when appropriate); covers grassroots issues and city, county, state and national issues that affect the community; provides self-help information and information about neighborhood services and events; and is a forum for discussion of community issues. The Plain Press distributes 21,000 newspapers monthly to over 500 locations. The primary distribution area ranges from Lake Erie on the north to the Upper Big Creek Valley on the south and from the Cuyahoga River on the east to W. 140th Street on the west. The distribution area includes the following Cleveland neighborhoods: Bellaire-Puritas, Brooklyn Centre, Clark Fulton, Cudell, Detroit-Shoreway, Edgewater, Jefferson, Ohio City, Old Brooklyn, Stockyard, Tremont, Westown, and West Boulevard neighborhoods.
  • NEOCycle 2016

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    October 12, 2016

  • Ash Trees, W. 50th between Bridge and Franklin

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    July 6, 2016

  • UpCycle Farm: Building Hope in the City

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    June 6, 2016

  • Drink Local, Drink Tap’s 4 Miles 4 Water

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    June 6, 2016

  • Michael J. Zone Recreation Center Beautification Project

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    June 6, 2016

  • Edgewater Beach Clean-up

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    May 6, 2016

  • Lake Erie Frozen Waves

     

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    February 8, 2016

  • Clevelanders show support for meaningful climate action at Paris talks

    (Plain Press, January 2016) Over fifty Clevelanders gathered in front of Market Plaza at W. 25th and Lorain on November 28th to show their support for meaningful climate action as world leaders gathered in Paris for the United Nations Conference of Parties Talks on Climate. Clevelanders displayed signs to passing cars in a rally that…

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    January 5, 2016

  • 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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    October 4, 2015

  • 20th Anniversary Celebration, Bigelow Garden

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    September 12, 2015

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