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Mayor Bibb Had 15 Months to Take Care of 44 Families. It Took One Mother to Move Him.
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October 6 is the first day of early voting. Cleveland rolls down to the Board of Elections at 1803 Superior Avenue together, casts the ballot, then celebrates. Free food, live music from Romeo Maxwell & Hard Copy, and MC Joe Little III. Bring your people.
Warrensville Heights Civic & Senior Center, 4567 Green Road, Warrensville Heights. Free breakfast. This is about turnout, and nothing else. No candidate, no party, no endorsement. If your organization moves people to the polls, there is a seat for you.
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Next up Friday, October 2 at Platform 13, 7500 Cedar Ave., 5:30–9 PM. Food, a raffle, and the conversation that gets people to the polls. Election Day finale Tuesday, November 3, same place, same time.
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Tuesday, September 29 at Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, 4515 Superior Ave. Doors 5:30 PM, program at 6. Dr. Amber C. Gibbs of the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities and David Merriman of Cuyahoga County Health and Human Services on what the HHS and DD levies actually pay for.
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Dr. Heather E. Burton sits down with Pastor Courtney Clayton Jenkins and Rev. David Cobb. A written dating policy, an NDA, and what it costs to lead a church while everyone is watching.
Door-to-door work talking to voters in the neighborhood. Three 4-hour shifts a week, September 28 through November 3. No experience necessary, but a 2-hour training is required and you need transportation from the worksite to the canvass. Questions: 419-820-1831.
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Federal agents killed people, and the agencies went quiet. Crockett put the question on the record in a public forum: who investigates the badge when the badge does the killing? “I don’t care if you wear a uniform.” Accountability that stops at a federal ID isn’t accountability. Watch who answers and who stonewalls.
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Shaq keeps buying his way into rooms that don’t love us back — the White House car, the gifts, now a sit-down tied to Kash Patel’s FBI. The community sent the invoice. When a Black celebrity trades access for cover, the audience remembers who he got cozy with. Waters breaks down the FAFO.
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Bishop William Barber lays out the math the powerful want left unsaid: 90 million eligible voters sat out, 30 million of them poor and low-wage. The Poor People’s Campaign is staging a thousand marches to the polls on day one of early voting. “You cannot keep your power in your pocket.” This is the Freedom Summer play on a national stage.
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