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Activists Don and Norma Freeman to receive Judge Will Dawson Award, Al Porter, others to be honored too, today, September 29, by OPN community activist group at 5 pm, 15453 Euclid Avenue in E Cleveland, event provides for free admission, free food

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East Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Will Dawson, for whom an award is named. The award will be handed out by the East Cleveland activist group the Oppressed People's Nation in his name, today, Sept 29, 2013, at the group's Second Annual Community Dinner. The honor will go to longtime Cleveland Community Activists Don and Norma Freeman. Others, including Community Activist Al Porter of Black on Black Crime Inc., will receive recognition too.   Members of the grassroots group The Oppressed People's Nation. The group is led by Community Activist Ernest Smith Black on Black Crime Vice President  and Community Activist Al Porter (center) and other members of the grassroots community group that fights against injustices. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@

Cleveland New Black Panther Party, Urban Education Justice League to hold anti-Cleveland schools property tax levy forum today at CSU, schools levy debate featuring Councilman Johnson, Donna Walker Brown and Kim Brown is Thurs, August 30, 6 pm, Lil Africa, 6816 Superior Ave. in Cleveland

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The education committee of the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party in cooperation with the Urban Education Justice League will host an educational forum in opposition to the Cleveland schools property tax levy from 6 pm to 8 pm on Monday, August 20, at Cleveland State University's Main Classroom Building, room 134, 2121 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland. For more information contact Al Porter at 216-704-5036. Donna Walker Brown, a community activist who says she will run for Cleveland mayor in 2013, told Cleveland Urban News.Com that she will speak at the event and  that she is against the schools levy because it is "the same ole levy with the same ole crooks to misappropriate the levy money." (Editor's Note: Walker Brown and Kimberly Brown will debate Cleveland Ward 8