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Community activists, elected officials rally in Cleveland on Seymour Avenue as to the second year anniversary of the rescue of the Ariel Castro victims, local news channels 5, 3, 8, and 19 cover event....Activists call for Mayor Jackson to implement the 27 recommendations around the Imperial Avenue Murders, want suspected East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison brought to trial, and call for the Ohio Supreme Court to uphold the convictions and death sentence of Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell ....Activists say that the apathy by city and county officials as to violence against women is no different than the apathy as to the Cleveland police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com,  O hio's Most Read Online Digital Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  K athy Wray Coleman is a community activist, legal and political reporter, and a 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by the Imperial Women Coalition , greater Cleveland community activists, elected officials (Cleveland councilpersons Mamie Mitchell and Brian Cummins), and Seymour Avenue residents rallied on May 6 at 2207 Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's west side where the home of convicted kidnapper and child rapist Ariel Castro once stood. Mainstream media local television stations 3, 5, 19 and Fox 8 news covered the well-attended event. Castro held victims Mic

Cleveland City Council rejects firefighters tentative union contract because it eliminated longstanding clause of termination for conviction of domestic violence, Mayor Jackson pushed rejection issue supported by Imperial Women Coalition, women activists

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Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio-Per the urging of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland City Council voted 16-1 at its regular meeting on Monday evening to adopt legislation against a tentative collective bargaining agreement between the city and the firefighter's union because of a controversial provision that eliminates a longstanding clause that requires that any firefighter convicted of domestic violence is immediately terminated. The stalemate sends the two parties, the firefighters union and the city of Cleveland, back to the negotiating table. City council has 30 days to approve a contract, tentatively. Ongoing fighting between union leaders and the Jackson administration has stalled negotiations for a new two