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Some Ohio grassroots organizations such as the Oppressed People's Nation (pictured below) support efforts to reform the legal system in Ohio for the betterment of the community, including the Black community, since Blacks are disproportionately impacted by an unfair legal system. They urge the legal community and other stakeholders to listen to the video interview below of Community Activist and Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman by host of "Nation Talk" Donna Brown, also a community activist. Activists are pushing for a state law for the assignment and reassignment of Ohio trial court judges to cases by random draw at all times, rather than just sometimes where in some instances they are handpicked in the Cleveland Municipal Court, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and elsewhere. This is often, if not always, unconstitutional, and infringes upon due process protections in criminal and sometimes civil proceedings. They also seek elected judges on Ohio trial court cas...

Ohio State Rep. John Barnes Jr. (D-12) Ohio Gov. John Kasich Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis Ohio State Sen. Shannon Jones (R-7) Editors note: (Since the below article was written Ohio Gov. John Kasich, on April 1, signed Senate Bill 5 after it was passed by the House of Representatives March 30 and the Senate affirmed House amendments to the bill. If Ohio unions, with the help of the Ohio Democratic Party and others, get the signatures necessary for a ballot initiative as promised., the bill would not become law unless Ohio voters approve it at the ballot box in Nov.). Published March 31, 2011 By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) A Republican fueled bill that strips Ohio public employees of the right to strike and significantly curtails collective bargaining rights of police, school teachers and other union affiliates passed the Ohio House of Representatives yesterday ...

Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty Former Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, also a former chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor and Investigative Journalist of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) A former Cuyahoga County common pleas court judge was found guilty earlier today of 10 counts of lying to the FBI in conjunction with a federal corruption probe of a host of Cuyahoga County officials, including former county commissioner Jimmy Dimora and former county auditor Frank Russo. Federal prosecutors told jurors during trial and at closing arguments this week that Cuyahoga Judge Bridget McCafferty lied to FBI agents when they came snooping at her home on whether she was involved in alleged case fixing for the once popular and powerful duo. Dimora stepped down in 2009 as chairperson of the Cuyahoga County Democratic...

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11) From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), whose representative base includes parts of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs, has issued a press statement regarding the detonation of a bomb yesterday in Israel in the area of a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem that killed 1 person and injured others, including a Cleveland Hts. woman who had arrived from the states to visit her sister. Leah Green, who is Jewish, stepped off the bus right in the area of the explosion, authorities said. At least 49 others were injured. "I was saddened to learn that one of my constituents, a 19 year old Cleveland Hts High School student, was injured in the March 23 terrorist bombing in Jerusalem," said Fudge. "I offer my deepest condolences to the families of those killed and wishes for a complete and speedy recovery for all of the people who were injured....

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) See results below on whether the protest planned in front of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's home should go forward. (Editor's Note: The previous poll drew 9 votes with 78 percent for the protest and 22 percent against, but it only lasted a couple of hours. Vote in another poll as to the upcoming protest at www.realNEO.com). The Imperial Women have voted to lead a protest in front of the home of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, 2327 E. 38th St, at noon on April 9 as to the Imperial Ave. Murders, the malicious prosecutions of Black women by his appointed law director Robert Triozzi, and his failure to investigate police misconduct against Black women. (Editors Note: View poll results below from www.blogpolls.com, which conveniently went out of business in the middle of our poll). Renewed poll question on whether you believe that community activi...

Rebecca Whitby, 25, and her now 4 month-old daughter Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com(www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS TO HOLD RALLY TO FREE REBECCA WHITBY WHERE CUYAOGA JUDGE DANIEL GAUL HAS ORDERED HER SENT TO MARYSVILLE, OHIO PRISON TOMORROW MORNING. RALLY PARTICIPANTS ARE MEMBERS OF BLACK ON BLACK CRIME, THE LUCASVILLE UPRISING FREEDOM NETWORK,THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE'S NATION, THE PEOPLE'S FORUM, THE CARL STOKES BRIGADE, THE IMMIGRANT SUPPORT NETWORK, PEOPLE FOR THE IMPERIAL ACT, CLEVELAND FIST, WORKERS WORLD, BAILOUT THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT, THE IMPERIAL WOMEN AND OTHERS To: All Media, Community Members and Others Contacts: Marva Patterson, 216-334-7013 and Don Bryant, 1-440-623-0492. Who: A coalition fighting to free Rebecca Whitby, the young Black mother, 25, with a four-month old baby sentenced to 6 months in prison by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Ple...

Ohio State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10) Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Lynn McLaughlin Murray Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding and Administrative Judge Nancy Fuerst Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Tim McGinty From the Metro Desk of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Imperial Women will meet with State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10) at 6 pm on Mon. March 28 at the Lil Africa Village at 68th St. and Superior in E. Cleveland. The restaurant is owned and operated by community activist Michael Nelson and is behind "The Kitchen Cafe". A Cleveland Democrat, Patmon will entertain a request that he consider proposing legislation in the Ohio House of Representatives sought by the grassroots organization as to judicial reform and an amendment to Ohio foreclosure...