From left: Steve Masternak, Mike Ferner, Nancy Larson, and Al Compaan blocking the entrance to U.S. Senator John Husted’s Toledo office. 10/3/25 Photo: Sean Nestor

Will a jury in Middle America’s flyover country care enough about the genocide in Gaza to acquit 4 protesters arrested for nonviolent civil resistance? Will it matter once they’ve seen “Bringing Gaza Home?”

That’s the question eight jurors will decide in Toledo a few weeks from now when they hear from four activists arrested October 3 for blocking the entrance to the local office of U.S. Senator John Husted. They, along with the local peace movement had run out of patience with Husted because of his continuing support for Israel’s genocide.

The final straw was when Husted refused to even make a statement supporting our friend and fellow Toledoan, Phil Tottenham, a former Marine, who was abducted in international waters by Israel during last fall’s Sumud Flotilla. That........

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