In 2015, Lincoln resident Gavin Crowl, then 24, was convicted of groping a 10- or 11-year old girl in 2011, when he was 19. The Lincoln Journal Star reported that the victim testified that Crowl gave her gifts of My Little Pony toys and asked her to marry him when she grew up. However, Crowl’s […]
This ‘zine was made collaboratively by community zinesters and is meant to be shared! Below are images of each page for online sharing – post these anywhere. Information from the World Health Organization Abortion is a form of healthcare that roughly 1 in 4 women* will seek in her lifetime. 60% of abortions are sought […]

On Tuesday, July 19, the Omaha City Council will vote to approve a lengthy consent agenda–that is, a long list of what are meant to be routine, noncontroversial business matters that are grouped together as a single item to streamline meetings. Among the items, #75, is a trade in militarized police gear between the city’s […]

For the second time this year Lincoln is facing the prospect of holding a vote on the civil rights of its LGBT2QIA+ population. This issue is something many in our city, and in our community have been working on since the city’s first vote on the matter in 1982. That year Lincoln voters rejected LGBT2QIA+ […]
I’m George Wolf, an 82 year-old gay man, who’s been working on bringing a nondiscrimination ordinance to Lincoln since the early 1980s. For the past five years, a small number of people–gay, straight, and transgender–have worked hard to have Lincoln join the hundreds of municipalities that have ended discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender […]

A group calling itself “Let Lincoln Vote” is now collecting signatures to put an update to Lincoln’s anti-discrimination protections on the ballot for Lincoln voters. You may have heard of a similar effort recently from the Nebraska Family Alliance, a hate group. Many leaders in the queer and trans community are saying both of these […]

An overview of the campaign to build the country’s largest police training center by bulldozing the country’s largest urban forest; and why it must be fought against not only in Atlanta but here in Nebraska, and everywhere. By Illegible Distro What is Cop City? The city of Atlanta, Georgia has more tree canopy than any […]

If you’re feeling anything like us at SRN right now, you’re asking yourself what is fucking point of trying to do anything when the world seems determined to go down in flaming shit in every direction at once, and nothing you do seems to make a damn bit of difference. (Obviously, if you’re like us, […]

From the “Every Rightwing Accusation is an Admission” files… On April 11, Peace Lutheran Church in Grand Island, Nebraska, hosted a screening of Mind Polluters, the anti-education conspiracy theory video that asserts that public schools are full of pedophiles who groom children. The conclusion you are supposed to draw from all this Q style nonsense […]

Why is Pius assigning homework penned by the leader of a known hate group, and pushed by an anti-queer college organization founded by an antisemite?