Protest Reports
On Sunday, February 1 there were two vigils for Alex Pretti, Renee Good and other victims of ICE terror -- one at Weinland Park and one at the VA hospital in Columbus.
Protesters braved the icy cold conditions to protest ICE in Columbus. Interviews with Emily Cole of Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change and Munira Abdullahi, State Representative, House District 9. Speaking event at Trinity Church follows.
Protest sponsored by SEIU District 1199 WV/KY/OH, Common Cause Ohio, Indivisible Central Ohio, Ohioans Against Extremism, Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change (OFUPAC), other allies and partners, and community members. Rally and march began at the High Street side of the Ohio Statehouse at 1 PM on Friday, January 23.
If Renee Good becomes just another name on a list, we will have failed her. And we will have failed ourselves. Because the lesson of every flashpoint is the same: outrage alone does not change the conditions that created it.
NOTE: This protest occurred prior to the subsequent murder of Alex Pretti by ICE.
Ohio State University ignored community and student demands that the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Border Patrol be banned from the January 20 Career Fair on campus. So, students showed up and drove the DHS recruiters away. In the meantime, however, three were arrested although they were not breaking any laws.
Hundreds gathered on Saturday, January 10 at the Ohio Statehouse to protest ICE in Columbus and everywhere, and to protest the murder of Renee Good by ICE in Minneapolis.
On Wednesday, December 3rd, organizers for March For Mumia, the epic march from Philadelphia to Frackville, Pennsylvania, will host a press conference to explain the purpose of their march and their demands to mark the halfway point of their twelve day 103 mile march.
It will take place at 11:30AM at the Berks County Courthouse, located at 633 Court Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Abu Jamal's personal physician Dr Ricardo Alvarez will be among the participants. Representatives from local organizations supporting AbuJamal such as Building Justice for Berk, Berks Stands Up and Berks for Palestine, are also expected to participate.
The massively successful NoKings2.0 has again underlined Donald Trump’s four failing MAGA fascist roots: male dominance; global white dominance; US financial dominance; and the end of fossil/nuclear fuels.
They’re all linked to the impending collapse of the petro-dollar, the century-old pillar of American prosperity, about to disappear.
Autocratic hucksters like Adolph Hitler and Donald Trump have forever feasted on the human inability to cope with a perceived loss of status.
Hitler’s Nazi putsch was rooted in Germany’s inability to accept losing World War I.
Deutschland’s “Christian” misogynists had ultimate faith in their assumed superiority. Their “incomprehensible” 1918 defeat was made unbearable by the 1929 crash.
So Hitler’s Mein Kampf promised to make Germany “great again.”
Under the thumb of Adolph’s white male Master Race, women were defined by the KKK: Kirche (church) Kitchen (cooking) & Kinder (kids). Gays were untermenchen. Jews, gypsies, slavs, trans, Jehovah Witnesses, immigrants…all were “vermin,” fit only for extermination.
The No Kings Downtown Columbus protest was slated for 4:00 pm during an OSU football game Saturday. No Kings is a nationwide protest which rejects Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. Around the country, seven million people attended No Kings Saturday 10-18-2025.
The importance of these No King’s protests is simple: We don’t want a fascist government. Trump is using secret police in an attempt to intimidate free speech. At No Kings, people protest in rejection of Trump’s opposition of constitutional promises we were taught in elementary school.
No Kings protests fill the streets in every major city with people who don’t like a campaign promise Trump kept: Trump’s vow to act like dictator.
Under Donald Trump ICE works as gestapo secret police force that kidnaps people and ships them into for profit prisons indefinitely. Trump fired people for working while black. Trump opposes free speech unless it’s a complete lie for white supremacy.
An October 5, 2025 gathering at the Ohio Statehouse to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza.
FIRST HOUR:
As Trump Attacks Portland We Greet A Maga Refugee
We open GREEP Zoom with our poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
Mimi reports on the “invasion of the soul snatchers” from the war zone in Portland, Oregon, whose “Kidnapper Cars” are patrolling the streets with ICE using a city-owned building for their command center..
The “heavy presence” of the US Military & its Black Hawk helicopters has manifested with airborne spotlights tracking activists as they walk home.
In support radio host LYNN FEINERMAN wonders aloud about the National Guard troops pouring into our cities.
Lifelong activist DOROTHY REIK comments on the ability of ICE to pick up anyone off the streets.
Legendary journalist DAVID SALTMAN reminds us of the tank in the streets of Berkeley, California, during the fight for People’s Park fifty years ago.
Co-convenor MYLA RESON warns of the rise of fascism.