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The Free Press Second Saturday Salon will present an Earth Day Birthday celebration for WGRN 91.9 FM community radio on Saturday, April 13, 2024. WGRN will honor it’s “Volunteer of the Year,” long-time Board member Joe Keehner. And “Producer of the Year,” Felice Thomas, host of “The Cell.”.
The doors will open at 5:30 with light refreshments, socializing and an awards ceremony. It is followed by a 7:00 PM concert by folk musician Tom Neilson.
The celebration and award event will be held in Beach Hall at the First Unitarian Universalist Church at 93 West Weisheimer Rd. in Columbus. For information, contact: spatzer1959@gmail.com.
The Free Press Second Saturday Salon will present an Earth Day Birthday celebration for WGRN 91.9 FM community radio on Saturday, April 13, 2024. WGRN will honor it’s “Volunteer of the Year,” long-time Board member Joe Keehner. And “Producer of the Year,” Felice Thomas, host of “The Cell.”.
The doors will open at 5:30 with light refreshments, socializing and an awards ceremony. It is followed by a 7:00 PM concert by folk musician Tom Neilson.
The celebration and award event will be held in Beach Hall at the First Unitarian Universalist Church at 93 West Weisheimer Rd. in Columbus. For information, contact: spatzer1959@gmail.com.
Monday, April 8, 2024, at 6 pm ET, 3 pm PT.
As wars continue in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere, efforts to stop them are up against a powerful military-industrial-media complex in the United States. No matter how much coverage of war comes through mainstream news outlets, the human realities of war are scarcely conveyed.
Decision Time
I finally calmed down and let Annie finish telling her story. Her mother sold the house, moved from the southside to the eastside and never looked back. Annie stopped asking about her father because her mother would just look at her and say “What father? You don’t have a father.” After a while, Annie stopped dreaming about her father. Forgot what he looked like or how he smelled. The sound of his voice had faded from her ears, and she no longer heard his songs. Her mother had destroyed any pictures that her father was in, so Annie couldn’t even look at past memories they had as a family.
Every time there is a solar eclipse that affects Ohio, the old story of Tecumseh’s alleged eclipse predictions of 1806 and 1811 is recycled. Often, some historian attempts to correct the popular myth by saying that it was not Tecumseh, but his brother Tenskwatawa, “the Shawnee Prophet,” who predicted the two eclipses, thus building the cult that regarded Tenskwatawa as a genuine shaman, rendered into the English title “Prophet. “The Shawnee Prophet’s movement did spread, largely on the myth of the eclipse prediction, becoming a major basis of modern syncretic Native American religion. The myth of these “prophecies” has been greatly amplified by the novelist Allan Eckert, whose highly-fictionalized outdoor drama Tecumseh still plays in Chillicothe, Ohio, using the prophecy motif to turn Tecumseh into a Jesus figure.
Friday, April 5 to Monday, April 8, Woodland Altars, 33200 State Route 41, Peebles, Ohio
This event will feature music, Native American elders, presentations, vendors, dancing, and sacred ceremonies and will honor the alignment of the sun, moon and earth which represents the dissolving of differences and the coming together as one.
Admission is $44 for a single day or $88 for the entire peace summit.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Additional information may be found at alternateuniverserockshop.com/events or at facebook.com/events/1838804222877700.
Anti-LGBTQI+ bills being introduced across the country are inspiring violent threats and attacks against LGBTQI+ communities. Such attacks on transgender people — who already face a heightened risk of violence, homelessness, and poverty — are terrifying and heartbreaking.
The time is now: Call on your Senators and Representative today to pass the Transgender Bill of Rights, a resolution that provides a comprehensive framework for protecting the rights of transgender and nonbinary people.
Did you know that the upcoming total solar eclipse is intimately connected to the Octagon at the Newark Earthworks?
East of Columbus sit the Newark Earthworks, designed and built by those we call the Indigenous Peoples of the Hopewell Culture, who thrived throughout the Midwest around the years 1-400 CE. The Newark Earthworks are one of the earthwork constructions that were recently enrolled as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, now called the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks. They have been recognized as a “masterpiece of human creative genius.”
Another component of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks is at Fort Ancient near the Little Miami River, and the remaining components are sites around Chillicothe along the Scioto River. All of these sites show that these Indigenous Peoples were experts at observational astronomy, for the Earthworks are designed and built to recognize the movements of the heavens. For instance, there is good evidence for a Great Hopewell Road that ran from Chillicothe to Newark and aligned with the Milky Way at the summer solstice. These were special locations.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 7:00 PM
April is Earth Month, and we’re bringing you the tools you need to make a difference this April — for the planet, and for our health.
This year’s Earth Day theme, Planet vs. Plastics, calls on individuals, businesses, and governments to unite in combating plastic pollution. We demand a 60% reduction in plastic production by 2040 and the elimination of single-use plastics by 2030, paving the way for a plastic-free future.
The Earth Day movement depends on each and every individual to take action, and we’re bringing you an easy way to spread the word. Simply visit, share, and comment on our social media posts to help drive awareness and engagement around the world.
We’re highlighting 3 key actions you can take this month: