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This is an excellent, probing analysis of the US nuclear weapons program and what must be done to step back from the brink of possible nuclear war with Russia and other players in the unthinkable game. https://popularresistance.org/open-letter-to-president-biden-from-veterans-for-peace/.
All codependent relationships cause collateral damage. In the case of a failing marriage with children, the parent’s spawn tend to bear the brunt of the damage. In the case of the City of Columbus and big business, our people bear the brunt -- and many while accepting our lot as business-as-usual. In the meantime, our housing crisis puts increasing pressure on our most vulnerable populations. Often those in positions of power and specifically equipped to handle these crises are too far removed from them to understand their urgency on anything but an academic level.
During a podcast interview a few years ago, Council President Shannon Hardin described the nature of his position in business terms: The City of Columbus, in his view, is a corporation. The Mayor is our CEO and the Council President is our head of the Board of Directors.
Full-time Kroger store employees in Central Ohio who are also members of United Food and Commercial Workers Union 1059 (UFCW) overwhelmingly voted “no” this week to a new three-year contract.
No doubt this is another victory for the working class of Central Ohio, as the Free Press spoke to over a dozen local Kroger employees and all agreed this is the first time in at least two decades a contract has been sent back to the bargaining table demanding higher pay, more benefits, and – most importantly – more respect.
Earlier this week local Kroger employees were telling the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org) that the three-year deal was “abysmal” or “woefully inadequate,” and that the UFCW “has sold out to Kroger.”
Disturbing is how this labor story will probably be told by only WSWS.org and the Free Press because the rest of the local media is sold out to the Cincinnati-based Kroger ad dollar.
Thursday, July 28, 12noon, on-line event requires advance registration
Learn about Voter Activation Network and Action Network!
As community organizations and organizers, we have many tools at our disposal. Using field tools for “issue organizing” can maximize the effort of your organizational goals, outreach, and campaign strategy. We are excited to have our Data and Digital Director, Adam Parsons, walk us through powerful field tools like “Reach,” “VAN [Voter Activation Network]” and “Action Network,” and talk about how to integrate them with text messaging and phone banks into community and issue organizing programs.
Note: this is a repeat of a training we ran in April; if you attended that one, you won’t need this one!
About the Trainer
Adam Parsons is the Data and Digital Director for Ohio Voice and assists partners with VAN [Voter Activation Network] administration, campaign planning and analysis, and digital outreach tools and methods. His background includes grassroots campaign infrastructure, volunteer management, and social media planning and advertising.
Sunday, July 31st, from 10 AM to 5 PM
Entrance to the State Fair (at the Ohio State Fairgrounds) off I-71 at the 17th Street Exit
Informational picket.
Terrapin Moon came on after the white-hot fireballs known as Electric Orange Peel (should say 'Atomic' Orange Peel). A Grateful Dead cover/tribute band whose version of China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider was spot-on, the mournful Rider insertion choking me up, my dear beautiful brother Bob having passed last year and it was like he was singing to me, "gonna miss me when I'm gone."
Before the song was over I was pedaling home, overcome by the sad refrain, missing my gone brother, the sunglasses I found in his basement hiding the tears pouring out of my sad eyes.
Two years of no music. Then one refrain from one Dead song with a borrowed blues motif and I'm reduced to nothing but humanness. Trust me, I don't think I'm special. But he was, my dear brother Bob. And so was that song.
The criminal trials against three Columbus police officers for their actions during the 2020 summer protests has, some activists believe, turned farcical and (once again) shows how the Division and its union act in an autonomous and defiant way.
Last week lead special prosecutor Kathleen Garber resigned out of frustration – and probably out of fear from the fallout of trying to prosecute Columbus police officers in a criminal trial.
Garber confirmed to the Free Press she fainted in the courtroom during a recent trial day, and afterwards, the FOP Capital City Lodge #9 sent her flowers.
Whether it was out of spite to mock her or the flowers were heartfelt is a good question. But one the local FOP probably won’t answer, or if they did, an answer not to be trusted.
“That is accurate,” confirmed Garber to the Free Press is an email. “They sent flowers addressed to me at the office of Public Safety, even though I was not employed there or have an office there.”
Tuesday, July 26, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join a fishbowl conversation with Ohio policy experts and community leaders to talk about life in a post-Roe Ohio.
Experts will be joining the conversation from Ohio Fair Courts Alliance, Equality Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Case Western Reserve Law School, plus Dr. Anita Somani, a practicing OBGYN.
We will discuss the connection between the courts, your rights, and gerrymandering; interfaith messaging and fairness; the law/impact of the Ohio Supreme Court; civil rights; and more.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Common Cause Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Ohio Voice, and Fair Districts Coalition.
Tuesday, July 26, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join a fishbowl conversation with Ohio policy experts and community leaders to talk about life in a post-Roe Ohio.
Experts will be joining the conversation from Ohio Fair Courts Alliance, Equality Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Case Western Reserve Law School, plus Dr. Anita Somani, a practicing OBGYN.
We will discuss the connection between the courts, your rights, and gerrymandering; interfaith messaging and fairness; the law/impact of the Ohio Supreme Court; civil rights; and more.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Common Cause Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Ohio Voice, and Fair Districts Coalition.
“Ohio’s nine of the top ten warmest and eight of its top ten wettest years have all occurred since 1990,” said OSU’s Vice President of Agricultural Administration, Cathann Kress.
Kress was speaking at OSU’s Earth Day event back in April, aptly named “Time to Act on Climate Change.”
“Climate is not just about the environment, it’s about everything,” continued Kress.
The year 2022 is on track to be one of the state’s hottest and wettest. Ohio’s farmers are witnessing this firsthand as they run state’s $90 billion farming industry. The Ohio Farm Bureau says higher average nighttime temperatures and more intense rains results in more agricultural bugs and fungus, among other challenges.
During the OSU Earth Day event, Kress introduced the recipient of the 2022 Chadwick Award for “an outstanding character who has boldly chosen to speak for the trees.”