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Tuesday, October 26, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Simply Living is relaunching its “Sustainable U: Community Education for a Sustainable world.”
The “Economics of Happiness” discussion course will begin Tuesday, October 26, at 7pm, and will run for five sessions.
Course Description: This discussion course is based on the award-winning film “Economics of Happiness,” developed by Helena Norberg-Hodge and her team at LocalFutures.org. Each session includes content from the film or related media, a presentation that frames and explores the topic in greater depth, and class discussions based on selected readings in the booklet “Localization: Essential Steps to an Economics of Happiness.”
Course facilitator: Chuck Lynd is a founding member and past board member of Simply Living. He serves on the Ohio Sustainable Business Council, where he advocates for local economic development and an economy that works for everyone.
No surprise is how the Columbus Division of Police and its union, the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge #9, are heavy with MAGA.
The Free Press and the community understand why some of our police, if not a majority, are this way. The Division is mostly white and male, many reside in rural counties outside Columbus, and last, but certainly not least, some harbor anger towards their perceived outlook of America’s future.
The job of a police officer is dangerous and stressful, and we need police to protect are most vulnerable. They deserve good pay and good cops deserve respect.
But what is not okay is Columbus police and its union forcing extremist political ideology onto the community (especially young people).
One unnerving concern facing this entire nation is, how far will MAGA go to get their way?
Saturday, October 23, 12noon-2pm, Ohio Statehouse
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Join us Saturday, October 23, to help protect victims of domestic violence.
• Ohioans lost 131 lives to domestic violence in the past year, from July 2020 to June 2021.
• 86% of fatalities were from guns.
• There were 2,600 victims in 2020, up 35% since 2019.
• Shelter capacity in Franklin County is up 30%.
• 1 in 3 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence.
• Ohio has 28 domestic violence calls per hour.
• As of December 31, 2020, Ohio had submitted one domestic violence misdemeanor conviction and two protective order records to the NICS [National Instant Criminal Background Check System] Index.
• On a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide.
The goal of this rally is to bring awareness, provide resources, and to talk about the next steps for victims, survivors, and the public.
Friday, October 22, 12noon-3:30pm, Noor Islamic Cultural Center, 5001 Wilcox Rd.
Facing problems? CAIR-Ohio will be offering free legal help today to community members.
For questions, contact CAIR-Ohio Staff Attorney Lina Abbaoui at 614-982-0879 or at <labbaoui@cair.com>.
If you are unable to make this event and would like to request legal help, feel free to call our office or use this online form.
Hosted by CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] Ohio.
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On Columbus City Council
I’ve chosen not to follow the mini-election next week very closely. On the one hand, none of the candidates are compelling to me. None are on the level of the present leading councilors like Shayla Favor and Elizabeth Brown, for example.
But, on the other hand, I try not to follow such “elections” because of the fundamentally undemocratic foundations of Columbus’ City Council and the disorganization and opaqueness of Columbus’ city government in general. A full explanation would require a lengthy essay in itself.
For reasons that remain unclear and undiscussed, Columbus retains an at-large, openly elected City Council. This denies all citizens of their democratic and constitutional right to direct representation. The recent shift to one councilor in a specified geographic district is manifestly negated by the maintenance of at large elections. It is little more than a shell-game.
Thursday, October 21, 2021, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio is thrilled to announce our next Virtual Voices event featuring the co-creator and head writer of “The Daily Show” and co-founder of Abortion Access Front, Lizz Winstead! Lizz will be joined in conversation by our own President and CEO Iris E. Harvey and Mason Hickman, Digital Organizer for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio. Join us for this virtual discussion on abortion access, activism, and more. Register here.
At a Walmart on Columbus’ far westside there are 200 job openings, according to frontline workers there.
On a recent Friday afternoon at an eastside Kroger, only three unautomated checkout lines were open, and its state-controlled liquor store shut its doors at 3:30 pm for lack of an employee to staff it.
Giant Eagle, which gobbled up Big Bear with hardly an afterthought for its long-time employees, is now begging for workers – yet still offering only $11-an-hour (so much for being “essential”).
Central Ohio’s fast-food workers, surviving on unlivable wages and treated poorly by demanding suburban soccer moms, might be sporting the biggest of Cheshire Cat smiles. Columbus’s own White Castle, on street placards, is screaming they’re paying $14-an-hour, letting everyone know fast-food workers are in huge demand, as franchise owners sweat bullets over whether they can afford that second or even third country club membership.
The overworked, the underpaid, and those who face the greatest risk from COVID-19 may finally get the pay and respect they deserve. Indeed, Walmarts in Columbus have boosted pay to nearly $15-an-hour.
In the wake of WMD-liar Curveball’s videotaped confession, Colin Powell is demanding to know why nobody warned him about Curveball’s unreliability. The trouble is, they did.
Can you imagine having an opportunity to address the United Nations Security Council about a matter of great global importance, with all the world’s media watching, and using it to… well, to make shit up – to lie with a straight face, and with a CIA director propped up behind you, I mean to spew one world-class, for-the-record-books stream of bull, to utter nary a breath without a couple of whoppers in it, and to look like you really mean it all? What gall. What an insult to the entire world that would be.
Colin Powell doesn’t have to imagine such a thing. He has to live with it. He did it on February 5, 2003. It’s on videotape.