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Greep Zoom #219 opens at the giant multi-million global marches that tried to confront the Trump regime.
One performer at LA’s Pershing Square gathering is CLIFFORD TASNER of the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action who introduces us to Trillionaires for Trump.
The fictional Trump “tariff advisor” Ron Vara is exposed by TATANKA BRICCA as a mythological economy crasher.
Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH chimes in with his usual wisdom.
The great DAVID SALTMAN raises the issue of a general strike.
Computer genius LEE FELSENSTEIN offers a “Reverse the Media” strategy going forward, complete with a national mailer on his critical digital design.
Radio maven LYNN FEINERMAN adds to the brilliance with her call for grassroots organizing.
Indivisible’s MIMI S calls for support for the “Make Polluters Pay” movement.
From Minnesota KARLA SAND tells us that 1 in 4 Americans is disabled while she emphasizes the need to protect Medicare and emphasizes that she goes of ‘every darn thing.".
Thursday, April 10, 6pm
Enarson Classroom Building [Rm. 306], 2009 Millikin Rd., and online at corsrev.org/meeting
Given the domination of social media by right-wing billionaires, the reactionary drift in American politics is even more pronounced there than in other venues.
It’s time to get serious about organizing our side today!
Join us tomorrow at 6pm for a presentation and discussion on this question and more! Join us in person at Enarson Classroom Building, Rm. 306 on OSU campus, or online at corsrev.org/meeting.
Hosted by Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists.
President Donald Trump counts on Steven Witkoff, a longtime acquaintance from their New York real estate days, to negotiate solutions to some of the most fraught issues in world politics—those confronting Israel and Palestinians and those driving war between Russia and Ukraine. Witkoff also ventures to speak about improving US relations with Iran.
The real estate magnate concedes that each item on his to-do list is very complicated, but he plunges ahead, confident that President Donald Trump, is behind him as he deals with life and death issues in multiple settings. Both Trump and his envoy seem to think that problem-solving in international affairs is no different from real estate and requires no particular knowledge.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables. At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that. We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide. It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students. This article will be updated as long as is necessary.
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The Teacher takes on one of the most divisive issues in the world today: the struggle between Israel and the Palestinians. And it does it in a way that is thoughtful, provocative and dramatic.
The title character is Basem El-Saleh (Saleh Bakri), who teaches in a poor community in the West Bank. Anyone who’s seen the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land—or the final episodes of the Netflix series Mo—won’t be surprised to learn that Basem’s students have more to worry about than passing tests.
Two of them, brothers Yacoub and Adam (Mahmoud Bakri and Muhammad Abed Elrahman), return from school one day just in time to see their home torn down by Israeli forces. “It was just their turn,” Basem explains to British social worker Lisa (Imogen Poots), noting that most houses in the village have been marked for demolition.
Adding to the residents’ worries are the Israeli settlers whose red-roofed homes can be seen multiplying in the distance. Though the settlers have moved to the occupied territory illegally, the residents know the government is likely to take the newcomers’ side if any dispute arises.
The current situation in Afghanistan is undeniably linked to the 1990-1991 Gulf War. This earlier conflict could have been prevented if then President George H.W. Bush had told Saddam Hussein that Iraq would be blasted back into the stone age if the Butcher of Baghdad even considered invading Kuwait before it happened. Saddam definitely would have backed down if he had been threatened with retaliation before he made that disastrous decision. But the first Bush administration misjudged him and mismanaged the situation to allow a minor crisis to grow into a major one. Even though the president had been a former director of the C.I.A., he was clueless or pretended to be clueless when dealing with this situation. Maybe he thought that involving the United States in a war would make him more popular than using diplomacy to prevent one. His approval ratings did hit an all-time high just after the war before the collective failure of his foreign and domestic policies led to his defeat in a landslide in 1992.
Wednesday, April 9, 5:45-8pm
Bethany Presbyterian Church, 206 N Garfield Ave, Columbus, OH 43203
Join the Columbus Safety Collective Campaign tonight to gather signatures at this event. The campaign is focused on establishing an alternative emergency response system that serves all Columbus residents. The ballot measure, when appropriate, would dispatch EMS and mental health workers to help someone in a mental health or addiction crisis, instead of the police.
But first, we have to collect 25,000 valid signatures to get it on the ballot for November's election. We believe that together, we can build an anti-racist, health-centered approach to public safety that also promotes accountability and justice in our city!
We'll be meeting at 5:45 to gather signatures at the Columbus City Council District 7 Candidate Forum. As you walk into the event, look for our team with clipboards, petition books, and pens!
The “Columbus Way” is notorious for co-opting the ideas of grassroots activists for its own gain. Just ask former mayoral candidate Joe Motil, and it has happened again. This time to the “Saint of Sullivant Avenue,” the moniker the Free Press gave to Esther Flores who has worked tirelessly to help Hilltop and Franklinton “street sisters and brothers” in their struggle with addiction to illicit street drugs.
Flores, a registered nurse, runs the 1DivineLine2Health “harm reduction” drop-in at 2424 Sullivant Avenue. She’s been helping the addicted and all the challenges they bring, such as human trafficking, violence, homelessness, and disease, since 2015. She had the courage to be a Sullivant Avenue harm reduction pioneer and has risked everything to help thousands, many of whom are women and their children.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Hoarded wealth that could transform millions of lives corrupts. The unprecedented wealth of today's multi-billionaires corrupts absolutely.
The incredible imbalance of wealth in today's United States corrupts not just the tiny number of people hoarding most of it, but also the political and social system in its entirety.
Forbes magazine recently introduced its list of billionaires like this:
"The world’s billionaires have always been rich and powerful—but never more than now. That’s particularly true in the United States, where Donald Trump was sworn in (again) as America’s billionaire-in-chief in January. This time around, he’s giving the billionaire class more control over the government than ever before. His right-hand man is the planet’s richest person. His administration includes at least ten billionaires and billionaire spouses."
Sows in Factory Farm Gestation Crates, courtesy of CIWF USA/Jo-Anne McArthur /We Animals Media Non-Commercial use
The blades move ever faster, slicing through flesh—animal and human alike. Workers, pressed shoulder to shoulder in a factory of blood, push through exhaustion, through pain, through the deafening machinery, knowing that slowing down isn’t an option.
Pigs scream, their bodies trembling from stress and drugs, their legs buckling beneath them. Some won’t even make it to slaughter—collapsing from heat, injury, or sheer terror before they reach the kill floor.