Action Alerts
Wednesday, August 18, 5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Back by popular demand, join Alwiyah from Ohio Voice as she teaches you about a foundational idea for community organizing! “Social Movement Ecology” lays a framework for organizations with different theories of change to recognize each other’s strengths and weaknesses and work together to produce large-scale social change. This training will provide participants with the skills, tools, and confidence to identify complex layers of approaches in social movement.
Please note that there is a two-step registration process to maintain a secure digital space.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Ohio Voice.
Facebook Event
Wednesday, August 18, 5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Back by popular demand, join Alwiyah from Ohio Voice as she teaches you about a foundational idea for community organizing! “Social Movement Ecology” lays a framework for organizations with different theories of change to recognize each other’s strengths and weaknesses and work together to produce large-scale social change. This training will provide participants with the skills, tools, and confidence to identify complex layers of approaches in social movement.
Please note that there is a two-step registration process to maintain a secure digital space.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Ohio Voice.
Facebook Event
From the ACLU: Since COVID-19 hit prisons, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in federal facilities have been allowed to serve their sentences at home under the CARES Act. They have started planning futures, gotten jobs, signed leases, and reintegrated with their families and communities. Now over 4,000 of these individuals may be sent back because of a Trump memo issued right as he left office. Forcing thousands of people back to prison in this way would be cruel, legally unnecessary, ineffective at making us safer, and cost taxpayers millions.
Here’s what happened at the August Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon on August 14 with the theme “Radical Nutrition.”
Cyber-salon host and Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery introduced the first speaker, Eriyah Flynn of Vegan Shift. She spoke about veganism, stressing that it is a consciousness, not simply a diet choice. Veganism is a way to live fairly and equally with all earthlings, not to embody human supremacy over animals. She mentioned several informative videos, includingCowspiracy.
Here’s what happened at the July Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon on August 14 with the theme “Radical Nutrition.”
Cyber-salon host and Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery introduced the first speaker, Eriyah Flynn of Vegan Shift. She spoke about veganism, stressing that it is a consciousness, not simply a diet choice. Veganism is a way to live fairly and equally with all earthlings, not to embody human supremacy over animals. She mentioned several informative videos, includingCowspiracy.
Sunday, August 15, 1pm, Goodale Park Gazebo, 120 W. Goodale St.
We’ll plan to meet by the gazebo! Street parking is free on Sundays.
If you feel comfortable with participating, please bring a whole food plant-based dish to share with everyone who attends (details are below). If you do not feel comfortable, no worries — we’d still love to have you join us! Also, please bring along a towel and/or chair for you to sit on.
Please ensure that your dish is:
• whole food plant-based, which means primarily made from unprocessed, unrefined fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts and seeds, etc.,
• made with little to no added oils, and is
• free from animal-derived products, such as meat, dairy, egg, fish, etc.
If you are able, please bring a copy of your recipe for people to pass around / take a picture of, as well as the necessary serving utensils that your dish requires, such as a ladle if you bring soup.
If you have any questions about what to make or bring, feel free to check out the following:
Saturday, August 14, 7-8pm
Zoom
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83906590837
Meeting ID: 839 06
Also available at 7pm on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/freepress.org/live_videos/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2984211631851002
Since we aren't getting together in person, we can gather for a couple hours on the second Saturday night of each month from 7-8:00pm Eastern Time on Zoom.
Friday, August 13, 6-9pm, Wild Goose Creative, 188 McDowell St.
Six Ohio artists are crafting posters, inspired by insights from incarcerated and justice-impacted artists, about the importance of the work that they do.
In August, we will release the six posters in a limited edition of fine prints. You can buy the prints at this pop-up show, and on-line later. The event takes place at Wild Goose Creative’s new space in Franklinton (at 188 McDowell St.).
We’ll follow this release with a mass run of prints to be distributed widely to schools, community centers, prisons, and on the street. We are partnering with Cincinnati’s Pull Club, a women-owned studio, to advise and teach and to do the screen-printing for the series.
As a part of this project, we are partnering with Cincinnati’s Wave Pool to provide professional artist development workshops for the artists and for other returned citizens.
Thursday, August 12, 7-9pm, this Zoom event requires advance registration via Meetup
Life After Belief Groups meet for support, encouragement, and growth in the process of living life without supernatural belief. Our core concerns are Community, Charting a New Course, Compassion, and Coming Out. [Read more about these Core Passions below.]
Many in this Secular Community Group are still in various stages of recovery from religion and are processing the feelings, thoughts and struggles of leaving a religious community behind. We include people ranging from those who are attending their first “secular/atheist” group ever and have fears and concerns of being “found out” to those who have been on this journey for a longer time.
• We are a Diverse and Inclusive Secular Community.
• Atheist, Humanist, Non-Religious, Agnostic, Free-Thinker, Anti-Theist, Spiritual But Not Religious, Naturist, Curious But Still with Some Faith, etc.
• From younger families to singles, from baby boomers to teenagers and kids, we are diverse and welcoming having those who identify as LGBTQ, Straight, Polyamorous, etc.
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, an incarcerated advocate for prisoners’ rights, has been abruptly transferred to another prison without any of his property, and guards are reportedly threatening Rashid’s life. We must show prison officials that he has support on the outside and we are watching their every move.
Demand his property be returned and that guards stop harassing him.