Action Alerts
Saturday, Ma7 30, 10am-12pm
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square
***On the sidewalk in front of the Ohio Statehouse facing High St.***
Bring your signs and face masks this Saturday, May 30 from 10 AM-12 PM for a demonstration to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd! We will be gathering in front of the Ohio Statehouse along High St. on the sidewalk. We CANNOT be on Capitol Square, so please be sure to stay on the sidewalk.
A couple of things:
1. We WILL be enforcing social distancing guidelines. We don’t want to give the police any reason to want to make any arrests or try to break up our demonstration. If that means we’re stretch out over a couple blocks on High St, so be it! The more the merrier!
2. It’s supposed to be cooler this Saturday, but definitely bring some water and sunscreen. It’s mentioned above but also wear a mask!
Thursday, May 28, 12-2pm; Friday, May 29, 3-6pm; Saturday, May 30, 3-5pm; these on-line events require advance registration
World BEYOND War is planning three days of online activities, May 28-30, to talk about nonviolence strategies, to hear from organizers who have successfully shut down weapons expos in their communities, and to learn about viable pathways to convert from a war to peace economy.
Day 1: Thursday, May 28, 12noon-2pm Eastern Time (GMT-4): Mary-Wynne Ashford will kick off #NoWar2020 with a virtual workshop on “Nonviolence Strategies: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror, and War.” Mary-Wynne is a retired Family Physician, former Co-President of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, and former President of Physicians for Global Survival (Canada). Her workshop will address ways that we can use nonviolence principles at the personal, community, and international level. Register here!
Art & Activism: A Workshop on Resisting Drone Warfare
Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 7:00 PM
Essam Attia. Essam served for three years as a geospatial analyst in the US Army, he then earned a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts and went on to create his most notable artworks, Drone Zones and The Drone Campaign. These seminal works garnered international press and have been featured in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fox News. Online - Register here.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020, 2:00 - 6:00 PM
Protest for Human Rights for Immigrants in the time of Covid-19. Bring your own mask. Some free masks will be provided. Social Distancing rules will be respected. It's time to tell the Governor and the public that the state can no longer neglect the health and human rights of immigrants. America needs us!! Hope to see you there! Location: n front of the Statehouse, Broad and High. Facebook Event.
Sunday, May 24, 2020, 7:00 PM. Our Social Safety Net: We are terribly lacking.
Join SPAN Ohio for a webinar with Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizen and Alex Lawson of Social Security Works. Melinda St. Louis is the Director of Public Citizen’s Medicare for All Campaign. For the past 20 years, Melinda has led multiple campaigns that challenge corporate power and promote economic justice and human rights, including fighting Big Pharma greed in global trade agreements. The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated exactly why health care should not be tied to employment and why a strong system of public health is a necessity for survival. Public Citizen has teamed up with other groups to push the agenda for Medicare for All by getting endorsements from city and county councils.
Thursday, May 21, 2020, 2:00 - 3:15 PM
The General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church invites you to participate in a new webinar series, “COVID-19: Pre-existing Disparities Exposed.” We will hear from experts and learn how to take action for a long-lasting change towards a more just post-COVID-19 world. More information and registration here.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020• 8:00 - 10:00PM • EDT (US & Canada)
Join us for a free teach-in on "Building the Peace Movement." Bring your questions and suggestions. We'll hear briefly from a number of key speakers before moving into Q&A.
50th Anniversary : 1970-2020, Remember Kent State, Jackson State, and all the victims of wars.
Host:
David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War
Speakers:
Leonardo Flores, Latin America Campaign Coordinator CODEPINK
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Andy Shallal, Busboys and Poets
Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-founder
Rich Whitney, Green Party Peace Action Committee
Sponsors include:
Cleveland Peace Action
Today at 6pm, an infectious disease expert and an advocate for Ohio immigrant families will address the COVID-19 crisis before the Morrow County Health District during their monthly board meeting. Members of the public and media are invited to attend the meeting via Zoom. See this Facebook Event for information.
The Morrow County Jail, which houses county inmates as well as civil Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees from around Ohio, has become the first 100% COVID-positive ICE facility in the nation. Sadly one man, Oscar Lopez Acosta, has already died after contracting the virus there.
Last week, an additional eleven men were released from ICE custody in Morrow due to an ACLU of Ohio lawsuit.
The post office has been a cornerstone of our democracy for over two centuries. It's literally written into the Constitution that government must operate it. But right now it's in danger of total collapse. Trump just said people should pay more for sending packages -- and if that doesn't happen, he won't save the postal service. If the post office fails, it will hurt millions of Americans who depend on it. And it will undermine the November election by making vote by mail that much more difficult.