Action Alerts

"Families Belong Together" Central Ohio Rallies

Black background with a yellow hand coming from the left and a blue hand from the right holding a red heart in the middle and the words Families Belong Together

Saturday, June 30
Families Belong Together Rally
Ohio StateHouse West Plaza, Broad and High Streets, Columbus - 10am
and
121 S. Washington St. Delaware - 10am
"Compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience." Let's become better humans. Let's make #compassioncontagious - Glennon Doyle Melton
Join us by protesting the Trump administration’s cruel & in-humane anti-immigrant policy, which has separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents in recent weeks. Rallies will take place across the nation on 6/30.

Ohio Women of Faith Cry Out: Keep Families Together

Words Women of Faith Cry out for Immigrant Children #Familiesbelongtogether

Wednesday, June 27, 2-3pm
First Congregational Church, 444 E. Broad St,
Join women of faith crying out for justice for families experiencing immoral and inhumane treatment at the border. The atrocities committed by our government are growing more barbaric by the day, and we must resist!

President Trump recently signed an executive order to lock up entire families at the border. The order does not change his mass deportation and “zero tolerance” policy, which wrongly labels people fleeing violence and poverty as criminals, or their mass deportation agenda, which has unleashed deportation agents to target our communities everywhere.

Planning Meeting for People's Climate March on 9/8/18 in Columbus

Words People's Climate Movement

Monday, June 25, 7-9pm
Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., room 100
AGENDA - Tentative
1. Discuss the national agenda: https://peoplesclimate.org/
2. Identify groups in central Ohio to invite to address the three themes: Climate, Jobs, and Justice
3. Discuss our event in Columbus - location? March? Rally? Speakers? Demands? 
4. Action Network Platform - see my initial posting here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/out-with-the-fossils-win-with-renewables
5. How can we use this platform effectively to mobilize for the Sept 8 event?

Visit the Free Press booth at Comfest

Wine booth at comfest

Friday-Sunday, June 22-24
Goodale Park
Come by and say Hi and buy some wine to support the Free Press and the Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio at Comfest! Our wine booth is next to the beer booth on Park near Buttles. Comfest is a free, non-corporate yearly celebration of Columbus' community organizations, performers, artists and volunteers. Music, food, social justice, and kids activities. 

Rally to Keep Families Together: A Call to Action

Older white people in yellow shirts holding signs that say Stop Separating Families

Wednesday, June 20, 11am-1pm
LeVeque Tower, 50 W. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 
Why:  Because separating families is inhumane and immoral and we cannot be silent and complicit. Our government has instituted a policy of separating children from their parents at our borders.  This is inhumane and immoral and calls for action NOW!

One day each week for the past two weeks, First UU Columbus members have held a Solidarity Table outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in downtown Columbus at the Leveque Tower, offering moral support, cookies, water, and Know Your Rights information.  We will be back, again, this Wednesday, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We are in public space on the sidewalk in front of the Tower (ICE's office is on the 4th Floor).  This week we are adding a rally.    Please join us for the Rally to Keep Families Together, as we protest ICE, as well as Senator Portman's office, just across the street.  Make your signs, invite one and all, and rally with us!  Families with children are most welcome.

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War In The United States

Gray haired white man in a suit waving in front of a silhouette of the United States with photos of news people talking

Tuesday, June 19, 7pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100
Join the Progressive Peace Coalition for a screening of the documentary “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.” Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and its repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world — except the United States.

This documentary takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts with the United States. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, this film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israeli lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel’s favor.

Open discussion will follow the screening of this film (84 minutes) which will be free and open to the public.

Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

Rally at the Ohio State Capital

Words Ohio Poor People's Campaign a national call for moral revival and a graphic silhouette of people with fists in air an flags and signs

Monday, June 18, 2-4pm
Ohio Statehouse grounds
Please register https://bit.ly/2tahuhH

WK 6: A New and Unsettling Force: Confronting the Distorted Moral Narrative

This is the sixth of six weeks of nonviolent moral fusion direct action across the country to show our elected leaders we will no longer allow attention violence to keep poor and disenfranchised people down.

Get up, sisters and brothers! Come and stand with us to demand freedom for all of our people.

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