Action Alerts
Far south side unhoused to be evicted from their makeshift homes; mutual aid group Heer to Serve asks community to help advocate for those affected.
The City of Columbus, along with Columbus Police and private contractors, will soon evict more than 30 unhoused individuals living in tents and other makeshift shelters on the Southside of Columbus. This is far from the first camp sweep the city has been involved in in 2023, a year that has seen the eviction and bulldozing of dozens of camps.
Mutual aid group Heer to Serve has been providing necessary and emergency items to and conducting outreach and programming with people who are unsheltered on the Southside for the past three years. The group is asking fellow community members to help advocate for their neighbors whose homes the city plans to bulldoze. “Housing is a human right,” said Heer to Serve founder Emily Myers. “People should not be dying on our streets due to exposure to the elements and yet it happens every year, with both extreme heat and cold.
Friday, November 3, 5:30-6pm
WGRN 91.9FM community radio, wgrn.org
Nationally renowned peace activist David Swanson is interviewed by Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery in the program discussing our world's current ways and how to move to a world beyond war.
David is a regular guest at the Free Press Zoom salons and his weekly articles can be found on freepress.org. His podcast also plays on the local community radio station WGRN 91.9FM. David was one of the first to point out the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the war and the hypocrisy of the United States lies about them.
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 7:00 PM
It’s not too late to join.
Register by sending an email to Chuck@SimplyLiving.org.
Put Emerging World in the subject line to receive the Zoom link.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
World Vegan Day is a global event celebrated annually on 1 November. Vegans celebrate the benefits of veganism for animals, humans, and the natural environment through activities such as setting up stalls, hosting potlucks, and planting memorial trees.
The first World Vegan Day was created to mark the society's 50th anniversary, held on 1 November 1994. This was later extended to become World Vegan Week and as we now know it, World Vegan Month. Since then, every November, World Vegan Month is celebrated around the world as a time to shine a light on the vegan movement.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
World Vegan Day is a global event celebrated annually on 1 November. Vegans celebrate the benefits of veganism for animals, humans, and the natural environment through activities such as setting up stalls, hosting potlucks, and planting memorial trees.
The first World Vegan Day was created to mark the society's 50th anniversary, held on 1 November 1994. This was later extended to become World Vegan Week and as we now know it, World Vegan Month. Since then, every November, World Vegan Month is celebrated around the world as a time to shine a light on the vegan movement.
We are once again decking out Streetlight Guild for Halloween, featuring a two-floor miniature Halloween village. Our largest layout yet!
Visitors and families can come tour the village on both floors for free. We’ll be giving away candy bags for all, and those who come in costume get an extra gift! We host a family-friendly exhibit that’s only up for five days, so come get your trick-or-treat on in a safe and spooky environment!
Tuesday 10/31: 5-8
Admission: Free
The first floor of Streetlight Guild is wheelchair accessible in the back of the building by lift. Just inform us ahead of or upon your arrival and we’ll assist.
From Win Without War
While trucks carrying humanitarian aid were finally able to enter Gaza with life-saving drinking water, food, and medicines in recent days, an essential element has been missing - Fuel.
The Biden administration and the international community are thankfully doing more to secure and prioritize getting critically needed humanitarian aid to Gaza in the face of the Israeli government’s blockade — but it’s still not enough. Without the fuel necessary to keep hospital generators and ambulances running, these relief efforts will be hamstrung, and lives will be unnecessarily lost.
Ohio Migration Anthology (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies: Ohio Migration Anthology, Volume Two by Lynn Tramonte (Editor), Marina Manoukian (Foreword by), Gloria Kellon (Illustrator). Proceeds from the sale of the anthology go to the immigrant writers and artists.
You can purchase the book from B&N here.
Ohio Migration Anthology (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies: Ohio Migration Anthology, Volume Two by Lynn Tramonte (Editor), Marina Manoukian (Foreword by), Gloria Kellon (Illustrator). Proceeds from the sale of the anthology go to the immigrant writers and artists.
You can purchase the book from B&N here.
Saturday, October 28, 2023, 3:00 PM
In Israel, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank, the law is whatever Israel deems to be in the best interest of Jewish Israelis and to the detriment of Palestinians. Israel violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians as a matter of standard, accepted policy. However, there are brave, determined individuals who are trying to expose the destructive, unjust, and sometimes invisible ways in which Israel exploits and oppresses Palestinians.
The Law and the Prophets explains the mechanisms of control that Israel deploys to subjugate Palestinians which highlight our 2023 theme, “the 75th Year of the Nakba.”