Human Rights

Israel denied two critically injured journalists to leave Gaza for life-saving treatments. Fadi Al-Wahidi and Ali Attar, two injured cameramen of Al-Jazeera TV, are fighting for their lives after they received serious injuries that required treatment outside Gaza. Israel refused repeated requests by Al-Jazeera and human rights groups to grant the journalists an urgent medical travel permit without offering a reason.

Now, the family of journalist Fadi Al-Wahidi has entered an open hunger strike to protest Israel's denial of his right to travel for treatment. His cancer-stricken mother made a passionate appeal for help to all news organizations, human rights groups, and public officials. She stated that she would take part in the hunger strike.  

Under the rules of war and international humanitarian law, Israelis are obligated to treat the occupied people humanely and protect the wounded and the sick. 

Both Fadi, 24, and Ali, 27, were intentionally targeted by the IOF while they were documenting the Israeli war crimes in Gaza. In addition, both journalists have the right to receive treatment. 

There are a lot of news articles speculating about what could happen to immigrants under a Trump 2.0 administration. Let’s hear some first-hand accounts of what did happen during Trump’s first term. These are the family separations that didn’t appear in the national spotlight.

“My skin itched of the mud stuck to my body, drying.”

A woman working at Corso’s Garden Center in Sandusky buried herself in a flower bed to hide during the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at her workplace in 2018. What started with an offer of donuts in the break room (a ruse) turned into a dystopian nightmare for people who were working and trying to take care of their families. “I never expected anything like this to happen. When I saw them coming, I ran. And I ran and ran and ran until I hid under a bed of flowers, and I buried myself under the dirt and cried in silence. All I could think about was my kids, I have three. A lot of us have some children who need us.”

Migration is an act of courage and love. Some people want Ohio and this country to be narrow and exclusive, denying this basic human reality. They have been trying to thrust Black Mauritanians into a national anti-immigrant conversation. But at the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, we say #OHNoYouDont.

Here are a few facts about Black Mauritanians:

“I’m just a consumer” is a phrase I often heard on shop floors during my youth when I lived in Columbus and other places in the U.S. It’s worth noting managers and department heads shared those feelings.

I admit I can understand why, and there are at least four good reasons for such sentiments.

Spending that Paycheck

First, we buy the merchandise we need in the weekly grocery store with the income from our employment, then run to pay the rent or mortgage, utilities, car payment, and so on. Spending that paychec reinforces that “I’m just a consumer” feeling. Writing these lines, I recall a coworker who often whined aloud how “it feels like I live for my car!” She wasn’t able to save for things she really wanted because the car, house, appliances, and so forth always needed repair and replacing.

As a continuation of Mary Jane’s coverage of the 2024 general election, this article will focus on cannabis-friendly candidates and issues. Let’s get started!

HOW TO FIND CANNABIS FRIENDLY CANDIDATES

On the federal and state level, you will be voting for or against candidates for the U.S. Presidency, the U.S. Senate, the Ohio Senate, the Ohio House, and the Ohio Supreme Court. In addition, a statewide ballot measure will also appear on the ballot. Certainly, you want the candidates of your choice to reflect your values and to support our cannabis cause. Here’s how to find these contenders:

You have the power. In your hand at your polling place, in your booth and on your ballot, you can change the world. You can bring peace to the planet, regain your rights, frame your future, and advance the plant. That’s what your vote will do if cast properly.

Via hundreds of email messages and television commercials, you probably know about the importance of this year’s election. It’s both preidential and local. It’s both candidate and issue based. And it’s pivotal: who and what wins will chart the course of the future or become the dust of history.

For Gaza We Rise. Sunday, October 6, 2024, 3:00 PM. Commenorating 1 year of resistance.  Sponsored by OSU Students for Justice in Palestine. 

Watch video here.
Video by Scot Lacy, Milopictures

This is the first event in a series of a Week of Rage.

As a full year of genocide approaches, the zionist regime’s ruthless aggression has only intensified. With over 300,000 martyrs in Gaza and apocalyptic scenes unfolding in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, the occupation’s fascism continues to be laid bare before our eyes. 

It has never been more vital to show a unified front against the ongoing genocide in Palestine. We urge everyone to join us at every event to honor all our martyrs and continue the fight for liberation. As long as Palestine, Lebanon, and other countries stand steadfast in their resistance against the zionist entity, so do we. We will remain fearlessly until liberation is achieved. 

Crossposted from Medium

There are two famous songs called “Ohio.” One is from the 1953 musical “Wonderful Town,” sung by NYC transplants Eileen and Ruth. From the “gossipy neighbors and everyone yapping who’s going with who” and “dating those drips that I’ve known since I’m four,” the women remember exactly “why, oh, why, oh, why, oh” they “ever left Ohio.” But they also recall what is good about the place.

A national veterans’ organization today called for a grand jury to indict Department of State (DOS) Secretary Antony Blinken and the U.S. Ambassador to Israel for lying to Congress, violating the Export Control Act, the Genocide Prevention Act and the U.S. War Crimes Act.

Following his humiliating debate performance, Donald Trump is leaning even harder on the fear factor to rally his base. At the core of that strategy is engendering fear of immigrants. “We have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums.”  He is doubling down on his calls for mass deportation, promising “the largest deportation in the history of our country.”

I am concerned that Americans have only begun to imagine how devastating mass deportation would be. There are around 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US.  Many are deeply established in their communities. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that more than three million own homes.   What will it look like when millions of established families, many of them with deep roots in their communities, are forcibly torn apart?