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A jury trial for racial justice organizer Tynan Krakoff is set to begin on Wednesday, October 12 in the Franklin Country Municipal Court. Krakoff is facing charges related to his involvement in a July protest against police-involved shootings.
Krakoff, 28, was arrested during a march to the Columbus Division of Police building in downtown Columbus on July 21. The protest was organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice, in collaboration with the People’s Justice Project. Over 150 residents marched down the street without a permit, demanding justice for Henry Green.
Krakoff was the only protester arrested. He faces three misdemeanor charges: disorderly conduct, failure to obey a police officer, and pedestrian in the roadway. These charges could bring a maximum of one year in county jail or $2,000 in fines.
“We’ve seen black folks around the country put their bodies on the line to fight for black lives, and for an end to racial disparities and police violence. We are seeing more and more white people ready to take action and show up in meaningful ways as well,” said Z! Haukeness, Midwest Regional Organizer of Showing Up for Racial Justice.
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Representatives of community organizations are invited to attend the September Pre-Election, 2016 Citizen’s Grassroots Congress, which will unite community organizations in goals and action to help shape the agenda for Central Ohio’s future from the bottom up!
Don't leave the future of greater Columbus to current out-of-touch public officials and elite titans. Attend the Citizens Grassroots Congress and help set the Central Ohio agenda at the street level! We want to know what you think are the most important issues for activists to collaborate on between now and the November election.
The Movement for Black Lives has called for a national day of action on Thursday, July 21 to take a stand against oppression and violence against black people. In Columbus a march is planned for 6 p.m. from the Ohio Statehouse to the Columbus Division of Police a few blocks away.
“In the wake of the national outcry over the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, we’ve seen black folks and allies put their bodies on the line to fight for a world where black lives matter,” said Tynan Krakoff, a lead organizer with the Columbus chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a group of white people organizing white people to fight against racial injustice.
Unitarian Universalists are engaged in the Black Lives Matter movement and are mobilizing in the broader movement for black liberation. At 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, the Unitarian Universalist Association is hosting an interfaith State of Emergence rally at the Ohio Statehouse in collaboration with the Ohio Student Association, the People’s Justice Project, UU Justice Ohio, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Union of Reform Judaism, and the United Church of Christ.
Most Unitarian Universalists are white, but they don’t see this as a reason to sit on the sidelines of the struggle for racial justice. The entire ministry team and several members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus turned out for the June 15 Justice for Henry Green protest wearing yellow Standing on the Side of Love T-shirts.
(Cincinnati, OH, June 7, 2016) Tri-State Freethinkers recently submitted a censored version of their Genocide & Incest Park billboard to Lamar Advertising. A censored stamp now covers the accurate but “offensive” words genocide and incest, leaving an Ark housing two giraffes and a quote from Genesis 6:13, which states “So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people”. Lisa Guill, General Manager of a Kentucky office, and Jeff Day, Assistant General Manager of the Cincinnati office, informed Tri-State Freethinkers that the design could not be accepted as it violated the following policy:
Lamar reserves the right to reject advertising copy for any reason, but rejects copy for the following specific reasons:
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The Strip & Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
"The 'strip and flip' technique of controlling electronic elections can easily apply to citizens of all faiths and color. But in the US, race has been the critical tool for dividing the populace. It’s the bottom-line basic instrument that makes electronic election theft possible." ~ Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
"What had happened between 2000 and 2004 was the Help America Vote Act. Meant to correct problems with Florida paper punch-card ballots, it was fraud capacity disguised as reform. It encouraged the buying of electronic voting systems as the solution to federal mandates. The hope that true reformists had was that computers would prove colorblind. Instead, computer counting made us blind. We no longer see our votes being counted. As in any darkness, nefarious schemes are much easier to accomplish." ~ Mimi Kennedy, in the Introduction
Your new movie, Where to Invade Next, is very powerful, your best so far for certain.
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You've packed a great many issues into this film, with visuals, with personalities, with entertainment. If people will watch this, they'll learn what many of us have struggled to tell them and more, as there was plenty that I learned as well.
I must assume that when U.S. audiences watch scenes that dramatically clash with their world yet seem humane and reasonable they'll be brought to the point of thinking.
More than 10,000 people have now signed a petition urging Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign. See their signatures and comments at:
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11804
"It's not enough to fire the police chief," said RootsAction.org cofounder Norman Solomon. "The buck stops with the mayor, and he should resign."
Signers of this statement are listed below.
“The U.S. and NATO occupy my country under the name of all the beautiful banners of democracy, women’s rights, human rights. And for this long time, they shed the blood of our people under the name of the war on terror…” —Malalai Joya