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Saturday, February 8, 7pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom
Join us by Zoom to discuss Black World History of Liberation and Struggle: Pan Africanism, collective mutual aid, and immigration realities
Speakers:
• Essam Elkorghli (calling from Libya) on PanAfricanism
• Theresa Hice-Fromille, Ph.D. (OSU Geography professor)
• Julialynne Walker (Bronzeville Growers Market community organizer)
Please use this Zoom link to join this event.
Tuesday, I walked into Cafe Bourbon Street. I asked the doorman about the new Cheater Slicks single. The doorman said ”We’re finishing the artwork.” The Doorman plays in Cheater Slicks.
Tuesday at Cafe Bourbon Street, people were excited. Dehd’s Jason Bella’s Accessory were playing. Dehd is from Chicago and releases music from Fat Possum. Dehd is a known band in music. Dehd has released several albums.
Bourbon Street was filled with regulars and Dehd Heads. I don’t think Dehd fans are called Dehd Heads.
Dehd is band which sequences indie pop vocals with loud noise rock elements.
Accessory is a band with various members from the Chicago music scene – Jason Bella from Dehd with members of Meat Wave, Deeper and Ulna.
Accessory took the stage and started playing. I found out that Accessory February 4th, 2025 sounded like the Velvet Underground envisioned as a 70’s psych rock band. Or a 70’s hard rock band workshopping after hearing the Velvet Underground.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan spin tunes and talk about sports songs.
Listen live at 11pm February 7 and 14 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
and
Mondays at 2pm streaming February 10 and 17 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
Archived on Mixcloud here
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus
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The fight back continues! As we enter Black history month we honor the legacy of struggle. We are mobilizing to defend immigrant families, and we must defend the gains of the civil rights revolution which united struggles across our class!
Join PSL as we continue building an independent movement against Trump and the billionaire agenda! We have the power to fight for a better world, but we have to be organized to take it! Party for Socialism and Liberation.
A at the Ohio Statehouse to protest Project 2025 and fascism, followed by a March to Senator Moreno's office, then a March back to in front of the Statehouse on February 5, 2025.
As I'm sure you're well aware, Donald Trump has handed unelected billionaire Elon Musk the keys to our federal government.
And if he isn't stopped – as we're demanding in our Fire Elon Musk campaign – he'll keep wreaking havoc, shutting down key government services, and attacking our civil servants.
It's an outrageous abuse of power and is harming millions of Americans – but right now, Congress is acting like everything’s business as usual.
That's right: our elected officials are totally abandoning their duty to their constituents while Musk does as he pleases. I need your help to deliver them a wakeup call. Our senators have substantial power to help mitigate Musk's attacks, provided that they do their jobs and use it.
Human trafficking is humanity’s worst atrocity. It is an activity that is illegal worldwide where humans are frequently trafficked for sexual slavery. Every 30 seconds a person is forced into human trafficking! Eighty percent of these cases are girls and women. Human trafficking is a crime that generates billions of dollars worldwide and much of that money is generated in the United States. The numbers are chronically underreported.
In 2022, Ohio was the fifth state with the most victims of human trafficking. In Columbus, human trafficking has to do with the cartel, sometimes with the police, and many times with drug dealers. The victims are of different races and are violated, some murdered and thrown like garbage in alleys and placed in abandoned buildings. We have a huge humanitarian crisis in the capital of Ohio.
This article first appeared on the Buckeye Flame
The staff of The Buckeye Flame arrived at one of Ohio’s largest Pride celebrations in 2024 to find our table sandwiched between a cellphone company and a grocery-store chain.
To our left, the cellphone company was giving out gift cards and T-shirts. To our right, the grocery store chain was giving out high-quality tote bags and industrial strength carabiners. The enthusiastic staffers, with Chappell Roan blaring behind them, beckoned Pride-goers over to their tables to grab their free stuff.
All throughout the day, people would come to our table straight from one of our corporate neighbors, totes open and at the ready.
“What do you have?” people would demand, truly without salutation or preamble.
Our retorts of, “The truth!” or “Queer journalism!” never went over well.
The Trump administration is engineering the most extensive dismantling of the federal workforce in modern history—not through mass firings, but by incentivizing resignations. A new Office of Personnel Management (OPM) program offers federal employees full pay and benefits until September 30, 2025, while exempting them from in-person work. This isn’t just an incentive—it’s a slow-motion purge designed to drain the government of talent without triggering the backlash of forced layoffs.
Many will take this deal, viewing it as a lucrative early retirement with no strings attached. The most likely to leave? The most experienced, skilled employees—the backbone of the federal government. These are the workers with institutional knowledge, those best positioned to find opportunities elsewhere.
For now, the damage will be masked. These employees will technically remain on payroll, but they’ll be ghost workers—paid but absent. This illusion of stability will persist until October 2025, when their exits become official and the full impact takes hold.
Wednesday, February 5, noon-8pm
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol square, Columbus
Join a decentralized self-organized community for a peaceful protest.
Also, there is also a planned meet up at State and Third St. at 11:45 with local activist Meryl Neiman. Meryl is planning to take a group to march down to Bernie Moreno's office in the federal building and have folks go up to talk to staff. Please join her! Showing up at his office is super important.