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Election day is approaching fast, and by now much of the public has heard the arguments for and against Issue 1, the constitutional amendment on the ballot that would make citizens, not politicians, responsible for redistricting. 

People from a broad spectrum of groups that support workers and a fair political system have worked tirelessly, canvassing door to door to combat the steady flow of misinformation from the opposition.

A lot of money has gone into the campaign against Issue 1, but who is behind these donations? Just a little bit of digging turns up the usual suspects, and they are all tied to finance capital and the fascist candidate for president, Donald Trump.  

Citizens not Politicians – the grassroots, non-partisan coalition that has worked for the passage of the amendment – clearly (and proudly) displays the organizations and businesses that support Issue 1 on their website. Prominent among these are unions like the AFL-CIO and the IAFF, and endorsements come from groups on the left, right, and center, from businesses and faith organizations.

Boeing workers in the Pacific Northwest are staying on strike, having voted to reject an offer from management. They are holding out for a real pension plan and better pay and benefits. In so doing, they are supporting themselves, but also helping other workers and the economy, which can only benefit when a major corporation improves its standards. Click here to tell them you support them!

The striking workers at Boeing know that the company’s top executives and wealthy shareholders have received billions in stock buybacks and dividends, while executives keep lining their own pockets (with the CEO expected to receive $20 million in compensation next year).

President Trump will go down in history as the US President who told the most lies. He spews lies like a slot machine spits out nickels. Trump should be the last person to complain about fake news and quit calling the US media the enemy of the American people.

Politico reported that Trump lied on average every five minutes over the course of 4.6 hours of speeches and press conferences. 

The Huffington Post recorded that he told 71 lies over the course of just one town hall event. However, 

The Washington Post reported in July 2020 that President Trump made over 20,000 "false or misleading claims." This amounts to an average of 23 false claims a day. (A polite way to describe lies.)

Here is my favorite 7 lies of Trump with my response:

1- President Donald Trump has lied for several years that he was honored as "Man of the Year." The truth is, he received only a plaque as a thank gesture for speaking at a Michigan Republican dinner in 2013.

Sunday, October 27, 12noon, Studio 35 Cinema & Draft House, 3055 Indianola Ave.

This Sunday [10-27-2024], the Simply Living Film Series returns with the first Columbus screening of the sequel to “Kiss the Ground,” “Common Ground.”

“Common Ground” is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, “Kiss the Ground,” which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, “Common Ground” unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system.

If we look beyond the opponents of genocide who are so shamefully smeared with the label “antisemite,” but if we still treat “Semite” as meaning “Jew,” then the identity of a leading actual antisemite might surprise many people.

Very few, I’ve found, are aware that the policy of Nazi Germany for years was to pursue the expulsion of the Jews, not their murder, that the U.S. government led the world’s governments in holding public conferences to discuss who would accept the Jews, that those governments — for open and shamelessly Anti-Semitic reasons — refused to accept the Nazis’ future victims, and that Hitler openly trumpeted this refusal as agreement with his bigotry and as encouragement to escalate it. I’m not aware of a single popular history text that includes the fact that the U.S. and British governments, throughout the war, repeatedly refused to evacuate the Jews or any other at-risk groups simply because they found it inconvenient.

Saturday, October 26, 3pm
Witchlab, 1187 W. Broad St.
Admission: $10
Dan Dougan and Friends invites you to join him and his band for a matinee including Halloween music, covers of songs by the Rolling Stones Black Sabbath and others, and a performance by Pilgrim Heidi and her OpenHeart Creatures. Witchlab lounge has a parking lot, bar and a connected store with occult oddities and antiques. 

COTA’s LinkUS levy (Issue 47) could dramatically change Columbus’s transportation culture, but areas desperately in need of LinkUS’s accordion buses or other solutions may have to wait years before massive traffic messes and congestion is alleviated.

A LinkUS spokesperson last month insisted to the Free Press their levy was mostly about getting residents to good paying jobs. Especially those who don’t have a car or are averse to commuting by car.

And not a moment too soon. On a recent sunny weekday afternoon near Rickenbacker Airport, home to thousands of warehouse distribution jobs, hundreds of commuters were lined up and bottlenecked on Alum Creek Drive’s one lane out of the area at Grove Port Road leading to the two 270 exits just a few hundred feet from this intersection. Even so, the never-ending line of cars suggests quitting time near Rickenbacker may be more tiresome to the hardworking warehouse employees than their actual shift.

Please join We Are Ohio and Union Strong in Columbus on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. 
The meeting will take place at IBEW 683, 939 Goodale Blvd., Columbus, OH 43212 with food served at 6:30 p.m. and the program beginning at 7 p.m.

Urgent Community Meeting to get a Yes on Issue 1 yard sign and talk about..

…Issue 1, the effort to have fair maps and fair elections in Ohio..

…the threat to all Ohioans posed by an extreme out-of-touch legislature…

…and what you can do to fight back.

Learn why you need to Vote Yes on Issue 1 on or before Nov. 5 to give citizens, not politicians, the power to draw fair maps for fair elections.

Even as war keeps spreading, the world is outgrowing many other forms of violence and cruelty. Violent crime outside of war is decreasing in many countries, and so is the death penalty, which is now limited to a small and shrinking list of mostly the worst national governments on Earth and 21 U.S. states (plus six that have paused without yet permanently banning capital punishment). Those 27 states include OH.

Click here to tell your state legislators to catch OH up with the country and the world.

Even as war keeps spreading, the world is outgrowing many other forms of violence and cruelty. Violent crime outside of war is decreasing in many countries, and so is the death penalty, which is now limited to a small and shrinking list of mostly the worst national governments on Earth and 21 U.S. states (plus six that have paused without yet permanently banning capital punishment). Those 27 states include OH.

Click here to tell your state legislators to catch OH up with the country and the world.