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This upcoming Saturday, November 16, we have a unique volunteer opportunity for you and the whole family! Join us in removing honeysuckle, an invasive species, from Deer Haven Park. We need lots of hands! There will be food trucks and various activities hosted during the day.
Please join Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio and our cosponsors for a webinar to hear expert analysis on the impact of the U.S. election result on Palestinians. Regardless of the outcome, we must redouble our efforts to obtain a ceasefire, a cessation of U.S. military aid to Israel, humanitarian aid to Gaza, and a return of all hostages in Gaza and Israel. Our experts are Mitchell Plitnick, Political Analyst, Writer and President of ReThinking Foreign Policy, and Khalid Turaani, CAIR-Ohio, Columbus & Cincinnati Executive Director.
Monday, November 11, 2024, 5:00 PM
Remembrance Park near the ROTC building on the OSU Campus
Organized by Veterans for Peace Central Ohio, this event will be focused on reclaiming Armistice Day, a Tribute to Aaron Bushnell, and supporting Palestinians and stopping the genocide going on there and condemning US policy. Other groups will be there.
For more information, contact Rick rwilhelm1916@gmail.com.
This article first appeard on Reel Time with Richard Ades
Growing up with a degenerative muscular disease, Mats Steen found it harder and harder to take part in everyday life. As a result, the young Norwegian spent most of his time playing video games.
“His world seemed so limited,” said his father, Robert.
Finally, at the age of 25, Mats succumbed to his condition. That’s when Robert and his wife, Trude, realized that their son’s world hadn’t been so limited after all.
The reason is revealed in Benjamin Ree’s unconventional documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin.
The film explains that Robert, after losing Mats in 2014, announced the sad news to followers of his son’s blog, “Musings of Life.” The grieving father expected that to be the end of it, but he soon was inundated with condolences from people around the world who had come to know Mats through their shared love of the video game World of Warcraft.
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Remarks upon acceptance of Real Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, November 10, 2024.
It’s wonderful to be here with many of you whose work I’ve known but whom I’ve rarely if ever been with in person. I am very grateful to John Jones and Tomas Magnusson for arranging this event. I am thrilled to be here at the start of what I expect will be years of terrific work by the Lay Down Your Arms Foundation — an appropriate name here in the House of Literature. The great Fredrik Heffermehl, who has been gone from us for nearly a year now, often stressed the influence on Alfred Nobel in the creation of the Nobel Peace Prize by Bertha von Suttner, the author of the 1889 novel Lay Down Your Arms.
Sunday, November 10, 2024, 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Driving Park Branch of the Columbus Library, Rooms 1-2, 1422 East Livingston Avenue
Join Showing Up for Racial Justice - Central Ohio for an after-election debrief. At this meeting, we will debrief the election results and discuss our next steps.
We begin our special Thursday zoom with poetry from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
Host Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman recounts the astounding 2004 comeback of the Boston Red Sox to end the 86-year “Curse” of not having won a World Series since 1918.
The great ANDREA MILLER updates us on what happened with her Center for Common Ground grassroots phone calling operations.
MYLA RESON questions the veracity of the votes cast in this election.
KPFK Board Chair TATANKA BRICCA wonders about the tally in Georgia and North Carolina.
JOHN STEINER adds to the dialogue on what we all do going forward.
ALEX WILLIAMS emphasizes his misgivings about what happened has happened to the US since Reagan.
Questions about the votes of black and Latino men are raised by DOROTHY REIK.
Jennifer Karius Working polls in Allegheny Co. PA stating that people were missing from poll books.
Indivisible’s MIMI SPREADBURY from Pennsylvania questions why so many voters in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) were turned away from the polls, and later celebrates the victory of a money-limiting referendum in Maine.
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.”
Since 1980, RESULTS volunteers have secured billions of dollars in new funding for health, education, and economic opportunity programs worldwide. They have helped pass groundbreaking legislation that will help kids in low-income countries go to school and get life-saving medical treatment. They have mobilized against cuts to vital anti-poverty programs that help millions here in the U.S. put food on the table and get health insurance. They have done it all by building relationships with members of Congress, engaging with the media, and taking their message straight to Capitol Hill.
While many advocates in RESULTS are very disappointed by the election results, we are prepared to continue with our work. That's because RESULTS, which has been around for 44 years, is non-partisan and has been through this before -- many times. We work with both sides of the aisle to get support for policies that are aimed at ending poverty such as the expanded Child Tax Credit, a fully funded SNAP, a Renter's Tax Credit to help low income renters afford their homes.
Saturday, November 9, 2024, 5:30 – 8:30 PM
COhatch Worthington - The Library, 752 High St., Worthington, Ohio 43085
Facebook Event
Theme: Why is the health of our soil important?
Co-hosted by Simply Living
Speaker: Deb Knapke, The Garden Sage - Horticulturist, Garden Coach, Speaker, Teacher. She practices and teaches in the following areas: Garden Design, Herbaceous Plants, Taxonomy and Nomenclature, Sustainable Practices and Design/Permaculture, Tea - History, Types, Tasting. Deb will represent the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association as an advocate for increasing soil health in our gardens and farms. She is one of the soil storytellers.
We will also discuss concerns about the election results.