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The phenomenon of “mental health disorder” has become so influential that, according to recent studies, every second person has—or will have—at least one diagnosed mental illness in their lifetime. This figure presents an existential and statistical impossibility: when more than half of the population is inflicted with psychological abnormality, the norm has become abnormal.

How can it be that the majority of us are sick? To answer this troubling question, some point to modern realities—social media, social isolation, environmental doom—while urging for societal change.

Others see an aggravating factor. Maybe, they argue, there isn’t a true rise in mental illness, but that one distinctive force is inflating what is a relatively stable emotional landscape—no worse or better than before.

In such a scenario, the seeming escalation of mental illness is largely due to an increase in the identification of psychiatric disorder, and not a rise in genuine illness. That is, people are not suffering more, but rather, normal suffering is, more and more, being called “sickness.” 

For the beginning of October, Dr. Bob and Dan-o talk about Christopher Columbus and how we rid of city of celebratory Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People's Day ad the statues. The music is from artists who have Native heritage -- Rebdone, Blackfoot, John Trudell, Buffy Sainte Marie, Jackson Browne, Lila Downs, Link Wray, Bill Miller and more!
Listen Friday nights Oct 4 and 11 at 11pm on WGRN 91.9FM or streaming at wgrn.org.
And Mondays October 7 and 14 on WCRS 92.7 and 98.3FM or streaming at wcrsfm.org.

Thursday, October 3, 6pm
Come in person to Enarson Classrooms Building Room 240 or attend online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting.
A presentation and discussion on the struggle for trans liberation!

WHAT: Students, faith leaders, and Ohioans are coming together for a powerful rally in Columbus to oppose Project 2025 and its architects, convening in the city for the Essential Summit--an effort to co-opt faith in the name of hate. Our diverse coalition is making it clear: hatred and attempts to undermine our freedoms have no place in our state.

WHEN: Thursday, October 3rd, 4:00 PM

WHERE: Outside the Columbus Convention Center located at 400 N High St, Columbus, OH 43215 

WHO:  

Students from colleges across Ohio organized by the Ohio Student Association

Interfaith coalition of religious leaders led by the Amos Project

Concerned citizens from Springfield, Portage County, Columbus, and beyond

Advocacy groups fighting to preserve freedoms

There are several promising incremental reform bills that if enacted would move federal cannabis policy in a positive direction — and benefit millions of Americans. Most recently, the Dismantling Outdated Obstacles and Barriers to Individual Employment (DOOBIE) Act, a bill that would prevent federal agencies from considering past cannabis use in employment suitability or security clearance decisions, passed a Senate committee and is now headed to the full Senate for consideration. 

In addition to the DOOBIE Act, there are also several other key incremental cannabis reform bills circulating in Congress. Passing these bills would be a major step forward for our movement and further build the momentum for comprehensive federal cannabis legalization.

Some neighborhoods on the West Side are in dire need of compassionate, empathetic and shared experienced leadership. Welcome news is how a fresh-faced progressive Democrat – Hilltop resident Christine Cockley – is poised to win Ohio House District 6 this November, which encompasses most of Columbus’s West Side.

If anyone has any doubt whether a progressive is best qualified to take on the disheartening and daunting challenges of some West Side neighborhoods, just take a drive down Sullivant Avenue where poverty and despair continue to besiege several neighborhoods. Where the numbers of addicted and houseless keep growing – in lock step with the rising cost of housing, spurred on by landlord greed and the gentrification of some West Side neighborhoods.

Certainly, few from the Ohio GOP care much about the West Side, if rarely a thought. Local establishment Democrats, such as Mayor Ginther, have had plenty of time to affect change, but little has on Sullivant Avenue over the previous decade.

From Maryknoll:  Send a message to Congress as part of Haiti Advocacy Days: Stop Illegal Arms to Haiti calling for an end to the flow of guns to Haiti.
More information and link to send your message here. 

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.

Monday, September 30, 2024, 8:00 PM
Over the last few months, activists have gained unprecedented achievements in pushing their cities to divest from genocidal Israel’s war machine. Join us for a training session with experts at American Friends Service Committee on how divestment works, what to consider before launching a campaign in your city, and how to win.

The title is Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change, and it is now in its third edition and can be accessed—for free—online. The book was put together by “an international coalition of organization and activists,” relates the “Hoodwinked Collaborative” that “was convened to produce and distribute the groundbreaking publication on false solutions to the climate crisis.”