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New York, New York- May 29, 2024 – In a one-of-a-kind alliance aimed at alleviating the financial burden of unpaid personal debt owed by America’s veterans, Jerry Ashton, founder of the 501(c)(3) charitable foundation End Veteran Debt (EVD), and Craig Antico, co-founder of ForgiveCo (FGVC), a Public Benefit Corporation, have joined forces to see these debts forgiven – in full.
Antico and Ashton, distinguished former executives in the collections industry, earned acclaim in 2014 for co-founding RIP Medical Debt, one of America's most successful charities. Over the past decade, that charity, now known as Undue Medical Debt, has garnered sufficient donations to eliminate billions of dollars in unpayable medical debt, relieving millions of Americans. Having made their mark on the general population, this renewed alliance signifies their commitment to addressing the unique needs and challenges faced by America's returning heroes and their families.
Bringing different skills to the challenge
Thursday, May 30, 8-9:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Move to Amend invites you to join others to read this new book [Manifesto for World Revolution] and attend a virtual program on Thursday, May 30, co-sponsored by Move to Amend and A Radical Guide.
Manifesto for World Revolution presents a compelling and radical (i.e. getting to the root!) list of ideas to achieve a fundamental, systemic, profound, and sustainable future. One of them is revoking corporate charters — which Move to Amend has discussed since our founding!
The book calls for a “non-violent grassroots insurgency — borderless, leaderless, beyond Left and Right — in a last-ditch we-the-People stand.” It poignantly asks: “Where do you want to go?”
“Manifesto takes an unflinching look at our shared imperiled planetary realities under corporate rule and meets the moment by offering tangible tactics that challenge us to mobilize and alter the current global trajectory. A strategy book that engages the senses for liberation.”
• Jenie Spanos, Co-Director, Move to Amend
Wesdnesday, May 29, 11 AM
Thomas Worthington Center (Ground floor/same as gift shop)
A group of consumers and environmental and democracy organizations call today for Ohio Attorney General David Yost to dissolve FirstEnergy Corporation for its central role in the massive bribery scheme to pass House Bill 6. Members of the FirstEnergy Accountability Coalition at a Statehouse press conference urged Yost, who has filed a civil suit against the company, to dissolve the company pursuant to the Ohio Revised Code 2923.34(B)(3).
CSA – CAOA – UPDATES & OTHER TIDBITS
There’s a lot to report regarding the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). In fact, federal full legal has reemerged in the form of the proposed Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), first introduced in 2022 and reintroduced in May this year. Updates below join a few other tidbits.
CSA (AKA CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT)
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Join ACLU for our May Franklin County Action Team Meeting as we prepare for a summer of action in criminal legal reform and more!
Location: ACLU Ohio - Columbus Office, 1108 City Park Ave Ste 203, Columbus, OH 43206.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Join ACLU for our May Franklin County Action Team Meeting as we prepare for a summer of action in criminal legal reform and more!
Location: ACLU Ohio - Columbus Office, 1108 City Park Ave Ste 203, Columbus, OH 43206.
NATO What You Need To Know
By MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON
“An indispensable primer. It can save your life — indeed all of our lives…NATO is a clear and present danger to world peace, a war machine run amok.”
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
“Read this book to understand how NATO promotes a logic of domination, not equality, or justice or peace.”
—Clare Daly, MEP
On a recent warm evening at the Runaway Bay apartment complex in Grandview, a middle-aged woman in a rowboat was chased by a gaggle of white swans, geese, mallards and who knows what else. They pursued her over the quarry’s still waters as she throws them crumbs. It is a sight to be seen, but only a few are able to enjoy this private quarry filtered by the nearby Scioto River because its surrounded by condos, apartments and ugly office buildings built a few decades ago. Irony is how this quarry is also home to Hidden Lake Condominiums.
In 2022, the Free Press published a flippant story on how a section of this quarry should be returned to the public and made into a beach with boats or kayaks to rent (pictured above).
After obtaining a shocking leaked Columbus City Schools Board of Education strategy document [READ LEAKED DOCUMENT], which details plans to use racial divides to attack opponents of school closures and hide information from taxpayers, members of the community and Columbus City Schools Union leaders sent the following open letter to the Board of Education this morning:
An Open Letter to Columbus City Schools Board of Education Members,
Thursday, May 23, 7pm, Tuttle Park [outside of the Tuttle Community Center], 240 W. Oakland Ave.
Join us this Thursday, May 23 at 6pm at Tuttle Park outside of the recreation center (weather permitting) or online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting to discuss Victor Serge’s What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression. The full text is available here.
After the victory of the Russian revolution, Serge was tasked with going through the archives of the Tsar’s secret police. His study reveals the incredible level of surveillance, infiltration, and provocation against which the Bolsheviks had to fight. His analysis shows how they were able to win, and ultimately how we can win against repression by our own state. This information is vital for any organizers to know in our current political moment.