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We, the members of the OSU community, are profoundly concerned about recent developments regarding the removal of the OSU Divest initiative from this year's election ballot. It is imperative for our university to cultivate an inclusive environment where every voice, regardless of origin or perspective, is valued and acknowledged.
The decision to exclude the OSU Divest initiative appears to be a deliberate effort to stifle pro-Palestinian viewpoints and hinder constructive dialogue on divestment. Despite the Judicial Panel acknowledging procedural ambiguities and inconsistencies in bylaw interpretation, the proposed solution of a potential re-hearing and special election unfairly penalizes OSU Divest, prolonging an unjust situation unnecessarily.
Ohio Attorney General David Yost – part of the state’s far-right GOP super majority – is deliberately blocking not one but two proposed constitutional amendments backed mostly by African American activists, they claim.
Ohio is the second most voter-purged state behind Georgia and has some of the worst gerrymandered district maps in the country. Many would think that any Statehouse would reverse such undemocratic practices, but this is Ohio, now a MAGA stronghold, which passed HB 458 and signed into law by Gov. DeWine in 2023. HB 458 enacted the nation’s strictest voter ID law and other provisions restricting voters.
Concerned the Ohio GOP is desperately trying to restrict African American voters, a coalition of civil rights groups is leading a grassroots effort to put the “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights” to a statewide vote, which they say would modernize Ohio’s election system with pro-voter policies, such as same-day voter registration and expanded early voting options and locations, among other provisions.
Thursday, March 7, 7:30pm, Big Room Bar, 1036 S. Front St.
Join in to vote for your favorite ComFest 2024 logo design!
Want to enter your design? Entries must be emailed to <logo@comfest.com> by March 5 in order to be considered! Please see |post| for specific details and requirements.
Hosted by Community Festival.
Single Payer Action Network (SPAN) Ohio and Health Care for All Ohioans are collecting compelling stories to highlight the many struggles that people face when dealing with the American healthcare system.
We will be videotaping people's stories at the Health Care for All Ohioans/SPAN Ohio Annual Conference on April 27th, in Columbus, at the Quest Conference Center on Pulsar Road. If you cannot make that date, and your video is selected for this initial effort, we can make arrangements for a video production in Worthington, Ohio, if possible, prior to mid-May.
Please submit your story by clicking the link to our website here.
City of Columbus officials are now doing what they should have done in early 2023 to prevent their repeated blunders and resulting harms concerning the Greyhound/Barons bus depot on North Wilson Road.
A March 1, 2024 email from city attorney Section Chief Steve Dunbar states: “Next week’s Greyhound hearing is being continued. City, Barons and Greyhound are doing a search for alternative sites. I’ll let you know as soon as we get a new date. It will be about sixty days out.”
If a new trial date is not set for another two months, it will be nearly a year that this bus terminal disaster began to play out.
Barons officials had reached out to city officials requesting assistance in early 2023 to find a new location for their bus terminal after they could not come to terms with COTA on renewing their lease at the West Spring Street COTA location. The city refused to help Barons find a suitable location.
Small mammals called fishers have reappeared in Ohio after being chased from the state by 19th-century hunters. The return of the fishers clears up an old mystery in Ohio archaeology.
One of the most spectacular ancient earthworks in Ohio is the animal effigy in Granville, west of Newark, which was ignominiously named “Alligator Mound” for reasons that remain mysterious and hilarious. Obviously, there were no alligators in ancient Ohio. My theory is that some young white child told her or his daddy that the mound looked like an alligator, the name stuck, and this became alligator baggage that the archaeological authorities still carry.
Tuesday, March 5, 7-10pm, Club Diversity, 863 S. High St.
Join us for our DSA happy hour! We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of each month at Club Diversity at 863 S. High St. This will be an informal get together to meet, hang out, talk shop, and enjoy the camaraderie! Non-members are welcome to join and learn more about the chapter.
Columbus Call to Action: Pack City Hall for Palestine! Ceasefire now!
Monday, March 4, 2024, 4:00 PM
For more than 4 months, we have been asking Columbus City council to pass a ceasefire resolution. Join us at this city council meeting to support a ceasefire resolution.
Location: 90 W. Broad St., Columbus. Bring your Ohio photo ID.
All day long - call city council members and ask for their support for a ceasefire resolution.
General number: 614-645-7380 and Stanley Gates, Director of Community Engagement: 614-645-3566 segates@columbus.gov. Ask for the office of these council members: Shannon Hardin (President), Rob Dorans (Pres. Pro Temp.), Nicholas Bankston, Lourdes Barroso Padilla, Nancy Day-Achauer, Shayla Favor, Melissa Green, Emmanual Remy, and Christopher Wyche.
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A Problem Even in Death
When Jimmy came home last night he went straight to his bedroom. He was bone-tired, mentally, and physically, and fell asleep, waking up this morning still in the clothes he wore yesterday.
Jimmy sipped his coffee as he watched Shelia washing the dishes. The girls acted strangely towards him this morning, and this concerned him, because although he expected this behavior from Jean, he was surprised that Sara ignored him and wouldn’t give him any eye contact. Instead, she mumbled hello and kept her eyes on her bowl of cereal when he sat down at the kitchen table.
Shelia seemed nervous. He watched her washing the same bowl for over a minute before rinsing the soap off. Shelia didn’t look at the dishes she washed, instead she looked out of the kitchen window. Jimmy cleared his throat a couple of times.
“Everything alright with you Shelia?”
“It’s all good. Why you ask?” Shelia put the last dish into the dishrack and turned to face Jimmy as she dried off her hands with the dishtowel.
“Just asking, you seem to be distracted. That’s all. And Sara was quiet this morning too.”