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Monday, February 19, 2024, 4:30 PM
Cardboard signs, hot tea and handwarmers, safe community, and calls to action will be provided. This action will be led by progressive Palestinian and Jewish community members. All are welcome.
Location: Outside Senator Brown’s office, 200 N. High St.
For more information you can email to hello@barriertoentrypac.com.
Do I Want to Know
I was waiting anxiously for Jean to come home from school. Mr. Jimmy had beaten her home, and I was staying quiet in my room because I didn’t want to speak with him yet. Finally, she came bouncing in the room and I jumped up from the bed to greet her.
“Wait until you see what I found today!”
“Wait until I put my books down. Why you leave school early again?” Jean dropped her books on the dresser top and flopped down on her bed.
“I wasn’t feeling good.”
“You just didn’t want to take that English test. Stop lying.”
“If you already knew, why ask me? Look at what I found!”
“What you find?”
“A picture in Mr. Jimmy’s room.”
“What! No, you didn’t go into his room when he wasn’t home!” Jean jumped up from the bed.
“Keep your voice down, he’s home now. He left his door unlocked so I just went in and looked around and found this picture.”
I pulled out the picture from under my pillow and gave it to Jean, who looked at it for a few seconds, and then handed it back to me.
“It’s a picture of Mr. Jimmy when he wasn’t fat. So what?”
Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 6 PM
Thompson Park - 1189 Dennison Ave
Columbus, OH 43201
Stand with the family of Casey Goodson Jr. and demand an immediate retrial of Jason Meade.
Saturday, February 17, 2024, 6:00 PM
Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale
When Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Meade used deadly force against Casey Goodson, Jr., as he entered his home shortly after noon on December 4, 2020, Meade felt justified.
He told the first officer on the scene, Clinton Township Officer Terry Phillips, "He [Goodson] came out of his car, gun in his hand as he was going to the side door as I was pulling up.."
This week, during his murder trial, Meade amended his statement including new insight into his threat assesment. He testified, "I thought he was going to shoot me." He added, "An armed suspect like that, he could go into a home and take hostages, and barricade himself to ambush police officers.”
Ohio has no legislated laws, signed by a governor, that define the justifications that allow a law enforcement officer to use deadly force. Instead, we rely on one Ohio Supreme Court case, Ohio v. White, that relied on two US Supreme Court cases, Tennessee v. Garner, and Graham v. Connor, that relied on the 4th Amendment of the Constitution, which set the boundaries for legal search and seizure.
Despite its flaws and an '80s soundtrack that outshines the film itself, Zelda Williams' directorial debut, "Lisa Frankenstein," crafts a modern-day Frankenstein tale with a mix of camp, romance, and a dash of gore. This oddly satisfying concoction resembles the quirky storytelling of Tim Burton’s classics, such as "Edward Scissorhands" and "Beetlejuice."
Penned by Diablo Cody, known for "Jennifer's Body," the film is a coming-of-rage story about a misfit teenager and a reanimated corpse. Is this the dawn of a new cult classic?
Set in the neon-tinted year 1989, Kathryn Newton's Lisa is an outcast struggling with her mother's tragic murder. She is navigating her senior year at a new high school, further complicated by her father's remarriage to an insufferable nurse (Carla Gugino). Amidst this chaos, she finds an unlikely confidante in her cheerleader stepsister, Taffy, who offers a genuine sisterly connection.
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Join the Abortion Fund of Ohio for a virtual workshop on Abortion & Black Queer Liberation. We’ll discuss Black Abortion History, Queer approaches to Reproductive Justice, the state of Ohio abortion access, and hear from Black Abortion Storytellers on the future of Midwestern abortion advocacy. Expect to gain tools to help you speak out against abortion stigma and fight for Reproductive Justice in your community. ASL and live captioning will be provided.
More information and link for registration here.
In the U.S. Congress, the Democrats and Republicans have been unable to reach an agreement on immigration policy governing the southern border. This is so even though the number of immigrants crossing the border illegally has risen to record levels. This post offers an explanation of the policy stalemate and what an alternative, less restrictive and less punitive policy would contain.
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Katherine Bucholz reports on the number of “migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border for fiscal years 2023 and 2024. These include
“both migrants apprehended and those asking to enter legally but deemed inadmissible. Their numbers rose to almost 2.5 million in FY 2023 and stood at 785,000 three months into the new fiscal year, which would constitute another record if extrapolated” (https://statista.com/chart/20397/number-of-migrants-apprehended-at-us-mexico-border).
While President, Trump’s efforts to control the border
In the past two years, the Big 4 Wall Street banks—Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo—have provided $349 billion to fossil fuel companies, fueling the climate crisis.