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Saturday, October 14, 7-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom
Speakers:
• Mary Jane Borden on cannabis legislation and a tribute to longtime cannabis activist Angelica Warren
• Lynn Tramonte, Ohio Immigrant Alliance, on new Migration Anthology book and updates on immigration issues in Ohio
A “question-and-answer” will be included.
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If you have any announcements for the progressive community, contact us at <colsfreepress@gmail.com>.
Please use this Zoom link to join this event.
Hosted by The Columbus Free Press.
More than 150 gathered at the Statehouse Thursday evening, October 12, to rally for Palestinian rights as violence continues to murder the people of the eastern Mediterranean.
Organized by students and residents alike (all of whom will remain anonymous due to right-wing efforts to discredit and ruin people fighting for human rights), the people gathered to voice their anger not just at the Israel government’s continued use of violence to justify their occupation of Palestine, but hope for a better future.
Friday, October 13, 2023, 7:30 PM
Bill Cohen and friends will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live and familiar 1960’s folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions.
Proceeds from the suggested $15 donations (at the door) will go to the Mid-Ohio Food Collective.
Free parking is also available in the lots just South and West of the church. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the church basement but get there early for a good seat. The program is suitable for ADULTS and MATURE TEENS.
Location: King Avenue Methodist Church, 299 W. King at Neil in Columbus 43201.
or more information, call Bill at (614) 263-3851 or e-mail BillCohen@columbus.rr.com.
Thursday, October 12 - 5pm
Ohio Statehouse
National Students for Justice in Palestine is calling for a national day of resistance from the student movement for Palestine liberation on college campuses.
SJP OSU will be collaborating with the Palestinian Women's Association at OSU to hold this protest against the inhumane crimes committed against Gaza, and we will be condemning the attacks on Gaza, as well as resisting directly through dismantling Zionism.
Please show out with flags, kuffiyehs, signs and your support for Palestine!!
Wednesday, October 11, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Do you have questions about legally changing your or your child’s name and/or gender designation on various identity documents in Ohio?
Join us for a free legal clinic! Through the partnership of Equality Ohio, Equitas Health, and TransOhio, with support from local community groups, the Ohio Name Change Legal Clinic offers confidential virtual discussions with trained pro bono attorneys to help you navigate the process! Come with all of your questions and leave with the paperwork you need.
Press release from Joe Motil’s campaign
Andy Ginther’s refusal to discuss the state of the city with a legitimate Democratic challenger, long-time, highly respected, and well-known civic leader is indeed a blatant sign of disrespect for the people of Columbus. It is also an insult to the democratic electoral process.
Ginther displays his daily lack of knowledge of the city for which he receives an undeserved salary.
Spewing no more than empty slogans, always placing blame on others, never accepting accountability or responsibility, and presenting a record of failure, he must be afraid to meet Joe Motil in public to debate the pressing issues that challenge the daily lives of Columbus residents and the neighborhoods they live in.
Instead, he spends his $1.2 million payoffs from those who write checks to his campaign. They, who are his partners in this city’s pay-to-play system of politics, provide Ginther the money to spew the same fraudulent election year campaign rhetoric and promises on daily television ads.
When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s 9/11.” Meanwhile, in a PBS NewsHour interview, Israel’s ambassador to the United States said: “This is, as someone said, our 9/11.”
While the phrase might seem logical, “Israel’s 9/11” is already being used as a huge propaganda weapon by Israel’s government -- now engaged in massive war crimes against civilians in Gaza, after mass murder of Israelis by Hamas last weekend.
Part One
The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio is among the largest public universities in the United States. A minority of its undergraduates belong to fraternities and sororities whose number and membership ebb and flow over time. Regardless of those facts—or the national effort to supervise, reform and regulate, protect the rights and lives of their members from active harm, and the regular bursts of reports of illegal hazing and rape among other forms of law-breaking, fraternities and sororities rule the boost at OSU. The contradictions—and active damages to young people, their personal and intellectual development, and their incidental and purpose damage to neighbors and environment—are significant.
Tuesday October 10
World Day Against the Death Penalty.
As the news of violence and loss of Palestinian and Israeli life unfolds, we must be clear: this is the direct result of decades of Israeli occupation, blockade, and apartheid over millions of Palestinians. Since this latest escalation of violence began, Israeli government officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, have openly declared their intent to wreak devastation on Gaza. In spite of this, the Biden administration has already begun sending more military support to the Israeli government, and it is expected to include munitions for fighter jets and other weapons.
Sending weapons and military support to the Israeli government when its leaders are publicly stating their violent intentions is knowingly facilitating collective punishment and war crimes.
The U.S. already sends $3.8 billion in unconditional military funding to the Israeli military every single year, and this support for Israel's systematic oppression of Palestinians helped pave the path for the violence of this moment.