Local
“Obviously, this is a terrible situation that I inadvertently caused. It’s on me. Because it was my weapon, I’ve thought about this for many nights. Trust me. I consider myself a professional and I’m not pleased about this occurring whatsoever,” Clinton Township Detective Terrance Phillips told investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) during an interview two months after the death of Rayshawn Meeks.
Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack did not take the case to a grand jury. In his office’s letter closing the case on January 29, 2023, Jeff Blake, Deputy Chief Counsel of the Criminal Special Units wrote:
Solidarity Ships
September 30, 2023
Goodale Park
Donation Drop-off 2-5pm.
Rider meetup at 5pm, Ride at 5:30pm
RSVP: solidarityships.eventbrite.com
Additional information, including participant guidelines, can be found on the event page at solidarityships.eventbrite.com
Updates will be posted on the ride’s Instagram page at @solidarity.ships"
We’re infuriated to announce that the 2nd annual group cargo ride of mutual aid is back! At the end of the month, community and supporters will come together in challenge to haul supplies in support of the City’s houseless residents.
Long-time committed community organizer and activist Liz Andromeda will host Solidarity Ships on September 30, 2023 at Goodale Park. All are invited to ride with or donate supplies for us to carry, in an adventure of solidarity, community, and camaraderie.
Shelia Brady glanced up the street through the yellow curtains that she had brought when she first moved into this apartment. When was that? It must have been about ten years ago. The windows needed cleaning, and the paint on the frame was chipped. A woman’s work is never done, Shelia thought as she picked at a paint chip. She noticed that her red fingernail polish was also chipped. She glanced again out the window and saw Mr. Henry walking his dog with a piece of clothesline that was wrapped around his right wrist. The grey mangy looking dog was trotting behind him, sniffing the ground for just the right spot to drop his dump. It stopped and lifted his leg to pee on the ground while Mr. Henry picked at his nose and wiped his finger on his black dress pants.
A big shout out to our past and congoing Patreon donors!
Tim Wagner
Constance Gadell Newton
Jill Cohen
Lynn Whitacre Cart
Street Fight Radio
Del Sroufe
Charles Lynd
William Todd
Gabor Klein
Margaret Farrell
Stephanie Zimmerman
Candace Slaughter Warmke
Mary Lia Reiter
Bob Rice
Deb McGuire
The Free Press Network is central Ohio's non-profit, community-driven media organization. Volunteers collaborate to support six publishing and media platforms that elevate locally produced content in central Ohio, USA. Sponsored by the Free Press, freepress.org, and the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism (CICJ).
The Columbus Free Press
www.ColumbusFreePress.org
91.9fm WGRN "The Green Renaissance"
www.WGRN.org
92.7fm / 98.3fm WCRS
www.WCRSfm.org
Sunday, September 24, 2023 - 12:00pm
Milo Arts, 617 E. Third Ave.
Facebook Event
This Bizarket will highlight the fun times of summer such as water games, hot weather, grilled food, popsicles and community. We artists, painters, jewelry makers, oddity alchemists, musicians, chefs, bakers and creators. Expect food, libations, entertainment, more vendors, a larger space and a strong art community to indulge yourself in while at Milo Arts.
FREE to attend, All Ages, BIPOC/Ally inclusive market with high quality goods and services, gourmet food, local craft drinks, entertainment.
This Bizarket will highlight The Growth of The Communities we're a part of. We artists, painters, jewelry makers, oddity alchemists, musicians, chefs, bakers and creators. Expect food, libations, entertainment, more vendors, a larger space and a strong art community to indulge yourself in while at Milo Arts.
Saturday, September 23, 12noon-7pm, Mayme Moore Park, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave.
“Columbus Community Pride 2023: Here to Stay” celebrates the enduring legacy of resistance and survival in the face of unrelenting state violence. The theme reminds us that Black and Brown queer, trans, and intersex folks from all walks of life have always preserved by grounding ourselves in intentional community and building our own systems of care, safety, and healing outside of the influence of the state. We are rooted in these values and this is what allows Community Pride to continue to flourish.
“Here to Stay” also honors how our queer, trans, and intersex elders from communities of color have led countless movements toward liberation throughout history. We believe that working for the most marginalized among us will serve to benefit everyone, and that our collective liberations as oppressed peoples are intertwined.
This came up I was just doing some solar assessments over in North Central Ohio and more when you go driving in in that kind of region you're going to see a lot of these signs along the road that say no solar panels on Prime farmland and it's interesting anyway because they're all clearly made by the same people. Everybody's got the same signs and so I was just curious as to who's behind this effort that's going on.
What's the motivation what's the argument so I did a little research and then I thought I'd just share that with you a lot of this is going to be happening in the Midwest specifically so what's the issue that we're dealing with
here?
I guess I should back up just a little bit because I have some sympathy for them I have some sympathy for these positions in my way of thinking. Prime farmland, Green Fields, whatever you want to call them, should be the last choice right? We should be prioritizing and saying, okay, let's deal with the brownfields first and foremost.
The Serpent Mound Star Knowledge Equinox Peace Summit “Return Of The Thunderbird will feature music, Native American elders, presentations, vendors, dancing and sacred ceremonies
honoring the fall equinox,
September 22-24.
This family friendly event takes place at the Soaring Eagle Retreat, 355 Horner Chapel Rd, Peebles, Ohio.
Additional information can be found at https://alternateuniverserockshop.com/events or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/serpent-mound-star-knowledge-fall-
equinox-return-of-the-thunderbird-tickets-1125053054857701
The present moment—2022-2023 or more broadly the last 4 to 6 years—marks an unprecedented period in American history. But not for the usually repeated reasons. None of the major factors is fundamentally novel. The challenge and the significance of our times lay in the conjunction of a number of elements. Together they make a unique challenge. This is not what journalists, politicians, or on-air “experts” regurgitate.
In my historian’s alternative construction, I do see our times as unprecedented but as a result of complicated, contradictory relationships. On one hand, almost none of the major elements factors are essentially new. On the other hand, the challenge to our understanding and strategic choices of responses lays in identifying and tracing the conjunction of a number of elements, larger and smaller, short- and long-term, that together uniquely challenge the American experiment and experience.
The present moment—2022-2023 or more broadly the last 4 to 6 years—marks an unprecedented period in American history. But not for the usually repeated reasons. None of the major factors is fundamentally novel. The challenge and the significance of our times lay in the conjunction of a number of elements. Together they make a unique challenge. This is not what journalists, politicians, or on-air “experts” regurgitate.
In my historian’s alternative construction, I do see our times as unprecedented but as a result of complicated, contradictory relationships. On one hand, almost none of the major elements factors are essentially new. On the other hand, the challenge to our understanding and strategic choices of responses lays in identifying and tracing the conjunction of a number of elements, larger and smaller, short- and long-term, that together uniquely challenge the American experiment and experience.