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After decades of advocating for fully legal recreational marijuana, there is lament amongst some older stoners and hippies now that Ohio is on the cusp with Issue 2.
The Columbus Free Press, for instance, has been advocating for fully legal marijuana for half a century. Columbus was a place in the 1970s where the Columbus Police Department (CPD) would rough you up for having a joint in your cig pack. In the 80s and 90s, a pot arrest could destroy careers. Yet when the Free Press tried to get some medical growers and local medical dispensaries onboard as advertisers at the beginning of the 2020s, many scoffed.
Tuesday, October 17, 1012, 7:00 PM
On November 7, Ohioans will head to the polls to vote on Issue 1, an amendment that would restore abortion rights in Ohio and put an end to an extreme abortion ban. Join the ACLU for a special virtual event to learn about what’s at stake and how you can help in these crucial last few weeks.
This amendment is about making sure Ohioans — not the government — have the power to make personal decisions during pregnancy, including abortion.
Voting Yes on Issue 1 puts Ohioans back in charge of their personal medical decisions and stops Ohio’s extreme abortion ban.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 6:00 PM
Students for Justice in Palestine and other student organizations are holding a candlelight vigil for the people of Gaza.
Location: The Oval, OSU campus in front of the Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave Mall Columbus, OH 43210.
Chapter 7
Jimmy
Shelia was cleaning up the mess that her daughters had left on the kitchen table. They always ran off in a hurry after eating leaving her with the clean-up details. Shelia’s heart was heavy today. The load was so heavy that with each heartbeat she felt as if her insides would drop through her uterus and plunged towards the gravity that called it, pulled it, and demanded it to drop. Drop into its hungry lap of fear. Shelia was scared.
Shelia wasn’t a woman that scared easily. In fact, Shelia could be very scary herself, according to the neighbors who tried to stay on her good side and not complain about the loud R & B and pop music that her girls sometimes played during the day, or the loud jazz music that Shelia played during the night. It wasn’t that Shelia was aloof or appeared to be mean, it was just the way she carried herself, with confidence and strength. When Shelia walked she stood tall, back straight with a slight wiggle to her hips.
Start: Sunday, October 15, 2023 • 2:00 PM
End: Sunday, October 15, 2023 • 5:00 PM
Moeller Park• 261 Hanford St, Columbus, OH 43206 US
Host Contact Info: secretary@columbusdsa.org
Join our comrades from across the state, to canvass for Reproductive Freedom and enshrine the right to an abortion in the Ohio constitution! Members will be coming to Columbus from all corners of the state to help us contact voters, get out the word about Issue 1 and defeat the authoritarian right.
After the canvass, we will meet up at Classic's Victory's Sports Bar(547 S High St, Columbus, OH 43212) for pizza and drinks, child friendly restaurant.
First time canvassing? No problem, we'll provide training and pair you up with an experienced canvasser! If you are able to, download the "signal" and "MiniVAN" apps before showing up for canvassing. (If you can't download the app, that's no problem, you can still canvass!)
Reprinted from The Buckeye Flame
Members of the Ohio House Higher Education Committee met Wednesday to hear public testimony opposing House Bill 183 — which would ban transgender students in Kindergarten through college from using any restroom, changing room, locker room or shower room that is “accessible by multiple students at the same time.”
The bill does not acknowledge the existence of intersex people, and would require students, school administrators, educators, staff and visitors to use the restroom that aligns with the gender assigned to them on the birth certificate “issued at or near the time of [their] birth.”
Maria Bruno — public policy director for Ohio-based LGBTQ+ legal advocacy group Equality Ohio — said the bill’s language mirrors similar anti-transgender legislation:
Free trees have become available at our South Side (10/14) and Linden (10/21) community giveaways! Have the perfect spot in your yard for a tree? Reserve yours at greencbus.org/freetrees2023.
Act quick! The giveaways were previously sold out, and will likely sell out again. Insider tip: If the tree you want is sold out, you are welcome to swing by the giveaway during the last 15 minutes to check for extras due to no-shows.
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.
If you have announcements for the progressive community, let us know at <colsfreepress@gmail.com>.
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.