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On August 24, 2023, Ta'Kiya Young was murdered by the police. This fund is to help her family with burial and funeral expenses.
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Earlier this year, at a Kroger on the far Southside, a store manager was undercover. And a customer, a middle-aged white woman wearing a pant suit, a COVID mask and a floppy hat, was about to the leave the store.
Suddenly the undercover store manager yelled “Drop It!” The white woman, who looked more Dublin than Southside, scoffed at first. But then spilled her plastic grocery bags’ contents onto the floor. Out came organic juices, dog bones, and makeup. Caught red-handed. She was marched by the manager to the customer service desk.
There, a security guard made her raise her right hand and sign a document. She said she would never shop in that store again and walked out a free woman. A Free Press reporter witnessed all of this firsthand.
Corporate America continues to claim shoplifting post pandemic is ruining their bottom line, but Kroger during this time has also become one of the world’s top five largest and most profitable grocery chains. In 2020, Kroger’s sales surged over 8 percent, to $132 billion, posting a $2.6 billion profit for the year.
I am surely not the only one who has noticed that the defensive propaganda lines that are flowing out the Democratic Administration have become more than ordinarily ridiculous of late. One is astonished at the melding of fact and fiction to create narratives that depict the White House and all that pertains to it as forging a new and more wonderful country. Wasn’t “Build Back Better” the battle cry, whatever that is supposed to mean? And the spin is endless, even when a clueless Joe Biden belatedly winds up in Maui to relate to the tragedy in which at least 1,000 died, only to be greeted by surviving local residents saluting the president with their middle fingers upraised. As the president looked out over the destruction of an entire city by fire he reminisced by recalling his long ago “almost” encounter with a fire in his kitchen. Locals who were screaming for help from government were, in fact, getting almost nothing while the nation’s Chief Executive was in the Oval Office gloating over sending another $23 billion to the arch crook Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, money to fight a war that Biden encouraged and has blithely entered into.
The Open Shelter still is in need of groups that can provide sack lunches for those we serve every month; homeless men, women, children, and families.
We are in definite need of sack lunches for 9/22 & 9/28.
Due to increased demand, we can use sack lunches for any weekday but need sack lunch groups for the 1st Tuesday, 4th Thursday, and 4th Friday of each month in addition to any 5th Tuesdays or 5th Fridays.
Feel free to give us a call at 614-222-2885 or email us back if you can help or have any questions.
Many groups that have helped say it is a fun and rewarding activity. YOUR support can help fill the bellies of the 250+ homeless and marginally housed men, women, and children we see each weekday. Thank you!
Ta’Kiya Young – an unarmed 21-year-old pregnant woman – was shot and killed by local law enforcement for allegedly shoplifting. What many may not be aware of is that Kroger corporate – averaging $30 billion in annual profit since 2020 – has forgone shoplifting charges for several years now, and if caught by store security, those caught are asked to leave and never come back.
Curbing increasing gun violence, police-involved shootings, and shoplifting, has no good solution no matter how hard the community tries. But one thing we have learned from relatives of those killed by local law enforcement is that police shootings give our young people this attitude – “If the police can do it, then I can do it.”
But there may be an answer to police-involved shootings, but the GOP-besieged state government won’t allow this potential solution be approved for a statewide vote and thus decided by citizens themselves.
Date: TODAY Monday, Monday August 28, 2023
Time: 12 PM
Location: AEP Headquarters, 1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, OH
A coalition of Ohio environmental & community activists will hold a press conference at the AEP Headquarters to deliver a petition with over 1,000 signatures Urging AEP to not raise electricity prices . Such an increase would have severe implications for many Ohioans, especially during a time of heightened inflation and rising food, gas, and energy costs.
It is fitting that I am writing this review of Serving Herself the day before the last leg of professional tennis’ Grand Slam, the United States Open, which is scheduled from August 28 through September 10 at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York. Gibson, one of the greatest women’s tennis players ever, won back-to-back titles there in 1957 and 1958, when it was known as the United States National Championship. Its prestige then and now is undeniable.
It is fitting that I am writing this review of Serving Herself the day before the last leg of professional tennis’ Grand Slam, the United States Open, which is scheduled from August 28 through September 10 at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York. Gibson, one of the greatest women’s tennis players ever, won back-to-back titles there in 1957 and 1958, when it was known as the United States National Championship. Its prestige then and now is undeniable.
Sunday, August 27, 6pm
Kroger, 5991 S. Sunbury Rd., Westerville
We are shattered by the news of the extrajudicial murder of Ta'Kiya Young by Blendon Township police on Thursday evening. The 21 year old woman was a mother of two and expecting her third at the time of her killing. With this act, the true face of American policing is on display.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023 was a good day for empty words. Millions of Americans tuned in to listen to them and days later we are still talking about them. In a world filled with meaningless nonsense, for at least a couple of hours, many Americans could agree that these words, even if empty, were still meaningful and worth their attention. If only words could change the world.
On the 23rd both the first GOP debate of the 2024 presidential cycle and its counter-programming, Trump’s interview on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter (X) feed, aired to the view of millions of people. The stream of the debate on Rumble (rightwing YouTube) peaked at around 310,000 views. It is estimated that 12.8 million people watched the debate on their TV.