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Ohio Migration Anthology (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies: Ohio Migration Anthology, Volume Two by Lynn Tramonte (Editor), Marina Manoukian (Foreword by), Gloria Kellon (Illustrator).  Proceeds from the sale of the anthology go to the immigrant writers and artists.  

You can purchase the book from B&N here.

A report from ABC 3 WEAR, reports:

“Chris Lambert is a decorated Vietnam veteran whose battled PTSD for more than 40 years. Lambert’s a three-time Purple Heart recipient, all before his 20th birthday. He says after hearing reports that the suspected gunman in the Maine shooting was treated and released from a facility only weeks later, it’s clear that more long-term care for veterans is needed. However, he feels the shooting suspect’s mental health issues during his service in the military is overplayed. ‘How many people have we watched in these mass shootings and none of them are veterans,’ Lambert said. Stillm, Lambert acknowledged the suspect’s service potentially played a major role in the high number of fatalities. ‘Being a firearms instructor, how accurate he could be, I don’t care if you’re 100-50 yards and you’re jerking a little bit, you’re missing that target. But if he’s instructed and he knows how to breathe, he can take down a lot of people, and that’s tragic,’ Lambert said.”

Saturday, October 28, 2023, 3:00 PM
In Israel, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank, the law is whatever Israel deems to be in the best interest of Jewish Israelis and to the detriment of Palestinians. Israel violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians as a matter of standard, accepted policy. However, there are brave, determined individuals who are trying to expose the destructive, unjust, and sometimes invisible ways in which Israel exploits and oppresses Palestinians. 

The Law and the Prophets explains the mechanisms of control that Israel deploys to subjugate Palestinians which highlight our 2023 theme, “the 75th Year of the Nakba.”  

Register here. 

Part Two

Private or Anti-Public Service is also responsible for public utilities of all varieties. This puts them in active relationships with private for-profit electricity, gas, and recycling companies.

In the Columbus Way, private interests trump public. Ginther is in close association with Rumpke Recycling who prevents any competitor from building a plant required to compete with them. Rumpke is best known for not completing its regular routes.

City Attorney Zach Klein only sues negligent private building owners for code violations after their buildings collapse or explode. He informed me that he is unable to sue grifting, consumer-violating electric utilities like American Electric Power after they repeatedly fail and make consumers pay for corporate malfeasance, while he sues Kia, Hyundai, and the State of Ohio.

One case in point: the eight young women who rent the HomeTeam property next to my house immediately learned that the house’s connection to the city water main did not work. Of course, there had been no inspection. After some days, the connection was repaired.

Friday, October 27, 12noon, Ohio Statehouse

Please join us as we rally for our Ohio state parks, climate, and democracy, on Friday, October 27, at 12noon, at the Ohio Statehouse, West Plaza, on the steps facing High Street.

This rally will bring together a diverse coalition of environmental, faith, health, and democracy groups to tell our state legislators — and the commission that will decide the fate of our beloved state parks and wildlife areas — that we the people own the public land and democracy in Ohio, and we want to see it protected, not fracked.

We have an incredible lineup of speakers that you will not want to miss, including:

• David Pepper, Ohio author, attorney, and democracy activist

• Robert Brecha, director of sustainability at University of Dayton

• Catherine Turcer, Ohio director for Common Cause

• Jess Grim, Ohio co-coordinator for Third Act

• Judy Comeau-Hart, director of Faith Communities Together

• Molly Jo Stanley, Ohio Environmental Council

• Joe Blanda, Physicians for Social Responsibility

• Randi Pokladnik, Save Ohio Parks

Thursday, October 26th at 6pm
Suszanne M. Scharer Room, Ohio Union
1739 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210, Ohio State University
Teach-in with Palestinian Provost's Fellow, Dr. Bayan Abusneineh, on contextualizing Gaza, Palestine and its history. 

When it comes to Columbus’s new district system for City Council, Eastside activist Jonathan Beard pulls no punches.

“I started calling this ‘Columbabama.’ This is repackaged 1950’s Jim Crow,” he says. “These fake districts were Shannon Hardin’s effort to confuse the ballot, claim responsiveness to an issue, and preserve white money and white voters’ influence over who represents Black folk in Columbus.”

In 2016, Beard unsuccessfully tried to bring true representative districts to Columbus. His non-profit Everyday People For Positive Change spent $13,000 while the City spent over $1 million to distort and then defeat the citizen-initiated vote.

“Our proposal simply sought to enlarge the size of council and bring real council districts to the city. Columbus is the only big city in America to retain an all-at-large election system,” he says.

Reefer Madness is alive and well. Remember the drug war when truth didn’t matter? Apparently, those who represent us at the statehouse vehemently oppose cannabis being on the ballot. So, to sway public opinion, they copped their legislative authority to pass a ridiculous resolution filled with faulty facts.

Yep, on October 10th, with nary an announcement nor a hearing, Ohio Senate Republicans – all of 23 them – introduced an passed that very same day, along strict party lines Ohio Senate Resolution 216 (S.R. No. 216), whose Long Title is: “To express the Ohio Senate's opposition to Issue 2 on the November 7, 2023, statewide ballot, which would legalize the use and retail sale of recreational marijuana; to identify the problems, risks, dangers, burdens, and costs it would bring to Ohioans, employers, and communities; and to encourage Ohioans to vote against the measure.” Gee thanks.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Staff from US Together and Community Refugee and Immigration Services will discuss their efforts to help individuals and families join new communities, including those resettling in Worthington, and share ways to help.  
Location:  Old Worthington Library, 820 N. High St., Worthington. 

Labels are central to the politics of media. And no label has been more powerful than “terrorist.”

 A single standard of language should accompany a consistent standard of human rights, which the world desperately needs. “If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell wrote, “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.”

 No amount of rhetoric from its defenders and apologists can change the reality that Hamas engaged in mass murder. What Hamas horrifically did to more than 1,000 Israeli civilians of all ages two weeks ago meets the dictionary definition of terrorism.