Local
Thursday, August 17, 7pm, Tuttle Park [outside of the Tuttle Community Center], 240 W. Oakland Ave.
Join Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists on Thursday, August 17 at 7pm to hear an invited speaker from the national organization, “Workers Voice,” as we consider how to build the movement on a national level.
We will also finish up our reading group over Huey Newton’s “Revolutionary Suicide” with summaries and discussion of chapters 5, 6, and the epilogue. We welcome those who have completed the reading or not.
This meeting will take place in person outside of the Tuttle Community Center and online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting.
Hosted by Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists.
Hey World War II fans, Rahm Emanuel has got some great news for YOU! He’s turning Japan into a warmaking country, and bragging about it.
Fun fact: the U.S. tried that before and it kind of backfired.
Funner fact: this is at least Rahm Emanuel’s tenth opportunity to fail upward.
Rahm Emanuel is the formerly much despised mayor of Chicago who tried to cover up police murder.
Congressman Rahm Emanuel in January 2007, after antiwar voters handed his Democratic Party the U.S. Congress to end the war on Iraq, made clear to a friendly Washington Post/CIA reporter that he hoped to keep that war going for two more years in order to “oppose” it in another election.
Rahm Emanuel is on video telling a young Asian-American woman that he’d like to adopt her, that she’s probably quiet and does a lot of studying.
Rahm Emanuel twice volunteered for the Israeli military despite not even being Israeli.
From 1954 to 1956, nineteen Black mothers and thirty-seven children in Hillsboro, Ohio marched daily from their homes to the segregated Webster Elementary School to demand Black students be allowed to enroll. The school for Black children, Lincoln School, was in a poorly-resourced, deteriorating school building. The Hillsboro School Board refused to admit Black children to the white school, despite the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling calling to integrate public schools “with all deliberate speed.”
There is endless chatter about the “decline of,” “loss of interest in,” or “end of” the humanities among and about college students and the never defined “general public” for decades, perhaps ever since the vague term “the humanities” came into general discourse. Notions vary and contradict each other. They range from those who confuse the arts and humanities with “the past,” “elites,” “bias of ‘Western Civilization’” regarding men, Caucasians, Christians, older people, and of course “the educated.”
Special censure contradictorily falls on academic humanists ourselves. Professors and our institutions are at once viewed as “conservative” enemies of “the people” or the “masses,” the upholders of traditions such as “the classics” and “great books” at all costs. At the same time, with no evidence—only cultural bias and guilt by association—many associate the humanities alternatively with “liberals,” “the left,” “radicals,” “socialists,” Marxists,” and so forth.
Wednesday, August 16, 6:30-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Now that we’ve protected the sacred principle of “One Person, One Vote,” we’re moving full steam ahead to pass our reproductive freedom amendment this November. We’re going to need a movement unlike anything Ohio has ever seen to get over the finish line and permanently protect abortion rights. It’s time to get involved in the fight ahead — join us to learn more about how you can help us secure reproductive freedom for all Ohioans.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio.
Hours after Ohio’s Issue 1 went down in the August special election, Secretary of State Frank LaRose “sounded the alarm” on Fox News about the latest proposed constitutional amendment to end Qualified Immunity for law enforcement.
Sore loser LaRose told Fox, “They’re trying to turn Ohio into California [and] now they’re coming after our police.” In reality, no one is “coming after” police and by the way, what is so scary about California?
What LaRose knows and refused to mention is that the effort to end Qualified Immunity in Ohio has been ongoing for well over half a decade.
The Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity (OCEQI) was inspired by the shooting death of 30-year-old Kareem Ali Nadir Jones in 2017. Jones was killed after he was approached by Columbus police for no good reason (family members pictured above). The police body cam video of Kareem’s death can be viewed here.
Columbus’ activist community lost one of our long-time social justice advocates when Gregory Gross, 66, passed unexpectedly in his sleep on August 13, 2023.
Gregory was originally from New Jersey and his family resides there. He studied here at Capital University in 1977 and shortly after, made Columbus his home. He rode his bike everywhere he went, to work and to all the activist events in the city. He often rode for charities such as the American Cancer Society (he was a survivor) and the American Diabetes Association. Another passion was jazz, and he often played sax with a local jazz band. He loved animals, owning several cats. If anyone remembers his apartment on Duncan, the ceiling was covered with homemade models of the Star Trek Enterprise.
Hidden in the quiet struggle of many communities across the United States lies an unsettling truth: Devastating health impacts of radiation exposure from nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining. This silent crisis has impacted the lives of veterans, Indigenous communities, and downwinders alike. The invisible damage from radiation has caused myriad severe health problems, leaving generations of families struggling under the weight of medical bills, fear, and suffering.
Updates to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), now before Congress, seek to address this issue. These bills promise acknowledgment, respect, and rectification of a deep-seated historical wrong. But more than that, they expand access for compensation to victims of radiation exposure and close unnecessary gaps in coverage and support.
Hidden in the quiet struggle of many communities across the United States lies an unsettling truth: Devastating health impacts of radiation exposure from nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining. This silent crisis has impacted the lives of veterans, Indigenous communities, and downwinders alike. The invisible damage from radiation has caused myriad severe health problems, leaving generations of families struggling under the weight of medical bills, fear, and suffering.
Updates to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), now before Congress, seek to address this issue. These bills promise acknowledgment, respect, and rectification of a deep-seated historical wrong. But more than that, they expand access for compensation to victims of radiation exposure and close unnecessary gaps in coverage and support.
From the 78th Commemoration of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Columbus Campaign For Arms Control Peace Concert
August 13th, 2023
For far too many, the names “Hiroshima” and “Nagasaki” have been relegated, diminished, beatified, and locked away into the ever palatable and thus, readily ignorable conceptual box known as history. History with a capital H. Tragic history, yes, but past history: something that “happened.”