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I am both stunned and unsurprised with the August 22 2:00 pm announcement of the selection of retired Vice Admiral Walter “Ted” Carter as OSU’s 17th president. For context: days before the first football game kick-off, OSU has no starting quarterback. The Athletic Director Gene Smith is retiring.
The same Boar of Trustees (BOT) recognized no need to appoint an acting president from the time of ordered-to-resign former president Kristina Johnson’s departure on May 7 until the first day of fall classes. Their ability to read a resume obviously challenged, the BOT’s five-person search committee with no actual or direct faculty, student, staff, or community involvement chose a former ice hockey player not a football player. This is The Ohio State University not Toronto or McGill. Is the BOT confused, or is this the closest they could come? Kristina Johnson played field hockey in college.
Saturday, August 26, 6-11pm, Brothers Drake Meadery, 26 E. Fifth Ave.
We at 83 Gallery are thrilled to announce that our annual showcase for Trans and Non-binary artists will be taking place again. We have received four times as many submissions as last year.
This year, we will be raising funds for TransOhio.
Show Breakdown:
• 6-7:30pm: Talks hosted by Felicia DeRosa
• First Raffle pull at 8pm
• Special performance by Eileen Galvin and Commander Sins
• Closing Music by Rinn-Mimete
Art will be up and available for purchase until October 8; come check out the pieces both on our website and at Brothers Drake.
Hosted by 83 Gallery, TransOhio, and Briden Cole Schueren.
On Friday, August 25th, student activists and community organizers at Ohio State are calling on Ted Carter to immediately resign and apologize for his role in the unjust invasion of Iraq and bombing of Yugoslavia. Organizers also demand the democratization of OSU so that students, faculty, and Columbus community members can collectively decide the leadership of OSU.
WHAT: A coalition of undergraduate students, graduate students, and Columbus community members will rally against the undemocratic appointment of OSU President Ted Carter.
WHO: OH Youth for Climate Justice, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Rising Tide, Answer Coalition, Revolutionary Student Front, OSU student organizers, community members
WHEN: August 25, 2023 5:30 - 6:45 PM
WHERE: Ohio Union (1739 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210)
Ohio Youth for Climate Justice is a youth-led movement organizing radical action to address the climate crisis with the focus and urgency that the issue deserves. OHYCJ has been campaigning for fossil fuel divestment at Ohio State for two years
Friday, August 25, 2023, 11:00 PM
In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the Ohio Council of Churches invites you to travel to Washington, DC for a time of Recommitment to Racial and Economic Justice!
On Friday, August 25 at 11:00 pm, our bus will leave from Woodland Christian Church, 143 Woodland Ave, Columbus, OH. On Saturday, August 26 at 5:00 pm, our bus will depart Washington, DC for Columbus, arriving at approximately 1:00 am. Overnight parking at Woodland Christian Church is permitted. Owners assume all risks. Cost: $100 per person. Costs includes meals and snacks.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has put up a billboard in Columbus saying “Abort Theocracy: Keep Abortion Safe & Legal” ahead of a crucial referendum on the issue.
According to the Foundation’s website, it “works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church.”
The national state/church watchdog group and its Columbus chapter designed the billboard message in support of an upcoming November referendum to provide state constitutional protections for reproductive rights — and specifically to call attention to the religiously motivated crusade behind anti-abortion bans and restrictions. It’s a 14-by-48-foot bulletin on Hudson Street, 100 feet east of Summit Street facing west. The billboard went up last week and will be on display through Sept. 10.
“The fight to reaffirm abortion rights is really about the need to buttress the wall separating the state from the church,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The religious dogma of the few should not be allowed to deny rights to the rest of us.”
Thursday, August 24, 3-6pm, 935 Mount Vernon Ave. [near the intersection of Mount Vernon Ave. and N. 17th St.]
Join us each week for fresh, affordable, nutritious produce, local artisan creations, activities for youth, live music, and a food truck. This week there will be a Plant Swap and Recipe Swap; bring a plant and get a plant. And check out tasty plant-based recipes.
Vendors include Local Matters, Cynts Scents, Sankofa Love Designs, R02K, Coffico, and many, many others!
This event will repeat each Thursday, 3-6pm, until September 28.
Hosted by Bronzeville Growers Market.
It’s been a long circuitous journey. From 2011 to 2016, the word “medical” prefaced all submitted, rejected, or certified marijuana-related ballot initiatives in Ohio. All were proposed as constitutional amendments. Then, in March 2020, during the pandemic, the concept of regulating marijuana like alcohol emerged in an amendment that the Ohio Attorney General (OAG) rejected. A year and a half later in August 2021, the OAG did certify the Act to Control and Regulate Adult Use Cannabis (a resubmission) for signature gathering as – for the very first time – a citizen initiated statute. That meant game on for adult use cannabis in Ohio.
Saturday, August 26, 8am
Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King, III, and Arndrea Waters King have brought together 60 national organizations across racial, cultural, and generational lines as partners for the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington. The August 26th demonstration will not be a commemoration but a continuation of the “dream” Dr. King outlined at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Now, with democracy under threat and violent hate crimes on the rise, it is essential to galvanize around that dream and push back against the concerted efforts to peel away hard-won civil rights.
The coalition will gather for a large-scale event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on Saturday, August 26, 2023. The pre-program for the event will begin at 8:00 a.m. ET with the main program beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. Following the program, a march will begin through the streets of the Nation’s Capital. Additional details will be released prior to the event.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”