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Sunday, September 3, 2023, 6pm
Goodale Park Gazebo, 120 W. Goodale
Hosted by People's Justice Project
#BlackPowerMatters #BlackLiberation
I’m watching a rapper. She cusses. Kari Faux is from Little Rock, Arkansas. She lives in Southern California. She cusses.
Kari’s “Real Bitches Don’t Die Tour” played Columbus Tuesday. Kari’s show started with “Real Bitches Don’t Die” which is an angry diatribe about coping with betrayal and death which sounds like a celebration. She cusses in an anthem. “Real Bitches Don’t Die” is catharsis.
I took the number 1 from Olentangy River Road so I could look at the Wu-Tang/Nas/De La Soul sign in front the Schott.
I heard “Real Bitches Don’t Die” from outside but wasn’t inside the Basement yet. I didn’t know if there was a room of women flailing middle fingers.
Kari’s past collaborators include Gangsta Boo, Devin the Dude, Childish Gambino, and Big Krit. I think Karl cusses during all those songs.
I walked in as Kari Faux launched into “Me First” which led a packed room of ladies’ screaming about orgasms. Kari Faux wants an orgasm from oral sex, a rousing finger banging, or a meticulous romp before a man ejaculates. I guess that’s mansplaining a ladies’ sexual desire. I will write from my experience……I’m a man.
Julian Assange is facing possible extradition from Britain to the United States, to continue his brutal punishment (which the UN special rapporteur on torture has called torture) and to be tried in a criminal court for the offense of having exposed crimes by the U.S. military.
What he did may be rare, but we ought to be able to identify it as what it is: journalism.
Assange spent seven years confined in Equador's embassy in London, where he found refuge from what he correctly maintained -- but the U.S. government falsely denied -- was an effort by the U.S. government to have him extradited to the United States. While he was there, the U.S. government had him spied on, violated his attorney-client privlege, and made plans to murder him.
Since then, Assange has spent four more years in a British prison where his health has been deteriorating. That's a total of 11 years in confinement, and the U.S. Justice Department now wants him to spend even more years in a U.S. prison.
Julian Assange has already been punished for the crime of journalism.
Friday, September 1, 6:30pm
Goodale Park Gazebo, 120 W. Goodale
At 10am today, footage of the state-sanctioned murder of Ta'Kiya Young wss released to the public. This event will give space for you to express your frustrations while demanding accountability.
Sponsored by People's Justice Project
#JusticeforTaKiya
Staff at the Pickerington Public Library are organizing to form a union. If successful, they would become the third library system in Central Ohio to unionize through the Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT). In 2021 and 2022, library workers at Worthington Libraries and Grandview Heights Public Library formed unions in affiliation with OFT. Fairfield County Library workers are also organized through the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
On August 10, the Pickerington Public Library staff formally asked the library’s Director and Board of Trustees to voluntarily recognize their union. Signed union cards were presented to the State Employee Relations Board (SERB) as well, the office which will count the vote. At least 73 percent of staff in the library system, spanning two locations, had signed cards indicating their support for the unionization effort.
We've all had unimaginable childhood dreams growing up. But what if one of those dreams became a reality? Neil Blomkamp's movie adaptation of the video game "Gran Turismo" delves into this notion. What's captivating is that it's grounded in the incredible true story of a team of underdogs in auto racing: a unique blend of a video game movie and a biopic.
The film is based on a real-life contest that allowed the best Gran Turismo players to race for real. Despite following familiar underdog tropes, the film is well-crafted and features impressive racing sequences. "Gran Turismo" is a video game adaptation that blurs the line between reality and fiction, showcasing how a racing simulator can train someone to become skilled in the real world.
Archie Madekwe portrays Jann Mardenborough, an avid gamer from Cardiff who dedicates nearly every waking moment to dominating Gran Turismo on PlayStation. He dreams of becoming a real-life race car driver. The problem? His expertise lies in the virtual world; he doesn't know the first thing about racing actual cars.
Columbus activists held a banner at 161 and High Street in Worthington last Saturday, August 26 to demand freedom for Julian Assange. Amnesty International says: "The US government’s unrelenting pursuit of Julian Assange for having published disclosed documents that included possible war crimes committed by the US military is nothing short of a full-scale assault on the right to freedom of expression."
Julian Assange is currently being held at Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK, on the basis of a US extradition request on charges that stem directly from the publication of disclosed documents as part of his work with Wikileaks.
The time left to save freedom of the press is short. The UK has agreed to extradite Assange to the US. If he is tried and convicted in an American court, all publishers will be open to prosecution with the possibility of a life sentence in prison for printing information that the US govt doesn't like.
What publisher would risk that? Assange's "crime" was publishing truths that the government wanted concealed from the public -- a heroic act.
Thursday, August 31, 7pm, Tuttle Park [outside of the Tuttle Community Center], 240 W. Oakland Ave.
Join Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists for a meeting discussing and debating the methods we need to use to advance the socialist movement and end capitalist oppression once and for all. We’ll talk about the role of organization, the centrality of anti-oppression struggles, and the need for total independence from the ruling class and its political parties.
This meeting will take place in-person outside of the Tuttle Community Center and online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting (using the Jitsi app).
Hosted by Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists.
Part Two
Instead of actions that aid its too many, largely unadvised and unassisted students, several years ago, OSU changed the long-time traditional requirement that first year students live on campus in university-operated dormitories as part of their transition from home and socialization to college. With little advance notice and no responsible operational planning, one year became two years of mandatory on-campus housing and required university food contracts for all students who do not live with their families.
This was partly foreshadowed when OSU more than twenty years earlier removed full-time faculty from regular student advising. Only a handful of departments now assign new majors to faculty or have majors select their own advisors. For almost all students, as in first- and second-year general education, advising is conducted by full-time, non-teaching advisors. Many students, concentrating in certain colleges and departments, never or seldom speak to an advisor. Waiting time can be months not days or weeks and months.