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Fri May 19 at 5pm and Sun May 21 at 2 pm
Thursday, May 18 7pm-9pm
Enarson Classrooms Building Room 214 at OSU
Join online: http://tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting
Join the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists!
This week, we will be meeting from 7-9pm to discuss our local organizing and workshop ideas for promoting the socialist cause in Columbus.
This week we will be discussing our anti fascist work, solidarity with the movement against Cop City in Atlanta, the Stop Intel campaign, and other work we’re involved. We encourage anyone whose interested in organizing in the socialist movement to join us.
Hope to see you there!
I’m looking at the new report from Costs of War.
Five years ago, I think Nicolas Davies credibly and conservatively estimated 6 million people directly killed in U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia.
What Costs of War has now done is to go with the highly dubious but corporate-respectable estimate of 900,000 directly killed in all of those wars, but leaving out Libya and Somalia. They’ve then documented a pattern of four indirect deaths for every direct death. By indirect deaths, they mean deaths caused by a war’s impact on:
“1) economic collapse, loss of livelihood and food insecurity;
2) destruction of public services and health infrastructure;
3) environmental contamination; and
4) reverberating trauma and violence.”
In the last few days, selected Columbus residents received a text message fake opinion “survey” from uncredentialled market research company Research-Opinions.com in a brazenly dishonest and intolerable attempt to discredit me.
A friend of mine alerted me yesterday about the survey, and its unacceptably biased portrayal of Ginther as a successful mayor with absolutely no evidence. At the same time, it grossly misrepresented me as someone who opposes affordable housing and inclusiveness, and only runs for office “so he can get his name on the news.” Contradictorily, professional politician Ginther calls me “a professional political candidate.”
Ginther, his campaign, and his hacks are blatantly slandering and defaming me. These lies about me clearly demonstrate that Ginther, his campaign, and the Columbus establishment are already frightened about the head-to-head November election between two Democratic candidates for Mayor. My record of nearly 40 years of advocacy for justice, fairness, and quality of life issues for neighborhoods and everyday people of Columbus is a proven fact across this city. I am a Democrat. Ginther is not democratic.
Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 9:30 AM and 10:30 AM
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square,
SB 83 & HB 151 are identical higher education bills banning required DEI (Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion) training, policies based on gender and race, partnerships with China, and employee strikes;
they require online posting of syllabi and disciplinary measures for violations.
Opponent testimony is needed for BOTH bills (you can use the same testimony for each submission) AND we need you to PACK THE HEARING ROOMS AND SENATE FLOOR. Please join where and when you can to fight these coordinated attacks on academic freedom and SAFE, INCLUSIVE school campuses. More Information on SB 83 & HB 151. SB 83 is scheduled for a committee VOTE and possible full Senate VOTE on Wednesday at 9:30 AM in the Workforce and Higher Education Committee in the North Hearing room.
HB 151 Opponent Hearing is May 17 at 10:30 AM in the House Higher Education Committee, Room 17.
Complete information on how to submit opponent testimony and important talking points and
additional actions you can take is available here.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 1:00 PM
Ohio Statehouse, House Oversight Committee, Room 121, Columbus
This is a big deal, so please come if you can. This will be for sponsorship testimony, so only the bill's sponsor, Ohio Rep Michael Skindell, will be speaking. He will then press for hearings in which the people can offer their testimonials. Let's have a nice turnout to show support for the We the People Amendment and its chief sponsor in Ohio.
Monday, May 15, 2023, 7:00 PM.
OH-Chapter-City Gun Violence Prevention (CGVP) team members and partners will highlight amazing
collaborative work and partnerships from across the state. Hear about the victories in Akron
surrounding Issue 10, along with developments following the enactment of Issue 24 in Cleveland that
created the Community Police Commission.
Guest speakers will also share collaborative work
surrounding wellness and healing including the innovative and creative Zen Zones. Moms Demand
Action for Gun Sense in America.
The event will be at 1 pm on Saturday, June 10 at the Comfort Inn, 7525 US-23, Piketon, OH 45661.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) abbreviation for the Portsmouth Nuclear Site is PORTS. The site is referred to locally as “the A-Plant” and continues to be referred to by agency officials and contractors simply as “Piketon,” the name of the town nearest the site. The site was used to enrich uranium, first for nuclear weapons and later for nuclear power. By far the worst contamination occurred because for decades the DOE brought in high level radioactive waste (to extract uranium from it) and ran it through all 3 process buildings (100 acres under roof). This contaminated the entire site with radioactive isotopes including plutonium, neptunium, and technetium.
Speakers at the forum will be:
Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery kicked off the May 13 May Day Cyber-Salon from Japan with the theme of worker’s rights. Mark and Yoshie are getting ready for the G7 actions taking place there this month.
Watch the salon video here.
He introduced OSU professor Pranav Jani talking about Ohio bills HB 151 and Senate Bill 83 nicknamed the Higher Education Destruction acts. He is representing the American Association of University Professors. He recently gave an interview about the issue.
.On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, we brought a State Senate record number of opponents to the Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee to testify against Senate Bill 83, the Higher Education Destruction Act. Senate Bill 83 and its companion House Bill 151 are the Higher Education Destruction Act, and they are bad for students, bad for higher education, and bad for Ohio.
Rather than listening (as our democratic and civic processes require) to the 500+ Ohioans asking questions, raising arguments, and citing sources against Senate Bill 83, Committee Chair and Senate Bill 83 sponsor Senator Cirino allowed the unusual request of House Bill 151 co-sponsor Representative Josh Williams to open the hearing, even though Rep. Williams will be given ample time to share his personal viewpoint when he provides sponsor testimony in the House Higher Education Committee for HB 151.
Please join us in telling the sponsors of the Higher Education Destruction Act: we are here, we are strong, and we will not be ignored.