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In a viral video that has racked up more than half a million views, students from Columbus Alternative High School (CAHS) urged Gov. DeWine and key legislators to deliver on their promise of fairly and fully funding public schools during the 2023 budget cycle.
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) – a grassroots people-centered power organization – helped create the viral video in collaboration with CAHS students. They released it last week on All In For Ohio’s Instagram page, along with an online petition to key legislators urging them to fully fund our schools.
The video has attracted significant statewide and national recognition for hitting a nerve in the ongoing debate around public schools and charter schools.
There are both very few and many take-aways from Andy Ginther’s non-State of the City fantasy tale on Tuesday, March 21. Three stand out:
First, Ginther cannot possibly live in the city of Columbus. He knows so little about it. But we do know that he inhabits, at least in his imagination and bank book, a ragged small broken, undistinguished patch that I renamed Colemanville. In fact, Ginther grew up in far north Columbus, not far from the Worthington border. He now lives in The Knolls, west of 315, close to closer to Upper Arlington.
Colemanville is an unenfranchised, undefined area bounded by several highways and the environmentally challenged Scioto River. It is the bought-and-sold preserve of Urban Empeor for Life Michael Coleman, Ginther’s keeper; Coleman’s unelected Downtown Development Corporation; and The Columbus Partnership whose leaders live outside the city they dominate. They all claim, misleadingly, to be “non-profit.” It is undemocratic, authoritarian capitalism, an unelected unrepresentative government for the few by the fewer. This is the historical practice of the Columbus Way.
Saturday, March 25, 8:30am-3pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
Hope to see you shopping - join us for the big sale! Art and Collectibles, Computers, Electronics, Exercise Equipment, Furniture, Garden Goodies, Household Items, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Office Items, Pet Supplies, Records and CDs, Books, Sporting Goods, Tools, Baby and Kids' Clothing, and Toys!
We also need help cleaning up and resetting the building for worship, starting at 3pm Saturday. No sign up, just show up! There will be pizza! Leftover items will be collected by Out of the Closet.
Hosted by First Unitarian Universalist Church.
When the hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center, pierced the Pentagon and buried into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, most of our thoughts were about the cruel, horrific shattering of family bonds, the forever severing of deep friendships, the senseless destruction of human life. More than that America was under threat and fear prevailed.
The never-ending heartache of loss was on display in photos with messages that ringed the fence of a church near ground zero in New York: “Have you seen him?” “Please, any information, call…” “Please help us find our wife and mother.”
Hundreds of messages. No responses.
I was in New York a few days after 9/11 and witnessed the devastation. I traveled to the site where Flight 93 impacted. And I had heard the plane hit the Pentagon, as I joined hundreds evacuating the Congressional House Office Buildings in Washington, D.C.
Friday, March 24, 8pm, Chef Hīrō, 1297 Parsons Ave.
Come sing your hearts out with us at Queer Karaoke Night hosted by BQIC on Friday, March 24, 8-10pm! We’ll be at Chef Hīrō which is located at 1297 Parsons Ave, so you can also grab a bite to eat or a drink while you’re there! D.J. Faye Waye will be running us through the hits, so make sure you come through and bring a friend! Parking is available at the back of the restaurant.
This is a fundraiser for BQIC, so we are asking that non-QTIPOC pay $10 to participate; queer and trans folks of color have a suggested donation of $5.
Friday, March 24, 8pm, Chef Hīrō, 1297 Parsons Ave.
Come sing your hearts out with us at Queer Karaoke Night hosted by BQIC on Friday, March 24, 8-10pm! We’ll be at Chef Hīrō which is located at 1297 Parsons Ave, so you can also grab a bite to eat or a drink while you’re there! D.J. Faye Waye will be running us through the hits, so make sure you come through and bring a friend! Parking is available at the back of the restaurant.
This is a fundraiser for BQIC, so we are asking that non-QTIPOC pay $10 to participate; queer and trans folks of color have a suggested donation of $5.
When the hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center, pierced the Pentagon and buried into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, most of our thoughts were about the cruel, horrific shattering of family bonds, the forever severing of deep friendships, the senseless destruction of human life. More than that America was under threat and fear prevailed.
The never-ending heartache of loss was on display in photos with messages that ringed the fence of a church near ground zero in New York: “Have you seen him?” “Please, any information, call…” “Please help us find our wife and mother.”
Hundreds of messages. No responses.
I was in New York a few days after 9/11 and witnessed the devastation. I traveled to the site where Flight 93 impacted. And I had heard the plane hit the Pentagon, as I joined hundreds evacuating the Congressional House Office Buildings in Washington, D.C.
Yesterday, March 22, was a big day for labor in Columbus. Striking Starbucks workers shut down two locations, unions crowded two Statehouse hearings, and Wex Arts workers won their union, a struggle that took over two years.
Starbucks Strike
Thursday, March 23, 7pm
Register to Attend
Buckeye Environmental Network and Ohio Brine Task Force
Moderated by Athens County Commissioner Lenny Eliason, hear from experts Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice and Fire Battalion Chief Silverio Caggiano about the hidden dangers of oil and gas waste. We will explore the radioactive and toxic properties of oil & gas waste, how it is widely spread throughout most of Ohio's counties, and it's effects on the body.
Today, Starbucks workers across the country went on a one day strike. The union Starbucks Workers United are demanding an end to the company’s union-busting campaign.
Starbucks has launched a brutal campaign against unionization efforts in their stores. Raises were withheld from union organizers, union organizers were fired, and Starbucks locations where unions were established were illegally shut down.
But in recent months, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled in favor of workers. A judge from the NLRB recently ruled that Starbucks has to re-hire fired baristas and re-open closed locations, finding the company guilty of violating labor laws “hundreds of times.” But Starbucks has nonetheless continued their union-busting campaign.