Local
Police Officers for Equal Rights event
Monday, January 16
First AME Zion Church, 873 Bryden Rd.
Free Carryout Breakfast - 9am-11am
In-person and live stream program 12noon
Keynote speaker: Dr. Shondrika Moss-Boldin
Maska required.
MLK March in Linden
Monday, January 16, 12-2pm
Meet at Good Shepherd Baptist Church, 11am
1555 E. Hudson St.
March ends at Point of Pride Corner at Cleveland Ave. and 11th
Guest speaker Don Sellars
WeAreLinden614.org
614-402-6875
In this video recording of a webinar from January 14, 2023, David Swanson discussed his forthcoming book The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace it With. See the 26:24 point in the video.
The Monroe Doctrine was and is a justification for actions, some good, some indifferent, but the overwhelming bulk reprehensible. The Monroe Doctrine remains in place, both explicitly and dressed up in novel language. Additional doctrines have been built on its foundations. This book looks at the creation, evolution, and use of the Monroe Doctrine over the years since 1823, and proposes a radically different approach for the U.S. government to take with Latin America and the world.
David is available to speak about this or other topics, as are other World BEYOND War speakers.
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VICTORY! Congratulations and thanks to everyone who helped oppose this bill.
HB 434 passed the Ohio House 75-18 on March 3, 2022, but was not voted out of the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee at the end of December.
Under the Radar Bill: Ohio House Bill 434 would have created a secretive new Ohio Authority that could dip into the public treasury for unspecified amounts of money to support research and development of what the bill termed an “advanced” nuclear reactor. But the entities behind the bill were promoting old and failed nuclear power technology. All this when the cost of new nuclear power to consumers is 4 to 5 times higher than wind or solar.
The Ohio Nuclear Free Network led the charge against this bill, with help from the Ohio Green Party, the Cuyahoga County Green Party, Our Revolution Ohio, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Grassroot Ohio, WGRN-LP FM Columbus, the Columbus Free Press, Midwest Energy News, other groups whose members worked on this issue, and individuals.
Surely Walter F. White, the superlative black investigative journalist, civil rights leader, author, and member of the Harlem Renaissance, is one of the most neglected figures in the twentieth century freedom movement. Perhaps it is, in part, because he was a black man who looked white. He once wrote of himself , “My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.” An essay in the Winter 1998 issue of the magazine American Legacy, says “The Ethical Culture Society leader Algernon Black was called upon to introduce him before an address. Mr. Black was introducing Mr. White, but Mr. Black was white and Mr. White was black, while of a whiter complexion than Mr. Black.”
Saturday, January 14, 7-8pm
Join progressive friends on Zoom to celebrate the new year and optimistic hope for the future.
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Meeting ID: 839 06
We'll hear from peace activist and journalist David Swanson of RootsAction about his new book, on the subject of the Monroe Doctrine, that forbid European powers from colonizing the Western hemisphere -- and what to replace it with.
Q & A included.
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Remarks on RootsAction.org’s Defuse Nuclear War livestream on January 12, 2023. Video here.
Thank you for all for being here and for including me.
We know the risks. They’re no secret. The Doomsday clock has almost nowhere to go but oblivion.
We know what’s needed. We’ve made a national holiday of a man who said he would oppose all nukes and all wars without any regard to whether it was popular, who said the choice was between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Seeing the current workforce exodus crippling other contractors and the dire need for new approaches to addiction treatment, a group of Columbus-area businesses are backing a very innovative and unique nonprofit endeavor to address both problems and launch the nation’s first recovery center and trade school right here in Ohio.
Although Emerge Recovery & Trade Initiative is located in nearby Greene County, Ohio, a large portion of this nonprofit’s backing and leadership is based out of Greater Columbus and surrounding areas, as dozens of heating, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical companies throughout Central Ohio are funneling portions of their profits into renovations underway at the facility.
Saturday, January 14, 10am on Zoom
Clean air and clean water are critical to our health. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Article 25 declares a clean and safe environment as part of our Human Right to Health.
How does air pollution impact our respiratory health?
How does polluted water impact our health?
Have we moved forward in safeguarding our health or backwards?
Who is most impacted by our neglect of the environment?
Join us on Saturday, January 14th at 10:00 am as we explore those issues. Register here.
Sat, January 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Join us for our annual Palestinian cultural night Raise the Kuffiyeh 2023 featuring guest host Fathi @falas6eeni, and more performers TBA!
By Students for Justice in Palestine at The Ohio State University
Link for tickets - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raise-the-kuffiyeh-2023-tickets-480032860207.
What is described as the “crown jewel” and largest of local Metro Parks – the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – is being coveted by RAPID 5, which someday may build a brewery, the “Darby Inn” and a gondola within the park. Similar to the one at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, but several miles in length and built alongside the Big Darby Creek.
Far west, past Hilliard and just off Broad Street before the town of West Jefferson, sprawls the 7,000-plus acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Both the Big and Little Darby Creeks cut through this Metro Park, and both creeks in 1994 were designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, which affords them environmental protections.