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Saturday, March 11, 11am-8pm, Ohio Statehouse
Since our mainstream media and government are all being paid to downplay the severity of this, I would like to start this event to gather anyone who this may impact and people who aren’t even impacted. What is being done to East Palestine people is not right. The government and rail companies think we are stupid. They think that their pennies are enough to just have everyone turn a blind eye. I refuse to turn a blind eye and would love all the support we can get to create actual change. These corporations need to be held accountable. Our congressmen and women need to be held more accountable. They are lying about everything.
Bring your signs and passion for humanity. Violence will not be tolerated.
Hosted by Ryan McClellan and Mike Huffman.
Two-day event to talk unexplained sightings, strange phenomena in the shadow of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
The UFO Heritage Team
What does our government know about UFOs? What does the evidence say about why they are here? And, ultimately, are we alone in the universe?
Many Ohioans may scoff, but what can’t be denied is the Buckeye State’s intriguing history regarding UFOs. Consider the UFO flap that swept Ohio in 1973 during Halloween, or how UFOs have often been reported near the state’s Native American Earthworks.
In February 2023 the subject of UFOs was thrust into the headlines with reports regarding strange objects being shot down over the United States and Canada. Equally unsettling is how US Air Force pilots have witnessed UFOs off both coasts on near daily basis.
Surprisingly or not, the Columbus City Council, apparently with the advice and consent of the City Attorney’s Office, publicly decreed at its Monday, March 6, 2023 meeting that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution does not apply to Columbus residents especially any who dares to speak honestly and openly about any element of the City itself. This is obviously not a problem for mayor, City Councilors, Council’s Chief of Staff, and major division heads.
On one hand, it is curious because City Attorney Klein likes to struggle very publicly and politically with the alternatively ignorant of and anti-Constitutional state Attorney General David Yost and Secretary of State Frank LaRose, all of whom aspire to higher office. LaRose just returned from hobnobbing with 2020 election deniers at the Trumpist CPAC meeting. These two are busy suppressing voting and many other legal rights in Ohio.
Here’s how this works each year.
1) Biden proposes a massive increase in military spending — above and beyond both what he proposed the year before and what the Congress increased that to. If you look at U.S. military spending according to SIPRI in constant 2021 dollars from 1949 to now (all the years they provide, with their calculation adjusting for inflation), Obama’s 2011 record will probably fall this year. If you look at actual numbers, not adjusting for inflation, Biden has set a new record each year.
If you add in the free weapons for Ukraine, then, even adusting for inflation, the record fell this past year and will probably be broken again in the coming year.
Friday, March 10, 6-9pm
The Vanderelli Room, 218 McDowell St.
Columbus based artists have donated a variety of artwork to help support efforts to end human trafficking.
The sales from this exhibition will benefit 1DivineLine2Health.
Join us for a night of artwork and entertainment, while supporting this westside grassroots organization led by our very own Esther Flores.
Hosted by The Vanderelli Room.
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For a second time, Ohio Attorney General David Yost’s office has rejected the Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity (OCEQI) summary of petition. Undeterred, the OCEQI plans on submitting for a third time, but their patience with AG Yost is wearing thin.
“This is normal for the AG,” said OCEQI’s Cynthia Brown, who lost a nephew to Columbus police. “Most ballot initiative petitions are turned down multiple times.”
However, added Brown, “Yost doesn’t want government officials held accountable, or jobs terminated when they violate clearly violate Ohioans’ civil liberties or individual rights.”
The OCEQI is seeking to end qualified immunity by placing a citizen-led initiative on a future ballot hoping voters will amend the state Constitution. Their proposed amendment this time around was titled, “Protecting Ohioans Constitutional Rights”.
On Thursday, March 9, join the Columbus DSA Housing Priority Campaign as we continue our efforts to oppose the American Campus Communities/Blackstone private student housing proposed for Lane and High. On this date, the project goes before the city’s Development Commission.
We oppose the project because ACC is owned by Blackstone, one of the world’s largest and most predatory landlords. Recently, our campaign opposed the proposal at the University Area Commission, and the conversation at that meeting spurred commissioners to vote against the proposal 10-6. The area commission’s decision is advisory, not binding, and the Development Commission may overrule the area commission’s recommendation at the March 9 meeting.
Columbus’ reigning Democratic political class falsely presents itself as progressive and democratic. This seldom goes beyond empty, poorly formulated and awkwardly articulated slogans. Their uninformed rhetoric is contradicted at least weekly when not more often by their policy- and program-free actions and especially inactions.
It is astonishing to me as historian and life-long urban resident that Columbus is the only city in the US of any size and self-proclaimed (if exaggerated) significance that proudly lacks representative, democratic city government. Almost all US cities moved from lack of representation or at-large city coucils in the second half of the 19th century, not the 20th century. Along with its lack of an identity, this is Columbus’ only justifiable claim to uniqueness or exceptionality.
March 8, 2023 at 5:30 Eastern, 4:30 Central time: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-country-is-the-world-tickets-569789424507
A book called My Country is the World: Staughton Lynd’s Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War edited by Luke Stewart, is about to be released by Haymarket Books: See https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1956-my-country-is-the-world?mc_cid=28ef3d72c2&mc_eid=f491d9cdea
Tuesday, March 7, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Featuring a panel discussion with leading proponents for reproductive rights, we will present on the state of abortion rights in the US and the road forward to win back federal protections and ensure access to safe and legal abortion in all 50 states. Our panelists will present practical advice on campus advocacy, ensuring access to all aspects of reproductive healthcare, as well as discuss legal and political perspectives. Participants will walk away knowing effective steps forward for ensuring access to comprehensive reproductive care for all people.
• Pamela Merritt is Executive Director of Medical Students for Choice, where she leads a dynamic team working to create tomorrow’s abortion providers and pro-choice physicians.
• Lauren Morrissey is the co-founder and co-director of the Student Coalition for Reproductive Justice (SCRJ), a student-powered organization fighting for access to sexual and reproductive healthcare on Catholic college campuses.