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In 1978 the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a case about affirmative action in higher education. It opined that colleges and universities could not use race as an exclusive basis for granting admission to an institution of higher learning because it violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Allan Bakke was a white man, an engineer, and a veteran of the United States Marines. When he was thirty-two years old, he applied to a number of medical schools, including the University of California Davis School of Medicine without success. U Cal Davis rejected both his applications. (When I initially read the facts of the case back in the day, my first reaction was that he was probably turned down because of his age. At thirty-two, he was eight years older than the average first-year medical student. Indeed, two institutions rejected his application citing that reason. This was not an uncommon practice at the time.)
Sunday, March 19th at 7 PM meeting on ZOOM
This meeting is for people who are interested in single payer medical insurance for everyone and want to use their developed communication/marketing skills in this endeavor, e.g. writing copy; graphic design; video and photography; electronic media platforms like Facebook, etc.
Call or email if you have questions about this.
Bob Krasen, Chair, Marketing Committee.
(614) 261-0754 please leave a message
brkrasen@gmail.com
Columbus, Ohio is the United States’ oldest and largest city that lacks both identity and history. By history, I mean a tradition of serious, researched, and documented historical writing by trained professionals, with or without advanced degrees. What passes for history in the Sunday edition of the Columbus Dispatch is not historical writing with close attention to context, relevance, and significance. At best, it is anachronistic antiquarianism.
Rooted in disconnected anecdotes, mainly discovered in old newspapers, it bears no relationship to the results of historical study and historical analysis. Let me be clear, this excludes The Ohio State University District: A Neighborhood History and The Ohio State University Neighborhoods—both vanity press publications; Ohio State University Press’ volumes on university presidents and selected decades; Ed Lentz; and the Ohio History Connection.
Underscoring my conclusion is that the city of Columbus has no history—human or natural—museum. That’s a major absence for a 225-year-old city with more than 900,000 population.
Saturday, March 18, 2pm, Ohio Statehouse
Join PSL [Party for Socialism and Liberation], the ANSWER Coalition, and other progressive organizations on Saturday, March 18 at the Ohio Statehouse.
It has been 20 years since the illegal U.S. invasion into Iraq; demand an end to all endless U.S. wars!
Peace in Ukraine now! Fund people’s needs, not the war machine!
Key demands include:
• End NATO
• Stop the permanent war economy that funnels trillions of dollars away from jobs, education, and healthcare!
• Negotiations now!
• No war with China!
• End US aid to apartheid Israel!
• Hands off Haiti!
• Fight racism and bigotry at home!
To endorse this action, message PSL Columbus on Instagram or on Facebook.
Hosted by PSL [Party for Socialism and Liberation] Columbus.
Woodstock is not just one story – it's 450,000 stories! And the Museum at Bethel Woods and ComFest are partnering to collect unique stories from Ohio.
ComFest is the longest-running community festival in the country and had its beginning in the counterculture movement. The Museum at Bethel Woods, the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, is deeply committed to the collection and preservation of stories from the people who know Woodstock best. Since 2020, the Museum has been collecting oral histories from around the country, and April 4 – April 8, 2023, they are going to be in Columbus.
Did you go to Woodstock? Do you know someone who did? We want to hear from you! It’s quick and easy to do. Contact Andy Basista at andy.basista@comfest.com or send an email to oralhistory@bethelwoodscenter.org to schedule an interview.
City of Columbus mayoral candidate Joe Motil states, “Today’s Columbus City Council press conference previewed their Housing Initiatives. In almost all their points, they all but copied and pasted the proposals that I have been advocating for over a year.” This is the Columbus Way.
Motil continues, “For more than a year, as part of my Affordable Housing proposals, I have advocated for an ‘Empty Homes Tax.’ This is exactly what Councilman Rob Dorans suddenly proposed, calling it the ‘Columbus Rental Registry.’ Of course, the City Council members do not acknowledge me or anyone else.”
Motil stated, “My proposed Empty Homes Tax will increase the supply of urgently needed housing. It will incentivize property investors who leave homes vacant until the market favors them to list and then rent or sell the property. It will also force slumlords to renovate housing that sits vacant and contributes to crime and deteriorating neighborhoods. The Empty Homes Tax revenue generated from property owners goes into an Affordable Housing Trust Fund.”
I am a citizen of the US currently visiting Palestine. I’m 64 years old. On March 7, myself and another international were attacked by Israeli settlers while standing on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Tuba in Masafer Yatta. I was hit from behind, hard, with a large stick, and my companion was chased and threatened by a settler with an iron bar. The settler who hit me fractured my skull and caused a bleed in my brain.
This is what the colonialism of Israeli settlers looks like for Palestinian families living in Masafer Yatta in the southernmost end of the West Bank. Supported by Israeli military and Police, settlers from the many settlements and illegal outposts in Masafer Yatta are systematically stealing Palestinian land and violently forcing people from their land. To be here now in these 15 villages is to witness ethnic cleansing in real time.
Thursday, March 16, 7-10pm, Club Diversity, 863 S. High St.
Join us for our DSA happy hour! We will be meeting on the third Thursday of each month at 7pm at Club Diversity at 863 S. High St. This will be an informal get together to meet, hang out, talk shop, and enjoy the camaraderie! Non-members are welcome to join and learn more about the chapter.
Hundreds of crime survivors and families of murdered loved ones from 35 cities across Ohio gathered at the statehouse atrium today, urging lawmakers to expand support for crime victims and make communities safer. Crime survivors were joined by elected officials, including Reps. Tavia Galonski (D-Akron) and Brett Hillyer (R-Uhrichsville), at Survivors Speak Ohio – an annual event organized by Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice (CSSJ) – with families holding photos of murdered loved ones and advocating for public safety reforms.
Ohio archaeology has a problem. All around the globe, a movement has been underway to change the imperialist names once given to archaeological sites to names indigenous to the cultures that created those works. This is called “the decolonization of archaeology” in Canada, which includes such names as the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Mounds in Ontario. It’s a sign of basic respect to the peoples of authorship.
Meanwhile, Ohio remains a bastion of unrepentant Anglocentrism, with the important exception of the Adena name, which Thomas Worthington likely borrowed from the Shawnee. But the Adena Mound “type site” – or the model of a particular archaeological culture – was completely destroyed and now lies below Orange Street in Chillicothe.