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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.
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.
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.
Part Two
Campus Partners for Urban Community Development
Among OSU’s most glaring if rarely noticed institutional failures is its so-called Campus Partners for Urban Community Development. As I demonstrate in detail in a forthcoming study, this almost 30 year front partners only with developers, never with or for urban community development. It actively neglects the University District whereby any measure of vision, planning, or common sense, its attention should focus.
Its series of contradictions is encapsulated in its self-presentation or identity as a university-based but independent non-profit organization to beneft private developers. Always lacking in planning and direction, it does just that, to the cost of the university’s losing millions of dollars.
Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community activist who is circulating petitions to run for mayor in the 2023 May primary election states: “I attended [Monday, January 9) night’s Columbus City Council meeting to testify against an ordinance. I also supported my fellow advocates who spoke at the meeting about the numerous issues and failures by our city and the justice system regarding the murder of Sinzae Reed. My younger fellow citizens were exposed unexpectedly and rudely exposed to one particular element of the undemocratic rules and conduct of Columbus City Council meetings.
“Because two speakers representing the organizations J.U.S.T. and The Downtownerz signed up to testify during the public comments portion of the City Council meeting, City Council procedures call for an adjournment of the scheduled meeting. This results automatically in turning off the cameras and audio that live stream the meeting on YouTube and for those who have basic cable television.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 2:00 PM
Please join us for this critical discussion as we learn how electric vehicles can help us save money, protect public health, and safeguard our Sacred Earth. Hear from leading EV consumer advocate Rosa Mitsumasu Scotti as well as IPL staff members about the countless benefits of EVs! If you can't make this time, please register and you'll receive a follow-up email after the event with a recording. Interfaith Power and Light. More information and registration here.
Tuesday, March 10, 6:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Whetstone Branch], 3909 N. High St.
Despite tireless opposition by progressives and advocates for “good government,” the Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly drew unbalanced and unconstitutional state and congressional districts in 2022.
So what do we do now?
Come hear from a panel of experts on potential steps forward, including bringing the issue directly to voters.
• Catherine Turcer, Executive Director of Common Cause Ohio
• Dr. David Niven, professor at University of Cincinnati, specializing in gerrymandering
Hosted by Clintonville Area Progressives.
Monday, January 9, 2023, 7:00 PM
At these weekly Monday-night meetings we chat about any current projects. Going forward, we hope to meet in person once a month. Keep an eye out for those events! Registration link.