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I would like to tell you about a very interesting and well written summary of indigenous resistance in early Ohio, aspirating to intertwine it with current struggles. This reader learned a lot!
The Columbus Worker, offers a particularly worthwhile article on a history of the indigenous resistance throughout what is today Ohio and Indiana, beginning some decades previous to its colonization by the United States and extending up to Tecumseh’s departure from this life.
This online magazine is sponsored by a group called the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists, who recently opened their formerly internal magazine to a wider readership. Dylan Vanover’s reasons for broadcasting the History of Indigenous Resistance in Ohio couldn’t be said better or more succinctly than his own introduction.
1) I don't remember them having that many good songs! When I think of the Mob's album output I think of Omerta and only Omerta, their classic debut and then there's everything else. That Friday night at the Athaneum (what a place!), there wasn't a dud on the set list.
2) If you hadn't told me I wouldn't suspected in the least our dear Carlton Smith was in a titanic struggle with brain cancer. He was as dependably "on the one" as he's ever been. I wish he'd had a song to sing. He's got more personality than a Cheshire cat.
3) Brian Emch on guitar more than ever showed what he always was and so shall always be: one of finest light touches on funk guitar from beginning to end this state has ever produced. A true Ohio Player.
4) David Ellison hasn't lost his rap execution, his humor or his timing. Such a lucky front man to have the greatest rhythm section this side of...James Brown and the Rolling Stones.
When Ohio Attorney General David Yost went judge shopping to permanently ban Columbus City Council’s effort to enact even the mildest of gun safety laws, the Free Press was certain the Fairfield County judge he found would side with the State of Ohio.
Many were confused or not paying attention: How could a Fairfield County judge have authority over Columbus? Unfortunately, and almost unimaginably, is how a tiny sliver of southeast Columbus extends into neighboring (and mostly conservative) Fairfield County.
But the Free Press was thankfully wrong. Fairfield County Common Pleas Judge Richard Berens on January 20 denied the State of Ohio’s motion for a preliminary injunction to forever ban Columbus’s gun safety measures passed in December.
Sunday, January 29, 12noon-4pm, Revolutionary Botanicals, 5212 N. High St.
We are happy to be back and we come with news of change. This will be our final Bizarket in Clintonville for the foreseeable future. We are eternally grateful for our time at Revolutionary Botanicals with Shaun and Amanda; we’ll definitely be collaborating in the near future. We are happy to have grown the community with you all. So, for our final Clintonville Bizarket, we are going to celebrate “Wellness.” This means great food, healing teas, organic desserts, metaphysical healing items, esoteric and occult healing practices, natural and medicinal healing products, and more!
If you are interested in being booked in January, please email <hempenetrablecreations@gmail.com> to confirm.
Hosted by Terence CleanBody Robertson, Shaun Fitzpatrick, and Melissa Dillon Barrett.
The Compost Exchange's goal is to collect and recycle the food scraps generated by every Columbus resident, turning this locally generated natural resource into nutrient rich compost and specialty soils.
It seems Columbus’ policing unfortunately follows national trends, incident by incident. Columbus Police actions have become a regressive, dark-mirror version of the country: a week after a jury in Atlanta convicted three men on hate crimes charges for chasing down and murdering 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery while he was going for a jog, Columbus officer Ricky Anderson shot 20-year-old Donovan Lewis in the stomach while serving the near-juvenile a warrant in the middle of the night. Twenty minutes after news broke that Derek Chauvin had een found guilty of the long, slow murder of 48-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, Columbus officer Nicholas Reardon shot and killed 15-year-old Ma’khia Bryant in response to that juvenile’s having called the police to help de-escalate the very situation officer Reardon walked into.
The three men who lynched Arbery were found guilty of murder and hate crimes. In a subsequent trial in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin plead guilty to having violated Floyd’s civil rights for kneeling on his neck and back for nine minutes while Floyd took his last breaths.
I meet punk bands who talk with me about rap or vegan food.
Ocean: I think all of us in the band enjoy hip hop and rap. I'm the only one who is a vegan that eats veggie.
Erek: The best part about not being vegan is still eating vegan food. It's delicious and good for you!
Covid eliminated punk shows for a while.
Ocean: That time frame was traumatic! Some of the venues and people I know did not make it.
Erek: Everyone basically lost a year... But the scenes are back and better than ever.
I read about Body Farm at Maximum Rock N Roll because I have Verizon internet where I live.
Do you know someone at MRR or did you just send them stuff…
Erek: You submit everything. There are instructions on their site.
Once something is live on MRR do you receive emails, sell records and end up with shows?
Erek: Yes and no. It's a place that people get info for sure so it's possible but we really didn't see an increase in anything from the reviews specifically.
Can someone tour off of MRR reviews?
Erek: Not really, but it is a good reference to put in your tour package for people helping you out.
Thursday, January 26, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Budgets are Moral Documents
The Governor will introduce his budget proposal in a few weeks followed by five months of legislative committees, amendments, and votes. As people of faith, we have an opportunity to strengthen this public conversation about Ohio’s priorities and our future. Budget policy can change lives and strengthen Ohio.
Through our budget policies, we can help folks find economic stability, improve our schools, clean up our parks and rivers, and much more.
During our conversations on January 26, we will share the following.
• Our budget priorities for 2023
• Likely hot-button issues
• Historical context
• Why your voice is needed
We will hold the same conversation twice — once at 12noon and once at 7pm. Please join us for whichever time fits your schedule.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Hunger Network in Ohio.
The city with no identity, no history, no leadership, and no expertise adds to its uniqueness—and lack of distinction—by its assault on most of its residents in most of it “neighborhoods.” Unlike most cities, Columbus seldom refers to itself as a “city of neighborhoods.” That is a clue to follow through the decaying broken streets and sidewalks, full of trash, zoning violations, and limited mass public transit. (See the Columbus Free Press website for my relevant essays.)
In my University District, fraternities that actively harm the area “adopt the area.” That means paying a small fee to the for-profit/eering city departments to post a metal sign that further defaces the physical environment. “Area,” of course, is never defined. Where is the department of neighborhood protective services, like children or animals?
The sad slogan is “making Columbus beautiful.” Its parallel is city councilor-led very occasional “beautification” events of a few hours of individuals picking up trash. This substitutes for both funding and managing reliable recycling, trash collection, and inspection for violations. In others, slogans not public services.