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Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 6:30 (social time), 7:00 PM Forum
We will discuss the new election process for the City Council. This is the first election with districts for those elected to Council. There are some wrinkles to this procedure to explain and learn about. We have commitments from several candidates. Come and learn about them and how our City Council will change after this election.
Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Whetstone Branch, 3909 N. High St., Columbus 43214.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 6:30 (social time), 7:00 PM Forum
We will discuss the new election process for the City Council. This is the first election with districts for those elected to Council. There are some wrinkles to this procedure to explain and learn about. We have commitments from several candidates. Come and learn about them and how our City Council will change after this election.
Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Whetstone Branch, 3909 N. High St., Columbus 43214.
According to the New York Post, “This superhuman tech can do a variety of complicated tasks on the fly, from composing complex dissertations on Thomas Locke to drafting interior design schemes and even allowing people to converse with their younger selves.”
Wow! Do you suppose this wondrous technology could maybe get weaponized with malicious intent?
You bet it can...And it is.
In 2021 Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher co-authored a book titled The Age of AI And Our Human Future. As you might expect, these guys are arch AI boosters. Critics pointed out that,
Monday, February 6, 5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join our weekly coalition-building meetings on defending democracy and protecting the climate. Hear from special guests focusing on grassroots activism. Please invite your friends!
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Hosted by Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition.
In "Consecration," after the suspicious death of her brother Michael (Steffan Cennydd), a priest, Grace (Jena Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past.
"Consecration" is the story of Grace, an accomplished ophthalmologist in London, who's summoned to Mount Saviour Convent deep in the Scottish Highlands following the sudden and mysterious death of her brother who was a priest. Refusing to believe the convent’s insistence that he took his life and determined to discover what really happened to him, Grace starts her own investigation into her brother’s death as the nuns prepare a consecration ceremony to purify the holy site.
David Swanson is the author of the new book The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace It With.
The Monroe Doctrine was first discussed under that name as justification for the U.S. war on Mexico that moved the western U.S. border south, swallowing up the present-day states of California, Nevada, and Utah, most of New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. By no means was that as far south as some would have liked to move the border.
The catastrophic war on the Philippines also grew out of a Monroe-Doctrine-justified war against Spain (and Cuba and Puerto Rico) in the Caribbean. And global imperialism was a smooth expansion of the Monroe Doctrine.
ComFest showcases the very best in live music in Columbus and Central Ohio. Entertainment applications for all stages are now open through April.
You can be a part of ComFest history by designing the official ComFest 2023 logo.
Designs must have the dates “June 23, 24, & 25, 2023” and the name “Community Festival” and must incorporate the Hopewell symbol (graphic above) into the logo. Images must be camera ready and one color image (no grayscale). Go to comfest.com and look for the logo contest link for more information.
223 ComFest Logo Contest
Thursday, March 9, 2023, 7:30 PM
The Vanderelli Room
218 McDowell St, Columbus, OH 43215
Or upload entrie prior to March 8 at logo@comfest.com
Sunday, February 5, 2023, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
CAIR-Ohio will be holding a legal/immigration clinic with Simakovsky Law! Target clients: Recent arrivals, Asylum, Removal proceedings, DACA, TPS, Citizenship, Family reunification, and Victims of domestic violence.
Please bring any previous/current immigration paperwork to discuss your case with an immigration attorney.
Location: 1450 East Main Street, Columbus 43205. Free parking in the back.
For questions, contact CAIR-Ohio Client Intake Specialist Sarah Mazouz at 614.219.7330, smazouz@cair.com.
Register for the clinic here.
A generation ago, racist politicians invented a mythical “Willie Horton” as a made-up “straw man” to represent their false stereotype of African Americans. They campaigned against this mythical character, using his made-up bad behavior as something we had to fight against, change. Unfortunately, they were able to mobilize many white people to vote against their own interests, further their reactionary agenda that hurt all of us.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an important theory developed over 30 years ago that explains how racism/inequality toward one group also harms, increases inequality of others, including white people and harms our nation as a whole. It in no way vilified white people. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped Republicans, racists, from saying it did, using it (like those politicians a generation used Willie Horton) to mobilize their base.
CRT shows how race/racism has been central to our nation’s development, since even before its founding. It shows how defeating racism is key to progress, for African Americans, but also for white folks. Republicans are using our people’s ignorance to push cutting Social Security, huge tax cuts for the wealthy.
Local labor unions, environmental groups, students, and social justice advocates will gather in honor of the birthday of civil rights leader Rosa Parks, as well as other civil rights icons, as part of national Transit Equity Day led by the Labor Network for Sustainability, now in its sixth year.
Leaders from labor and advocates from across the environmental and social justice movements will lay out a broad vision of accessible public transportation for Ohio including demands to electrify passenger and school buses, expand bus service and eliminate fares, build new local bus rapid transit, and protect worker rights.