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Wednesday, November 16, 6pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join us for our monthly huddle for all Fair Districts volunteers. Catch up on Fair Districts news, current actions, what’s next for our #fairmaps advocacy.
Joining us at this month’s Huddle will be Freda Levenson, Legal Director of ACLU Ohio, who will talk about the redistricting litigation currently before the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. We’ll also have time to talk about the election.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Common Cause Ohio.
Tuesday, November 15, 7-8:30pm, Church and Community Development for All People, 946 Parsons Ave.
This event will be a night of storytelling, theater, listening, and learning. Learn how the current cash bail system could affect you or someone you care about and learn simple steps you can take to help reform it. Every day, thousands of Ohioans who have not been convicted of a crime are behind bars, not because of what they have done, but because of what they don’t have.
There is easy free parking just north of the building off of Stanley Ave. Light refreshments will be offered. As we enter COVID and flu season, please take precautions.
Hosted by ACLU of Ohio.
ColumbusMediaInsiderPoliticalOutsider – Wipeout: Democrats’ Brand Sullied, Chair Walters Should Quit
Ohio Democrats were wiped out in the Nov. 8 election. Let the excuse-making begin.
Democrats in the state of Ohio have become like Democrats in Delaware County, where I reside. When you can’t win and you can’t even get close to electing Democrats, hold nice social gatherings and create an elaborate committee structure to divert the blame from the party leaders.
The Ohio Democratic Party, what of it there is, has moved into full public relations mode to try and save the jobs of its chair Liz Walters and her underlings.
Chris Redfern, the chair a decade ago, traveled from county to county after the party was whipped (though not as badly as this year) with charts and maps of how progress was being made and how the victory was just around the corner, if only brother Redfern were kept on the job.
Monday, November 14, 6am; to Tuesday, November 15, 3pm, Ohio Department of Education, 25 S. Front St.
The Ohio State Board of Education’s Executive Committee has scheduled another meeting on the morning of November 14 to discuss, amend, and possibly vote to send to the larger committee for a vote the resolution supporting discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse kids. The vote might happen during the meeting on November 15. Details will follow as we get updated.
We will be out on the sidewalk again with sidewalk chalk, protest signs, and streaming the meetings; just to let the Committee Members know that we’re still here, and we’re going to keep being here. There will also be sitting in the meeting room and the overflow room. We can go in and out of the building if we need to stay warm; make sure to bring ID to enter the building.
There is no public testimony again during these meetings, but e-mail addresses and petitions can be found in the Honesty for Ohio Education posts that will be shared here.
Part One
Less than two months ago, pushed by two friends who read my essays, I published “Why I remain in Columbus despite Columbus. . . .” (Busting Myths, Columbus Free Press, Sept. 16, 2022). Events during the past month have me seriously reconsidering that judgement.
I voice my heightened doubts in this essay. The factors driving my self-reflections, in a few words, are: major officials of the City of Columbus, Ohio elected and appointed, knowingly violate the letter of the law and regularly mislead the city’s residents among the contents of their actions including City Council proposals and initiatives put to the public.
If that were not enough, the beleaguered Columbus Police Department (CPD), materially weakened by leading elected officials, and rudderless, does not enforce the law. Officers admit this to me, that is, when they don’t dismiss my documented complaints on false grounds.
Fundamentally, residents who don’t work for the City, or live in the Short North, have no rights in Columbus, Ohio.
The theme of the salon was “The Impact of the 2022 Elections: Local, National and International.” It was available live on Zoom and Facebook Live.
Ohio Green Party New Member Orientation
Sunday, November 13, 8:30pm, this event will be occurring via “Facebook Live”
Come join the Ohio Green Party as we lead an online session on an introduction to Green politics!
We will begin conducting political education sessions once a month to let Party members know the basic values of the Green Party and where we stand on the issues. These sessions will be held online and can be taken from anywhere. You do not have to be an Ohio Green Party member to attend, but new members are encouraged to take part.
This event will also be occurring via “Facebook Live.”
Hosted by Ohio Green Party.
Saturday, November 12, 7pm
Zoom
Facebook Event
Theme:
The Impact of the 2022 Elections: Local, National and International
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83906590837
Meeting ID: 839 06
Let's gather for a couple hours on the second Saturday night of each month from 7-8:00pm Eastern Time on Zoom.
Featuring
Medea Benjamin of Code Pink
Morgan Harper, Columbus Stand Up
Carolyn Harding, Columbus Community Bill of Rights
Lynn Tramonte, Ohio Immigrant Alliance
If you have any announcements for the
progressive community, contact us:
colsfreepress@gmail.com
Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines laments Election Day victories by Mike and Pat DeWine, plans to stay active during their second terms
As the general election season finally wraps up, the anti-DeWine PAC Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines has announced that while they lament the recent victories of Governor Mike DeWine and his son –– Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine –– the group has vowed to keep holding the DeWines accountable.
With just around $3,000, the PAC’s quirky content reached hundreds of thousands of voters during the course of Ohio’s primary and general elections this year. Its ads were seen by over 4,000 Fox News viewers, 30,000 YouTube users and heard by over 40,000 talk radio listeners, all while its online content reached over 34,000 people on Facebook and over 312,000 on Twitter.
Early Monday morning, the hourly workers at Starbucks, located at 1784 North High St., petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for an election and demanded union recognition from CEO Howard Schultz and local management. An overwhelming majority of workers at the store signed union authorization cards and a petition demanding union recognition.
These baristas are the third in Columbus and the ninth in Ohio to join the Starbucks Workers United movement that has swept across the country. Workers at the international coffee chain have filed for elections at hundreds of locations across the country and have won representation in over two hundred and fifty of them.
These coffee workers join with their union siblings downtown at the 88 Broad St. location and in Westerville at the South State St. store in demanding dignity, respect and improvements at their workplace. This petition highlights the growth of the movement in the Midwest, where union density among Starbucks shops in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois grows to rival the spread of the campaign in the company’s historic strongholds of Seattle and New York.