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I last saw Councilmember Shayla D. Favor on Tuesday, August 2nd. She and I had arrived at our mutual polling location at the Blackburn Community Center to cast our ballots in the Democratic primary election. As luck would have it, we’re registered in the same district, District 1.
Our exchanges over the previous two months had been contentious if cordial, negotiable if slightly adversarial. As Chair of Housing and Health and Human Services, her office had the keenest interest in Camp Shameless, a houseless camp for which I advocate as a member of a local nonprofit called FIRST Collective, a group of activists making art, creating social infrastructure and fostering community through mutual aid.
My position as an executive committee member with the Columbus Coalition for Rent Control has put us in a place of needed negotiation given Councilmember Favor’s position as well.
I last saw Councilmember Shayla D. Favor on Tuesday, August 2nd. She and I had arrived at our mutual polling location at the Blackburn Community Center to cast our ballots in the Democratic primary election. As luck would have it, we’re registered in the same district, District 1.
Our exchanges over the previous two months had been contentious if cordial, negotiable if slightly adversarial. As Chair of Housing and Health and Human Services, her office had the keenest interest in Camp Shameless, a houseless camp for which I advocate as a member of a local nonprofit called FIRST Collective, a group of activists making art, creating social infrastructure and fostering community through mutual aid.
My position as an executive committee member with the Columbus Coalition for Rent Control has put us in a place of needed negotiation given Councilmember Favor’s position as well.
Thursday, August 11, 2022, 6:00 – 7:00 PM
SURJCO is thrilled to be launching regular monthly SURJCO member meetings! Meetings are open to all whether you are already involved with SURJCO, ready to join, or simply curious.
Wednesday, August 10, 6-7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Ohio Beyond Coal Campaign is hosting a “Letter to the Editor Training.” This training is open to everyone regardless of skill and experience.
Hosted by Ohio Beyond Coal, Sierra Club Ohio, Miami Group (Cincinnati, Middletown, Dayton) Sierra Club, and Ohio Energy Sierra Club.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
A resource you can use for talking points, conversations and letters to your legislators.
Sources are linked.
The War on Drugs, and in particular the war on cannabis, must be the most ill-conceived public policies ever undertaken by the United States. Covering one hundred plus years and costing one trillion plus dollars, the war’s luster has been largely lost. With the recent introduction of the federal Cannabis Administration and Opportunity and Act, full legalization feels tantalizingly close. What are the most persuasive arguments for change and what facts support them? Here are ten constructs concerning cannabis – prevalence, history, opposition, racism, medicine, safety, penalties, enforcement, federalism, and freedom – that make the case.
PREVALENCE. Millions of Americans break the law every day when they consume cannabis. In the eyes of the feds, even medical marijuana patients are labeled lawbreakers.
Monday, August 8, 12noon, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join the League of Women Voters of Ohio on Monday August 8 at 12noon for a forum discussion on Ranked Choice Voting. Guests will discuss the basics of Ranked Choice Voting and its different forms, its benefits and challenges, implementation in cities and states across the nation, and its prospects in Ohio.
Guest panelists:
• Anna Kellar, Exec Director, League of Women Voters of Maine
• Dr. David Niven, Political Science Professor, University of Cincinnati
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by League of Women Voters of Ohio.
Nearly 100 Ohioans across race, place, and income rallied at the Statehouse Saturday to keep up the fight for fair maps
The OOC rally included national and statewide faith leaders, young Ohioans, formerly incarcerated people and their families, and voting rights advocates
The coalition urged Black, brown, young, and formerly incarcerated Ohioans to vote during the midterms to fight back against political extremism in Ohio
On Saturday, August 6, on the 57th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a multiracial coalition led by the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) joined together outside the Ohio Statehouse to protect Ohioans’ freedom to vote and keep up the fight for fair district maps. The nearly 100+ person rally included faith leaders, college students, formerly incarcerated Ohioans and their families, and voting rights advocates from all over Ohio.
We live in an age of division. As the briefest glance at news media shows, contemporary universities are so often centers of differences, contradictions, and clashes between knowledge and ignorance off- and on-campus. One revealing site of combat is the false opposition of the faculty and the—to faculty and academic administration—second-class “professionals” in departments of student affairs and student life. This dichotomy, and its underlying both real and imaginary conflicts, critically parallels those between “learning and earning,” humanities’ core curriculum and “great books” vs. STEM and business education, curriculum vs. extracurriculum, and on-campus vs. off-campus life.
In this essay, as a retired humanities professor who taught for almost half a century at three public universities in large cities, and who lives in my city’s University District, I propose to seize on the strengths of both sides of what I see as a fallacious and harmful dichotomy. I seek to bring them closer together in the interests of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, the suffering health of our universities, the advancement of young adults, and the needs of our nation.