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Monday, August 29, 2022, 11:45 AM
Location: Corner of Gay Street and Washington Ave.
Columbus Museum of Art employees including frontline and operations workers are coming together to urge the Museum's administration and management to voluntarily recognize their union - Columbus Museum of Art Workers United (CMA Workers United). These courageous employees believe the institution they love, has not been living up to the standards and values it claims to promote - and forming a union is the solution.
CMA Workers United invites you to join museum employees as they ask for voluntary recognition of their union so they can begin the real work of bringing positive meaningful change to the Columbus Museum of Art. Below you will find details for the event.
RESULTS.
RESULTS is an organization where everyday people advocate for a world free of poverty and oppression. In the last year, we helped shape the emergency Covid funding bill that kept millions of people from being evicted and provided monthly child tax credit payments to families. And most recently mobilized 137 House representatives to sign a bipartisan letter demanding robust funding to address the pandemics of AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
Now adays, it is easy for people get bogged down and discouraged with bad news. They don’t think they can make a difference in reaching their Senator or Representative. RESULTS has proven to us that we can make a difference! RESULTS has taught us how to meet with and influence our members of Congress, get published, and reach out to our community to bring them into action.
Mayoral candidate Joe Motil and long-time advocate for the homeless Rev. Gary Witte are arrested for trespassing at the home of Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin. Activists set up tents on the lawns of three members of Columbus City Council to protest the sweeps of homeless camps and the failure of City officials to provide affordable housing.
Part One
Introduction
Faculty, staff, and students are OSU’s greatest assets. But the university’s leaders by sloganeering rarely acknowledge that. Students, staff, and faculty do not share President Kristina Johnson’s incessant personal identification and embrace of “My Fellow Buckeyes” or “Born to be a Buckeye.” They are demoralized. Faculty and staff in particular, but also many students, with due cause, feel locked out of OSU decision-making and communications structures. Disaffection is high.
But senior administrators, awash in their sea of slogans, excessive numbers, and overpayment, do not see this. There is no evidence that they know or care. If Johnson was “born to be a Buckeye,” and both President and Provost adhere to a dramatically incomplete and distorted notion of “land-grant mission,” what else matters? In her mind, OSU is the world’s largest STEM University. Johnson has no time to look up between giving herself awards, giggling and showing selfies to Columbus Dispatch reporters, or watching the Board of Trustees over her shoulders.
Sunday, August 28, 2pm, Grandview Theater & Drafthouse, 1247 Grandview Ave.
Prepare to pass through the looking glass where one man without a job and a lot of mysterious money can leverage his phone and free WiFi at Starbucks to tear apart the fabric of people’s lives. And he can do it all without consequence.
No one knew what was about to happen when Matthew moved to town and “Social Media Monster” reveals just how dark someone can make Facebook for an entire city in the Midwest.
“Social Media Monster” is a documentary by award-winning Columbus filmmaker Peter John Ross. Several members of the cast and crew will be at the screening for a special “question-and-answer” period afterwards.
Use this link to view the “Social Media Monster teaser trailer.”
Tickets: $7.00.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Sonnyboo.
Saturday, August 27, 5-9pm, The Vanderelli Room, 218 McDowell St.
It’s that time of year again!
Every year we have been gathering around Rubén Castilla Herrera’s birthday to celebrate his life, love, family, and the community he made and which made him.
This event will also be a fundraiser for Columbus Community Pride, Columbus’s alternative Pride celebration by and for LGBTQ+ people of color since 2018.
All are welcome to this event, including those who weren’t able to know Rubén while he was with us on earth.
¡Es esa época del año!
Todos los años reunimos por el cumpleaños de Rubén Castilla Herrera para celebrar su vida, su amor, su familia, y la comunidad que hizo y que lo hizo a él.
Este evento también recaudará fondos para Columbus Community Pride, la celebración alternativa del Orgullo de Columbus por y para la comunidad LGBTQ desde 2018.
Todos son bienvenidos a este evento, incluidos aquellos que no pudieron conocer a Rubén en persona.
Thursday, August 25, 2022, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Volunteer with Equality for this special Advocacy Night! We're contacting voters to empower them to participate and make informed decisions in this year's election.
Let's be clear, voting is not the only answer to protect our community and it is also very important for our LGBTQ+ community and allies to show up and vote in elections up and down the ballot.
This event will include a brief policy update and election information so that you are informed. We will also provide training to those who are new to text banking.
This is a virtual event. Zoom information will be emailed to you prior to the event. Register HERE.
Immigrant Mauritanians in the US like to debate what Ohio city has the largest Mauritanian community in the US, and while Columbus won out not too long ago, a growing number are calling Cincinnati home.
Nevertheless, Mauritanians are still being deported back to Mauritania – a northwest African nation once ruled by colonial France – with a Moorish government that has been arresting, torturing, and extorting Black Mauritanians for decades, all state-sponsored human rights abuses, and the reason they’ve settled in the US in the first place.
This new video from FWD.US exposes the apartheid state in Mauritania. Several Ohioans are featured in the piece.
Thursday, August 25, 5:30pm, Gemüt Biergarten, 734 Oak St.
Join the Central Ohio Worker Center for our summer happy hour. Bask in some solidarity, have a drink, eat a hot pretzel, stand on tables and yell about unions, whatever it takes!
Hosted by Central Ohio Worker Center / Centro de Trabajadores de Central Ohio.
On August 17, 2022, Columbus Dispatch announced that “Some parents who want to find an alternative to current public and private schools are looking at something called ‘classical education.’”
Those few words are both misleading and revealing. No evidence is presented about any parents “looking,” other than the founders/promoters of the foundling retail—private—franchises of Columbus Classical Academy and Heart of Ohio Classical Academy. Is the name meant to evoke –or be confused with—Columbus’ highest-ranked private school, the Columbus Academy, another common marketing ploy?
More compelling, “something called ‘classical education’” misrepresents and exaggerates the relationship of this new marketing campaign to either “classical” or “education.”