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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.”
Wednesday, August 24, 2022, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
While it’s important for you to recycle, it’s also important to Recycle Right. By taking just a few minutes to recycle the right way, you help reduce pollution, contribute to cleaner water, conserve limited natural resources, support our economy, and reduce central Ohio’s reliance on landfills. SWACO is here to help you recycle right, answer common recycling questions, and provide the necessary tools and resources you need to make recycling right convenient for your household. Register here.
Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and 37-year community advocate who is circulating petitions to run for mayor in the 2023 May primary election states that, “As a [former] school board member, president of City Council and mayor, Andy Ginther’s decades-long practice of handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in tax abatements to corporate Columbus and luxury real estate developers has defunded public education to the point where CEA members have said enough is enough. If those on the receiving end of tax abatements and TIFs paid their fair share of property taxes, a bargaining agreement between the CEA and School Board would have been settled by now.”
Motil continues, “The CEA’s decision to strike has been a longtime coming. Ginther, City Council and School Board members for too long have sacrificed much-needed property tax revenue and the educational needs of our city’s public schools and children, to fill the bank accounts of developers and provide corporate welfare to our city’s wealthiest and most 'beloved' companies.”
Dennis Kucinich on Pulling the Plug on FirstEnergy Corporation
Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 7:00 PM
Columbus teachers are now on strike. In an overwhelming showing of solidarity and determination, 94 percent of members of the Columbus Education Association (CEA), the union that represents over 4,500 teachers and staff of Columbus City schools, voted in favor of a strike during a dramatic mass meeting of CEA members held Sunday night. Thus, after many months of failed negotiations with the Columbus Board of Education, the strike officially commenced at 12:01 AM on Monday, August 22. This is the first time teachers in Columbus City Schools have gone on strike since 1975.