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In a world that feels a little all over the place, one thing stays steady: this community. And when thousands of people gather to celebrate it, ComFest First Aid shows up. With open hands, steady hearts, and fucking ton of sun screen.
Our role has always been simple and powerful: help take care of each other. Whether that means a bandage, a bottle of water, or just a calm presence in the middle of the chaos, we’re there to help keep ComFest safe, healthy, and happy.
Since that first Community Festival in 1972, this has never just been an event. It’s been a living, breathing example of mutual aid, radical care, and people showing up for people. And 54 years later, that spirit is still going strong (and so are we).
So if you’ve got the skills, the heart, and a willingness to jump in when it matters, we’d love to have you with us.
Sign up, show up, and help us take care of our community.
Columbus Mayor Ginther and City Council are obsessed with building density through Columbus’s most popular corridors and passed “Zone In” to make this happen. They are also quietly pushing for sprawl and greater density – and a data center – within the Big Darby Creek Watershed.
They won’t be passing another law, however. Instead, they will tweak the Big Darby Accord, the non-legally binding land agreement made in 2006 amongst 10 jurisdictions such as Columbus, Hilliard, Prairie Township and others. The Accord covers the western fourth of Franklin County and protects two of the nation’s most biologically rich rivers from encroaching development. That of course being the Big Darby and Little Darby. In its current form the Accord calls for clustered development, lots of open space, and caps on housing numbers.
Columbus City Council is expected to vote on the “Big Darby Accord Master Plan Amendment” this spring and make no mistake, it will pass 9-0.
April 3, 2026 - 3pm
Thompson statue - west end of the Oval, Ohio State University campus
March with students to demand Wexner's name removed from campus buildings.
Thursday, April 2, 2026 - 7pm
Columbus City Council recently realized that there might be a problem with juvenile violence, curfew, truancy, early intervention, and paternal responsibility among the Columbus City Schools.
What’s their solution?
Call a public hearing!
April 2 at 2pm in the Council Chambers of City Hall.
This is an example in Columbus where leaders think that by holding one public hearing they will magically have the motivation to help people. It doesn’t work.
Useless talk in the air-conditioned halls of City Hall followed by at least one (and maybe more) posts to social media telling everyone that they care.
Unfortunately for the students this is “window dressing” by career politicians and nothing more. This isn’t about finding solutions; it’s about pretending to find solutions.
And who is leading this crusade to end juvenile violence?
Your next mayor of Columbus. The President of City Council – Shannon Hardin.
What about holding the public hearing at a place where the parking is free and it’s easy to attend?
Nope.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
200 N High St, Columbus
Join us at Senator’s Husted regional office to voice our frustration with his job performance. We need a representative for the people, not a clown show for a political agenda. See you there on April 1st at noon to make our voices heard! Bring a postcard, sign, or just your voice to rate his performance.
Register HERE.
As we continue the hard work of gathering signatures for the "Protecting Ohioans' Constitutional Rights" initiative, we are reminded daily that the right to hold our government accountable is the bedrock of a free society. However, the executive order signed today, "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections," signals a troubling shift toward federal interference in how we, the people, manage our own democratic process.
A Barrier to Participation
In our movement, we believe in transparency and the power of the individual. This new mandate for documentary proof of citizenship may sound like "integrity" on the surface, but we must ask: at what cost? For many Ohioans—especially our seniors, low-income neighbors, and those in rural communities—tracking down specific federal documents can be a costly and time-consuming hurdle. We should make it easier for eligible citizens to participate in their government, not create more red tape that keeps people away from the ballot box.
Near the end of the Roman Empire people were distracted with bread and games in the Coliseum. This is the end of the American empire and our Columbus city and Franklin County leaders haven’t let us down.
Both your mayor and city council are dedicated to spending your tax dollars on women’s volleyball… instead of city services that might help you or your neighbor.
City Hall has already given $500,000 of your tax dollars to this women’s volleyball team; the county gave another $500,000. But the greedy want more money for entertainment that the working poor will never be able to afford.
The rich and powerful have already made the decision and now it’s time for your mayor and city council to fall in line and obey their true masters.
https://freepress.org/article/political-theater
Hasn’t Columbus Tried this Before?
March 30, 2026, 12:15 – 2:45 PM
Drinko Hall, Saxbe Auditorium, Moritz College of Law. 55 W 12th Ave Columbus, OH
We have always assumed that acting intelligently requires being intelligent. Artificial intelligence dismantles this assumption. In this lecture, Professor Floridi will argue that AI is best understood not as a new form of intelligence but as a radically new kind of agency: systems that act effectively, solve problems, shape outcomes, and carry significant consequences, without any understanding, intention, or genuine reasoning. What we have achieved is a decoupling of successful agency from intelligence.
This shift matters for design, governance, and regulation, both ethically and legally. Rather than debating whether AI 'really' thinks, Floridi suggests we ask: what kind of agents are these systems, and what does their growing presence demand of us?
The Columbus, Ohio downtown version of No Kings 3.0 that was just part of the hundreds of nonviolent demonstrations in the nation (and world, likely) in one day.