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Several Ohio and National organizations are calling for Ohio Attorney General David Yost to begin the process of revoking the charter of FirstEnergy Corporation, a process that would dissolve the company. The request by the groups is based on the corporation’s admitted involvement in the $60 million bribery and money laundering scheme, the largest in Ohio’s history that defrauded taxpayers and threatened representative democracy. The groups who signed the letter include the Move to Amend Ohio Network, Our Revolution Ohio, Ohio Community Rights Network, National Community Rights Network, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and the Athens Friends Meeting. Read the letter here.
Several Ohio and National organizations are calling for Ohio Attorney General David Yost to begin the process of revoking the charter of FirstEnergy Corporation, a process that would dissolve the company. The request by the groups is based on the corporation’s admitted involvement in the $60 million bribery and money laundering scheme, the largest in Ohio’s history that defrauded taxpayers and threatened representative democracy. The groups who signed the letter include the Move to Amend Ohio Network, Our Revolution Ohio, Ohio Community Rights Network, National Community Rights Network, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and the Athens Friends Meeting. Read the letter here.
"We're so thankful to the Ohio justices for ruling in the people's favor. Voters deserve fair, representative, and inclusive legislative maps that include all of our voices. Black, brown, and Muslim Ohioans have always been left out of the discussion around redistricting, and therefore it's our voices that must be centered in the conversation because our communities suffer the impact of gerrymandering on a day-to-day basis. Now the process starts over again, and over the next 10 days we will make sure our voices are fully heard and represented during this new process. With this ruling in our favor, we are confident that Ohio will become a more equitable place for all of us." - Jeniece Brock, OCRC vice-chair and Policy and Advocacy Director of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative
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Thursday, January 13, 7-9pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom
Life After Belief Groups meet for support, encouragement, and growth in the process of living life without supernatural belief. Our core concerns are Community, Charting a New Course, Compassion, and Coming Out. [Read more about these Core Passions below.]
Many in this Secular Community Group are still in various stages of recovery from religion and are processing the feelings, thoughts and struggles of leaving a religious community behind. We include people ranging from those who are attending their first “secular/atheist” group ever and have fears and concerns of being “found out” to those who have been on this journey for a longer time.
• We are a Diverse and Inclusive Secular Community.
• Atheist, Humanist, Non-Religious, Agnostic, Free-Thinker, Anti-Theist, Spiritual But Not Religious, Naturist, Curious But Still with Some Faith, etc.
• From younger families to singles, from baby boomers to teenagers and kids, we are diverse and welcoming having those who identify as LGBTQ, Straight, Polyamorous, etc.
We are all grieving. For the loss of simply being able to hug friends and family; to gather at the local watering hole and share a drink with friends, old and new. We’re grieving the loss of routines and patterns of life, of normalcy.
I think we’ve moved past denial. Many of us are pissed off at the “stupid virus” as my grandson and I call it.
We’re all bargaining “I’ll wear my mask in the grocery store but not in the park.” Not that there’s any real entity to bargain with.
Depression? Oh yeah. We are all experiencing some level of depression: loss of “normal,” freedom, hugs!
Acceptance, I guess so. We all have a stash of face masks and hand sanitizer at the ready. We’re starting to accept that this virus will most likely be with us, in some form, for a long time to come. That is the new normal. For now.
So, where do we go from here? How do we move forward? Remember the quote from Emmanuel?
“Your life is not your master, it is your child.” The mirages of people’s minds become the reality of their lives, whether they have any conscious intention or not.
So, what DO you want in 2022?
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Students and other adults are increasingly worried about their safety with crime seeming to rise around the Ohio State, Linden, and Easton areas.
Specifically, armed robberies are becoming the norm around the near off-campus area and other violent crimes in further Columbus zones.
To measure one's safety from a potential attack, Professor Kenneth Pence at Vanderbilt University designed several assessments on www.rateyourrisk.org. It is for the average person to measure how their lifestyle puts them at risk for potential crimes against them.
The evaluations measure the risk of serious assault, murder, and burglary.
Pence is a retired caption from the Metro Nashville Police Department, where he served 31 years and has traveled around the world to teach police and military confrontation management skills.
The inspiration for creating the threat assessments was to evaluate the risks connected to your everyday activities.
Someone asked me the other day for advice on collecting the best essays of the past 20 years. I recommended the new collection of Glen Ford’s called The Black Agenda. I recommend it to everyone — including people who are not black. I’m not black.
Glen Ford was my friend and an ally in the struggles for peace and justice. He was a leader and a brilliant and an always reliable speaker, writer, and organizer on anti-racism, anti-oligarchy, anti-poverty, and anti-war work. He was a key part of efforts to impeach George W. Bush (whose record we should all read Glen’s book to be reminded of it seems).
This book is worthwhile just for the preface by Margaret Kimberley and the autobiographical introduction by Glen. I’ve considered Glen central to U.S. activism since about 2000, which seems a long time to me, yet his incredible saga, recounted in his introduction, actually breaks off just about when I met him. The essays, however, are from the past 20 years
Wednesday, January 12, 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. Bring your questions!
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Common Cause Ohio and Fair Districts Coalition.
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