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Friday, November 28, 2025, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Maple Grove Methodist Church, 7 W. Henderson, Columbus.
Free parking is available in the parking lot just South of the church.
It’s accessible from Aldrich Road, one street south of Henderson, off of north High Street.
Walk into the church from the parking lot through the back door.
Despite political turmoil and a divided nation, we have so much to be thankful for. Join Bill Cohen as he sings a unique concert of songs that express gratitude for all that we have. Playing piano and guitar, Bill will sing songs linked to a wide variety of folks --- John Denver, Bing Crosby, Phil Ochs, Louis Armstrong, and Don McLean. Even Johnny Appleseed, Jiminy Cricket, and the TV show, “Golden Girls.”
On several songs, Ann Fisher will add beautiful flute accompaniment, David Maywhoor will add percussion, and Joe Lambert and Joanne Blum will add soothing vocal harmonies.
We’ll ask for $15 per person donations at the door, but all contributions, large and small, will be welcomed.
The recent City Council tax dollars giveaway to the Fury Women’s Volleyball team is another ugly example of how decisions are produced inside the secret walls of City Hall.
Your gerrymandered City Council voted 5-4 to approve $500,000 to the for-profit professional sports team – all while the thousands of homeless are living in tents around the city. The most important priority is to support women’s sports and not their actual lives. This was a stupid and selfish decision by your City Council.
What made it all the more sinister was how your gerrymandered City Council voted: 5-4. They want your reaction to be, “Wow! That was a close decision! It could have gone either way!”
Wrong. Dead wrong.
The 5-4 decision was an example of “political theater” designed to give us the appearance that decisions are not already made before each and every vote.
It’s cooked to recipe by people who are most concerned with their next campaign donation and photo opportunity.
This year, we have given over $12,200 directly to low wage and immigrant workers through stipends, creating the opportunity to fully participate in education, empowerment, and community building. This video helps show the work we do during our Know Your Rights programming. To be frank, we were unable to secure one of the 2026 grants that made these events possible in 2025, and we need your support to ensure we can continue and build upon this work.
Here are 5 ways to support the work we do:
the AEP Ohio just filed for a last-minute change at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) that would drastically reduce or eliminate fair compensation for solar homeowners who send extra electricity back to the grid. That means lower credits, longer payback periods, and thousands of Ohio families losing the benefit of their rooftop solar investment.
Before you installed solar, you counted on stable net-metering rules that let you export extra solar at a fair value. But now AEP and others want to rewrite those rules behind our backs — just as the economy tightens and energy costs rise.
If you support rooftop solar, clean energy, fairness, and a strong, decentralized grid, please take two minutes and submit a comment to PUCO:
Thursday, November 27 through December 1, 2025
Pause on shopping from major companies that are enabling this administration. This Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday – let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations. This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
More information and join the movement here.
In addition to approving $500,000 for a women’s volleyball team (owned by a rich millionaire) and also raising the rates for water your Columbus City Council was also the scene of an emotional apology by Councilmember Emanuel Remy.
Fantastic. He admitted what everyone already knew. He is a loud and aggressive bully, but has been taking a management class (paid for by your taxes) that will likely not change his core problem that he has no empathy for other people.
This is the man hand-picked by City Council President Shannon Hardin to represent his constituents’ needs and solve their problems. All of this goes back to Hardin pushing aside a Black woman and community advocate just to get Remy into City Council. He’s there and there’s nothing that Hardin is going to do about it other than ignore him.
Flying robots built for war (Anduril) aren’t the only robots coming to Rickenbacker International Airport – one of the world’s busiest logistic hubs.
These robots, however, won’t obliterate you on the spot. But they and their corporate masters could vaporize thousands of decent-paying warehouse jobs from Central Ohio – and do so without a second thought for the human beings who’ve toiled in these warehouses for years.
“Robots are taking over, and that’s a good thing for warehouse professionals!” claims this robotics manufacturer.
Community Grants application is now available for ComFest 2026
DEADLINE: January 19, 2026
Complete this form to submit a grant application for ComFest 2026
The Community Festival established the grants program in the spirit of giving back to the community. Each year, ComFest invites grant applications to support and sustain programming consistent with ComFest’s principles which are rooted in community, social justice and progressive activism. Since 1997, ComFest has awarded over $688,000 in grants to local organizations and community causes.
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Entertainment Applications are open for ComFest 2026DEADLINE: March 1, 2026
Musical performers, workshop presenters and speakers can apply.
Complete this form to submit an entertainment application for ComFest 2026
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While regulators catch them venting gas for 60 hours straight, the company pushes "chemical recycling" pilot with East Palestine chemical.
HEBRON, OH — In case you missed it, the Buckeye Environmental Network is exposing a critical public health failure in Licking County. Freepoint Eco-Systems has been slapped with its third air permit violation in a single year by the Ohio EPA.
While this company quietly admitted to illegally venting volatile chemicals 79 times, they are simultaneously seeking to expand their facility to "recycle" PVC—a process involving the same toxic chemical behind the East Palestine disaster.
THE FACTS MEDIA OUTLETS ARE MISSING:
1. A 60-Hour Chemical Release This wasn't a minor leak. Between February and June 2025, Freepoint bypassed their mandatory vapor combustors 79 separate times.
One single event lasted 59 hours—nearly two and a half days of continuous, unpermitted venting to an open flare.
This is the third time in 12 months they've been cited (previous violations were for excessive particulate matter).