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Joe Motil, former candidate for Columbus City Council and Ohio state legislature testified at this morning’s Franklin County Board of Commissioners public hearing on a proposal and other suggestions on how to best spend the county’s $255 million share of the federal governments American Rescue Plan (ARP) money.
Mr. Motil, who has been advocating and fighting for fairness, opportunity, and justice on nearly all fronts on issues that impact our communities economic and social quality of life for 35 years now states that, “The ARP funding for both the county and City of Columbus can lend immediate assistance especially to our underserved and low-income residents who have been impacted by COVID far more than others.”
Thursday, July 15, 2021, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Let’s dance at the border!
One of these days, something will give — the rich, the powerful will suddenly look around cluelessly. What’s happening? Awareness will sweep across the planet: We are one, and life is sacred. This consciousness will even invade political life and what I call moral intelligence will find political traction.
This won’t mean that life suddenly becomes simple — anything but! The politics of today, nationally and internationally, is simple: somebody wins, somebody loses; war is inevitable, there are always several on the horizon, and the primary consequence of every war that is waged is that it spurs more wars, a fact that remains officially unnoticed; only some lives matter, those that don’t are collateral damage, illegal aliens or simply the enemy; nuclear weapons (ours, only ours) are justified, necessary and must be continually upgraded; national borders, however arbitrary, are sacred (the only thing that’s sacred); if these norms are challenged, the best response is mockery and cynicism.
For the first time, the 25 million animals confined in factory “farms,” together with the U.S. Great Lake contaminated by their waste, will speak directly to Ohioans in a provocative, hard-hitting billboard and social media ad campaign centered in Toledo and including Cleveland and Columbus.
Through early October, five rotating ads (attached) will appear a total of over 100,000 times on high-visibility electronic boards and social media platforms, sponsored by Lake Erie Advocates. The duration of the campaign includes when the Solheim Cup, an international women’s golf championship, is played in Toledo.
Alabama and Argentina. Cleveland, Columbus, Cuba, and Czechoslovakia. Guinea, Haiti, and Kent. Mauritania and Mexico. New Jersey, New York, and Romania. Sierra Leone and South Sudan. Youngstown and Vietnam.
What do these places have in common?
Find out as you read Far From Their Eyes, Ohio Migration Anthology (Volume I). Each story, essay, painting, and poem in this anthology is rooted in at least two worlds – the physical place where its creator lives, today, and the place from which they and their ancestors came.
Sign up here to get first notice and please share and support this work: https://bit.ly/OMAVolumeOne.
From AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association): Please call your Senators to urge passage of the American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6) and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, FWMA, (H.R. 1603) passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support on March 18, 2021. These bills, which would provide a path to citizenship to Dreamers, DED and TPS holders, as well as farm workers and their immediate family members, have stalled in the Senate. The best path forward is to include a pathway to citizenship in the budget reconciliation process.https://www.aila.org/takeaction#/105.
Tuesday, July 13, 12noon-1pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live”
This Pride Month saw a flurry of activity on policies that would directly impact the LGBTQ+ community in Ohio. Join us as we go through everything that happened, from trans athlete bans to last-minute budget amendments, and discuss next steps in our work for LGBTQ+ equality here in the Buckeye State.
This event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live.”
Hosted by Equality Ohio.
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Here’s what happened at the July Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon on July 10.
Cyber salon host and Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery introduced speaker Dr. Fadhel Kaboub, who spoke about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Fadhel is an Associate Professor of economics at Denison and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.