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Tuesday, March 9; Tuesday, March 16; Tuesday, March 23; 7-8:30pm; this on-line event requires advance registration
As people of faith, we recognize the existence of many realities and even more so, how those realities are interwoven. The connection between law and race is one of these ever-present truths. Join Political Science Professor and Unitarian Universalist, Howard Tolley, for three 90-minute sessions examining Supreme Court caselaw involving slavery, native American rights, racial discrimination, segregation, mass incarceration, the death penalty, affirmative action, rights of protesters, and qualified immunity for law enforcement personnel.
In this course, taught through UUJAZ [UU Justice Arizona] and UUJO [Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio], Tolley considers the impact of race, political ideology, legal principles, and personal preference on the selection of Justices and the decisions they reach.
This course is free to all UUJO monthly sustaining donors. If you wish to join but aren’t a donor, you can contribute a suggested donation on a sliding scale. If you aren’t financially able to donate, join us anyway!
The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) earlier this week unanimously voted to urge the Ohio State University administration not to renew its lease agreement for an on-campus Wendy’s due to the company’s failure to commit to the Fair Food Program, which provides verifiable human rights protections to farmworkers in its supply chain.
The Fair Food Program is “the gold standard for enforcing human rights in the U.S. agricultural system,” declared the USG.
Pioneered by the Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the social responsibility program has been adopted by some of the biggest fast-food chains and supermarkets in the world, including McDonald’s and Walmart, and has a track record second-to-none for eliminating longstanding farm labor abuses ranging from forced labor to sexual assault.
Wendy’s is the last fast-food giant to reject the Fair Food Program. during a pandemic no less. According to the CIW nearly 90,000 meatpacking workers, food processing workers, and farmworkers have tested positive for COVID-19, as food and agricultural workers have suffered the highest COVID-19 death rates of workers in any occupation.
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The weather in Philadelphia can be bad. If it rained more, they could call it the Schuylkill Bay instead of the Schuylkill River. Though the nearby Delaware River is bigger, the Schuylkill has its own history, some yet to be made.
A distance from the river, centered at the bubble end of a lane, Anton Evers’ home stood as a kind of beacon. The builders of the houses on the lane used red bricks for every house except Evers’. His are white.
Evers opened the second-floor front door and peered out into the morning rain, which produced a pleasant cadence on the lids of the cans on the sidewalk below. Rain made it a bad day to collect trash, or deliver the newspaper.
But Toby Wallace didn’t mind, because today was his last day throwing the paper as he walked. A boy turns 16 only once, and that was today. Tonight, he’d pilot a car that used to belong to someone else. After tonight, it belonged to him.
He was most excited to show his new wheels to his two friends, his only friends, B-drop and Tick. But the trio rarely saw each other, because B-drop and Tick were in a gang known as the Front Street Boyz.
Saturday, March 13 from 7:00-8:30PM EST
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COVID-19 has diminished the average U.S. lifespan by an entire year, but Black Americans and those of Latin American origin have lost 2.7 and 1.9 years respectively, according to the CDC. Overrepresented in essential occupations, these workers are still not being prioritized for vaccines even though one in 10 are being exposed to the virus at least once per week, while many white Americans who work at home have already been vaccinated.
In February, Essential Ohio sent a letter to Gov. DeWine and Ohio Health Department Director Stephanie McCloud urging them to prioritize essential workers for COVID-19 vaccines. Essential Ohio is still awaiting an answer from DeWine and McCloud.
There are over 15,000 undocumented workers in the food supply chain in Ohio, for example, and that’s only a portion of our undocumented essential workforce in this state. Ohio’s agricultural industry, which relies on a historically marginalized and vulnerable migrant workforce, has continued to employ and bring in thousands of workers to ensure that Ohioans and the rest of the country have food on their plates during this dangerous and challenging time.
On March 19th, climate activists around the world are taking to the street to demand immediate action on climate change. For too long, our leaders have delivered empty promises, while the climate crisis worsens and communities suffer. We have no time to wait.
Sunrise Columbus is calling for concrete action now. Join us at the Ohio State Capitol on March 19th, along with thousands worldwide in coordination with FridaysForFuture, to make your voice heard and demand climate justice.
We demand a greener Columbus, a just and sustainable Ohio, and a national Green New Deal for good jobs and a livable planet for all.
#NoMoreEmptyPromises
Bring a sign, a mask, water, comfortable shoes, and bring a friend or two to grow this movement.
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Friday, March 191 – 3pm EDT,
Sunday, March 7, 8-10pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join the Revolutionary Socialist Network for two discussions on the book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century. In our discussion, we will be addressing author Andreas Malm’s question: What does COVID-19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it?
• March 7 [Chapters 1 and 2]: Here, Malm lays out the foundational facts connecting the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and capitalism, while contrasting the world’s governments’ responses to this catastrophic era.
• March 21 [Chapter 3]: Malm proposes how the present emergency requires urgent and dramatic action, using historical references to the period of “war communism” after the Russian Revolution.
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Saturday, March 6, 2-3:30pm, Ohio Statehouse
This event will be a peaceful protest to raise the voice to end the violence against women in Turkey and in the World at the State House.
There are things about this world they’re not fair. But they don’t have to stay that way. I am not sure if you ever needed people to stand up for you. It’s time for us to stand up for them. Even the director and chair of Amnesty International in Turkey was jailed once. The picture is worse than you think. Currently, there are more than 5,000 women political prisoners in Turkey and according to the Global Gender Gap index, Turkey ranks 130th among 153 countries in the World.
I know what it means to have support from the outside world, in that moment, when you are alone, when you need it the most. Join me and together let’s stand up for women’s rights in Turkey.
We will be practicing social distancing and will wear masks. We are not planning to hold a parade. Safety of our community is always our first priority.
Friday, March 5, 12-1pm
Rob Portman's office, 37 W. Broad St., Columbus
Grab a mask and join us this Friday, March 5, from noon to 1pm at Portman’s Columbus office to rally for the Senate to pass Biden’s COVID Relief Package!
The protester civil-rights suit concluded this week as two Columbus police commanding officers took the virtual stand in the City’s defense. One commander insinuated the Division’s use of force against protesters was warranted because lines were crossed when objects were hurled at them or when the Palace Theatre was damaged.
“Most cops understand when individuals are going from peaceful to violent,” testified Commander Duane Mabry to a City defense attorney. “And so we have to move that to a large scale with a crowd. So throwing stuff at us is kind of a clue they are a violent crowd. Destroying property is a clue they are a violent crowd. Fighting amongst each other is a clue they are violent crowd.”
After the Ferguson protests in 2014, Cmdr. Mabry was tasked to give the entire Division a “refresher course” on crowd control and to continue to do so annually.