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Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 8:00 - 9:00 PM
Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd, and Hanieh Jodat-Barnes will be joined by Dr. Melina Abdullah, one of the original organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement and leader of the Los Angeles BLM chapter, and Reverend Liz Theoharis, the co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival. Dr. Melina Abdullah, an academic and activist, is the co-founder of the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter and chair of the department of Pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Reverend Liz Theoharis, in addition to leading the Poor People's Campaign with Reverend Dr. William Barber, is the director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. RSVP here to receive the zoom link.
A Fundraiser and Educational Panel leading to Action. Online: eventbrite.com
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The panel will unveil a series of trainings and resources leading up to possible actions.
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XRUS, in conjunction with other climate justice partners, is organizing a two week fundraiser for Indigenous water protectors and an educational panel on Frontline work at the Minnesota Line 3 resistance sites. ___________________________________________
When:
The online movie fundraiser will take place February 5th-February 21st, daily from 5 am- 11:30 pm PT. Registrants can donate on a sliding scale and then watch at their leisure during those hours on specific days within that timeframe. Proceeds will go to Indigenous water protectors in the Giniw Collective and Miigizi Camp. ____________________________________________
Showing Details:
A Fundraiser and Educational Panel leading to Action. Online: eventbrite.com
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The panel will unveil a series of trainings and resources leading up to possible actions.
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XRUS, in conjunction with other climate justice partners, is organizing a two week fundraiser for Indigenous water protectors and an educational panel on Frontline work at the Minnesota Line 3 resistance sites. ___________________________________________
When:
The online movie fundraiser will take place February 5th-February 21st, daily from 5 am- 11:30 pm PT. Registrants can donate on a sliding scale and then watch at their leisure during those hours on specific days within that timeframe. Proceeds will go to Indigenous water protectors in the Giniw Collective and Miigizi Camp. ____________________________________________
Showing Details:
Sunday, February 7, 4-5:30pm
RSVP here
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In our third educational webinar, DSA4USPS will explore the Postal Service's potential within the Green New Deal. With its fleet of carriers who operate on foot, the US Postal Service is a very green federal agency, and plenty of people are organizing to make it, and its foreign counterparts, even more so.
Saturday, February 6, 2021 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Trans AND virtual performance festival brings together trans and gender nonconforming artists from across the country for a weekend of genre-blending, gender-defying acts and dialogues exploring the intersections of art, identity, activism and community. The festival is a two-day event. Day one, sponsored by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI), consists of two hour-long webinar panels.
Each panel will be made up of three artists and a moderator. In the first panel at 4:00 pm, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Penny Sterling, and Siri Gurudev will discuss how their work creates space for stories that explore the intersections of trans identity with queerness, racial identity, parenthood, and migration. In the second panel at 5:30 pm, Dillon Yrugeas and Rebecca Kling will discuss the overlap of their work in theatre and performance with their activism to build more equitable and inclusive spaces through performance from the black box theatre to state congressional hearings.
Saturday, February 6, 2021 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Trans AND virtual performance festival brings together trans and gender nonconforming artists from across the country for a weekend of genre-blending, gender-defying acts and dialogues exploring the intersections of art, identity, activism and community. The festival is a two-day event. Day one, sponsored by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI), consists of two hour-long webinar panels.
Each panel will be made up of three artists and a moderator. In the first panel at 4:00 pm, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Penny Sterling, and Siri Gurudev will discuss how their work creates space for stories that explore the intersections of trans identity with queerness, racial identity, parenthood, and migration. In the second panel at 5:30 pm, Dillon Yrugeas and Rebecca Kling will discuss the overlap of their work in theatre and performance with their activism to build more equitable and inclusive spaces through performance from the black box theatre to state congressional hearings.
Friday, February 5, 12:30pm
345 N. High St.
Former Columbus Police Officer Adam Coy is being arraigned Friday, February 5 at 1pm. Show up to demand the killer of Andre Hill stays locked up.
Sponsored by the Black Abolitionist Collective of Ohio.
Facebook Event
It wasn’t a big ask, thought Michael Doody who runs the endangered Kossuth Street Garden. Can the City of Columbus facilitate a meeting with the Salvation Army, which held the land’s deed, so it can understand his vision for the garden?
He wanted to present his plan to the Salvation Army but was not getting a response, so he asked the City of Columbus to help get that meeting.
But city development employees scoffed, telling him, “The city does not get involved in the sale of private land.”
“I said, ‘Really?’” recalls Doody, a southside activist who since 2007 has turned the garden into an anchor for the Southern Orchards neighborhood on the southside of Columbus. “I bet I could come up with a dozen cases if I speak to zoning reform advocates in this city. The city was involved in private land in the Short North. They gave private owners tax abatements to build in the Short North.”
All Doody wanted to do was make an offer to the Salvation Army so to show them his plans.
Thursday, February 4, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
For several decades now, community activists and movement lawyers alike have actively opposed police brutality. They organized “Cop Watch” and legal observer initiatives across the U.S. and have made a real difference to folks on the ground.
Join Civil Liberties Defense Center [CLDC] and experienced panelists to learn more about how these projects document and push back against law enforcement abuses.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Civil Liberties Defense Center [CLDC].
It seems so long ago. Another era. Another time. The economy was in crisis. The U.S. was immersed in two foreign wars. Activism was at a crossroads. The public was crying out for change. The year was 2009. In answer to those struggles, I wrote the essay, “Right Moral and Good,” which was emailed to the new president, Barack Obama in time for his inauguration. The Free Press published this essay again in 2016 as a harbinger of Donald Trump’s pending presidency.
Here we are in 2021 and another new president. A global pandemic has the economy in crisis. The U.S. is immersed in a violent domestic culture war. Activism still finds itself at a legal crossroads. Calls for change radiate from disparate realms. “Right Moral and Good” seems as relevant now as it was a dozen years ago.
The “Right, Moral and Good” graphic augments the essay and gives it visual context. Hopefully, both will make their way to the highest offices in the land and those who work there on our behalf.