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When we recently spoke with Cynthia Brown she was driving around town on a sunny Saturday morning visiting “every activist event” in Central Ohio that day.
Brown is seeking roughly 1,000 signatures needed by the Ohio Attorney General to approve ballot language for a 2022 initiative she is proposing to end qualified immunity for Columbus and Ohio law enforcement. If the language is accepted, Brown knows she will need a small army to gather the 400,000-plus signatures to get approval for a statewide vote.
Disheartening was how some state level and City of Columbus office holders talked tough during the summer of 2020 about ending qualified immunity, which they could do themselves, but as usual so found their promises were empty.
Friday, April 9, 2021, 12:00 PM
Farmworkers have suffered during COVID from horrific working and living conditions, loss of family members, abuse, and deprivation we can only imagine. They are calling on us to do one simple thing: Show up at Wendy’s Headquarters to Demand Dignity and Fair Wages for Farmworkers. Please mark your calendar and plan to join us at 1 Dave Thomas Blvd. (Dublin Granville Rd. across from the Oakland Nursery) at 12:00 pm on April 9! We’ll social distance as needed.
Thursday, April 8, 2021, 8:00 PM
Hear from local communities about the ways communities are criminalized and surveilled, the impact, and how community members have organized to push back.
Your generosity and love for Miriam and her family are much appreciated.
Your generosity and love for Miriam and her family are much appreciated.
The long-running radio show, The DJBC Happy Hour is celebrating a full decade on the Columbus airwaves on WCRS with a special two-hour show, which will air on April 12 and April 19 at 8PM each night.
The DJBC Happy Hour debuted on WCRS-FM on April 18, 2011, and has aired on Monday nights ever since on the low power FM station in Columbus.
This Special Anniversary Show will feature new original material, plus take a look back at some of the show’s best moments, with special retrospectives in homage to the show talking about Ohio State football, and the Columbus community. Those two clip montages will be part of the first hour of the Anniversary Special, which will air on April 12.
The long-running radio show, The DJBC Happy Hour is celebrating a full decade on the Columbus airwaves on WCRS with a special two-hour show, which will air on April 12 and April 19 at 8PM each night.
The DJBC Happy Hour debuted on WCRS-FM on April 18, 2011, and has aired on Monday nights ever since on the low power FM station in Columbus.
This Special Anniversary Show will feature new original material, plus take a look back at some of the show’s best moments, with special retrospectives in homage to the show talking about Ohio State football, and the Columbus community. Those two clip montages will be part of the first hour of the Anniversary Special, which will air on April 12.
Help us reach our goal of $100k between now and May 1st!! We remain focused on the goal to free as many Black mothers, guardians and caretakers from bondage prior to Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 9th. We cannot reach this goal without Our community. Please consider making an investment in the lives of countless families in Columbus to #FreeBlackMamas.
This evening City Council passed an ordinance allocating its annual payment from the Hotel/Motel Excise Tax to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The fund receives 8.43 percent of this Excise Tax which amounted to $976,000. The following is my testimony regarding this matter for your review:
We are all well aware that the decrease in revenue from the Hotel/Motel Excise Tax which goes towards the Affordable Housing Trust Fund would be considerably less this year due the impact that the COVID pandemic has had on our city’s tourism and convention business. And I think it’s fair to say that nearly everyone is optimistic that our city’s tourism and convention business will rebound in the next year or two as more and more people get vaccinated, and rates of infection are reduced.
And sure the $976,000 that is going towards the Trust Fund is better than nothing, but in my opinion even the 2019 expenditure of $1.9 million in lodging excise taxes could be even more. And the solution to that lies on who is receiving a share of these taxes and how much of a share.
“Waiting is full.” That’s what my husband Eric always says: waiting is full of whatever we put into it. It could be irritation, anxiety, excitement or boredom.
We are all in a waiting game here. Waiting to see what’s going to happen next. Hour by hour things change and evolve; that outcome uncertain.
Not only are we waiting, with all of its baggage, but we’re being told to do it inside, away from others. “Shelter In Place” is what it’s called, really hard is what it is. “Stay home, when you’re out, stay 6’ apart and wear a mask.” For many, your jobs are on hold and for most that is a scary prospect. So, there’s fear in the waiting.
But you know what? There’s so much love in there too. It’s everywhere from the balconies in Italy to our own neighborhoods. People are singing and howling to one another saying “I’m here, too. You’re not in this alone. We’ve got this!”