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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.
Wednesday, February 3, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
This event will feature the following candidates or elected officials.
• Sheena Marie Barnes (Toledo Public Schools Board of Education)
• Zach Stepp (2020 Candidate for Ohio State Representative, District 55)
• Mark Carr (2020 Candidate for Ohio State Representative, District 71)
• Dara Adkison (2020 Candidate for Ohio State Representative, District 57)
• Reggie Harris (2021 Candidate for Cincinnati City Council)
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by The Buckeye Flame and Equality Ohio.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown has taken over the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP), putting his protégé Elizabeth Walters in charge with the blessing of a handful of union donors.
On one hand, this could be good because Sherrod is the only Ohio Democrat who knows how to win statewide partisan elections.
It is less good when you consider that he lacked the coattails to pull any of the other statewide non-judicial candidates over the finish line in 2018.
On the other hand, the powerful labor donors have not been able to help Democrats regain control of the governorship and other statewide administrative offices and win more state legislative races.
It is less bad when you consider that Democrats have gained three Ohio Supreme Court justices in the last two elections and are on the verge of gaining a majority for the first time in a long time if they can turn one more seat in 2022.
David Pepper beat out a Sherrod-backed candidate for the ODP chair job six years ago. He compiled a record of mostly failures in statewide and legislative races, but won some key judicial races.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 8:00 PM
Monday, February 1, 2021, 3:30 PM
Join the Poor Peoples’s Campaign to launch Moral Mondays during the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration. On the anniversary of the start of the sit-in movement on February 1, 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Poor People’s Campaign will launch a new series of Moral Mondays to mark the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration. This Monday, we will push Democrats, Republicans and independents to immediately enact a living wage of $15 an hour covering all minimum-wage workers, including tipped workers, and stronger, expanded union rights. We will hold a massive call-in to the offices of Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell as we also demand just COVID relief. PoorPeoplescampaign.org/livestream. More information here.