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December 6 - 12, 2020
A Virtual Conference on the Death Penalty
Featuring live/interactive on-line Panel Discussions or events each day. (Additional information is here.)
Five federal executions are scheduled between December 10 (international Human Rights Day) and January 15 (Martin Luther King Jr's birthday), and more could be scheduled. Please join us for a series of on-line panel discussions about this unprecedented federal execution spree and state of the death penalty in the United States today.
To register for this event, click the green TICKETS button in the upper right corner of the registration page.
Saturday, December 5, 12-6pm
299 King Avenue
In coordination with the Dennison Place Neighborhood Association, the Short North Block Watch is asking residents to donate extra food to give back to the NNEMAP Food Pantry this season. (www.nnemappantry.org)
The family of Julius E. Tate will gather on North Champion Avenue and Mt. Vernon Avenue on December 7th at 3 pm to commemorate and raise awareness of Julius’s untimely death at the hands and guns of Columbus police. It will be his death’s second anniversary, and a utility pole on this corner has been decorated in his honor.
According to Columbus police, Julius’ death was the result of a sting operation to apprehend an armed robber who was doing swap-and-sell meetings. Questions linger, however, regarding Julius’s actions before his death. Even so, the sting should have been handled in a way so not to kill the teenager.
Police in plain clothes claim Julius pulled a gun on them, and then a sharpshooter in hiding fired. But Julius’s girlfriend claims he was unarmed, testimony she gave in a sworn affidavit. Days later the girlfriend, Masonique Saunders, was charged in connection with his killing.
At the time, Saunders’s mother told WBNS 10TV the charge was an attempt to silence her. Masonique is currently serving a three-year sentence in state prison after taking a plea deal.
A new poll shows that 68 percent of Americans say they want lawmakers to reject any corporate-linked Biden nominations. So why is he picking them?
Although mostly considered the not-Trump candidate, Biden’s presidential campaign nonetheless offered a glimmer of hope for Americans – investment in infrastructure, debt cancelation, modestly helping Americans during pandemic, etc.
None of these modestly progressive policies, however, will make it far without Democrats winning Georgia’s two Senate seats. But his brief time as president-elect is showing he might turn back on these campaign promises even if Dems win those two Senate seats in January.
What's new with the Columbus Dispatch?
The news is old at the former "Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper." The late afternoon deadline imposed to accommodate the closing of the Columbus printing plant and its shift to Indianapolis means that much that happens on Tuesday gets in Thursday's paper.
The content of the print product is becoming more feature stories and
and less news coverage. We journalism professors define "news" as matters that readers need to know and that affect their lives and "features" as stuff to entertain and amuse.
The Dispatch is publishing more articles from its sister newspaper USA Today and labels them and locally generated content as from the "USA Today Network." If the paper is trying to cut its print circulation and push people to its digital product, it is succeeding in the former. An Oct. 1 legal advertisement showed print copies sold had dropped nearly one third in a year, from about 78,000 daily to about 504,000.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
https://www.meetup.com/Simply-Living-Central-Ohio-Meetup/events/274665091/
We finally made it to the election after being inflicted with a plague, and police murders that resulted in protests, and tear gassing that would make a 14-year-old write a letter for Amnesty International to our government.
Who do you write letters to if elected officials are tear gassed?
I feel like the past seven years were unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.
With that said, currently I view our country from the eyes of a latchkey kid whose parents are divorcing.
Dad was awful at some point but now he isn’t as scary because you know his life is changing.
Trump says things that are either funny like a dad trying to be cool, and other times you’re still like: I truly understand why my mom wants to leave this guy. While mom had valid reasons to leave him there is part of me that appreciates that Trump does seem to sincerely like Lil’ Wayne, Kanye West and Ice Cube.
The fact you can find sincere rapport with Trump is kind of how I started to understand the loyalty people had towards him.
He might be part of things your ideals hate... but he is human.
Mom, I guess would be our voters.
Tuesday, December 1 - Giving Tuesday
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Please support our mission to end human trafficking and spread love to our community.
HBO is starting to air a subtly powerful film that’s even more relevant now than when it was first released earlier this year.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is the story of Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), a 17-year-old Pennsylvania girl with a nightmarish problem. She’s pregnant, but she can’t tell either her mom or the baby’s father for reasons that are suggested but never spelled out.
Enter her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder), who is maternally protective toward Autumn even though they’re about the same age. Uncovering Autumn’s dilemma despite her stubborn silence, Skylar volunteers to help her solve it the only way they know how: by sneaking away to New York, a state that, unlike Pennsylvania, will allow her to obtain an abortion without parental consent.
That, in a nutshell, is the plot. The bulk of the film’s 101 minutes are spent simply following the girls as they catch a bus to NYC, learn to navigate the unfamiliar city and, in general, attempt to complete their somber mission despite unexpected complications and severely limited funds.