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Wednesday, January 20, 3pm
Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St.
Facebook Event
Appeal for a Mass Anti-Fascist Demonstration at the Statehouse on January 20.
We will meet outside of Columbus City Hall (90 West Broad Street) to begin the rally, and march together to the Statehouse!
As Inauguration Day marks the transition from the Presidency of Donald Trump to that of Joe Biden, we recognize that it represents no fundamental change in the white supremacist oligarchy that governs this country, no relief for working class people suffering under a deadly pandemic, and no solution against the rising tide of fascism.
Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 7:00 PM
Join Fair Districts to learn the basics about redistricting, why and how Ohio will draw new state and federal legislative maps in 2021. This is also a great start for those who want to get trained to join the Fair Districts Speakers Bureau. Register here.
Sandwiched between the nation’s honoring of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 18 and the inauguration of President Biden on January 20, a deportation charter flight is scheduled to leave Florence (Arizona), for Mauritania on Tuesday. Flights to Haiti and Jamaica with others being deported are also scheduled.
These are some of the last acts of Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) . For the Black Mauritanian, Haitian, and Jamaican communities and their families, it is deeply painful for these asylum-seekers who traveled so far to seek freedom and their families.
Before Trump, deportations to Mauritania “were rare”, says Houleye Thiam, president of the Mauritanian Network for Human Rights in US (MNHRUS), which is based in Columbus and Cincinnati. According to US Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, the largest Mauritanian community in the US is here in Central Ohio.
26th Annual Free Community Breakfast
Sponsored by Police Officers for Equal Rights
Monday, January 18, 2021
8am Breakfast (carryout only)
First A.M.E. Zion Church, 873 Bryden Rd., Columbus
12noon Virtual Broadcast
“Promise, Prosperity, and Power”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vergel L. Lattimore, President, Hood Theological Seminary
Watch live: https://www.facebook.com/shawtempleamez
The storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump anti-democracy rioters is reported to have caught the local police off guard. Trump supporters have a long history of violence, more recently culminating with the breaking into statehouses in Michigan and Oregon as well as the Proud Boys march in D.C. that involved multiple stabbings.
A fundraising effort to support terminated Columbus Division of Police officer Adam Coy is currently ongoing among many Columbus police officers, asking 200 officers to give $20 a month to raise $4,000 a month.
The officer-initiated fundraiser is not for any legal fund, which the local Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) would take care of, but for Coy’s mortgage and other expenses, say several black officers who forwarded the above screenshot to the Free Press. There’s no policy within the Division against raising money for fellow officers.
The community is painfully aware of the double-standard Columbus police have towards black citizens, but black officers continue to tell the Free Press this also applies to how they can be treated as well.
How Do We Stop the Black on Black Killings in Columbus?
Thursday, January 14, 6pm
Special Guests:
Honorable Judge Terri Jamison – Franklin County
Pastor Frederick V. Lamarr – Family Missionary Baptist Church
Dr. Jordan Argus – Crane R&D
Bro. Cecil Ahad – Pres/CEO Men for the Movement
George Howard – All-Ohio Basketball
Byron L. Potts – Byron L. Potts & Co., LPA
Khari Enaharo – Media Host
James Ragland – Columbus City Schools, School Board Member
Rhodesia McMillian, PHD – Columbus City Schools, School Psychologist
John Gregory – National Center for Urban Solutions
Honorable Judge Lasheyl Stroud – Franklin County
Be sure to spread the word.
Join the discussion LIVE on 1/14/21@6pm
Stop the War on Yemen Webinar
Should you be worried about the new COVID strains originating in the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere, and recently identified in the US, as well as newly identified strains that originated in the US and quickly became predominant in Central Ohio?
