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Pint Size Protesters was created to give kids and their families a safe space in the Black Lives Matter movement, but also to support families with resources and opportunities to learn and grow so that we can truly bring about change. Our mission is to organize, educate, and demonstrate with the goal of hosting monthly educational and family friendly protest activities.
We formed in early July and were invited to participate in Worthington’s “Why We March” rally where we staged a protest that was well received by the community! This month, we kick off official Pint Size Protesters events with a lesson in racism featuring the book A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory and our first protest, which took place in Dublin on 8/15.
Now onto September! With this being a very important election year, we thought it important to focus on voting and building the next generation of voters. Thus Pint Size Protesters presents: “Why Voting Matters” was born:
Date: September 12, 11am - 3pm
Location: The Vanderelli Room (Private Yard Space), 218 McDowell St, Columbus, OH 43215
August 20, 2020, 4:45- 5:15 pm
Ohio Statehouse
Democratic Ohio-12 candidate Alaina Shearer, will lead our weekly Heroes Act protest caravan with her US BUS!
As teachers and shelter volunteers, we are seeing how COVID-19 is undermining the well-being of our community, especially members who were already in vulnerable positions before the onset of this pandemic. We were shocked when Congress did not pass the second relief bill in early August. Instead of extending the $600 weekly federal unemployment payments and eviction moratorium, Congress left for vacation. The Senate must return and compromise in order to pass a COVID relief package. People's lives are hanging in the balance. The economy stands on the edge of an even deeper collapse if a relief package is not passed. Our country needs a comprehensive plan to address our needs during the pandemic and beyond. This week we will be joined by local unions members as well as some citizens helping keep our neighbors safe in shelters.
The story that I am about to relate could well have been a contemporary adaptation of Dickens, yet I feel that even Dickens would have been impressed at the amount of adversity that I am about to tell. There is no exaggeration. I have even omitted parts, but that doesn’t make this story less brutal.
A little empathy is needed to understand this story. You would have to be a monster not to feel some compassion. This is a story of a poor Guatemalan family who escaped the brutality of their own country’s oppression and soul-crushing poverty to only find more heartache in the middle of Ohio.
I work locally as an interpreter and when I first met Huli at his school on the westside of Columbus back in 2017, he was a 10-year-old from Guatemala who was having nightmares. Not the nightmares most of us have sometimes. His nightmares were bloody and horrible and full of violence, impacting his school performance, his relationships, and himself.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Join Senator Bernie Sanders and over a dozen powerful national progressive organizations to lay out our plan to win in November 2020. We are engaged in an independent campaign to reach millions of Black and Brown voters, young people, and progressives to defeat Donald Trump, and move a transformational agenda in 2021. Panelists will share strategies for fighting voter suppression, boosting voter enthusiasm, and building long-term political power - including how you can get involved in the fight! Sponsored by CPD Action, Peoples Action, RootsAction, Mijente, United We Dream Action, Working Families Party, Black Voters Matter Fund, Seed The Vote, Sunrise Movement, Progressive Democrats of America, Our Revolution, Make the Road Action, and more. Register here.
In Columbus, the housing crisis is everywhere. People who have been left behind are begging on street corners. For those with housing, rents have skyrocketed, smaller landlords and properties have been bought up by massive corporations, and tenants have been forced to renew their leases or look for a new place to live sooner and sooner after moving in. "Affordable housing" has become a regular topic for city officials challenged by a frustrated public. But what does Columbus think "affordable housing" looks like?
The document above is connected to Columbus's infamous tax abatement policy--through which many large developments in our city pay zero property tax for years. That policy requires some developments to have 20% of housing units set aside for "affordable" housing: 10% to be "affordable and rented to households making up to 80% AMI [Area Median Income]" and an additional 10% "affordable and rented to households making up to 100% AMI".
Monday, August 17, 2020, 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 16, 2pm
Downtown Columbus
Black womens march is for people to see we have a voice too as black women and black young women. We want to show the community we are here for them we are here for justice and we are here for you. We will have food after the march as well .Everyone is invited no matter the gender all women please be in dresses shoes the color don’t matter.
Sunday, August 16, 2pm
Downtown Columbus
Black womens march is for people to see we have a voice too as black women and black young women. We want to show the community we are here for them we are here for justice and we are here for you. We will have food after the march as well .Everyone is invited no matter the gender all women please be in dresses shoes the color don’t matter.
Friday, August 14, 2020, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
This rally is sponsored by a surviving family member of Kareem Jones who was murdered by CPD in 2017. Location: Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus.
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