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Saturday, July 25, 1pm
Topiary Park, 480 E. Town St.
Please join us this Saturday at 1PM at Topiary Park for a Teach-In collaboration with CPD out of CCS!
We will be providing education on the school to prison pipeline, accounts from individual speakers, and a vision for a future without police. These systems have been waging a war on our youth and now is the time to learn more.
Visual ASL interpretation will be provided. Send a direct message on either Instagram or Facebook if you need a ride. Please share widely!
Accessibility Information: Topiary Park is downtown to the east of the main library. It is wide, paved paths and benches through out. There are entrances on all sides but currently Washington Ave and Library Park are blocked off to cars by construction. There are two entrances to the park off Town Street. There is also metered parking on Town St right next to the park, and free street parking further east down the block. COTA line 11 stops right by the park. This event is outside and there is no air conditioning or bathrooms.
Friday, July 24, 7-11pm
Public · Hosted by For The People
We meet at the Oval EVERY Friday at 7pm
The Oval, 181 Oval Dr S, Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-6446
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ttG6HSGdbrXYuF75A
Have Columbus city officials ever demanded the Columbus Division of Police to aggressively enforce the law so to generate revenue for the city?
While such a direct demand might not have happened in Columbus, the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation on the Ferguson Police Department in 2014 exposed that financial crisis’ can cause this very kind of demand from a City to its Police Department.
After the killing of 18-year-old Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown at the hands of a white officer in 2014, the DOJ uncovered overwhelming evidence that policing is not always about protection - it’s also a tactic Ferguson city officials demanded from their police force to generate revenue.
After the 2008 financial crisis, cities like Ferguson needed ways to generate more revenue. So in March 2010, Ferguson’s City Finance Director wrote an email to its chief of police:
Ohio's biggest-ever bribery case is rocking America's reactor industry…and the fall election.
Full details of the shocking arrest of Ohio's powerful Speaker of the House are still unfolding.
But on Monday the FBI charged Larry Householder and four associates with taking $61 million (that's NOT a typo) in bribes from “Company A,” suspected to be the Akron-based nuke utility FirstEnergy. The company has not been formally named as the source of the bribe, but FE’s stock has since plummetted.
Householder is suspected of buying votes for the widely hated $1.5 billion bailout of two decrepit nuke reactors on Lake Erie. Donald Trump lobbied at least five legislators to support the cash giveaway. Ohio’s moderate Republican Governor Mike DeWine has asked Householder to resign.
Without the bailout, Perry and Davis-Besse would already be dead in the rising tsunami of US reactor shutdowns.
The handout also supported two ancient coal burners (one in Indiana), and ten small solar plants. It killed a big, highly successful state-wide efficiency program and crippled further Ohio development of wind and solar.
Thursday, July 23, 7-9pm
Ohio Statehouse
Hosted by COOR - Central Ohio Organized Resistance.
In recent weeks, our numbers have drastically gone down, which has led to an increase in violence and abuse by both police and other citizens against our fellow activists. We need to remind those in power that these streets are our streets, and we're not going anywhere anytime soon.
Join COOR, the Central Ohio Organized Resistance, this Thursday night, to let the city of Columbus know that we're still fighting. We're not giving up until our voices have been heard and we get the change we need.
Pine Prairie, LA - Unless something changes very soon, an Ohio military family fears their family member Wilfred could be deported to Cameroon, the country he fled that is embroiled in armed ethnic conflict, and killed. The Cameroon American Council and its #AdvocateforDetainees program is calling on all people of good will to act now and #HelpSoldierAcha reunite with his cousin and save Wilfred’s life.
In a letter about Wilfred to the Immigration Judge, Specialist Acha wrote: “[Wilfred and I] grew up together and went to the same school together right up to college, and he was a true good leader to look up to. He is hard working. Tebah Wilfred Tebah is respectful, fearful, and above all morally guided. He is a good man and will obey the laws, orders and policies as instructed.”
On June 24, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) under the title, Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.Except for those whom the EO affects, it has already been stuffed down the Trump memory hole. It is, however, an important document with negative far-reaching ramifications for child welfare in the US. To the casual reader, the Executive Order can look benign, positive: a plan for expanded federal child welfare assistance programs to enhance sibling retention, family preservation, unification, permanency, aging out as well as strengthening trauma-informed training and best practice and better reporting standards. It appears to concede a fractured child welfare system, but…
As the city of Columbus is considering measures to reform policing in Columbus and restore confidence in the Columbus Police Department, we would like to encourage you to end training exchanges with the state of Israel. Though proponents of these exchanges often note that they occur at no or minimal cost to the city, we believe that the costs are tremendous and outweigh any possible benefits.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Join us for a conversation on feminism, abolition, and transformative justice with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Leila Raven. Angela Davis taught us that abolition needs feminism. Join us for a conversation on feminism, abolition, and transformative justice with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Leila Raven. Learn about bringing our histories to abolition as a vision and practice, as well as healing after harm and community-based processes for care and accountability in our communities and movements.
$10 donation requested.