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Monday, September 21, 5:30-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
This panel discussion will feature activists from the 1960s and 1970s and will include community reflections on the lessons that have been learned.
A pre-screening of photos will begin at 5:30pm; a panel discussion, moderated by Pranav Jani (professor, OSU Department of English), will begin at 6pm.
Panelists include Jade Musa, President, OSU Students for Justice in Palestine; Chet Dilday, associate professor, Fayetteville [North Carolina] State University [a graduate of The Ohio State University]; and Linda Berdayes, organizer, VVAW [Vietnam Veterans Against the War]. Other activists and organizers will share reflections of the OSU campus “riots” that brought OSU Black Studies [now known as the OSU Department of African American and African Studies], OSU Women’s Studies [now known as the OSU Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies], and many other changes to that institution as well as to the rest of the nation.
Please register for this event by using this link.
Sunday, September 20, 7-10pm
65 S. Front St., Columbus downtown
The power of Wikileaks in upholding whistle-blower rights is the reason millions of dollars has been spent by a global coalition of the rich, powerful, and corrupt to discredit the co-founder, Julian Assange.
The case is widely viewed as a global landmark event that violates press freedom, purportedly enshrined in the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution.
President Donald Trump seeks Assange's extradition from the UK this week to face 175 years in prison for publishing outside the United States about US war crimes, as a foreign journalist.
The extradition result will impact our so-called information-based economy and shape the power balance between the world's rich and poor masses for generations to come, broadly impacting tomorrow’s workforce.
Please join us Friday in search of Senator Rob Portman. Our search party will gather outside of the senator’s office at 37 West Broad. Also keep an eye out for Portman’s good buddy, Senator Mitch McConnell. Wherever you find Mitch McConnell, Senator Portman is right next to him promoting the same cynical policies that leave all Ohioans in danger during the pandemic.
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Reverend Doctor T. Anthony Spearman found himself in an unusual dilemma. He was greatly worried about private, for-profit commercial entities secretly coding voting machines. His concern was expected since he is a member of the Guilford County Board of Elections in North Carolina, representing the most populous area of the state, including the city of Greensboro.
On behalf of the North Carolina State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Spearman made a public request for information to all 100 counties in the state asking 31 questions centering around who was programming the voting machines in each county.
His August 24, 2020 letter states: “We are determined to protect the polls during the upcoming election. We are in unchartered times and we look forward to working with our County Boards of Elections, the state agency charged with overall responsibility for the administration of the elections to assure this election cycle is executed with integrity and everyone’s vote is counted and protected.”
Kevin Zeese was a major constant reliable presence in the movement for peace and justice. He used writing, editing, online and all other forms of communication. He organized events, protests, occupations. He risked arrest. He ran for office. He was an attorney and used the courts and shared his expertise. He thought independently. He acted collaboratively. He maintained good relations with those he disagreed with — even those he disagreed with over that most disagreeable of topics in a collapsing oligarchy: elections.
Kevin and his partner in recent years Margaret Flowers combined art, civil resistance, music, journalism, radio, and coalition building to cross issue areas and energize. Losing Kevin is a horrible blow, but nobody can say he didn’t put his time to good use. Nobody can say that if thousands followed his lead we wouldn’t have a world transformed. Nobody can say that he didn’t make a major difference, exposing injustice and changing public policy and culture for the better.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's democracy activists, angered by Hong Kong's police brutality, joined an international "Mulan" boycott which expanded after Disney thanked China's security forces for help with filming in a desert where one million Uighurs and other Muslims are imprisoned or suffer other rights violations.
"It just keeps getting worse!" Hong Kong's leading activist Joshua Wong tweeted.
"Now when you watch #Mulan, not only are you turning a blind eye to police brutality and racial injustice -- due to what the lead actors stand for -- you're also potentially complicit in the mass incarceration of Muslim ethnic Uighurs. #BoycottMulan," Mr. Wong said.
"We have still not forgotten that Mulan's leading actress supported the police use of violence against Hong Kong protesters who fight for freedom and democracy,” announced prominent Thai student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal.
In response to the impact COVID-19 has taken on local performing artists, the Lincoln Theatre Association will launch the Lincoln Living Room Concert Series. For three consecutive Fridays beginning September 11, this free video series will livestream 30-minute sets from select graduates of the Lincoln’s Expand Your Horizon Incubation Program for emerging artists. The concerts will air on the Lincoln Theatre Facebook page at 7pm each Friday, offering viewers the chance to experience the wealth of local artists honing their craft at the Lincoln.
Designed to provide performers the opportunity to earn an income while venues are closed, the Lincoln Theatre Association will pay each performer a fee, and during each concert, also provide links for viewers to “tip” artists directly.
The Lincoln Living Room Concert Series schedule is as follows: