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What: March For Ohio Families Killed By Police: Hundreds will march to honor families in our state who have lost loved ones at the hands of police. Protesters will be wearing red to symbolize the bloodshed caused by police brutality.
Who: Ohio parents of people lost to police violence, Adrienne Hood mother of Henry Green (Columbus), Sabrina Jordan, the mother of Jamarco McShann (Dayton), People’s Justice Project
Where: Participants will gather at Columbus City Hall and march to and around the Ohio Statehouse where speeches will be made.
When: Organizers will be available for interviews at Columbus City Hall beginning at 3:30pm, at 4pm community members will gather, the march will step off from there and speakers will begin at the Ohio Statehouse.
With groups of young people taking over downtown Columbus, the George Floyd protests are unique in how decentralized their organization has been and how social media was used to coordinate thousands to converge on downtown.
Many groups have shared the mic and they have similar goals to completely restructure the concept of policing.
But this decentralized movement – a fundamental strategy for today’s protesters – has led some local protesters to separate themselves from others so to promote what some believe are “softened” demands to city government and Columbus police.
At warp speed many protesters soon felt they were being led by people they have never met, who are spreading a message many protesters don’t agree with.
How did the Columbus protests become co-opted by group(s) who don’t share the same vision and goals as the majority of protesters? And just exactly who are some of these group(s) who seemingly materialized out of clouds of tear gas?
Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Love is Letting Go of Fearis the title of a small book with a big message. You can think of love and fear as sides of a coin: while the one side is dominant, the other side is negated.
In our current situation, there is a lot of fear going around concerning the COVID virus. But is it rational?
If it’s true that love and fear, light and dark, life and death are sides of a coin, we have the ability to decide which side of the coin we are going to turn up. It’s a choice. Yes, even life and death because we make choices every day that effect the quality and quantity of our life. And we can choose to NOT be afraid.
Remember the Law of Attraction: “that which is like unto itself is drawn.” What we focus our energy and attention on is what we manifest in our life.
“It is a basic right to learn in a building that is not 95 degrees. I never had that all four of my years in high school, but I did have an armed officer every single day of the year.”
The 72-hour deadline given by numerous students, alumni, parents, teachers, activist groups and OSU academic departments to Columbus City Schools (CCS) to end its partnership with Columbus Police passed over the weekend, but CCS leadership has not offered an exact answer yet.
Unlike the quick decision the Minneapolis Public School board took in removing police or School Resource Officers (SROs) from its city schools, a definitive response from CCS may not be forthcoming anytime soon, as suggested in a joint statement given by Superintendent/CEO Dr. Talisa Dixon and CCS Board President Jennifer Adair.
“We hear you, and we are listening. We agree it’s an appropriate issue for discussion. We are committed to working tirelessly for change in our schools and in our community,” stated Dixon and Adair’s statement.
A new analysis from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Morrow County Correctional Facility failed to follow its own Infectious Disease Control Program (IDCP), as well as the National Detention Standards (NDS) required in its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Because of this, the Morrow County Correctional Facility is now the first county jail in Ohio, and the first ICE detention center in the United States, to be 100% COVID-positive.
Sunday, June 7, 1-9m
Ohio Statehouse
Bring your signs as we rally, march and pray for our city.
Saturday, June 6, 11am-5pm
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Saturday, June 6, 11am-5pm
241 E. Town St.
Visual art, comedy, spoken word, dance, mindfulness and community. Revolution's No Joke is an artistic protest for the community, dedicated to bringing unity to individuals, organizations and activists through a grassroots movement. They do this by keeping the communinty safe, distributing accurate information and organized protests and events.
Please donate:
Cashapp - $mj4us
Venmo - @mj4us
Paypal: revolutionsnojoke@gmail.com