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Saturday, September 27, 2025,1:00 – 3:30 PM
Bicentennial Park & Ohio Statehouse

Bill 1 (HB1) and Senate Bill 88 (SB88), currently under consideration in the Ohio General Assembly, would ban individuals and businesses from owning property within a 25-mile radius of “critical infrastructure” based on national origin.

On September 27, concerned Ohioans will rally at Bicentennial Park and march to the Ohio State House to speak out against HB1 and SB88 in defense of our civil liberties, property rights, and constitutional protections.

Learn more and register here.

Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan celebrate Latino Heritage Month with Spanish language songs including Buena Vista Social Club, Lila Downs, Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Eddie Pamieri and more!

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Listen live at 11pm Fridays, September 26 and October 3 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
and
Mondays at 2pm streaming September 29 and October 6 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM

Saturday, September 27, noon
1423 N. High St.

We will be serving the community with a home-cooked meal on the 27th of this month. Thanks to The SOAR Initiative and A Step in the Right Direction, we will also have hygiene products and other items available.

If you would like to donate to this initiative, please use one of the following options:

- Cash App: $ramonobey
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In mid-September, the Ohio House of Representatives returned from summer break, hearing committees again for the first time. While their immediate focus will likely be congressional redistricting and various property tax reform proposals, we're keeping a watchful eye out for updates on several harmful anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including: 

The Ohio Senate will also be back from recess shortly, and in both chambers we're paying close attention to rumors about potential veto overrides of the anti-LGBTQ+ measures Governor DeWine struck from the budget in June. 

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ICE’s television ad enticing Central Ohio law enforcement with a $50,000 sign-on bonus claims officers in sanctuary cities have been “forced to stand down.” Columbus, as most everyone knows, is a sanctuary city even if no formal declaration was ever made. But Columbus, that has the most immigrants per capita in Ohio, is in a red state. And you don’t have to be Cesar Chavez to realize what side most of the Columbus police are on.

Back in 2017, Mayor Ginther ordered Columbus police to never ask a person’s immigration status or apprehend people if suspected of being an immigrant unless ordered by a court. But a question lingers in the minds of activists: Have some Columbus police and Franklin County deputies been surreptitiously helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by calling its snitch line and thus breaking city law?

Wednesdays downtown: 
Wednesday Husted and Moreno Protest, 12-1pm, 200 N High St, Columbus.
Senators Bernie Moreno and John Husted are supporting the fascist takeover of our democracy.
Let's hold them accountable to the people and taxpayers of Ohio. Their offices are both at 200 N High St, with lots of public visibility!
Register HERE. 

Franklin Country has lent Israel $28 million that could be used to fund its ongoing wars. That means Franklin Country's taxpayers have effectively loaned Israel $28 million to use how it sees fit. While many US officials want you to believe that Israel is considered the United States’ most trusted and dependable ally in a region of the world that is volatile at best, they do not tell you that Israel has a long history of spying on the US, stealing its top secrets, blackmailing US politicians, and killing US citizens in cold blood. Don't believe me, Google search USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Akleh or Jonathan Pollard to name few.

Israeli bonds are inherently political. That seems to be the way the cities, counties, and Ohio State politicians view them: an investment that delivers political capital.

According to Arkansas Times article, "Since the Development Corporation for Israel’s inception in 1951, the Israeli bonds have not only served as financial instruments but also as a gesture of support for the state of Israel. This is, in fact, part of Israel Bonds’ marketing strategy.

The activist group Indivisible of Central Ohio organized a protest on September 23 to protest ABC's cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel and Sinclair Broadcasting's refusal to air it. Some ABC stations, those owned by Sinclair, will still not be broadcasting his show, in an effort to suppress Kimmel from criticizing Trump.            

On September 13, the British public was startled when more than 110,000 people turned out for a raucous far-right rally in London featuring racist conspiracy theories, anti-Muslim hate speech, and violent assaults upon police. Whipping up the crowd, Tommy Robinson―a popular far-right agitator, march organizer, and five-time convicted criminal―told the assemblage that British government officials believed “that Somalians, Afghans, Pakistanis, all of them, their rights supersede yours, the British public, the people that built this nation.” Signs carried by the demonstrators invoked racist and xenophobic themes, such as: “Why are white people despised when our money pays for everything?”