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On December 10 every year, the world observes Human Rights Day, commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, according to the official UN website.
URGENT!!! HELP NEEDED!
In the past four years, homelessness has increased by 53 percent in Franklin County. Each year, more of our neighbors struggle to find a safe place to sleep. These aren’t just numbers, they are our neighbors- grandparents, children, families.
Community group Heer to Serve is a mutual aid group that serves necessary, and emergency items to those who are unsheltered. Heer to Serve and others are responding to this crisis which is closer than you may realize, offering meals, survival supplies, clothes, showers and other basic needs. When you donate to a community based organization you’re not donating to charity, you’re making an investment into people, stability. You’re making an investment in a future where no one has to sleep on the streets.
The solutions start with us. Invest in hope by investing in community. Consider donating today!
Cashapp: $heer2serve
Venmo: theheertoserve
Heer2serve.org is our website. And folks can find our socials on Facebook, Instagram, and bluesky.
Columbus City Schools (CCS) are facing their greatest challenge in years. Not only does the district have a “D” rating for quality, but now must cut over 50 million dollars from their budget (thanks to the state Republicans and their hatred of public education).
As a former teacher (both public and private schools) I’ve been following the steps that CCS has, and has not, been taking. Most important:
The excessive number of administrators in the Central Office, andHow those Central Office administrators have their STRS pension payments not deducted from their paychecks (like every teacher), but instead paid for by CCS.I care about the future of Columbus and a strong CCS is vital for our success. Therefore, I took it upon myself to email every member of the CCS Board of Education; twice. Everyone, except one person ignored my questions.
So thank you to Jennifer Anne Adair for not only reading my email but even responding. Part of her reply included:
I made five posts yesterday/today on my school board Facebook explaining how we got here, the choices, and impacts. These are my personal statements, but reflect the facts.
Braving the cold weather on Saturday, December 13, dozens gathered to protest US war crimes and bombing ships from Venezuela at the gazebo in Goodale Park and marched for a rally at the Holiday Hop in the Short North.
This week, every state insurance commissioner including Ohio’s Judith French will meet in Hollywood, Florida, for their quarterly national gathering. If a corporate insurance lobbyist is a shark, this meeting is a feeding frenzy. And the sharks have been eating well.
Insurance commissioners across the country are abdicating their public duty by giving in to corporate lobbyists that want to profit from insuring fossil fuel projects and investing in fossil fuel companies – while leaving ratepayers holding the climate crisis bag.
In Ohio, insurance premiums have climbed 36.1% over the last six years, while nonrenewal rates went up 31% from 2022 to 2023. Big insurance companies blame the climate crisis – yet they insure and invest in the very fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis – including in companies fracking Ohio’s state parks and public lands.
If you want to understand how the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority has undermined democracy, you need to understand the “shadow docket.”
The shadow docket — as the court’s emergency docket has come to be known — is one of the more dramatic and corrupt ways that MAGA-aligned justices are enabling President Trump to take away our freedoms.
Normally, the justices don’t hear a case until after lower courts have considered it fully and made a final decision. But a party to a case may describe it as so urgent that quick “relief” is needed from the Supreme Court, claiming that “irreparable harm” may occur while lower courts consider it.
That puts it on the emergency docket.
Since time is supposedly of the essence, the justices don’t hold oral arguments. And if they grant the “relief” and undo the lower court’s order, they often give us little if any explanation why. Lower court judges are left without much guidance on whether or how to use the decision to guide their own decisions.
With so little sunlight, no wonder the term “shadow docket” has stuck.
Sunday, December 7, 3:30pm
Whetstone Library, 3909 N. High St.
Register here
All over the country, ICE agents are targeting immigrants in and around Home Depot, attacking and terrorizing workers, customers, and surrounding communities. The raids are terrifying, chaotic, and sometimes deadly.
These atrocities are happening on Home Depot’s watch, on its properties, with its silence. The Home Depot company has not resisted or condemned these raids. It has not publicly demanded that the Administration stop assaulting and abducting people on and outside its properties. As far as we know, it hasn't even asked.
We will write postcards to Central Ohio Home Depot store managers and to Home Depot corporate leaders demanding an end to their complicity and promising not to shop at Home Depot until they stop allowing ICE to conduct raids on its properties.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan found a lot of artists who expressed their dislike of the Tangerine Man. Here they play the songs for you!
Listen live at 11pm Fridays, December 6 and 12 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Mondays at 2pm streaming December 8 and December 22 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
Saturday, December 6, 2025 - 12:00pm
EN Broadway and N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio
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12noon at Goodale Park Gazebo, 12o W. Goodale
Bring a sign!
Make your voice be heard
What if this Venezuelan murdering scheme is more than just Trump being a bully with manhood issues? Of course, it could be about trying to steal their oil, which one of his supporters already admitted to. With a supposed drug justification when there is no evidence of that, and even if there were, murder is not the way to deal with it.
But at the same time the murderous Trump administration is trying to say it if because of concern about drugs, he pardoned a known drug trafficker, Juan Orlando Hernandez. A White House official and Hernandez's attorney, Renato Stabile, confirmed December 2 that the pardon has been issued. Stabile said Hernandez was released early December 2 from a federal prison, where he was serving a 45-year sentence "for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses," according to the Justice Department.
Hernandez was convicted in March of 2024 after a three-week jury trial in New York City. He was "at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world," helping to bring more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., the Justice Department said in a news release last year after his conviction.