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I have been a spiritual seeker over the last several decades. Along the way, I have studied a variety of teachings from different traditions, spiritual masters and accumulated wisdom. For many years I attended a psychic development class. I trust in things I can’t see or prove except in my own experience, in my gut.
In this program, I will share those influences on my understanding of the nature of reality and the many paths to the goal of “Conscious Creation.
In this inaugural program I am reading one of my favorite sources, channeled wisdom form a group of ascended masters transmitting as Emmanual.
“Whenever the feeling comes over you that you have no choices, I urge you to call a halt to everything. This is a trick you play on yourself to avoid the responsibility and therefore the joy of life.
Envision, instead, what it is you truly want. Test it. Be careful of this, my friends, because if you envision something quite casually, even though you may not be sure you want it, it will manifest.
This is neither magic or false hope. It is the REALITY OF THE POWER OF YOUR CREATIVE IMPULSE.
Toledo City Council last week made The Glass City the first in Ohio to take up a resolution supporting an Essential Workers Bill of Rights as part of a new national campaign to deliver better treatment and higher pay to all “essential workers.”
The resolution was introduced September 15th at a Toledo City Council meeting by Councilwoman Theresa Gadus. A vote is expected in October.
Toledo’s Essential Workers Bill of Rights largely reflects a national bill proposed earlier this year by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, which seeks to protect frontline workers by requiring employers to provide personal protective equipment, robust hazard pay, and provide 14 days of paid sick leave, among other proposals. The bill has stalled in the Senate, however.
There is no word from Columbus City Council whether it will consider a similar resolution. Several major cities have also introduced an Essential Workers Bill of Rights, as New York City Council did back in April.
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.