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Friday, September 4, 2020, 1:00 PM
An effective public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic includes mandatory limits on public gatherings, mask-wearing, and social distancing. To what extent should the content of these measures be shaped by what we know, or think we know, about the social and political consequences of trying to enforce them? What can explain the widespread skepticism and non-compliance that these recommendations have met with in the United States? Panelists: Denise Jamieson (Emory, Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics), Thomas Wood (Ohio State, Political Science). Moderator: Emma Saunders-Hastings (Ohio State, Political Science). Register for the webinar here.
The CDC announced on September 1 a moratorium on residential evictions nationwide through the end of the year. While it falls short of what activists have asked for, it is a welcome relief to many. This order comes in the wake of massive political unrest, a spike in evictions and homelessness, and a looming wave of evictions working their way through the courts, brought on by millions of people losing income in the COVID crisis.
In Columbus alone, there have been hundreds of eviction hearings per week for the last month, with eviction courts being moved to the Convention center to allow for COVID precautions and to handle the increased workload. Activists have been working overtime, trying to get information, assistance, and masks to people facing evictions in crowded hearing schedules.
One extreme example from inside the Columbus Division of Police exposing how reckless and rogue some white male officers can be towards minority and women officers happened roughly two years ago when a female officer and a male officer were vying to run a high-profiled unit.
The white female candidate had more seniority over the white male candidate, and the female candidate won the promotion. But the male officers within the unit never wanted her to win the job and scoffed at her authority – and it soon turned ugly.
Who recalls the popular insurance commercial which portrayed a fisherman dangling a dollar bill with his fishing pole over the needy arms of young woman who desperately tried to swipe the dollar bill off the hook?
Soon after the female officer won the promotion, someone under her authority took time to create a poster which mocked her. They took a picture of her face and superimposed it on the face of the fisherman in the insurance commercial. As for the losing male candidate, they took his face and superimposed it on the young lady’s face.
Thursday September 3, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:15
Columbus, Ohio
For the fourth time we gather to protest the Senate leaving town for their August vacation without passing a Covid-relief package. An unprecedented number of people have lost their jobs, and the number who have fallen ill and died is staggering. What this crisis makes clear is that our communities need an economic foundation- a home, cash payments for necessities, health care, childcare, and other services to safely weather the long lasting impacts of this pandemic. We know that if we do not act now millions more will lose their jobs, fall ill, and lose a roof over their heads as the pandemic continues to unfold. We are here today to tell Senators Portman and McConnell to join Senate Democrats at the table and work out a compromise in good faith.
Wednesday, September 2, 2020, 7:00 PM
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Secretary of State Frank LaRose must implement these four commonsense election protections before November. Tell Secretary LaRose to allow online absentee ballot applications, greenlight prepaid postage on all election mail, encourage the Boards of Election to use multiple drop boxes in counties across the state, and commit to avoiding polling place closure and consolidation.
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A recent anti-human trafficking event at the Statehouse proclaiming to #SaveTheChildren was not entirely about saving children and more about promoting and recruiting for the surreal and disturbing QAnon “theory” that believes prominent lefties such as the Clintons, the Obamas, Oprah and Tom Hanks, are part of a secret pedophile cabal sacrificing children to Satan and drinking their blood.
About a 100 or so attended the event on August 29th and pictures from the event show people wearing “Q” masks, camo gear (holding automatic rifles of course), and some carrying pizza-slice signs.
Many of our readers are familiar with the QAnon bat-shit craziness, which is gaining serious traction with more and more people who are obviously in need of mental health services. But if you are not aware of Q, let us be absolutely clear and say it again: They believe high-profiled liberals are sacrificing…children…to drink their…blood.
Thousands of people are expected in Washington D.C. on August 28 for a march on the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. This year’s march is dedicated to putting an end to police brutality.
The event, known as the “Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks,” will take place at the Lincoln Memorial 57 years to the day of the 1963 march, where Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” address. Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network (NAN) announced the march back in June following the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody in May.