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The story that I am about to relate could well have been a contemporary adaptation of Dickens, yet I feel that even Dickens would have been impressed at the amount of adversity that I am about to tell. There is no exaggeration. I have even omitted parts, but that doesn’t make this story less brutal.
A little empathy is needed to understand this story. You would have to be a monster not to feel some compassion. This is a story of a poor Guatemalan family who escaped the brutality of their own country’s oppression and soul-crushing poverty to only find more heartache in the middle of Ohio.
I work locally as an interpreter and when I first met Huli at his school on the westside of Columbus back in 2017, he was a 10-year-old from Guatemala who was having nightmares. Not the nightmares most of us have sometimes. His nightmares were bloody and horrible and full of violence, impacting his school performance, his relationships, and himself.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Join Senator Bernie Sanders and over a dozen powerful national progressive organizations to lay out our plan to win in November 2020. We are engaged in an independent campaign to reach millions of Black and Brown voters, young people, and progressives to defeat Donald Trump, and move a transformational agenda in 2021. Panelists will share strategies for fighting voter suppression, boosting voter enthusiasm, and building long-term political power - including how you can get involved in the fight! Sponsored by CPD Action, Peoples Action, RootsAction, Mijente, United We Dream Action, Working Families Party, Black Voters Matter Fund, Seed The Vote, Sunrise Movement, Progressive Democrats of America, Our Revolution, Make the Road Action, and more. Register here.
In Columbus, the housing crisis is everywhere. People who have been left behind are begging on street corners. For those with housing, rents have skyrocketed, smaller landlords and properties have been bought up by massive corporations, and tenants have been forced to renew their leases or look for a new place to live sooner and sooner after moving in. "Affordable housing" has become a regular topic for city officials challenged by a frustrated public. But what does Columbus think "affordable housing" looks like?
The document above is connected to Columbus's infamous tax abatement policy--through which many large developments in our city pay zero property tax for years. That policy requires some developments to have 20% of housing units set aside for "affordable" housing: 10% to be "affordable and rented to households making up to 80% AMI [Area Median Income]" and an additional 10% "affordable and rented to households making up to 100% AMI".
Monday, August 17, 2020, 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 16, 2pm
Downtown Columbus
Black womens march is for people to see we have a voice too as black women and black young women. We want to show the community we are here for them we are here for justice and we are here for you. We will have food after the march as well .Everyone is invited no matter the gender all women please be in dresses shoes the color don’t matter.
Sunday, August 16, 2pm
Downtown Columbus
Black womens march is for people to see we have a voice too as black women and black young women. We want to show the community we are here for them we are here for justice and we are here for you. We will have food after the march as well .Everyone is invited no matter the gender all women please be in dresses shoes the color don’t matter.
Friday, August 14, 2020, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
This rally is sponsored by a surviving family member of Kareem Jones who was murdered by CPD in 2017. Location: Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus.
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Facebook Event All proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Black Lives Matter Foundation Inc. We are currently looking for artists, vendors, volunteers, and professionals to donate items and time. If you have anything to offer, please message us; we would love to include you in the auction! The silent auction will mainly feature unique pieces of art, generously donated by local artists and vendors. This is a special chance for you to support a good cause, promote local artists, and go home with something you love. Here’s how the auction will work:
Can’t Believe It’s Vegan is a fabulous 100% vegan option for your quarantine home delivery service throughout the greater Columbus Metropolitan area of fresh, delicious, healthy food. They are a breakfast and lunch catering service that provides nutritionally dense, flavor-rich breakfast and lunchtime meals such as Belgian Waffles with pecans or walnuts with sweet potato hash browns, Bagel with Garlic Mushrooms and Cream Cheeze, Chickpea Pasta Alfredo, Burrito Bowl with jasmine rice, black beans, mixed onions, cilantro sweet corn salsa, “meat” crumbles, lettuce and pepper jack cheese, or Buddha Bowl with jasmine rice, chopped tomatoes, black beans, BBQ jackfruit, avocado, and sriracha mayo and many more delectable options on their website. They also offer “Family Pans” on four of their menu items that serve small (4-6) for $49.95 to Large serving (8-10) for $89.95, which is great for business meetings.
See website for menu and pricing.
$20 minimum order.
Text 941-266-0056 to order
Breakfast orders must be placed by 8pm the day before your order