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Over 40 #Fight4HER activists protested January 23 outside Senator Rob Portman’s Columbus office against President Trump’s dangerous Global Gag Rule, a deadly policy that bans foreign health care providers that receive U.S. aid from discussing abortion. The activists held a die-in on the steps of Senator Portman’s office. A die-in is a protest where participants simulate being dead to represent the number of people killed due to Trump's deadly Rule. Attendees called on Portman to support the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights (HER) Act and end the Global Gag Rule, once and for all.
It’s been three years since Trump reinstated and expanded the Rule, that cuts off access to health care, including contraceptives and safe abortion, ultimately forcing patients who experience unwanted pregnancies to seek unsafe back-alley abortions.
Sunday, Feb. 2, noon
High Street at 15th Avenue
Come out and protest with the Students for Justice Palestine at Ohio State in rejection to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Deal Of the century.
Power players in the Franklin County Democratic Party think you’re stupid. At least the propaganda campaign they’re running around the FCDP Central Committee race makes it look that way.
In 2016 a number of progressive Democrats ran for ward seats on the Central Committee in an attempt to move the party to the left. Fifteen candidates affiliated with the grassroots group Yes We Can got major pushback from the party establishment.
Instead of allowing an open, democratic process — where ward candidates could win seats by listening to the concerns of their neighbors and committing to fight for them — the FCDP Executive Committee gave party chairman William Anthony the authority to hand-pick Central Committee candidates for the sample ballot. This mailing to all Franklin County voters contained only the names of party-endorsed candidates.
Philadelphia, Jan. 30 - Mumia Abu-Jamal has always insisted on his innocence in the death of police officer Daniel Faulkner, blaming police, judicial and prosecutorial misconduct for his politically-tainted conviction. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is expected to announce his response this week to the legal briefs for Post Conviction Relief Act hearings and the request to remand Abu-Jamal's case back to Common Pleas court, filed by his attorneys in early September 2019.
Abu-Jamal’s supporters will rally outside DA Krasner's office at 4:30 on Friday, January 31, whether or not he challenges Mumia's appeals. We call for Mumia’s release.
Recent exonerations of 10 Philadelphia residents unfairly convicted for crimes they did not commit reveal a simple truth - the Philadelphia police, courts and prosecutors convicted innocent Black men based on gross violations of their constitutional rights. The same patterns of constitutional violations plague the case of Abu-Jamal.
Friday, January 31, 10:30am-12pm
Join us for a community meeting to gain input on a possible Pregnancy/Parenting/Reproductive Health Care Non-Discrimination Ordinance for the City of Columbus. We want to hear from the community about how something like this could/would have been useful to you or someone you know as well as any concerns you may have. Childcare will be provided so feel free to bring the little ones. RSVP required so we know how many kids to expect! Location: Columbus Public Library, Franklinton Branch, 1041 W. Town St., Columbus. Facebook.
Wednesday, January 29th, 11:00 AM
Local faith leaders and Sanctuary supporters will gather in front of Senator Brown’s office, Federal Building, 200 N. High Street. Come support Columbus' Edith Epsinal and Miriam Vargas -- and all of the others in our country who are living in Sanctuary.
When people think of artists from Columbus, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Emerson Burkhart, and George Bellows are among the first names that pop up in the Columbus art history books. Recently, Smoky Brown has been getting some local attention, with two art shows over the last three months, over 14 years after his death.
The Eastside Canon: Smoky Brown & Friends was the first Art Show of 2020 at the Streetlight Guild, curated by Richard Duarte Brown. Brown was the artist of the inaugural exhibit “Searching for Family: Richard Duarte Brown” at their current space from June through August 2019.
The Streetlight Guild is a not-for-profit performing arts organization, founded by award-winning writer and poet Scott Woods. The Streetlight Guild “curates events across disciplines with an emphasis on Columbus-based, original, and underrepresented voices,” reads the Guild’s website.
The first law in the United States to recognize the rights of a specific ecosystem will appear in federal court tomorrow. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) was adopted nearly one year ago by Toledo, Ohio, residents, as they faced continued threats to their drinking water and no remedy from state government. The historic law was immediately challenged by an organization claiming to be an agribusiness farm.
Tomorrow, corporate attorneys from Voyrs, Sater, Seymour and Pease will argue that their corporate client has the power to get the court to veto LEBOR. The State of Ohio will also argue that the municipal law (adopted by 61% of Toledoans who voted) violates the state’s authority as the “sole protector of Ohio waterways.”
