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Wednesday, January 8, 2010, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Please join us for lunch and conversation about using art to shine a light on the current refugee crisis around the world. Artist Rosy Avoscan, Laurie Van Balen of Columbus Crossing Borders, and DSOP Justice Promoter Barbara Kane, OP will discuss their current efforts and ways to help. You can also view Rosy's current art exhibit "Am I Us or Them" during the program. Lunch and program are free, but please register. Link in tickets (on the Facebook event page). Location: Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Dr., Columbus 43219. Facebook.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Join us as we select district delegates for Bernie. Based on the percentage of votes he gets in Ohio a number of elected delegates will go to the DNC Convention. Let's make sure to get as many Bernie supporters to the caucus to vote for true Bernie supporters. Doors open at 6 pm, the caucus begins at 7 pm. Location: Columbus State Community College, 550 E. Spring St., Delaware Hall, Columbus 43215. Facebook.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
A hundred people gathered for an emergency anti-war rally at E. North Broadway and High Street on Saturday, January 4 at noon.
The assassination of General Qasem Soleimani
On Friday, 3 January, 2020, progressives in the United States and all peace-loving people throughout the world were horrified to learn that Donald Tromp had added to his long list of crimes and imbecilities by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is a hero in his own country, Iran. The murder, which was carried out by means of a drone strike on Friday, immediately and drastically increased the probability of a new large-scale war in the Middle East and elsewhere. Against this background, I would like to review the history of oil-motivated attacks on Iran.
The desire to control Iran's oil
Saturday, January 4, 2010, Noon – 2:00 PM
Since withdrawing from the nuclear deal, the Trump administration has been engaging in a devastating economic war on the Iranian people through harsh sanctions. Now that economic war threatens to turn into a full-blown military conflict with Iran following the assassination of Iranian military leaders by US drone strikes in Baghdad. Join us at the corner of Broadway and High at noon on January 4 to oppose the endless wars and occupations. No War with Iran! End the Sanctions! US Out of Iraq! Location: North High St. and East North Broadway, Columbus 43214. More information: Facebook.
As readers of The Free Press may know, the Portsmouth Nuclear Site at Piketon, Ohio, is heavily contaminated with radioactivity from 50 years of operations that enriched uranium to make nuclear bombs, and later to fuel nuclear power.
This process used as much electricity as New York City and includes some of the largest buildings in the world. Less than 1% of natural uranium is the type of isotope (uranium-235) that will fission, or explode. Enrichment is the name of the process that removes much of the uranium-238 that cannot be fissioned.
New no-bid enrichment contract at Piketon: In November, 2019, the uranium enrichment company Centrus announced the finalizing of a three-year contract to demonstrate what is being called High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) production at Piketon. The $115-million no-bid contract with the Department of Energy (DOE) is for centrifuge technology that would enrich uranium up to 19.75% of its U-235. The contract calls for a pilot plant of 16 centrifuges.
The King-Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood was best known in its glory years for its jazz clubs that catered to African-American artists between the 1920s and 1960s. As the new decade begins, one historic theatre is launching a brand new venture that will be a new experience to experience the sound that the Near East Side neighborhood was known for decades ago, Jazz. Welcome to Club Lincoln.
In 2020, the second-floor ballroom of the Historic Lincoln Theatre, at 769 E. Long St. in the King-Lincoln District, will re-open as Club Lincoln. There will be an Open House complete with an Open Mic at Club Lincoln on Friday January 31 at 8:00 P.M.
The Lincoln Theatre Association, which operates Club Lincoln, will also launch the Club Lincoln Concert Series, which will be a platform for burgeoning local artists that have participated in the Lincoln’s artist incubation programs, such as the Jazz Arts Group’s Jazz Academy, which is located on the third floor of the Lincoln.
Herbalists Without Borders Central Ohio (HWBCO) is a chapter of the international organization, Herbalists Without Borders and has a lot of ambitions for 2020, and it all builds on what we have created in the last two years: In late 2018, we created the chapter and found our core volunteers.
In 2019, we really started to shine- we started having regular clinic events and did outreach to gain more practitioners and volunteers. We hosted People’s Apothecary events (where people got herbal remedies and tonics on a donation basis), herb swaps (where people trade live plants, dried plants, and prepared medicines), medicine making events, and did plant walks, too. We did two months of sourcing donations and creating blessing bags for distribution (these are non-perishable items like socks, soap, diapers, toothbrushes, and menstrual supplies). We have had a regular monthly column in the Free Press and did some other media appearances as well. We have started to grow!
Kelly Escobar, Columbus homemaker, was in the throes of United States’ Independence Day on July 4, 2019, yet feeling helpless because of the news that U.S. detention camps were turning people away who were trying to donate necessities to children separated and jailed by Trump’s Zero Tolerance immigration policy.
She was baffled by the cruelty of our government as it justified family separation and locking kids up on concrete floors without beds or proper blankets, other than an aluminum “space blanket” to keep them warm.
That was the day Ms. Escobar also found out about makeshift camps full of people on the Mexican side of the border and reports that the growing number there were stuck in limbo for months awaiting their chance to make application for asylum.
She saw this as an opportunity to help...not stateside, but on the Mexican side.
She emptied her bank account, packed her bags and possessions in her car and drove to a camp in Matamoros, Mexico, located just south of the Brownsville, Texas border.