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Tuesday, July 2, 6-7:30pm
Northern Lights Library, 4093 Cleveland Ave.
OH12 is spending this summer finding unregistered progressive voters to get them engaged and registered to vote as part of our plan to win in 2020. Join us in Meeting Room 3 for a complete Voter Registration Training and overview of our Summer of Action Plan. There will be lots of opportunities for you to ask questions and sign up for VR opportunities. This is all a part of our "Road to 2020 Summer of Action!"
From Public Citizen: “Voting discrimination still exists; no one doubts that.”
Sunday, June 30, 2:45-3:40pm
Solar Stage, southwest corner of Goodale Park, Community Festival
The Free Press welcomes The Longest Walk 2019 Native Americans at the Solar Stage at Comfest. The Longest Walk: We Shall Continue has been initiated to address the major threats to American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and Nations. This is a spiritual Walk for all Indigenous Peoples and our allies. We have identified eleven (11) areas that we need to affirm, advocate, and educate about. These are:
1) Support and Protect Indian Children
2) Honor Indigenous Women
3) Strengthen Inherent and Indigenous Sovereignty
4) Create an Environmental Covenant
5) Repeal Public Law 280 and Overturn the Plenary Power Doctrine
6) Land, Waters and Air Clean Up and Protection
7) Treaties, Lands, and Customary Responsibilities
8) Strengthen and Assert Spiritual Freedom and Protect Sacred Sites
9) Protect Indigenous Knowledge
10) Support Just Transition
11) Confront Alcohol and Other Drugs Abuse
Friday, June 28, Noon – Sunday, June 30, 2019, 8:00 PM
The annual Festival In Goodale Park. Location: 120 W. Goodale St., Columbus 43215. Facebook.
Come visit the Free Press wine booth near Buttles on Park Street!
Thursday, June 27, 2019, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Facing the threat of deportation and separation from her family, one year ago Miriam Vargas made the difficult decision to enter sanctuary at First English Lutheran Church. June 27th, 2019 marks the anniversary of her time in sanctuary. Please join Miriam Vargas for an Ice Cream Social on Thursday, June 27th, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. to mark the anniversary of her sanctuary stay. This is not a celebration, but a commemorative event showing friendship and support for Miriam as she continues to fight for a legal path toward citizenship. There is no cost to attend this event. Location: 1015 E. Main St., Columbus 43205. Facebook.
Wednesday, June 26, 6:3-7:30pm
Church for All People, 946 Parsons Ave.
In the last week we have heard threats of ICE raids, deporting millions of people. At the same time, our government has denied responsibility for providing basic safe and sanitary care for the very children whom they have separated from their families (access to soap and toothbrushes). As a church we affirm the sacredness of all people as created in the image of God. As Dr King taught, we live in an interconnected web of mutuality, where injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. As a people called United Methodists, we live in the connection of personal and social holiness. Join us on Wednesday evening at 6:30pm at the Church for All People as we hold a prayer vigil affirming our solidarity with people being threatened and calling for justice and dignity for all people. Please help spread the word about this vigil as we join our prayers and actions together for justice.
"No borders! No nations! Stop deportations!" A small but mighty group gathered across the street from the Hotel Leveque to protest Trump's announcement that deportations would be stepped up starting Sunday morning, June 23 in certain major US cities. The protestors shouted at people coming out of the building that they should not stay in a building in which ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) uses to hold immigrants in cells in that very building.
The activists had written chalk messages against deportations, detention centers and mistreatment of immigrant children on the sidewalk in front of the hotel but were shooed off by the hotel staff. From across the street they chanted, sang, and read the names aloud of the immigrants who had died in U.S. custody or shortly after being in a U.S. detention center.
Some drivers honked as they passed by and the group was joined by some of the pro-choice ralliers from a statehouse demonstration that had just ended. One anti-abortion counter-protestor also argued with some in the "stop deportations" group. Police were not present.
Monday, June 24, 2019, 7:00 PM.
The film is 41 minutes. This documentary, produced by the United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network, describes how Israeli practices of detaining children are illegal under international law and how the U.S. is deeply complicit in sustaining this destructive assault upon children. Discussion about the video and what we can do will follow the screening. Learn more about the campaign to end military detention of Palestinian children here: http://bit.ly/2Qp5vbf.
Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
Sunday, June 23, 3-5pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
This Town Hall will present experts on the Federal proposal and how it might work in Columbus. Dr. Fadhel Kaboub, economics professor at Denison University, will present an overview of the Resolution, including the Job Guarantee program. Cathy Cowan Becker, leader of the Sierra Club’s Ready for 100 Campaign in Columbus, will discuss on-the-ground movements in central Ohio. Terry Hermsen, leader of a strategic effort to create a Hub for local organizations that are addressing the climate crisis, will moderate the discussion. A question-and-answer discussion will take place after the presentations.
Simply Living is sponsoring this event in conjunction with the Justice Action Ministry of First Unitarian Universalist Church.