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We love our cell phones. So, what I am about to tell you might be upsetting. Just because you cannot see it, does not mean that exposure to electromagnetic frequencies come without risk. Children love them so much they sleep with them on, under their pillows at night, a practice parents might want to end, as a growing body of evidence suggests doing so poses an immediate danger to the small growing brains of our children whose skulls are thinner. The smaller the human, the greater the risk.
Tuesday, August 20, 7pm
Rehab Tavern, 456 W. Town St.
Come have a beer and relax with your fellow socialists! Or if you're curious about Columbus DSA, it's a great low-key way to come check us out. Unless it's raining, we're usually out on the patio.
Non-alcoholic drink options and food are both available.
Monday, August 19, 2019, 6:00 – 7:30 PM
The Columbus Community Bill of Rights is a citizen-initiated charter amendment for the city of Columbus. It will give you and I the right to protect our Water from toxic, radioactive Frack Waste dumping in our Water supply. Location: Columbus Public Library, South High Branch, 3540 S. High St., Columbus. Facebook.
Sunday, August 18, 2019, 12:00 PM
OH-SDA & MDA-Columbus Recess Rally for Gun Reform
Join gun reform advocates for Everytown for Gun Safety's national call to action during the Congressional recess, as we pressure Gov. DeWine, Senator Portman, and Senator McConnell to support and pass livesaving gun reform legislation! Dayton and El Paso are the newest communities to join the list of communities who are devastated by gun violence for all forms. Join us to make your passion seen and your voice heard! Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Location: North Bank Park, 311 W. Long St., Columbus. Sign up here.
COLUMBUS, OH –Columbus City Council Candidate Joe Motil and longtime outspoken critic of the city’s tax abatement policies was encouraged to see that other reputable U.S. news organizations are reporting about the counterproductive and unnecessary use of tax abatements to Fortune 500 companies and their subsidiaries that take place nearly on a daily basis here in Columbus, Ohio. An article in today’s Bloomberg Businessweek titled, “When Midwest Startups Sell, Their Hometown Schools Often Lose” talked about the Columbus Education Associations (CEA) decision to protest Columbus City Councils $55 million tax abatement giveaway to CoverMyMeds. CoverMyMeds is owned by pharmaceutical giant the McKesson Corporation which reports profits of $2 billion most years.
I had the pleasure of meeting Arthur Ashe in the early 1980s. It was in a little tennis shop in a strip mall somewhere on Bethel Road. He was representing his brand, Le Coq Sportif, and the store was full of white children who weren’t even born when Ashe was on the professional tennis circuit. In fact, he and I were the only two black people in the store. I had just come from a tennis lesson, and we chatted about that briefly. He signed my copies of two books he had written, stopping to look at a photo of himself after heart surgery, and a poster for my tennis instructor, Dick Fryman. He couldn’t have been more gracious.
On Friday, August 16, at 4PM RAID will be holding a rally at the Ohio Statehouse to demand an end to ICE activity in Central Ohio and nationwide. We intend to use this rally to bring the public’s attention back to the detention of our immigrant community and demand freedom for those detained as well as an immediate cease to ICE raids and detention efforts.
We are Central Ohio grassroots activists dedicated to supporting immigrant communities affected by unethical detention of the state. Through direct action, community awareness, and support, we intend to keep our neighbors and community members safe from raids and deportation by abolishing ICE and closing the camps and detention centers.
Thursday, August 15, 2019, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Calling all the S.E.X.Y. Voters come and be EMPOWERED ! Ask questions of the Candidates asking for YOUR vote! Location: 1561 Old Leonard Ave., Columbus 43219. Hosted by WTF? Weigh The Facts. Facebook
Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 6:00 PM
Did you know? Many individuals who are detained in jails do retain the right to vote. In Ohio, only those in jail or prison following a felony conviction lose the right to vote. But while those awaiting trial can still cast a ballot, few are able to do so because officials do not have voting programs in place. Join All Voting is Local and the ACLU of Ohio for a training to learn how you can help register voters currently detained in Ohio’s jails. At this training you will learn: What are jails – who is in them and who runs them; How to help voters register and request an absentee ballot; and, How to build an effective volunteer team. Refreshments Provided. Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library – Northern Lights Branch, 4093 Cleveland Ave., Columbus 43224. Register here.