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Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Join us for BQIC's monthly fundraiser, BQIC speak up! Spoken Word and Open Mic. Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, and good encounters, bad days, good dates etc on the mic! LGBTQIA+ people of color takes priority within the space! Entry is $5 suggested donation! We will have beverages and snacks for suggested donations as well! Please also consider donating to Art Outside the Lines which provides great art programs for people with disabilities. DJ to be announced. MC is our very own Tempestt Young!! Hit us up beforehand to sign up to perform or sign up at the door. https://www.facebook.com/events/2458418374393662/. Location: Art Outside the Lines, 485 E Livingston Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
City Council Candidate Liliana Rivera Baiman announced today that her campaign has received the endorsement of the Columbus Education Association (CEA), the union representing more than 4,000 teachers, librarians, nurses, counselors, psychologists, and other education professionals in Columbus City Schools. The endorsement follows a screening process and several rounds of membership votes conducted by Teachers for Better Schools, the CEA Political Action Committee.
“This past year our incredible Columbus teachers demonstrated that with unity and clear purpose we can take on powerful institutions and win major victories for our most vulnerable residents.” said Baiman, “As a member of City Council, I will stand shoulder to shoulder with CEA to prioritize the needs of students and educators instead of tax breaks for wealthy corporations, and to ensure that every child in Columbus has access to the world-class public education they deserve.”
Immigrants are a cornerstone of American prosperity and success. Saying that may sound cliché, but it’s quite a literal fact. It’s easy to think of immigrants as a handful of newcomers arriving in areas like New York City and Los Angeles, but the truth is, there are many immigrants living all over the United States.
For instance, 10% of Columbus Ohio residents were born in another country. Naturally, such a large percentage of a population is going to have a noticeable effect on a culture in many different ways. However, there’s one area, in particular, where immigrants in America are making an above-average impact: business.
Monday, October 7, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 PM -The Last Day to Register to Vote!
To defeat Trump in Ohio in 2020, we need more people voting Democratic. Lots of people don't vote in elections. We get more people on our team registered and excited to vote, we win. Easy-Peasy. Central Ohio's Indivisible groups are coming together to get people registered and fired up NOW to ensure our victory. This is the kick-off meeting for Central Ohio Voter Engagement. We need door knockers, voter registration tablers, volunteer recruiters, email writers, data enterers and crunchers. Basically, we need YOU! Grab a beer and some food from the Sunnyside Tacos Food Truck if you like. Drink, eat, and socialize from 6 to 6:30 and then we're getting down to the business of saving democracy. Please join us! Hosted by Indivisible OH3. Location: Land-Grant Brewing Company, 424 W. Town St., Columbus 43215.
Climate Strike Activists
Thank you, young people of the world, for helping energize the rest of us to address the urgency of climate change! Among the state’s organizers of the local Climate Strike on September 20 are the Columbus area’s Sophie Roome, with the Sierra Club’s Ready for 100 campaign, Catherine Adams of Westerville High School, and local environmental activist Elizabeth Hixon. Many, many more teens, youth, and young professionals led the effort in Columbus. Several hundred people gathered mid-day at the Ohio Statehouse to call upon our leaders and the populace to make the changes necessary to prevent climate change from destroying the planet. Kudos to all the kids who bravely walked out of school to join the strike downtown, or to resolutely skip classes to stand outside their school buildings in solidarity with the international strike.
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao – Sign the petition anyhow!
A billion dollars is on the line for energy companies – that’s why you’re seeing insane and somewhat hilarious commercials and receiving mailers warning you not to sign petitions because the Chinese Communists are “plotting to take over Ohio’s power grid.” Don’t be fooled. It’s not true. Here are the facts: FirstEnergy just received a billion-dollar monster of a welfare check from the Ohio legislature through House Bill 6 to support their decrepit and dangerous nukes and dirty coal plants (even one in Indiana). Opponents of the bailout (which should be anyone who believes in a clean environment and renewable energy) are trying to overturn HB6 with a petition drive – and that’s what has FirstEnergy quaking in its heavily subsidized boots. Thank the dark money from “Ohioans for Energy Security” for the ads. Not since the height of the Red Scare and perhaps the 1930s Reefer Madness campaign have we seen such blatant and laughable ads. What’s not funny is that Harold Chung was assaulted while petitioning against the bailout outside the Dublin library. People, really?
Impeachment finally under way
The long-delayed impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump are finally starting, but at present the focus is on a relatively minor crime - the Ukrane-Biden scandal. However, Trump has committed (and is still committing) major crimes, and these ought to be in the spotlight. Let us look at a few of them.
Let's look at his major crimes, rather than at minor ones
Columbus City Council candidate Joe Motil received two key endorsements today from the Columbus Education Association (CEA) and the National Association of Social Workers.
Motil stated that, “Today has been a memorable one to say the least. One where I feel that my commitment and outspokenness in supporting our Columbus Public Schools, and advocacy for those who are vulnerable and living in poverty, has been recognized by receiving the endorsements of the Columbus Education Association (CEA) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). I am humbled by being identified by these organizations, whose members prepare our children to become the best they can be in so many ways, committing their lives to helping people in need, and fighting for social justice. I will always continue to be a champion for these two organizations and will carry on my dedication to the CEA and NASW when elected to Columbus City Council.”