Local
Sat, June 8, 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St. in the backyard, weather permitting, free, no RSVP required. colsfreepress@gmail.com or 614-253-2571.
Join progressive friends for food, drink, and great music. A presentation by Annie and Jay Warmke, owners of Blue Rock Station on “Living Sustainably in a World that’s Running out of Everything” including how they have managed to make a living by focusing on sustainable practices while living in an Earthship, a comfortable home made of clean trash, designed by architect Michael Reynolds of Taos, NM. Annie and Jay Warmke, owners of Blue Rock Station will speak at the Second Saturday Salon on Living Sustainably in a World that’s Running out of Everything”. The talk will include how they have managed to make a living by focusing on sustainable practices while living in an Earthship, a comfortable home made of clean trash, designed by architect Michael Reynolds of Taos, NM. Annie and Jay started Blue Rock Station after living in Europe and leaving behind their careers in the corporate world.
The March for Reproductive Freedoms
Friday, June 7, 12noon-6pm, beginning at the Ohio Statehouse and then marching to the OSU campus
The government is trying to take away basic human rights and a woman’s choice to have an abortion and to receive adequate birth control is something not to be deemed “unconstitutional.” The three founding principles of this country are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and they are under attack. In light of the government’s actions, the public’s voice needs to be heard. We will be staging a protest in front of the Ohio Statehouse and then marching to the OSU campus. Join us if you believe in the future of our freedoms!
Foghat released its self-titled British boogie debut; T. Rex, its third album, The Slider; and Chicago's V was America's number one thanks to its feelgood hit, Saturday In The Park.
It was also Chicago's last album without a Peter Cetera-written song.
We didn't know it, but our culture was seeing the true end of the visionary '60s and tiny little signs of Seventies Cheese would later be recognized. Cetera was soon going to slime us with his musical mayonnaise like we were French fries at the fair.
Elvis was switching performance residencies in Vegas from the Hilton to the MGM's Grand Hotel (his pay jumping to $200,000 per week from $125K) and prerecorded tape was challenging the primacy of the LP.
And Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They Come was number two in Bangkok.
What magazine would've featured all that jazz on its cover (except for the Bangkok tidbit, which was inside)?
Billboard, from Oct. 7, 1972 – my senior year in high school – and the music industry's main weekly publication. And unintended culture chronicle.
The Fair Food Program created by Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has ended abuse for tens of thousands of farmworkers in this decade. Today, we’re inviting all Fair Food allies in Ohio to join with the farmworkers by joining the Wendy’s Boycott. If you want to join the boycott or would like more information about the Fair Food Campaign and how you can take action, please send your name to: ohiofairfood@gmail.com or call Sue Carter at 614-459-0017.
Wednesday, June 5, 4:30-6:30pm, Ohio Statehouse [corner of S. Third St. and E. State St.]
Ohio House Bill 6 would eliminate Ohio’s energy efficiency and clean energy programs. It would replace them with a charge on every Ohioan’s electric bill that would go to bail out First Energy’s crumbling leaking nuclear plants and two coal-fired plants, one of which is in Indiana.
Opponents to H.B. 6 will be gathering at three locations across the state during the first week in June [Toledo on June 3, Columbus on June 5, and Akron on June 7] to protest this unacceptable dirty energy tax on Ohioans. Wind and solar power are cheaper and can replace nukes and coal, but not if we are subsidizing the dirty power.
Contact: Joe DeMare, 419-973-5841 or joe@joedemareforagreenfuture.org
The Central Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (COADCDL) wants to know whether law enforcement in Ohio is using the controversial Stingray surveillance device in the Buckeye State. Some people think it is.
Technically, the Stingray is an IMSI-catcher. ISMI stands for International Mobile Subscriber Identity, meaning this device is meant to “catch” your conversations and communications, but also to extract stored data from your cell phone. The Stingray is a cellular phone spying device initially created by the Harris Corporation for the Deep State. Not only does the device track and locate you, it is designed to unlock encrypted content.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tracks which federal, state and local law enforcement and intelligence use these devices for “spying without a warrant.” Ohio is listed as a state where it is “unknown” if the device is in operation. The ACLU lists 13 federal agencies as using the spying device, among them are the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Army/Navy/Marines, the National Security Agency, and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Cinephiles and movie lovers are treated as passive and apolitical consumers in the profit driven commercial film industry. The new leftist, radical, and underground micro-cinema, NO EVIL EYE, offers audiences and artists in Columbus a politically charged space to nurture their love for the art of films. The personal is political. Art is personal and political.
Ingrid Raphaël and Rooney Elmi envisioned and materialized NO EVIL EYE. Ingrid is a video creator, archivist, educator and co-creator of GRID zine, a physical and digital zine highlighting the stories and experiences of black, brown, indigenous, people of color, immigrants and refugees living in the US. Rooney Elmi is a writer, programmer, and editor-in-chief of SVLLY(wood), an annual print and digital movie magazine geared toward curating a radical cinephilia. Their manifesto highlights their belief in bridging their leftist politics of anti-colonialism, internationalism, and solidarity with art.
Tuesday, June 4, 8pm-10pm
The Vanderelli Room, 218 McDowell St, Columbus OH 43215
This event will feature local LGBTQIA+ artists of color through live art, live music, and spoken word.
Seitans Realm (100% vegan food truck) just rocked the Columbus food truck scene with their righteous salute to a seitan filled menu! (think ACDC) SR’s BBQ “beaf and chedduh” sandwich and curly fries combo gives they-who-shall-not-be-named-flagrantly-anti-vegan-franchise, the finger AND a devil’s horn, with a comprehensively superior option for people, planet and animals.
Seitans Realm’s modern menu for a consciously consistent peaceful society, determined to stop the hemorrhaging, human-caused 6th mass global extinction, includes: two American styles of “beaf” sandwich -- classic w/horseradish on toasted sesame seed bun, and BBQ on toasted onion roll; a Jewish style reuben on rye with sauerkraut, provolone, house thousand island dressing; a Greek style gyro with house tzatziki, tomatoes and lettuce on warm pita; and a Philly style gooey-cheezy steak sammy with caramelized onions, garlic-mushrooms, lettuce, house made aioli on a hoagie roll.