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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.
Join us on Sept 19, for our "Educate a Legislator Day" to fight Senate Bill 33 that will criminalize protests.
Sheraton Columbus downtown hotel, 75 E. State St. 9am-3pm
Sponsored by Freedom Demands Action and Coshocon Environmental and Community Awareness Inc.
Here is the link for registration. https://forms.gle/9MndaymopD7ELipH6.
Thursday, August 29, 2019, 5-7pm
St. James Tavern, 1057 N. 4th St.
Repro Health Happy Hour (RHHH) is a monthly networking event for people working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, and issues of gender and sexuality, and all pro-choice individuals looking for fun and progressive drinking buddies. The event was founded in New York City in 2004 and has now spread to more than 32 cities worldwide. http://www.reprohealthhappyhour.com/
20% of all sales will be donated to our local abortion fund, Women Have Options- OHio. https://www.facebook.com/WomenHaveOptions/
Wednesday, August 28, 6-7:30pm
Bexley Natural Market, 58 N. Cassady, Bexley
This Event features 5 panelists to engage in an exciting discussion. It is Free to attend. Please RSVP to bnmrsvp@gmail.com
There will be complementary wine, cheese, and Ohio Pies
Thank you to Slow Food Columbus for partnering with The Bexley Natural Market on this event.
Agenda:
6pm-6:15pm: Reception - wine and cheese and Ohio Pies.
6:15pm: Katie Barr and Trevor Horn introduces panelists and discusses role of Slow Food Columbus
7:00pm: Questions and wrap up
7:15pm: Networking and more light bites
Panelists: Summary of the topics :
Jayne and Isaac Barnes: Honeyrun Farm
-What is happening to honey bees across the world right now; What are the challenges they face, and how that affects us whether we eat honey or not.
As a professor of African American history, I have very little interest in slavery. I am painfully aware that the insidious institution constructed and maintained the American economy, and that its horrific impact is still felt at this very second. I just have no interest in the subject in terms of research. So, I was surprised to find They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South such an absorbing read.
For the most part, the story of white women and their role as plantation mistresses has focused on the top 3 percent of slave owners who owned large plantations with twenty or more slaves. Southern plantation mistresses often kept diaries–the Civil War diary of Mary Boykin Chestnut comes to mind–in which they described their lives. But stories such as Chestnut’s are the views of slavery from the elites. There is very little literature on smaller plantations and the acquisition and management of slaves by white women.
The number of people living with HIV in the U.S. is decreasing. With the advancement of antiretroviral therapy, people living with the condition can experience viral suppression and longer life expectancy. However, around the world, HIV remains one of the most serious public health challenges. In 2017, more than 36 million people were living with HIV/AIDS. Of these, 1.8 million were children under the age of 15.
One subset population that is often forgotten in the war on AIDS are those people living in refugee camps. People seeking refuge from countries with higher-than-average HIV numbers and no treatment can spread the disease throughout a camp quickly. Refugee camps in the U.S. and other countries lack HIV education and treatment. Healthcare is a human rights issue that Americans often take for granted. We must gain a better understanding of this issue so that we can demand assistance for those living in camps and advocate for better HIV programming.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 – Jan. 27, 2014) introduced America to its own folk heritage... and got them singing together and using music as a force for social change. He deeply believed in the power of song, convinced that individuals can make a difference. The film was produced by PBS as part of their American Masters series. Seeger’s inspiring story is told by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines (the Dixie Chicks), Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, and Seeger himself. Co-sponsored by Columbus Folk Music Society and the Columbus Free Press. Q&A panel discussion follows the film. Location: Drexel Theater, 2254 E Main St, Bexley 43209. RSVP on Eventbrite. Donate at Door. Facebook.
North Carolina Board of Elections held a sham meeting and certified voting machines that have unreadable barcodes. Read the letter below.
August 24, 2019
Mr. Damon Circosta, Board Chair
North Carolina State Board of Elections
damon.circosta.board@ncsbe.gov
Mr. Circosta:
I spoke on the issues of barcode ballots for the strict two-minute time limit imposed on concerned voters at yesterday’s NCSBE meeting. Prior to the meeting, we at Coalition for Good Governance submitted fact-based expert opinions on the reasons that BMDs are insecure, unauditable and unfit for use in NC elections, which you ignored in favor of uninformed magical thinking and vendor influence. Here’s a link to Friday’s Coalition for Good Governance submissions.
Monday, August 26, 2018, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
This film is the fourth in a series of films exploring the real and untold history of people of color around the globe. This installment explores the motivation behind European global subjugation of people of color, the history of the vast West African empires, the ways germ warfare has been used on people of color, and the slave breeding farms in America. Because this is a longer film, our discussion after viewing it will be short. Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. For information about COFP, visit our website at https://sites.google.com/site/centralohioansforpeace/Home
As we approach the 2020 presidential election, you may find yourself in a bout of confusion over the GOP’s agenda. Denying climate change, accepting support from white nationalists, and the marriage of church and state all come to mind as things that have never been promoted so radically by the party. In addition to this shortlist, they are also pawns of the tobacco industry.
In a scathing piece by the Guardian, the Trump administration was taken to task with a plethora of facts connecting it to the tobacco industry. It turns out that over the last 35 years, the president has had a mutually supportive relationship with tobacco companies. The same is true of other big names in the GOP.
These ties have allowed tobacco lobbyists to play a role in policymaking. The fact that this has not been spoken of more is odd considering that the evidence for it is so condemnatory. What’s the deal with the Trump administration’s affiliation with the tobacco industry, and how is it shaping national health policy?