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I don’t typically get personal in my columns for The Free Press -- I usually rant about the latest antics of the two party system or the Ohio Republican Party -- but it’s time for me to reflect on my last year and a half in Ohio because now I’m leaving. Although my move is subject to several variables (including the ol’ bank account) it could possibly be for good. We’ll see.
I am deviating from my decision to not write about politics for about 136 words – with the understanding that Democrats and Republicans know that impeachment might not ruin the President’s reelection campaign.
The Democratic-controlled House should impeach. I assume The Republican-controlled Senate would not repeat their Nixon decision that demanded the President resign or make the decision to convict the President in the Senate.
My presumed outcome from the impeachment of the President is Democrats avoiding advertisements that say: ‘Democrats didn’t even believe their own Russian hoax.’ The President would tweet about the Senate not convicting him instead. There was nothing disrespectful to Republicans or praising of Democrats in these statements.
This doesn’t say the President will be reelected or not be reelected.
The only real message is regarding commercials you’ll watch while watching football vs. if you want to look at The President’s twitter.
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Our sympathy to each victim's family and friends in Brooklyn, Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton. We send our thoughts and our promise to continue to work to stop this violence to them and to each of the injured. Brooklyn, NY - 1 death and 11 injured, Gilroy, CA - 4 deaths and 13 injured in El Paso, TX - 20 deaths and 24 injured, Dayton, OH - 9 deaths and 26 injured. Join us to mourn and then act for them. Ohio Legislators and the Governor need to act like they care about you and your family instead of the gun lobby. It is shameful that certain legislators are still pushing bills to allow permitless carry, stand your ground and carrying loaded weapons everywhere while reducing penalties. Nationally Presidential candidates are calling for action and Ohio Senator Brown is calling for the US Senate to vote on the background check bill immediately. There is no need for the public to own assault weapons. No need for the large capacity magazines. Assault weapons let these shooters kill so many in so little time.
Are you afraid to go to the grocery store?
Are you afraid to see a lone young white male amongst a diverse crowd?
What doesn’t make sense is that Hillary Clinton lost, so we were supposed to be safe, right?
If he had lost, there would be active shooters wherever non-whites and women gathered. Those were Trump’s own words. As if you forgot.
So why have disaffected white males continued to turn our gathering places slick with blood?
Perhaps there is an answer but certainly not a solution…Stochastic terrorism.
“The use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable,” states Daily Kos.
“The person who actually plants the bomb or assassinates the public official is not the stochastic terrorist, they are the ‘missile’ set in motion by the stochastic terrorist. The stochastic terrorist is the person who uses mass media as their means of setting those ‘missiles’ in motion,” continued Daily Kos.
Sunday, August 4, 7pm
Ohio Statehouse
There has been 2 mass shooting within hours of each other and one of those shootings was right here in Ohio.... The heartland of the United States. Please come to the State House during the day on Sunday, August 4th during the day and place flowers or a teddy bear on the State House steps in memorial of those who have lost their lives and for those who were injured during the mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH. There will be a candle light vigil and moment of silence starting at 7PM
Sat, Aug 3, 11am-7:30pm, MPACC Box Park, 925 Mt. Vernon Ave.
From 11am to 3:30pm, workshops will take place next door to the park, at 905 Mt. Vernon Ave., inside of the OSU African American and African Studies Community Extension Center. Complimentary lunch will be provided to workshop attendees with pre-registration. Space is limited. Register now at: sites.google.com/view/cbuswgfest/home.
The upcoming festival also boasts a live concert, beginning at 4:30pm, with a brief talk and signing by Syleena Johnson about her new book The Weight is Over: My Journey to Loving My Body from the Outside In. The first 50 workshop registrants will receive a free copy of the book and can have it signed by Johnson (must pre-register and attend the workshop). The live concert will feature local performers Shad Jones, The Tryangles, Christina Myles, Dr. E, Chris Brown and the WGFest Band, and, of course, a breathtaking headlining performance by Syleena Johnson.
Masonique Saunders was sentenced today. A reporter stated that she was sentenced to three years in the Ohio Department of Youth Serevices with the possibility of being released after two years on good behavior. Activists that had gathered outside the courthouse to advocate for minimum sentencing are sad and upset. See this article for more information on Masonique's case and this article on her plea deal.
Friday, August 2, 2019, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Frankly County Municipal Court, 375 S. High St., Columbus 43215.
Wednesday, July 31, 6:30-8:30pm
Sporeprint Infoshop, 979 E. Fifth Ave.
Join us to discuss Chapter 1 of Jackson Rising, a 2017 book about "the struggle for economic democracy and black self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi." Chapter 1 is available as a free pdf here: https://maineworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/jackson-rising-chapter1.pdf