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On July 22, 2019, the Trump administration passed an executive order that expands the implementation of the expedited removal process, which can fast-track deportation procedures for persons detained by I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents, often without many of the legal protections typically afforded to those being deported from the U.S. According to the notice published by the Department of Homeland Security, individuals can now be deported, without a hearing in front of a judge, if they have “not affirmatively shown, to the satisfaction of an immigration officer, that they have been physically present in the United States continuously for the two-year period immediately preceding the date of the determination of inadmissibility.”
Kossuth Street Garden, 641 Kossuth St.
A series of musical offerings, unplugged will be held each Tuesday night as volunteers water plants, weed, plant and tend the garden.
This week we feature Angela Cleary's finger picking and beautiful vocals.
We will feed our volunteers at 8.
This is the first of its kind and we hope it grows each week.
Ohio State University uses Caterpillar Inc. machinery for construction purposes on the corner of College Road and Annie and John Glenn Avenue this summer. By investing in a company that profits off of demolishing Palestinian homes, OSU is complicit in their oppression. Caterpillar has been listed as one of the companies to boycott in order to show solidarity for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli apartheid.
The BDS movement is launched and supported by 170 Palestinian-led organizations. It demands an end to the occupation of all Arab lands, dismantling the apartheid wall and the checkpoints, ending racial discrimination of Palestinians living in Israel, and promoting the right of all Palestinian refugees to return to their land. Israel profits of colonizing Palestine as it experiments with weapons of war on Palestinians and makes money off of the military industrial complex.
Monday, July 29, 2019, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Two great activist films are hitting the Columbus scene on July 28.
The Columbus International Film and Animation Festival (CIFAF), The Free Press, Simply Living and Brothers Drake Meadery are bringing a local pop-up activist film screening to Columbus as an extension of the 2019 CIFAF. As the oldest and longest-running film festival in the nation, CIFAF brings a tradition of film to Columbus. The legacy CIFAF has brought continues to support independent filmmakers throughout the year in an effort to make Columbus a hub of the film industry. Help us keep the spirit of film alive in our ever-growing and urbanizing city.
From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., the highly-respected films “Counter Histories: Rock Hill” and “How to Be an Activist” will be screened at Brothers Drake Meadery, 26 E. Fifth Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43201.
I feel that we got the final wake-up call at Fukushima and that we need to phase out and shut down the 104 reactors in America. I will put it very bluntly: We need to kill them before they kill us. – S. David Freeman, ninety-something former TVA head who holds the record for shutting down utility reactors than any other administrator
The Age of Nuclear Energy is winding down. The Age of Nuclear Waste is just beginning. – Gordon Edwards, Co-Founder, President Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
The New Radioactive Gold Rush – Privatizing Nuclear Waste Management
Since Friends of the Earth Senior Consultant David Freeman made the above statement in a 2011 interview, seven U.S. reactors have been shutdown.
As of this writing, there are 97 nuclear reactors operating in 29 U.S. states. By 2018 approximately 80 thousand metric tons of spent nuclear fuel had accumulated at reactor sites around the US, with 2 thousand metric tons being added each year.
It was supposed to be just another round of pork in Columbus. The nuclear power industry, which was flush with success from winning billions in bailouts from state governments in New York and Illinois was again prepared to play Ohio's government like a fiddle. Ohio had, in the past, ponied over $9 billion in subsidies for such flimsy reasons as "stranded costs" to keep the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants running. This time, though, it's proven to be much more complicated. Fierce opposition from every part of the political spectrum meant a reduced payoff, and even though Governor DeWine signed House Bill 6 (HB6) into law on July 23, the money may never be delivered.
Saturday, July 27, 2019, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Friday, July 26, 5:30-6pm
On broadcast radio WGRN FM 94.1
Live stream on our website
Video live stream on Free Press Network
House Bill 6 and some information about Jeffrey Epstein
Thursday, July 25, 7-8:30pm
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.
Living in Columbus, it’s not hard to see that the system is broken. We live under a reign of police terror where working-class black and brown youth are targeted for execution and imprisonment; Ohio State University and the city of Columbus have been working together to gentrify neighborhood after neighborhood; tens of thousands of students are getting into life-long debt for an education; ICE harasses undocumented immigrants with impunity; landlords and capitalists exploit and oppress us.
The only hope that we have is the organized force of our class: the working class. We must continue the work of building revolutionary organizations and movements that can fight relentlessly for our rights in the workplace, in housing, and as living and working people.
The Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists is one such organization. If you tremble at every injustice, you are a comrade of ours. Join us to help forge a weapon in the struggle for a better tomorrow!