Local
Thursday, March 21, 2019, 1:05 – 2:25 PM
Want to find out more about the New Green Deal? Come to a panel discussion with Fadhel Kaboub, Economic Dept, Denison University Expert on the GND and building strong local alternative economies; Cathy Cowan Becker, Sierra Club, Head of the Columbus chapter’s “Ready for 100” campaign; Chuck Lynd, Columbus Simply Living Collaborative, and Skype conversations with the national Sunrise Movement. Cookies and punch served. For more information, contact Terry Hermsen at thermsen@otterbein.edu. Location: Otterbein University, Towers Hall, 112.
Featured during this esteemed film festival is a real life example of biased law-enforcement running roughshod over a community of color. A challenge to our solidarity, a plea to donate to the defense fund for 16 years young Masonique Saunders, who is being charged with Felony Murder (and being charged as an adult has been mentioned), for the murder ACTUALLY committed by a Columbus Police officer and his Columbus Police issued gun. ...and his Columbus Police issued training.
Where's the justice? #FREEMASONIQUE
Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Tickets: $5 for two drinks. In collaboration with Grange Audubon Center and Great Lakes Brewing Company, we invite you to join us for our March Green Drinks 2018. We will be selling drink tickets at $5 for two drinks. Snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided for free. All proceeds will go towards Earth Day Columbus supplies (mulch, topsoil, etc). We are excited about what can happen right here in Columbus in 2019. Help us make this event a great success. Bring your friends and family, and we hope to see you there! Stay updated and find out more about our participating tabling partners! For more information regarding Earth Day: http://www.earthdaycolumbus.org/.
Location: Grange Audubon Center, 505 W Whittier St, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
The legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson has been and forever shall be overshadowed by the war in Vietnam. But LBJ’s administration was about more than what he referred to as “that bitch of a war.” In the space of a little more than two years, Johnson’s administration developed the most ambitious and far reaching social policies since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Great Society—the phrase was thought up by his speech writer, the late Richard Goodwin, who had worked for JFK—enlarged and strengthened the miniscule American social safety net and provided, among other things, medical care for the old and the poor; food support; money for public schools; a domestic Peace Corps (VISTA); and community action programs. He also moved JFK’s stalled civil rights legislation through Congress, signing the Civil Rights Act in the summer of 1964; after a year and the four murders of voting rights activists, he signed the Voting Rights Act. He knew full well the political costs of both measures, but he supported them anyway. Johnson accomplished this from scratch and purposefully with a staff that was every bit as good as the vaunted Best and Brightest who worked for John F.
March 17 (1:00 - 3:00 PM), March 20 (5:00 – 7:00 PM), and March 23 (10:00 AM – Noon), 2019
Almost a month ago, we hosted a Medicare 4 All Barnstorm, an initiative of National Nurses United (NNU). Only through an "uprising" of the people, will the Medicare For All Act of 2019, HB 1384, be moved through the Congressional House. Canvassers will be going door to door to ask our neighbors to call their member of the Congressional House to become a cosponsor of Medicare. If you would like to participate or need more information, please email to Bob Krasen, brkrasen@gmail.com. In case these Canvasses are not convenient, go to the medicare4all.org website, click on ACTIONS, and the map will lead you to other Canvasses that are scheduled, hopefully nearby. Location: Meet at Whetstone Library, 3903 N High Street Columbus, 43214.
Saturday, March 16, 2019, 7:00 PM.
Friday, March 15, 12noon
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square
On March 15th, students across the world will strike in order to call for radical action on climate change. The strike was inspired by Greta Thunberg, a teen activist in Sweden who began striking every Friday last summer, and who has been joined by more and more students every week. The Student Strike for Climate Action on March 15th will involve students from France, Sweden, Australia, Ireland, the U.S. and other countries. We are calling for every student in Ohio to not attend school and join our protests in order to show their disgust with our government’s failure to combat climate change.
This event is for the Columbus march. Join us at the Ohio Statehouse in front of the William Mckinley Monument. This monument is located on the west side of the Statehouse.
#ClimateStrikeOhio #ClimateStrikeCity #ClimateChangeisReal
The Ohio Senate passed SB23 yesterday to restrict abortion to the first six weeks of a woman’s pregnancy, in a vote of 19 to 13.
Republican Senator Kristina Roegner, the sponsor of the bill, told the Columbus Free Press after the vote, “The next step naturally is that it will go to the House Health Committee chaired by Derek Merrin (R) where the sponsor is Representative Keller (R).”
A Republican majority in the Ohio House of Representatives is expected to pass the bill, and Ohio’s new Republican Governor Mike DeWine has promised to sign it into law.
Senator Roegner introduced the bill in the senate session, and criticized the Supreme Court Ruling Roe v Wade (1973) which protects a woman’s right to an abortion based in her right to privacy regarding her body and her personal medical care. Roegner claimed Roe v Wade created a “moving target” by defining human personhood as beginning when the fetus is able to survive outside the womb and said, “We need a new standard. The heartbeat bill provides this new standard.”
Thursday, march 14, 4:30pm
Rep. Steve Stivers office, 3790 Municipal Way, Hilliard
As constituents and active citizens in our community, it’s time to tell Stivers what we think about his voting record.
Office Visit
3790 Municipal Way
Hilliard OH 43026
4:30 to 5:00
Then share our concerns with our community.
Signs along Cemetery
5:00 to 5:30
All that’s exhausting. Must recharge with tacos and margaritas. Is there any other way, really?
Habaneros
3650 Main St
Hilliard 43026
5:30 to 6:30
Join us!
The Electric Hand.
The Torments.
The Detroit Cobras.
Three die-hard garage rock bands. Three gangs essentially. Their main religious belief: die with your boots on, rocking on 11!
Thus the last Saturday night in February saw a throwback cave stomp the likes of which this two-bit poor man's colon of a town ain't seen in a stegosaurus's age.
Three bands, two killer banzai charges of three-chord brutality and a headliner's display of boozy public breakdown fronting Americana-tinged soul and hoe-down flavored stomperoos. Nothin' but good people, nothing' but real good.
First up: our own Electric Hand.
T.C.Ottinger, the Hand's frantic front man, may just be Poopville's Number One Rock'n'Roll Personality in terms of live performance. He's utterly confident, completely full of himself and pretty funny. He jumps into songs like a speeding getaway car having just ripped off a Wendy's on Cleveland Avenue. He's a mania.