Local
February 14-16
Dayton Convention Center, 22 E. 5th St., Dayton
This can't-miss conference offers up to three days of learning, sharing, networking, and breaking bread with 1,200+ sustainable farmers, gardeners, and local food supporters. It will feature:
• Nearly 80 informative workshops on sustainable farming, livestock, business, homesteading, and gardening on Friday and Saturday
• In-depth, full day Food and Farm School courses on Thursday
• Powerful keynote sessions with Elizabeth Henderson and Onika Abraham
• A diverse, three day trade show with 90+ exhibitors
• Made-from-scratch, local, organic meals
• Thursday evening socials and a Friday banquet
• Educational and fun kids' conference and child care options
• Easy access to downtown Dayton's attractions, dining, nightlife, and recreation
• On-site lodging, a raffle, book sales, and more!
Online registration is now closed. Guests can register in-person for the conference February 15-16. Tickets to the Contrary Farmers' Social, and Thursday's Food and Farm School classes will not be available for walk-in purchase.
Every day in the U.S., women fight to break the glass ceiling and rise to the top of companies and industries that were predominantly held by men. Forbes magazine published the Power Women 2018 edition showcasing women from around the globe who are changing the look of the future for young women and girls. Taking a look at these forerunners can inspire true feelings of inspiration.
Whether they are joining the Women’s March to leverage the political power of diverse women in their communities to fight for social change or are running a small business, women everywhere are advancing themselves into power positions. Sometimes, this includes heading into jobs that men are leaving, such as animal agriculture in the American West.
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the attorney general, lost more than most. For much of his adult life he had sublimated himself to his brother’s wishes. They talked several times a day in a kind of staccato shorthand that only each understood. Robert Kennedy had managed his brother’s U. S. Senate campaign in 1952 and his presidential campaign in 1960. In terms of a professional life, Robert’s wants and wishes were those of the President. RFK’s power was the president’s power. Personal and professional grief collided, and almost overwhelmed him. But concerned for his brother’s legacy, and contemptuous of his successor, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, he entered the 1964 race for the United States Senate for the state of New York.
The best place to start to understand the undemocratic nature of U.S. elections is to search “Paul Weyrich” and “Goo Goo” online. Weyrich, who states in the speech that “…I don’t want everybody to vote,” is co-founder of the Moral Majority, a religious right organization and ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is infamous for writing oppressive and anti-democratic “model” legislation – much it followed by Ohio’s Republican-dominated state legislature.
After the 2016 presidential election, a New York Times editorial pointed out that North Carolina’s “…Republican Party issued a news release boasting that cutbacks in early voting hours reduced black turnout by 8.5% below 2012 levels, even as the number of white voters increased by 22.5%.” A North Carolina federal appeals court struck down one of their most outrageous voter suppression laws noting that it targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision.”
Ohio’s former Secretary of State Jon Husted used similar racist voter repression tactics in our state. He cut back on early voting hours and eliminated voting centers in urban areas where minority voters are concentrated.
Two to three years ago city parking officials and the Mayor’s Office began crafting the current Short North Parking Plan. Homeowners in the Short North aren’t entirely sure when the city began this round of planning because the city tried to keep it a secret from many Short North residents, this according to the activist group Preserve Short North Neighborhoods.
The city’s newest plan to ease parking in the Short North began in late January and many neighborhood homeowners say it sacrifices their interests to appease high-end developers.
“There was an enormous amount of secrecy around this,” says Mark Bocija, the homeowner who started Preserve Short North Neighborhoods. “They had been meeting for over a year with no discussion to residents. In fact, people on the planning committee were told not to tell any residents about it.”
Bocija says representatives from the Short North Civic Association and the Short North Alliance were on the planning committee, and they too must have been told to not alert residents because they never did.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 7:00 PM.
Paul A. Beck, Professor Emeritus, OSU Department of Political Science, will join us to present an ANALYSIS OF THE 2018 ELECTION. Some potential topics include: Ohio and the “BLUE WAVE”, Gerrymandering – impact in 2018 - and its future. What did we learn from 2018 exit polls? Why did Ohio vote differently for Governor than MI, PA, & WI? Why did Sherrod Brown win by 6% -- and Cordray lose by 5%? Is Ohio now a red state??? - And much more! Location: Upper Arlington Public Library, 2800 Tremont Road, Upper Arlington 43221. Facebook.
February is the month that is set aside for Black/African American history. For twenty-eight days people who live in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland and Canada will be indoctrinated with information and facts about known and unknown Black/African American people who have contributed to either their race, society or America. When I googled it, I learned that it also began as a way to remember important people and events in the history of the African diaspora.
The word indoctrinate means to teach a person or group of people to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. Some synonyms for indoctrinate are brainwash, re-educate, persuade, convince, condition, discipline and mold. Diaspora is the dispersion of any people from their original homeland. In this case the Africans that were dispersed into America as slaves.
Monday, February 11, 2019, 5:00 – 8:00 PM. Support CCBOR at City Council Meeting. Please come and show your support on Monday, as we present to city council asking them to place our community bill of rights ordinance on the May 2019 city voting ballot. Since the state of Ohio refused to place our Columbus city ordinance on the November 2018 ballot, two Ohio supreme court cases have supported a similar city measure to be placed on the Toledo ballot. This has resulted in the reversal of a Lucas County Board of Elections decision that kept the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) off the Toledo ballot in November 2018, and it will now appear on a special election ballot scheduled for February 26th, 2019. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights will give Toledo city residents power to enforce their right, to protect their source of public water that originates from Lake Erie.
