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International Women's Day
Friday, March 8, 12pm
Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale Blvd.
Beginning at Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale St.; and ending at Bricker Hall (on the OSU campus), 190 N. Oval Mall
It’s time to put these universities’ principles into action. Young people, community leaders, and farmworkers are calling for a national boycott of this hamburger chain, demanding that, instead of cheap “4 for $4” deals, that Wendy’s put human rights on the menu. See us on Facebook.
On March 7 at 3:15 PM, 25 members of the Ohio State University community including undergraduate and graduate students, staff , and alumni entered Bricker Hall and began a sit-in outside of President Drake’s office to demand OSU end its business relationship with the fast food giant Wendy’s. The sit-in is the latest escalation of the years-long, student-led “Boot the Braids” campaign to remove Wendy’s from campus during which students have fasted, and marched, in protest of the fact that Wendy’s refuses to protect farmworker human rights by joining the CIW’s Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program.
Thursday, March 7, 7-9pm
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff
Join us for a gathering to make art and posters, eat food, and prepare for International Women's Day. We will discuss two upcoming International Women's Day events: the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' march to get Wendy's off campus, and the sit-in/rally at DeWine's office to protest the 6-week ban on abortion.
CIW March:
https://www.facebook.com/events/394417558010686/
Stop the 6-Week Ban! sit in and rally:
https://www.facebook.com/events/322537071595793/
International Women’s Day developed out of socialist struggles in the early 1900s which demanded women’s voting rights, creation of nurseries, free meals and learning tools in schools and kindergartens, social assistance for mothers, single parents, and children, and creation of labor laws for working women.
On International Women’s Day 2019 (March 8), hundreds of farmworkers, students, people of faith, community leaders and allies from across the country will march from Goodale Park to Ohio State University President Drake’s office as part of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) nationwide “4 for Fair Food” human rights tour. The CIW will be joining the campus-based “Boot the Braids” campaigns to end the schools’ business relationships with the national fast food chain, Wendy’s, until it joins the CIW’s Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program.
In breaking news ahead of the tour, it was announced that Wendy’s will not be invited back to the University of Michigan, making UM the first university to “boot” Wendy’s from campus. The decision to not invite Wendy’s back was declared through formal resolutions from the Michigan Union Board of Representatives, the UM student government, and the local Ann Arbor City Council.
Columbus, Ohio – Ahead of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine delivering his State of the State address, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio highlights how Governor DeWine’s priority to outlaw abortion and criminalize medical professionals for providing care to patients by signing the six-week abortion ban undermines his rhetoric to make Ohio a healthier, more prosperous state.
Statement from Lauren Blauvelt-Copelin, Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio:
“We anticipate to hear Governor DeWine to discuss his administrations’ proposed priorities for children. However, DeWine’s administration does not support women’s well-being, including their ability to make their own reproductive health care decisions, so they cannot stand behind their promise to do the same for children.
“Children largely depend on women and mothers for their care. Governor DeWine’s promise to sign a dangerous six-week abortion ban will severely undercut any efforts to address Ohio’s alarming infant mortality rate, unemployment, and economic opportunity.”
March 6th, Sandy Hook Promise applauded the introduction of the Safety and Violence Education for Students (SAVE Students) Act in the Ohio State House. This new legislation in Ohio is aimed at combating the crisis of violence, bullying, and suicide that is devastating our nation’s schools. If passed, this bill would set a new national standard for statewide school safety programming.
In response to the introduction of this legislation, Sandy Hook Promise released the following statement: “We know school violence is preventable when we teach youth and adults to ‘know the signs’ of violence and suicide and get help to stop a tragedy before it can happen,” said Mark Barden, co-founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, and father of Daniel who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy. “This legislation would protect Ohio’s students across the state and create a national model for prevention that empowers our youth to help save lives.”
A mass organization can’t make it without members and volunteers doing a tremendous amount of work. There is no way that any level of dues collection or number of self-sufficiency schemes can ever substitute for all of the work needed to build large organizations. At the same, it’s almost impossible to be sustainable without some staff.
Recently, I was in Ireland for the first-time visiting tenant support and action groups in Dublin, Limerick, and Galway. Their work over the years had been amazing. The support groups had done great work in eviction defense. At different times the groups had been able to come together, particularly in Dublin, to rally thousands against government cutbacks or mass evictions in private and social housing with all the work done by volunteers and activists.
After Grove City police recently confiscated CBD products from a vape shop after executing a search warrant, what does this portend for all local CBD retailers who are not licensed by the state?
Depending on how each local police agency views CBD it could mean shutting down the retailer.
CBD is one of the many cannabinoids or compounds derived from the cannabis plant. When processed into an isolate form, it is non-psychoactive, unlike its mind-altering cannabinoid relative Delt-9-tetrahydrocannabinoil (THC).
Many are coming to the realization that CBD is potentially the next big thing in holistic health. There is little federal research to go by, but millions of CBD users swear by its anxiety and pain reducing powers, and thus the market could reach $2 billion by 2020, according to the Hemp Business Journal.
With March being Women’s History Month and women only holding 23.7% of the seats in Congress despite making up 51% of the U.S. population, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst States for Women as well as accompanying videos.
To identify the most women-friendly states, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 24 key metrics. The data set ranges from median earnings for female workers to women’s preventive health care to female homicide rate.