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When it comes to going incognito online and spouting-off on how you really feel about African-Americans, immigrants, leftists and poor people, the unhinged Right Wing have embraced this ability with unabashed love.

The problem for them is, they sometimes get caught. They are disgraced and lose their job. And if a Columbus Division of Police officer from the under-siege Vice unit is posting on a local progressive-minded activist group’s Facebook page that Columbus sex workers are better off dead, then the FBI needs to investigate.

Everyone knows the story of Donna Dalton, the young mother who was shot 8 times in August by Columbus Vice undercover officer Andrew Mitchell, who was already under investigation by internal affairs.

Public outrage and speculation against Mitchell erupted, and Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs suspended him. Citing the Vice unit’s arrest of porn-actress and Trump liaison Stormy Daniels earlier that summer, Chief Jacobs then suspended all Vice operations. Jacobs subsequently transferred the ongoing Vice investigation to the FBI.

Stop the Bans Day of Action
Thursday, December 27 at 8:30 a.m.
Ohio Statehouse – High Street sidewalk
1 Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Fri, Dec 21, 7pm
Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, 82 E. 16th Ave.
Music, Dances of Universal Peace, meditation, and drumming. Elizabeth (Munira) Reed, Ph.D., ereed@shalemcenter.org. summitumc.org.

This year’s usual bumper crop of holiday movies includes a political biopic, a Disney sequel and a bizarre tale of the aftermath of a hate crime. All of them open on or before Christmas Day. Let’s start with the best.

Welcome to Marwen

In the spring of 2000, artist Mark Hogancamp was savagely beaten by a group of men who disapproved of his cross-dressing ways. He survived—barely—but his memory didn’t. Since then, he has attempted to deal with his loss and trauma by creating a fantasy world set in the fictitious town of Marwen, Belgium.

Robert Zemeckis has turned this real-life tragedy into Welcome to Marwen, a film that seamlessly blends fantasy and reality with the technical finesse we’ve come to expect from the director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump.

Thursday, December 20, 6-7pm
Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square, 125 E. Broad St.
Each year, The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless sponsors an annual memorial service to honor our homeless citizens who have passed away this year. This service will include speakers from the community who work with the homeless population, music from Common Harmony, a Harmony Project Program, and the reading of the names of those who have passed. Please, share this event throughout the community.
Hosted by Columbus Coalition for the Homeless.

December 18, 2018 - Sent to Governor by the House

HB 41 VOTER REGISTRATION Will modify the law concerning challenges to voter registrations, the appointment of observers, and absent voting, and to change the manner in which counties may use reimbursements for voting machine acquisitions.

HB 58 CURSIVE HANDWRITING  Will require the Department of Education to include supplemental instructional materials in cursive handwriting in the English language arts model curriculum.

Wednesday, December 19, 11:30am-1pm
The Boathouse Restaurant at Confluence Park, 679 W. Spring St.
The state legislature has sent TWO abortion bills to Gov. John Kasich's desk. Both the six-week ban (HB258) and the abortion method ban (SB145) pose a threat to the future of Ohio's economy and the quality of healthcare in our state. These extremist policies will deter innovative business leaders and high-quality medical talent from practicing in our state and will force patients seeking abortion care to travel outside of the state... if they have the means to do so.

Gov. Kasich will be at the Boat House tomorrow for his final public appearance as Ohio's governor. Let's use the opportunity to apply pressure encouraging him to stand up for the best interest of women and patients here in Ohio by vetoing both HB 258 and SB 145.

Meet outside the Boat House. We'll be there with signs so you won't be able to miss us :) 

These pieces of legislation would undermine the baseline standard of care here in Ohio compared with other states where reproductive freedoms are valued as an inalienable human right.

Ohio lawmakers met at 1:00 in the morning Friday to sneak their pay raises into a Widows and Orphans bill. Besides providing cover for their raid on the taxpayers, the action also prevents Governor Kasich from using a line-item veto . which is only available on appropriations bills for special projects. He is now forced to either veto the bill completely and expose himself to charges that he is against widows and orphans or give the politicians their pay raise. Under the bill legislator’ salaries would rise automatically over the next 10 years from $60,584 to $73,167, the politicians thus spare themselves from having to vote each year to increase their pay. This is good money for a part time job. The legislature is only in session a few months of the year and most of the lawmakers hold full time jobs outside politics. These same lawmakers who can not find funds to repair Ohio’s roads and help the homeless  had no trouble finding money for themselves. By trying to use widows and orphans as a vehicle for their pay raises, politicians only confirm the opinion of most Ohioans that they are using their offices for personal enrichment not public service.

George Moss

Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Guess who's back?! BQIC Spoken Word is back!! Please join us as we round out 2018 with this fun, creative event! Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, etc. on the mic!  We will have soda, beer, and chips for a suggested donation! Entry is a $5 suggested donation! We will have the lovely Monee Jae to MC the event and DJ Zewmageddon (Sarah Mamo) spinnin sounds for the night!   Since Art Outside the Lines is giving us the space at a VERY LOW COST they are asking if we can ask people to donate art supplies!! Please please bring any art supplies you can donate to help an amazing art program run by people with disabilities!!  Location:  Art Outside the Lines, 485 E. Livingston Ave., Collumbus 43215. Facebook.  

Monday, December 17, 2018, 7:00 PM.