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Most of us know gay conversion therapy is a hoax that preys on the fears of gay people and their families, especially those whose religion rejects non-traditional sexual orientations. What most of us don’t know—unless we’ve been unlucky enough to go through it—is just how this therapy attempts to bring about its unlikely transformation.
One person who does know is Gerrard Conley, whose parents pushed him into conversion therapy and who subsequently wrote Boy Erased, a memoir about his experience. The book has been brought to the big screen in a tale that is both harrowing and illuminating.
Directed by Joel Edgerton, who also wrote the screenplay and portrays a key supporting character, the flick begins by spelling out the dilemma faced by its teenage protagonist.
Friday, November 16, 2:3-4pm
Ohio Dept of Rehabilitation, 770 West Broad St.
Stand up to ODRC retaliation against the prisoner protest movement in Ohio!
During the massive #August21 2018 prison strike, the Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption (ODRC) engaged in a number of repressive and retaliatory actions against prisoners. These practices continue to this day.
On Friday supporters from across Ohio and the wider region will gather outside the ODRC central office to demand an end to retaliation against prisoner protests.
Out of town people will park near and gather at the corner of State and Dakota (behind the Franklinton library) starting at 2, then march together up to the DRC Central Office at 770 W Broad at around 2:30.
Speakers:
Ishaq Alkhair - a friend of Imam Hasan who was incarcerated at Lucasville during the 1993 uprising.
Pittsburg Anarchist Black Cross
Central Ohio IWOC
Organizations calling this demo:
Central Ohio IWOC
Anarchist Black Cross Pittsburg
Thursday, November 15, 1:30-3:30pm
1 Dave Thomas Blvd, Wendy's HQ, Dublin, Ohio
Join the United Methodist Women, The National Farm Worker Ministry and Women Leaders of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as we collectively call on Wendy's to join onto the Fair Food Program.
For the months of September and October, the United Methodist Women have been collecting postcards to petition Wendy's to sign the Fair Food Agreement. Proclaim "Time's Up" on low wages, poor working conditions and sexual violence in the fields!
To learn more go to: https://unitedmethodistwomen.org
The Young Americans for Freedom student group at Ohio State University hosted a speech by Ben Shapiro, "New York Times best-selling author, conservative commentator, and lawyer," on November 13. Their promotion stated: "With little regard for feelings, Ben will be hitting key points your professors don't tell you when he speaks about political correctness, American youth, and identity politics!"
News media reports described Shapiro as "conservative," a former Breitbart editor, producer of The Daily Wire, a "popular commentator," and a media personality. His visit was met with protestors, as captured in this photo by Elizabeth Adromeda.
More information about his visit can be found here.
Earth has a dozen years to turn climate change around, according to the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. Responses to the report give us insight into the political climate, as well as the actual climate, in the Buckeye State.
“Climate change is already happening in the greater Cleveland region,” and it “threatens the biodiversity,” stated Brian Parsons, Director of Planning and Special Projects at Holden Arboretum in the Cleveland area, who spelled out his findings in a 2007 article. Parsons pointed out that “temperatures in the region are increasing” and so are “extreme heat events.” Equally troubling are “heavy precipitation” and also “winters are becoming shorter.”
Well, that doesn’t sound that bad. But Ohioans can expect more flooding from storms, and in the future, increased demands to suck fresh water out of the Great Lakes to share with drought regions in the South and Southwest United States. All this will occur with faster and faster rates of climate change. If we fail to turn it around, Ohio will lose much of the ecological diversity in our flora, fauna and animals.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 1:00 PM.
Hearing for HB 53 – Remove requirement to join public employee union.
A Call to Action - this is our Bastille, so we are calling all warriors to the barricades. While people are up in arms about the Special Prosecutor investigation into election engineering and possible collusion with Trump regime, the real work is being done by a "look over there" political agenda that is meant to confuse and diffuse energies.
Sunday, November 11, 2018, 2-4pm
Studio 35, 3055 Indianola Ave.
Growing Cities is a documentary film that examines the role of urban farming in America and asks how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat. In their search for answers, filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette take a road trip and meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food, one vacant city lot, rooftop garden, and backyard chicken coop at a time.
Q+A following the film to discuss the local food system in central Ohio.
$5 donation at the door. Come early to network at the bar starting around 1:15 pm.
Hundreds of protestors lined the streets of Downtown Columbus during the evening rush hour on November 8 to urge Ohio Senator Rob Portman to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Mueller’s investigation of President Donald Trump and possible interference by the Russians in the 2016 Presidential Election.
The protest, one of many nationwide, was held one day after President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, following the 2018 Midterm Elections.
In a New York Times opinion editorial, George Conway, the husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, stated that it was “unconstitutional (for Trump) to fire Jeff Sessions.”
The protest began with a rally at Bicentennial Park, as speakers urged the protestors to contact their U.S. House Representatives and Senators, to protect Mueller’s investigation following Trump’s appointment of Sessions’ deputy, Matthew Whitaker as Attorney General.
Lee Israel’s abrasive and self-destructive personality is established in the first scene of Can You Ever Forgive Me? While working a late-night job, Lee (Melissa McCarthy) hits the wrong person with an F-bomb and is immediately fired.
This launches a downward spiral that threatens to expel Lee from the New York apartment she shares with her ailing cat. The spiral ends only when it’s replaced by a moral and legal spin out of control.
The fateful catalyst is a letter from a famous author that falls into Lee’s hands. Attempting to sell it to a dealer in literary ephemera, she’s told it would be worth more if only the subject matter weren’t so bland. An author herself—though one who has trouble even giving her latest books away—Lee seizes on the idea of manufacturing spicy correspondence supposedly written by luminaries such as Dorothy Parker and Noel Coward.