Local
Saturday, November 10, 2018 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St., Columbus
Parking in side driveway, on street or rear parking lot
Come to network and socialize with progressive friends with refreshments, music and a presentation by Eugene Beer on the trial of fracking gas pipeline protestors and the "necessity defense," and more!
Free, no RSVP required.
614-253-2571, colsfreepress@gmail.com
columbusfreepress.org
“Nine hours into canvassing, a man thanked me and another volunteer for being the foot soldiers of democracy. Braving rain, wind, cold air, and irritated voters, we paved the way for Senator Brown and other champions of reproductive rights to represent us in DC,” said Sarah Szilagy, a #Fight4HER volunteer and freshman OSU student who campaigned for Sherrod Brown.
WE made the difference.
In reaction to the resignation of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Indivisible Columbus called an emergency "Protect Mueller" rally that drew about a thousand people at Bicentennial Park on Thursday, November 8, 2018. The crowd walked to Portmans office. A Capital law professor, Common Cause spokesperson, and Indivisible had a couple of speakers. The message was to protect the Mueller inestigation and that "No one above the law!"
November 10, 2018 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Help End Wage Theft. Fight Back. Empower Workers to Hold Employers Accountable
After toughing it out like a little meatball surrounded by ravenous wolves, one of High Street’s remaining old-school campus cool establishments is closing its doors at the end of this month after 40-plus years of history.
Mama’s Pasta and Brew owner Terry Fahy says the “handwriting was on the wall” as sterile corporate campus gorges on the properties surrounding their Pearl Alley location near 15th and High.
Fahy’s sentiment is like a skipping record, something we’ve heard over and over from old-school campus that’s felt the pressure to abandon High Street. By the way, there are no independent music stores directly across from campus anymore.
The city is widening Pearl Alley and needed four feet of their building to do so, says Fahy. Having the deed to the property and realizing how much work a rebuild would have meant, Fahy sold the building to Campus Partners, the Ohio State off-campus development arm working in tandem with private developers for two decades now to transform High Street.
Thursday, Nov 9, 6-8pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 West Weisheimer Rd.
Casual discussions in the summer of 2012 evolved into a fun and successful fundraiser the following November. In April 2013, Columbus CoR member groups voted to hold this event annually and are now preparing for the 7th such event.
This year, the event features a spaghetti dinner, bake sale, silent auction, raffle and entertainment to raise money and collect food donations for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. The event is scheduled for Thursday, November 8, 2018 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus at 93 West Weisheimer Road in Clintonville. Adult dinner $10, $5 for kids 14 and under (cash/check).
Wednesday, November 7, 4-7pm, Ohio Statehouse
The Trump-Pence administration is attempting to legally redefine gender on a narrowly “sex”-based male-female basis that would gut enforcement of existing civil rights protections for over 1.4 million transgender Americans. Additionally, since this memo was put out, Trump’s Department of Justice has said that transgender workers are not protected by civil rights laws [https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-workers-not-protected-civil-rights-law-doj-tells-supreme-n924491].
This proposal is a dangerous and harmful one that essentially attempts to erase the transgender community. We intend to assemble peacefully at the Ohio Statehouse with the goal of sending the message that the trans community and our allies will not stand for it.
Bring signs! Be loud! But please, keep it nonviolent.
A host of voter suppression and voter purging strategies serendipitously put into play by Republican state super-majorities could derail any hopes of a Blue Wave.
Since 2008, 23 states passed legislation that puts tougher restrictions on voting, such as stricter voter ID laws and more aggressive voter purge requirements, this according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
We at the Free Press say these Republican strategies were inspired by their disbelief an African-American could ever (or should ever) win the White House.
In Wisconsin, for instance, a stricter voter ID law convinced thousands of urban voters to forego the 2016 election because they believed they did not have qualifying ID when in fact they did. Trump won Wisconsin by 22,000 votes.
Donald Trump is in power in large part because Democrats have repeatedly conceded elections they really won. On Tuesday, that MUST change.
Anyone deemed a close loser MUST fight. Every tally must be contested, every denial challenged, all missing ballots found, every provisional honored.
What could bury our democracy? Stripped voter rolls, erased precincts, lies about where to vote, voting stations moved out of town, intimidated voters, impossible-to-get ID, street addresses required on reservations, lies about eligibility, unsent absentee ballots, suppressed registrations, hacked electronic machines, hidden source codes, trashed provisionals. It’s all been happening since at least 2000. Highly qualified teams of election protection specialists all over the country (www.freepress.org and many more; the state and national Democratic parties have hotlines) are ready to fight.