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It's 2018 and Columbus is gearing up for another year's Pride Celebration... But the question beckons even after last year's demonstration.
“Why do We need our own Pride?”
“Why can’t they compromise with Stonewall?”
“What could they possibly be mad about?”
And my all-time favorite: “Does anybody know who Marsha P. Johnson is?”
We all revere the Stonewall riots as one of the most popular and powerful demonstrations/riots that kicked off the "Gay Liberation" movement for the LGBTQIA community.
However, in all that glory and all that accomplishment, throughout all of these years, that's led us to where we are today. There still seems to be a misconception among the white gay community and a few folks of color (due to purposeful mis-education and whitewashing of our history) about who actually started the Stonewall riots – the very riots that the "Gay rights" movement for the LGBTQIA community is built on.
I work with the grassroots ballot initiative campaign, The Columbus Community Bill of Rights
We’re working to get 8,000 Columbus voter signatures before June 26, 2018 to put this City Ordinance on the November ballot, to stop toxic, radioactive Frack Waste Injection wells in the Columbus Watershed. This is Big!
When I read that one of my heroes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was coming to Northern Ohio to support former Congressman, Dennis Kucinich’s run for Governor, I decided to take a road trip.
Shortly after I moved back to Ohio from Oregon in 2016, I learned that Wayne National Forest, Ohio's only national forest, was under threat from the gas and oil industry.
After learning more about what was happening, visiting the area, and meeting some locals who will be directly impacted, I felt compelled to document what's being lost and the stories of the people to whom it matters most.
Over the past year, with some support from a Heartwood mini-grant, I have shot hours of footage of scenery and wildlife, as well as gas and oil infrastructure, and have recorded and transcribed a couple of interviews with people from the area who love the forest and are being directly impacted by the industrialization of this natural area.
My immediate goal is to conduct at least two more interviews and shoot some additional spring forest footage during the April and early May, and then edit together a piece by the end of May, in time to screen it at Heartwood's 28th Annual Forest Council in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.
Sunday, April 29, 4pm
Genoa Park, 303 w. Broad
The Interfaith March for Peace & Justice is a nonpartisan event meant to affirm the freedom of religion and to condemn all acts of discrimination directed at people because of their religion, race, or place of origin.
On April 29, stand up against racism and religious intolerance with people around the country and the world as we march together! The Columbus March will begin at Genoa Park at 4:30 PM! Attendees should arrive by 4 PM.
Please contact us with any questions!
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Our Guiding Principles
1. We believe that all people should be free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination, intimidation, or reprisal.
2. We believe that multiple religions can coexist peacefully and contribute to the common good.
3. We believe that equal justice and equal protection under the law are rights to which all people are entitled regardless of race.
Bruce Thomas Duncanson “General Bruce” born December 20, 1958, passed on to peace and glory April 15, 2018. He was a passionate peace and environmental activist, loving son, brother and friend to all. He was a familiar face at the Free Press Second Saturday Salons and at Comfest each year.
Bruce first got started with peace activism while living in Minnesota. He was a part of the anti-nuclear movement that was working to prevent nuclear war and eliminate the threat of nuclear bombs. It was here that he also came up with the idea for a Peace Army. Bruce had struggled with mental health and he realized the value that people who had mental health problems could contribute to society rather than being marginalized. His idea the Peace Army for Mental Health was one of the many inspirational ideas he came up with over his lifetime of activism. His work as an advocate for the peace army is how he became known as General Bruce to many in the anti-war movement. See Bruce describe it himself on YouTube at – https://youtu.be/kLL2_IOjdBs
Saturday, April 28, 5pm
MCL Kingsdale, 3154 Kingsdale Center, Upper Arlington, Ohio
Come out and join us for dinner and conversation! We’ll be in the back room unless there’s a special event going on in that room.
Friday, April 27 - Sunday, April 29, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.
This year marks the tenth annual TransOhio Transgender and Ally Symposium! In celebration of the anniversary, the theme of this year’s conference is “Ten Years of Progress and the Challenges Ahead.”
The TransOhio Transgender and Ally Symposium began as a one-day event in 2008, attended by approximately 80 people, and has since grown to be a three-day conference with over 250 participants, 75+ workshops, and various continuing education credits for qualifying professionals on our Providers’ Day. We are proud of what we have accomplished in the past ten years and are looking forward to seeing what we can do to help combat legal, medical, familial, and societal barriers, moving forward, with your help.
TransOhio serves the Ohio transgender and ally communities by providing services, education, support, and advocacy, that promote and improve the health, safety and life experience of the Ohio transgender individual and community.
Thursday, May 3, 4:45pm, WSYX ABC 6, 1261 Dublin Rd.
World Press Freedom Day is the perfect day to protest Sinclair Broadcasting’s mandated political propaganda. What do we do when the freedom of the press is under attack? Stand up! Fight back!
Hosted by Indivisible: Ohio District 12, Indivisible Columbus District 3, and the Ohio District 15 Indivisible Events Page.
Thursday, April 26, 7-8:30pm
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 83 W Woodruff
The Tet Offensive in Vietnam. The assassination of Martin Luther King. The French May. The Prague Spring. Black Power fists at the Olympics in Mexico City. Mayhem outside the Democratic convention in Chicago. Marching for civil rights in Northern Ireland.
To name the year 1968 is to summon images of not just one or two world-shaking events, but many. 1968 demonstrated even the strongest-seeming regimes can be shaken by uprisings from below; political change is infectious and can take place at lightning speed; the spirit of freedom can sweep across the world, from the poorest and most subjugated countries to the richest and most powerful.
Join us for a conversation about the momentous year of 1968, and what it means for us today, 50 years later.
This meeting will feature a guest speaker, Paul D’Amato, who is a member of the ISO’s national steering committee and the author of The Meaning of Marxism.
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