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The Greatest Gift to Global Corporate Executives

Trump, heavyset man in suit with red tie waving next to wife Melania, shapely woman with long brown hair standing in front of a military plane with people in foreground facing him

The tax bill advertised by Republicans as a Christmas gift to the American people is in fact a gift to the Global Corporate CEOs and other such executives on incentive compensation plans.  The most favored of this group are the executives of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) with Lockheed Martin at the top.  Their gifts – to transition from multi-millionaires to billionaires.

The earlier 10% increase in military spending specially benefited MIC executives and their Carlyle Group directors.  The cut in the corporate income tax rate will probably increase their compensation at a generous multiple of the percentage which that cut represents to the increase in corporate net income and rate of return on equity.

Fighting the Assaults on Net Neutrality and Our Economy

Black background with red line drawing of a computer and the words Censored in white over the screen, which also has a world on the screen

Let’s all take a moment to savor this great grass-roots U.S. Senate victory in Alabama of Democrat Doug Jones over alleged child molester Roy Moore. Let’s also celebrate the victory of the moderate Ralph Northam over the extremist Republican Ed Gillespie to be governor of Virginia, and a possible flip of the Virginia Legislature, with the influx of a strong contingent of progressive women.

Breathe deep. Stretch up your arms. Shout for joy.

OK?

Now let’s use all that great new energy to fend off Donald Trump’s twin assaults on net neutrality and our core economy.

Losing could leave us blind and impoverished. So don’t even think about it.

On net neutrality, the fight is ongoing and long-term.

On Trump’s tax scam, we have at best a few days.

A mass movement already is in place to save the internet.

DREAM Act Vigil December 19! Support Needed

Many people posing in rows outside wearing winter clothes holding signs that say Live Will Win, Refugees Welcome, Justice, Ohio is my Home, Solidarity, Organize, and a woman in front on her knees with a fist in the air

Tuesday, December 19, 5pm
URGENT! This is the last week to push for a clean Dream Act. We need your help to coordinate and advertise a vigil led by COWC Board Member and DACA recipient Jessica Camacho and other DACA/immigrant leaders to be held tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 5pm. Please get involved in one of the following ways. Please watch our Facebook page for more information. If you would like to volunteer with rapid organizing, please notify Austin Kocher ASAP (ackocher@gmail.com, 614-381-8583).

Free Self-Care Art Night & Potluck Public

White background with lot of rainbow colored dots all over it and the words in black Self-care paint night and some paintbrushes below in a variety of colors and a little yellow star to the left with a happy face

Sunday, Dec. 17, 6-9pm
Art Outside the Lines, 485 E. Livingston Ave.
Hosted by Central Ohio Street Medic Collective - COSMC
There will be plenty of activities happening simultaneously throughout the night. Wander about and enjoy yourself. Stop in for a few minutes or few hours!
Absolutely free but bring a dish or snack if you would like. BYOB
Activities: 
You can do a self directed paint project that will be provided by the instructor OR paint/create what you want! 
Creative clay station (air dry clay to take home)
Games-board and card games, bring your favorite! 
90's cartoon theater 
Voluntary supportive discussion sessions that are activist/organizer centered:
-Burning out
-Coping with anxiety and depression 
-Making activism inclusive to those with disabilities 
Sponsored by Columbus Citizens for Police Review

Care for the Land, Serve the People Rally

Words USFS motto: Caring for the land and serving people" They are doing neither join us 12-14-2017 and tell them to do their job. #Keep Wayne Wild against a background of trees and a cliff

Thursday, December 14, 2-4pm
13700 U.S. 33, Nelsonville Ohio
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One year ago the Bureau of Land Management began auctioning off public land in Wayne National Forest to gas and oil companies for unconventional fracking. The fracked gas from these wells will feed into Energy Transfer Partners' Rover Pipeline, which is currently under construction, and will go under the Ohio River and through Wayne National Forest's Proclamation Boundary. These industrial threats put the beautiful forest we love and the natural resources we depend on at risk.

On December 14th the fourth auction will be held, despite continued public outcry. The US Forest Service can stop the leasing of this land, but decision makers have refused to act.

On the day of the auction grassroots groups and other concerned forest lovers will gather at the Athens Ranger Station to tell Forest Supervisor Tony Scardina and other decision makers to do their job and protect the forest!

Protesters denounce GOP tax bill, demand education, health care for all

As Congress scrambles to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the GOP tax bill before Christmas, a nascent resistance movement is growing. On December 9 students and working people marched from the Ohio Statehouse to the office of Senator Rob Portman, a key architect and proponent of the tax bill.

The Republican tax plan “is nothing more than blatant class warfare waged on the working class, especially women and people of color,” said Alex Davis, a graduate student at OSU and member of Socialist Alternative. “It’s raising taxes on the poor while reducing taxes on the rich. By 2019, nine percent of taxpayers would pay higher taxes, which would expand to 50 percent by 2027. And that’s not even counting the cuts to vital social services that will be used to help fund the tax cuts.”

“Tax the greedy, not the needy!” the crowd shouted.

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