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CALL WENDY'S HEADQUARTERS OCT. 18!

Next week, the CIW Women's Group hits the road to its first stops in the new "Harvest without Violence" campaign to end sexual violence in Wendy's supply chain: Columbus and Dublin, Ohio. Exhibiting the "Harvest without Violence Mobile Museum" at OSU and other schools in the area, they'll draw attention to the fast-food holdout's unconscionable choice of violence and impunity over justice and human rights in Wendy's home and headquarter towns. 

On Monday, Oct. 23, they'll head directly to headquarters to attempt to meet with Mr. Todd Penegor, Wendy's CEO, and other Wendy's decision-makers to urge them to make the right choice and join the Fair Food Program once and for all!

We're calling on the Fair Food Nation to stand with farmworker women by phoning the offices of Mr. Todd Penegor this Wednesday, Oct. 18!

Monday, October 16, 2017, 7:00 – 8:45 PM.  Environmental Film Series.  Screening of An Inconvenient Sequel with lively discussion led by leading OSU and local experts.  Al Gore shares how close we are to a real energy revolution.  Location:  Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering & Chemistry (CBEC), Room 130, 151 W. Woodruff Ave., Ohio State University.  Details at epn.osu.edu.   (Free pizzas and beverages @ 6:45 PM.  Sponsored by the School of Environmental and Natural Resources & Office of Energy and Environment.  

Monday, October 16, 2017, 4:30 - 6:30 PM.  Learning From Your Community: The State Of Free Speech And Civil Progress In Ohio.  This panel will discuss the state of free speech in Ohio and at Ohio State, as well as how to proceed civilly while honoring marginalized voices. This will be followed by a Q&A/discussion. The organizations helping sponsor this include ACS, the Multicultural Center, NICD, Sustained Dialogue, and the Council of Student Affairs.  Location:  Moritz College of Law, OSU, 55 W. Twelfth Ave, Columbus, in Saxbe Auditorium.  

Resistance and Black Liberation in the Age of Trump
Saturday, October 14
2:30-4pm
A+ Arts Academy, 270 S. Napoleon (near Lowe's in Whitehall)
Join the Black Caucus of the Ohio Green Party in a conversation with Human Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka.
Mr. Baraka is an internationally recognized leader of the emerging human rights movement in the U.S. and has been at the forefront of efforts to apply the international human rights framework to social justice advocacy in the U.S. for more than 25 years. He will be in Columbus, Ohio to engage and encourage our community in light of the recent incidents of police brutality, ongoing concerns about socio-economic conditions, and rise of activism in our city.
Admission is FREE

Over a hundred concentration camps now colonize Ohio’s landscape including a federal prison, 87 county jails, 25 state-funded adult prisons, three privately-operated adult prisons, seven juvenile prisons and five Immigration Custom and Enforcement cages. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, “...every state in this country is more likely to incarcerate its residents than almost every nation on this planet.” Ohio’s incarceration rate is greater than the incarceration rates of Cuba, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Iraq, China, Haiti, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, or Pakistan. The State of Ohio has approximately 262,000 people on probation/parole, 50,257 adult prison inmates (ODRC, Sept 2017) an estimated 18,190 jail inmates and 505 juvenile inmates. Its adult prison population is superseded only by Pennsylvania (50,580), New York (50,864), Georgia (54,353), Florida (99,119), California (131,436), Texas (147,053) and the Federal government (196,500).

COLUMBUS, OHIO – Joe Motil, 32 year community activist and Write-In candidate for Columbus City Council is continuing to push forward on his development of city legislation requiring all new apartment projects to provide upwards of 20% of new units to be set aside for low-moderate income individuals and families. Motil first announced this idea during his 2015 Columbus City Council election campaign.

Motil says, “In 2015 83% of all apartments built in Columbus were on the high end. With almost 17,000 apartments newly opened, under construction or on the drawing  board since then, we have already missed out on an opportunity to create 3,400  affordable housing units  to those in need.” To help offset the costs for developers, Motil proposes slightly lessening the square footage of these units and allowing for less extravagant amenities such as counter tops, flooring, light fixtures, kitchen appliances and bathroom features but not displacing them with substandard appliances and components.

OCTOBER 12, 2017 – COLUMBUS, OHIO: The Estate of Jaron Ben-Rasu Thomas has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Columbus Division of Police. The lawsuit brings civil rights, wrongful death, survivor and loss of consortium claims. The family seeks declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief for the violations of the Fourth Amendment rights of Thomas to be free from excessive use of force and his common-law right to be free from reckless conduct directly and proximately causing his pain, emotional distress and death. The lawsuit was filed on October 12, 2017 in the Southern District of the United States Federal District Court. 

This December, the Bureau of Land Management plans to auction off more of Wayne National Forest to gas and oil companies for unconventional fracking, putting public land, wildlife habitat, and the air and water we all depend on at risk. The protest period has already begun and ends next Thursday October 12th!  This is you're opportunity to voice your opinion and share your personal stories and any relevant information you have that may influence this decision. Please take a few minutes and stand up for the Wayne!  The BLM must read and respond to every letter. Even if they choose to deny your protest, there will be a record of it and that will help to demonstrate that the public does not want this.  All letters must be either postmarked or faxed by October 12th.

Northwood-High building, 2231 N. High St., if parking in rear park in "R" spots only
At 7:00pm, come hear a presentation by Don Shartzer, criminal defense attorney speaking on: "Don't Talk to the Cops." He will explain why -- and explain what you should say if they start to ask you questions.

SeaBus Dance Company is excited to announce our upcoming project LOOM, an improvisational dance piece that will bring distant dancers and Columbus communities together. LOOM will premiere Friday, October 27th at Art of Yoga and will continue through the weekend with a October 28th show at MadLab Theater and a October 29th show at Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center. Wherever you reside, we didn’t want you to miss it, which is why we included performances all across the city: in Franklinton, Downtown Columbus AND Clintonville! Just as LOOM aims to weave distal Columbus communities together with dance, its goal is also to gather dancers from across the country and present the converging of ideas, movement and narrative. 

Sunday, October 8, 12:30pm [registration], 12:30pm [send-off rally]; Scioto Audubon Metro Park [Maier Place Pavilion] 400 W. Whittier St.

The 39th Annual Columbus CROP Hunger Walk has open registration from 12:30pm to 2pm. Come enjoy the beautiful Scioto Audubon Metro Park and be sure to join us for our Send-Off Rally at 12:45pm with an invocation, updates from the Mid-Ohio Foodbank and Church World Service, and a special guest!

Refreshments, hunger advocacy, and a CROP “kids station” will all be available! Join us as we end hunger, one step at a time, around the block and around the world!

CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by religious groups, businesses, schools, and others to raise funds to end hunger in the U.S. and around the world.

Walk distance: 5K or ¾ mile

Contact: webwalk@crophungerwalk.org; or Andrew Gifford, agifford@cwsglobal.org