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Saturday, January 22, 2018, 7-9pm
Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Speaker Julie Hart, Pathways to Peace. Julie Hart will speak about her book Pathways to Pacifism and Antiwar Activism among U.S. Veterans: the Role of Moral Identity in personal transformation. Details to follow. For questions about Central Ohioans for Peace, please send email to: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com.
Constance Gadell-Newton, Esq., is a social justice activist, Attorney at Law and Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, has a B.A. from the Ohio State University in Philosophy and Women’s Studies, and a J.D. from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, where she studied International, Criminal, and Public Interest Law.
Constance is committed to promoting the wellbeing of all Ohioans- no matter what happens in Washington, D.C. Constance will stand up to keep families together in the face of recent changes in U.S. Immigration Policy. Constance wants to make sure that all Ohioans have their needs met for health care and education. She supports universal health care for all Ohioans and free public education from pre-school to college. Constance stands with workers in the fight for a living wage and wage equality for women and minorities.
House Bill 81 and Senate Bill 40 are companion bills in the Ohio General Assembly which will prohibit the execution of defendants with certain narrowly defined severe mental illnesses.
Sat, Jan. 20, 10:30-1:30
Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.
2017 has been a year of women's movements – from the historic Women's March on Jan. 21 to the bravery of the #MeToo Silence Breakers. Let's carry this strength of women's resistance into 2018!
Join Socialist Alternative and the Women's March Ohio – Columbus Region at the Greater Columbus Convention Center to hear speakers on the battle facing us in 2018 – the midterm elections are coming up, and the political establishment doesn't want you to vote!
Come and hear speakers who fight against sexual assault, harassment, and inequities in the work place. We will also share information on gerrymandering, voting rights, and organizing disenfranchised communities for the Midterm Elections on November 6th, 2018.
The US Supreme Court may be about to make a second Trump term inevitable.
The nine "Justices" have just heard oral arguments in an Ohio voter registration case. If their decision goes with Secretary of State Jon Husted, it would mean Republicans like him throughout the United States will be able to scrub from the voter rolls millions of citizens merely because they are suspected of wishing to vote Democrat.
In Ohio alone, millions of Ohio voters have tried to vote on Election Day over the past four presidential elections, only to find their names were erased from the pollbooks.
What's technically at stake is whether the federal government has the right to demand fairness in purging voter registration rolls. Or will the secretaries of the various states be free to purge whomever they want.
In other words, it's supposedly a "state’s rights" case.
But this is a country where an Attorney-General who fought for state’s rights to avoid accepting racial integration is now overriding the explicit choice of some thirty states to enjoy legal marijuana.
On December 6th, HB 440, the Ohio Health Security Act, was introduced to the Ohio House by Representatives Teresa Fedor and Bernadine Kennedy Kent.
Today we received the notice of the first hearing of this bill, the Sponsor’s Hearing, on Wednesday, January 24th at 10:00 am. The hearing will take place in the Statehouse in Room 116.
The hearing will be conducted by the Insurance committee. The members of the committee are: Thomas Brinkman (R), Chair, Michael Henne (R), Vice Chair, John Boccieri (D), Michael Ashford (D), Kristin Boggs (D), Andrew Brenner (R), Bill Dean (R), Anne Gonzales (R), Glenn Holmes (D), Larry Householder (R), Stephen Huffman (R), Sarah LaTourette (R), Wes Rutherford (R).
We need to have as many people as possible show up for this hearing. We need to fill the room and spill out into the hallway. The members of the committee need to know that we are serious and that we can show up in large numbers. As Representative Fedor said to us,
House JointResolution 5 (HJR 5), introduced in fall 2017 in both houses of the Ohio General Assembly, would dramatically change the already-difficult process to amend the Ohio Constitution and is stealthily making its way through the Ohio General Assembly.
On January 17, former U.S. Congressman and former Mayor of Cleveland, Dennis Kucinich (D) announced his candidacy for governor of Ohio. He outlined a campaign strategy entitled "Power to We The People." He noted that he is "not owned by anybody and not beholden to 'wealthy interest groups.'''
The former presidential candidate has a 30-point agenda that will rebuild Ohio's infrastructure, bolster the public school system, dismantle "the prison-industrial complex," and promote clean air, water and energy in the state.
See video of his speech:
Thursday, January 18, 2018, 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
Come on out to our first meeting of the year! We will be going over plans for the #BlackPride4's weeklong trial (which starts February 5) and discussing proposals for Community Pride. The library and room are wheelchair accessible. Please message us if you need any accommodations such as an interpreter or childcare. Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, Parsons Branch, meeting room 3, 1113 Parsons Avenue, Columbus 43206.
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