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Monday, June 26, June 23-28th - times listed on Facebook
Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., Columbus.
This powerful new documentary highlights the struggle by Leaders for Equality and Action in Dayton (LEAD) with the help of their lawyers at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE) on behalf of Dayton residents to gain access to jobs and education by bus to the neighboring suburb of Beavercreek. This clash between neighbors and the issues it raised are reminiscent of resistance faced by advocates and developers of affordable housing in communities across the country and this important film imparts important lessons for all of us.
Fri-Sun, June 23-25
Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale St.
A free, non-corporate, yearly celebration of Columbus, Ohio’s community organizations, performers, artists, and volunteers. comfest.com.
Check out the Free Press wine booth near the Buttles Street entrance.
And the Free Press Comfest salon on Sunday at 1pm on the Solar Stage!
Keynote speaker Dennis Kucinich will speak on the Bozo stage Sunday at 3:30pm.
The Jim Crow GOP has stolen yet another Congressional election, this time in Georgia. As always, the media and Democrats are saying nothing about it.
And now the US Supreme Court will allow secretaries of state to completely trash the ballots of anyone they choose.
So the Trump/GOP domination of American elections is essentially secure for the foreseeable future. Anyone believing the 2018 or 2020 elections will provide realistic opportunities to overthrow Trump/GOP control of the government is living in a dream world.
That dream world fits an historic pattern we outline in our new STRIP & FLIP DISASTER OF AMERICA’S STOLEN ELECTIONS. Its latest incarnation has just surfaced in Jim Crow Georgia.
The much-hyped Congressional race between Democrat John Ossoff and former Georgia GOP secretary of state Karen Handel was the most expensive in US history, costing more than $50 million.
It has ended with yet another victory for Jim Crow election theft as surely as if the KKK had run rampant through the countryside, lynching potential voters.
Thursday, June 22, 7-8:30pm
St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 30 West Woodruff, Campus
Facebook Event
We are living in an era when trans women of color are specially subject to police violence, receiving adequate trans-inclusive healthcare is a great hassle, and violence against trans people is at an all-time high.
During this Pride month, a month celebrated for the Stonewall Rebellion and the key leadership of trans women such as Marsha P. Johnson in that struggle, join us for a panel and discussion that will get to the heart of the oppression of trans people and the fight for liberation.
Friday-Sunday, June 16-18
Columbus Pride is an LGBTQ festival in Columbus, Ohio, that remembers the Stonewall Riots and celebrates the accomplishments of the LGBTQ community. Started in 1981, it has grown into the 2nd largest Pride event in the Midwest. In 2016, Stonewall Columbus estimated over 500,000 participants.
Friday, June 16th: Festival (4pm-11pm), Bicentennial and Genoa Parks by the river
Saturday, June 17: Parade (Step-off at 10:30am), Starting at Goodale Park, Short North, to Genoa Park
Saturday, June 17: Festival (11am-8pm), Bicentennial and Genoa Parks by the river
Sunday, June 18th: Pride Brunch (11am-1pm), Columbus Athenaeum, 32 N. 4th
Visit www.columbuspride.org for more information!
Russia, Russia, Russia!!! But what about the Americans?
Attorney-General Jeff Sessions has confirmed the Russians hacked into as many as 39 state data bases, and did all they could to affect the electronic vote count that put Donald Trump in the White House.
But Americans could have done it much easier.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach set in motion a Jim Crow/Crosscheck purge of hundreds of thousands of mostly black, Hispanic and Asian-Amrican citizens prior to the election in at least 29 states.
Now Trump has appointed Kobach to an "Election Integrity" Commission. His co-commissioner is J. Kenneth Blackwell, who as Ohio Secretary of State helped steal the 2004 presidential election.
What isn't this pair of election thieves being called to testify before Congress? Why is there no national viewing of Greg Palast’s BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY on precisely this topic?
The electronic flipping techniques Blackwell used in Ohio 2004 are part of the “black box voting” syndrome documented by Bev Harris. No Russians needed.
Thurs, June 15, 6:30-8pm, Whetstone Branch Library, 3909 N. High St.
Facebook Event
Learn more about the state of healthcare in the United States and what a “Medicare for All” system would mean for Americans. Presenters: Dr. Claire Roden, pediatric physician; Bob Krasen, Single Payer Action Network Ohio; John Wallace, member of Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio. Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com. dsacolumbus.org
