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Wednesday, May 10, 4:30-6:30pm
104 E Main St, Lancaster, OH
Join us to illustrate how Steve Stivers' vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with tax breaks for billionaires affects his constituents! Please bring headstones and chalk
I could begin by stating that the world, despite small and justified protests, is celebrating Emmanuel Macron’s recent victory in the French presidential election. On the surface, it would be an accurate statement. People across the world from Western Europe to the United States are writing and posting about Macron and his saving the continent. But the excitement is really over Marine Le Pen’s loss. The French, overall, didn’t want to be seen as racist and isolationist. The rest of the world didn’t want another Donald Trump in power. Amidst all the hubbub since the election, it would be easy to think Macron is a progressive warrior who ended racism and nationalism in one fell swoop. That description isn’t even remotely close to who he really is, and it is a shining example of the problem with people thinking about politics in relative, rather than absolute, terms.
Tuesday, May 9, 7pm presentation
Northwood-High building, 2231 N. HIgh St., room 100, if you park in the rear, park in "R" spots only
Joy Adams from Keep Wayne Wild will report on the efforts to keep fracking out of the Wayne National Forest.
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Corporate Democrats and liberal commentators love to scapegoat the activist left for their catastrophic failures. The blame game just fell to a new low with Bill Maher’s latest attack on Jill Stein.
Like Hillary branding Trump supporters as “deplorables,” Bill tells American grassroots activists to “go f*** yourselves with a locally grown organic cucumber.”
Hillary says she was “on her way to victory” when FBI Director James Comey and “the Russians” intervened. Maher and others say Stein caused her defeat, as they blamed Ralph Nader for George W. Bush in 2000.
Hillary now pledges to “resist” Trump Fascism. Maher and other liberal pundits have been relentless in their attacks on him.
And the rest of us struggle with the keys to nonviolent resistance in the Dark Age now upon us.
Monday, May 8, 11:30am-12:30pm
1739 N High St, Columbus, OH
Senator Portman will be speaking inside the Armstrong Space Symposium and Chair Installation at the Ohio Union at OSU this Monday. Let's take this opportunity to gather outside the building and show Senator Portman that Ohioans support quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans, including those with pre-existing conditions.
Speaker Jacob Carruthers, will share his story with the protesters to illustrate why Senator Portman has a duty to protect Ohioans with pre-existing conditions.
Meet us with your healthcare-related signs at 11:30 on the College Rd. side of the building. The event will last about an hour. Parking can be located at meters or at the following locations:
Parking Garage Attached to the Student Union
1560 N High St. Columbus, OH 43201
75 E 11th Ave. Columbus, OH 43201
Even if you can't attend, join our social media storm by using the following hashtags:
Also by Lila Garrett, Bob Fitrakis, Suzanne Patzer, David Swanson, Ilene Proctor, Jan Goodman, Jerry Manpearl, Myla Reson, Alan Minsky, Linda Seeley, and many more
The unthinkable is upon us.
A president of the United States poses a clear and present danger to our global survival. He is mentally unstable, dangerously incompetent, throughly dishonest and can’t be trusted with the safety of our children or our planet.
It’s become our duty to remove him soon, beyond the electoral system, and strictly without violence.
At primary issue are Trump’s imminent threat of nuclear war; his assault on the global ecosystems and green infrastructure on which our ecological and economic future depends; the outrageous culture of theft permeating his regime; its on-going attacks on women, and more.
Trump embodies a classic corporatist reaction against a powerful social democratic uprising. The volcanic energy generated by the Sanders, Green, Libertarian. Occupy and other campaigns for social justice and ecological sanity are at the core of American life.
Sunday, May 7, 1pm
Northwood-High building, 2231 N. High St., Park in "R" spots if you park behind the building
In collaboration with SURJ we will watch the award winning film "Peace Officer" and follow up with a group discussion on the abuse of SWAT teams and how should majority white communities deal with their own experience of police violence? How can these communities find the proper way to build solidarity with other over policed and marginalized groups?
Peace Officer is a feature documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer-involved shootings in his community while tackling larger questions about the changing face of peace officers nationwide.
TAKOMA PARK, MD, May 2, 2017 --A raging wildfire in the Fukushima radiation zone not far from the March 2011 Japan nuclear power plant disaster, demonstrates that a nuclear accident has long-term and on-going effects that can worsen over time, says Beyond Nuclear, a leading national anti-nuclear advocacy group.
The fire, which began on April 21 in the mountains outside Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is in an area where human entry is barred “on principle” because of high radiation levels resulting from the Fukushima nuclear triple meltdowns and explosions. The fire is being fought from the air with helicopters spraying water.
“Just as high radiation levels barred rescuers from retrieving many earthquake and tsunami victims five years ago, today firefighters are being hampered from battling the blaze in the still contaminated area,” said Paul Gunter, Director of Reactor Oversight at Beyond Nuclear. “This makes extinguishing these radioactive fires more difficult which can have far reaching effects,” he said.
Saturday, May 6, 3pm, Franklin Park, 1755 E. Broad St.
https://actionnetwork.org/events/march-for-racial-justice
Our communities are in crisis and we don’t all share the burden equally. While wages are down for everyone, Black and Latino workers still make less than white workers. Because our neighborhoods are increasingly segregated by race and class, and because of racial disparities in policing and sentencing, Black Americans are imprisoned at nearly six times the rate of white Americans. Across the country — and right here in Ohio — Black men, women, and children are killed by police with few if any repercussions.
Ohio needs good jobs, criminal justice reform, and investment in schools and public services. On Saturday, May 6, we will march for racial justice and to demand accountability from our justice system and our elected officials.
Sponsored by a coalition of individuals and organizations across Ohio committed to rejecting racism in our state and fighting for safe, healthy, and equitable communities.
I hit up Columbus Native Franz Lyons and asked him about his band Turnstile performing at the sold-out Metallica headlined Rock On the Range festival. Franz replied in regards to the size of the crowd. “I think it will make more sense when I get there…”
Franz was in Los Angeles with Turnstile for the “While We Were Young Festival.” The Baltimore, Maryland based hardcore band just played on a line-up that included Morrissey, the Descendants, A.F.I. and other bands that were too big to play the Legion, Bernie’s or the Hi-Five during Franz’s formative years.
Turnstile has also rocked stages with Sick Of It All, Madball, Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Ignite and New Found Glory off the strength of previous releases Move Through Me, Non-Stop Feeling, Pressure to Succeed and Step To the Rhythm.
Turnstile begins recording an album for Road Runner Records, June 26th. They are recording with William Yip who has worked with Title Fight, Lauryn Hill, Braid and Schoolly D.