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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.

Will Jim Crow Strip & Flip the Alabama Senate Race?

White man with brown hair, white shirt and red tie talking into a microphone

While the whole world watches Tuesday’s Alabama US Senate election, race-based battles behind the scenes could decide the outcome.

They focus on likely stripping of voter rolls to prevent African-Americans from casting their rightful ballots, and flipping the electronic outcome should that prove insufficient.

The national Democratic Party has poured significant resources into this race.We hope it will provide careful scrutiny on whether legitimate citizens are allowed to vote, and on how the votes are actually counted.

In particular, we urge that there be no definitive concession shy of a full recount, and of public hearings on who was allowed the right to vote and who was denied it, including access to regular rather than provisional ballots.

Three key voter access issues include:

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