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Friday, November 10, 7-10pm
Ohio Art League, 400 W. Rich St.
Keep Wayne Wild’s Traveling Art Exhibit, Off The Trail, A Conceptual Walk In Wayne National Forest, Comes to Columbus!
Join us for our opening reception on Friday 11/10!
Keep Wayne Wild (KWW), is a group of dedicated volunteers working to protect Wayne National Forest (WNF) from predatory gas extraction activities. KWW works to highlight the beauty and intrinsic value of Wayne National Forest. It is well known that people will protect what they love, and to that end, we have created: “Off the Trail- A Conceptual Walk in Wayne National Forest.” It is our goal to showcase all that is wild and visually powerful about Ohio’s only national forest.

Wed., Nov. 8, 7pm
Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St.
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, Marti Chaatsmith, Interim Director of Ohio State University’s Newark Earthworks Center, will speak about her work developing relationships with Ohio's Historic American Indian Tribes. In collaboration with the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Marti initiated a tribal outreach program to re-introduce tribal governments to sacred places in Ohio and to enlist the support of American Indian scholars. In the Quiet Reading Room.

A big chunk of American democracy is riding on Tuesday’s Virginia election.

The outcome could turn on how well Democrats protect the right to vote….and the right to have the votes accurately counted. 

If Democrat and anti-Trump activists do not work to guarantee everyone’s access to the polls, they could very well lose the election.  The GOP has perfected the use of Jim Crow tactics to prevent from voting countless black, Hispanic and other ethnic citizens by electronic and other means.  The Democrats have been weak at best at protecting those votes. 

They can also expect a “last minute surge” for Republican candidates, followed by “glitches” in electronic voting machines, especially in rural areas where election boards are controlled by Republicans.  If experience in states like Ohio, New Mexico, Wisconsin and elsewhere are any indicator, ballots will be “found” for the Republicans and “lost” for the Democrats in key swing districts.  These could easily determine the outcome. 

Monday, Nov. 6, 7-8:30pm
Upper Arlington Public Library, 2800 Tremont Rd.
New to the campaign? Missed our first Columbus kickoff? Join us at the Upper Arlington Library to learn about the campaign, meet other supporters, and learn how you can help put the measure on the ballot.

Please RSVP at www.stoppuppymillsohio.com/joinusincolumbus
 

Sunday, Nov 5, 12noon
Goodale Park
The official event page of the 2017 MMM Columbus, Ohio! Please send out invites and share the event page!
(These videos are from last year but are still relevant*) 
*except the march start time
Million Mask March Promo Video
https://www.facebook.com/columbusanons/videos/457864747747364/
Message To The Citizens Of Columbus Video
https://www.facebook.com/columbusanons/videos/525165544350617/
Million Mask March Code Of Conduct Video
https://www.facebook.com/columbusanons/videos/530791263788045/
United as one. Divided by zero.
We are Anonymous,
We are Legion,
We do not Forgive,
We do not Forget,
Expect Us!

Dr. Umar Johnson returned to Columbus this past October. Dr. Johnson is a doctor of clinical psychology and certified school psychologist. In his book, Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The special education and ADHD wars against Black Boys, he brings to the surface what is really going on within the city school systems in America when it comes to the continued discrimination and separation of Black children.  

I feel that it is important that Dr. Johnson continue to tour America and bring his esteem, knowledge and experience to Americans, especially, Black Americans, so that they may be properly “schooled” on just how damaging it is for our children, all our children, to have someone as clearly unsympathetic as Elizabeth Prince DeVos, as the country’s Secretary of Education.  
 

The Japanese hedge fund-owned Columbus Dispatch is trying very hard to get back in touch with its old family-owned crazy. The experiment with being even-handed and rational in its news and editorial page policies is apparently at an end.

Case No. 1. The Dispatch unleashed a vicious attack on Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel for spending $2 million of tax money to run public service advertisements touting a savings plans for the physically challenged on Ohio television stations. It featured Mandel, OSU head football coach Urban Meyer – who should have known better – and a sweet young girl. "Lying, hiding or just plain reckless" was the headline of the editorial that took down Mandel.
 

I only wish that the newspaper cared as much about the alleged $2 million that Gov. John Kasich cost the state's taxpayers to pay for travel, food and protection by State Troopers while he traipsed across the country in 2015 and 2016 running for president. The Dispatch never challenged the state law that permitted the secrecy and hardly lifted a reportorial finger to unearth and publicize the records.
 

Sat, Nov 4, 2-4pm
Singleton Piano and Wellness Studio, 3327 N. High St.
Join us as we kick off the season of Indigenous People's Day/Columbus Day and Thanksgiving with a book group on Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States. We'll meet again at Singleton Piano Studio, 3327 N. High St., on Saturday November 4th from 2-4pm. 

Don't have a lot of time? Read a short interview with the author here: 
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/indigenous-peoples-history-a-chat-with-author-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/

Columbus is a city where an authoritarian Democratic Party machine holds firm control over all city politics, backed by the checkbooks of their suburban millionaire and billionaire allies, like Les Wexner and Ron Pizzuti. The Republican Party is pretty much a nonentity. Green Party candidates have tried to take on the machine as a third party without luck so far.

Friday, Nov 3, 6-8pm
Ohio Union, OSU, 1739 N. High
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What is causing the rise in crime with our youth? Join us for a dialogue on the recent surge of violence that has been taking place within the Columbus Somali community.