Local
Wednesday, March 22, 4pm
Franklin County Municipal Court, 375 S. High St.
FACEBOOK EVENT
Henry Green was killed by plain clothes Columbus Police on June 6th 2016. More than 9 months later, Franklin County prosecutors are presenting the case to grand jury.
We expect to hear an announcement this Friday, so we will be gathering at 4pm for the next three days as a community to pray for justice and demand that Prosecutor Ron Obrien bring an indictment on these officers and give Henry a chance for justice at trial.
Lift your voice and say with us Take it to Trial!
Sponsored by the People's Justice Project.
Monday, March 20, 8pm
Kafe Kerouac, 2250 North High St.
FACEBOOK EVENT
Day 20 of the Holler series brings forth an actor of commanding presence to present a writer of commanding presence!
All OH12 Rally to Save Healthcare and Our Democracy!
Sunday, March 19 - 5-6:30pm
North Broadway United Methodist Church, 48 E North Broadway St, Columbus, Ohio 43214
https://www.facebook.com/events/1899504826998014/
GET FIRED UP! We're rallying the 12th district to defend the ACA and fight gerrymandering. We've heard stories from people affected by the ACA and will now learn about the GOP bill to destroy healthcare. A speaker from the Fair Districts = Fair Elections Coalition will tell us about upcoming efforts to fight gerrymandering in Ohio. Cosponsored/cohosted by Indivisible: Ohio District 12 and ProgressOhio.
In 1968 Simon and Garfunkel sang: “Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it’s true.” And after witnessing Deaf West Theatre’s production of Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo I’ve become a true believer. Serious theatergoers shouldn’t monkey around - head down ASAP to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts to catch this run, which is short on number of days but long on profundity, leavened by Albee’s wicked wit about the human (or lack of) condition.
This is a very unique live stage experience delivered in a singular way on the boards of the Wallis’ 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater. In both acts two hearing impaired thesps perform onstage, using facial expressions, body language and American Sign Language. Offstage, or on the side of the set, a pair of actors literally give voice to what the onstage pair of protagonists are communicating via ASL.
Because I’m attracted to tales of romance or redemption, it’s not surprising that I love Beauty and the Beast. It is, after all, a fairy tale that combines both romance and redemption.
But that doesn’t mean I love every version of Beauty and the Beast equally.
Who wouldn’t be won over by Disney’s 1991 animated flick, which retold the charming French tale with the help of beautiful songs by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken? On the other hand, the first time I saw Disney’s stage adaptation of the musical, I was disappointed to find it diluted the original’s power by adding tot-pleasing slapstick. It wasn’t until I saw a toned-down reboot in 2012 that the stage show claimed a place in my heart.
Now comes Disney’s live-action film version, and I find myself of two minds. The meat of the story—the growing affection between the beautiful Belle (Emma Watson) and the monstrous Beast (Dan Stevens)—is as touching as ever. But director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) and his writers weigh it down with embellishments designed to answer questions that really didn’t need to be answered.
Saturday, March 18th from 2 - 6 PM, at the Barack Community Recreation Center, 580 E. Woodrow Ave. Columbus 43207
You are invited to a free community event!
WGRN wants to say Thank You Columbus, for your support during WGRN’s first year on the air!!
Get to know Community Radio, WGRN 94.1 with some blarney and fun! The Day Afterparty, the St. Pat’s Community Dinner.
2PM Meet & Greet
3PM Dinner
Corned Beef & Cabbage * Mac&Cheese * Refreshments
4-6PM Music! Speakers! Raffle!
Complementary dinner with ticket
Children 12 and under—no ticket needed
Download free ticket at eventbrite.com or get them at the Barack Center
Contact info@wgrn.org or call the Barack Center at 614-645-3610.
Jodi Ann, one of the organizers of the rally for justice in the case of Shelton Adams, spoke to Channel 4 during a demonstration March 16 across the street from Grant Hospital, where Mr. Adams was pepper sprayed and wrestled to the ground by Ohio Health security guards on Monday. Jodi Ann told the TV news crew that she thought the actions by the security guard were unfounded and that video showed Adams was not doing anything wrong. Adams had been outside the Hospital smoking a cigarette when the guards approached him and without obvious rationale, started pushing him and spraying his face with pepper spray from a distance of five feet or more, the video showed. Adams ended up on the ground in very cold weather, pepper spray in his eyes, without getting any medical assistance -- again, right outside Grant Hospital.
Dana White, a participant at the rally, recounted his own encounter with the same three security guards while waiting for a neighbor to receive treatment in the emergency room at Grant Hospital four months ago. The guards physically threw him out of the building for no apparent cause, causing injury to his back.
Thursday, March 16, 6:30pm
Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.
Columbus Activists are organizing a Justice Rally for Shelton Adams, a black man who was maced, hit with a baton and tackled by 3 Grant Police Officers and in return charged with disorderly conduct after posing no threat. Police violence in Columbus needs to come to an end TODAY! Police in our OWN CITY has continuously abused their powers by cold heartedly killing unarmed black men, antagonizing confrontations, physically abusing People of color as well as macing groups of peaceful protesters beyond reason. When will enough, finally be ENOUGH?
Columbus citizens and activist will all come together again on Thursday, 6:30 PM across from Grant Medical Center to demand All Charges be DROPPED against Shelton Adams and to have the 3 Police Officers Identified and released from the company, while protesting against police violence in our own city.
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/253321338460614/?ti=icl
Wednesday, March 16 all day
Nation-wide
On March 15th, 2017 each of us will mail the White House a postcard that publicly expresses our vocal opposition to the new president. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm Washington with the President’s unpopularity and our opinions of his agenda. We will show the man, the media, and the politicians how vast our numbers are and we will bury the White House post office in pink slips, all informing the President that he’s fired!
Each of us — every protester from every march, each Congress calling citizen, every boycotter, volunteer, donor, and petition signer — will write a single postcard and put them all in the mail on the same day, March 15th, 2017.
No alternative fact or Russian translation will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of fury. Hank Aaron currently holds the record for fan mail, having received 900,000 pieces in a year. We’re setting a new record: over a million pieces in a day.