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Thursday, January 26, 12noon, Chase Bank [Broad St. Downtown], 100 E. Broad St.
Divest your money from the Dakota Access Pipeline!
With Trump as president, the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline [DAPL] is not over. There will be a rally in front of Chase Bank, 100 E. Broad St., asking their patrons to divest their money from the institutions that stand to profit from the pipeline.
If you bank with Chase, divest now!
Since the decision by the U.S. Army to suspend the DAPL river crossing easement to conduct a limited Environmental Impact Statement, the resistance camps at Standing Rock are asking people not to travel to the camps but to “instead take bold action in your local communities to force investors to divest from the project.”
The financial backers of the Dakota Access Pipeline include: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, ING Bank, Citizens Bank, U.S. Bank, PNC Bank, Barclays, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.
I constantly remind the students in my African American history classes that if you are poor and white in America, especially if you are rural or southern, the only difference is that you are not black. We have long known that poor whites and blacks live very similar lives, and the socioeconomic indicators we use to measure well-being–level of education, family life, employment, home ownership, involvement in the criminal justice system–are also remarkably similar.
The resistance started January 20. Six citizen activists with Democracy Spring, AllofUs, and Americans Take Action disrupted Trump while he took the oath of office, standing on their chairs and revealing a single word spread across their clothing: R-E-S-I-S-T.
https://www.facebook.com/democracyspring/videos/618592765007396/
Columbus Rally and Walkout on Trump’s Inauguration
Friday, January 20, 11:30am-1:30pm, OSU Oval
Join us on the OSU Oval at 11:30am on Inauguration Day, Friday, January 20, to stand strong against Donald Trump’s racist, sexist, anti-immigrant agenda.
Students and non-students alike are welcome! Donald Trump and the Republican Party are preparing to unleash a storm of attacks on women, immigrants, the Muslim community, LGBTQ people, workers, and the environment. We must stand together in solidarity against Trump’s attempts to divide us! A huge national student strike will send a clear message to Trump, the billionaire class, and the Republican Party, that we reject their agenda of bigotry, hate, and division; that we reject their corporate policies to gut our social services and education. Hosted by Socialist Students Columbus.
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On January 4th, the Senate voted to begin debate on a budget resolution which is widely seen as the first step on the road to repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The 51-48 vote was unsurprisingly along party lines with the exception of Rand Paul, who voted in the minority with the Democrats. Congressional Republicans are yet to offer any proposals for replacing Obamacare, and any eventual replacement would most likely involve scaling back Medicaid and further privatizing America’s healthcare.
Wednesday, January 18, 7pm, Studio 35, 3055 Indianola Ave.
https://www.facebook.com/events/568288650040663/
We the People 2.0, the movie, is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the United States. The film utilizes both original footage as well as found footage to describe a profound change in thinking at the grassroots level.
The story unfolds through the eyes of rural people who have faced decades of toxic dumping, drilling and mining in their communities. We learn with them that the reason why, in spite of all their efforts, they “get what they don’t want, again and again,” is because they are, by law, truly powerless in spite of propaganda that says they live in the “best democracy in the world.” These people come to understand that the reason they can’t stop the destruction is that the U.S. has become an oligarchy, run by the corporate few who ignore the rights and will of the people.
This movement is building as you read this, not just in this country but around the world; this film shows how and where it all began.
Free; donations will be accepted.
It was as wonderful sight to see thousands of women, men and children completely wrapped around the Ohio Statehouse at Sunday January 15th's Ohio Sister March event, the Ohio version of the Women's March on Washington that will be held January 21.
First published in The Progressive
As you ride the Amtrak along the Pacific coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, you pass the San Onofre nuclear power plant, home to three mammoth atomic reactors shut by citizen activism.
Framed by gorgeous sandy beaches and some of the best surf in California, the dead nukes stand in silent tribute to the popular demand for renewable energy. They attest to one of history’s most powerful and persistent nonviolent movements.
But 250 miles up the coast, two reactors still operate at Diablo Canyon, surrounded by a dozen earthquake faults. They’re less than seventy miles from the San Andreas, about half the distance of Fukushima from the quake line that destroyed it. Should any quakes strike while Diablo operates, the reactors could be reduced to rubble and the radioactive fallout would pour into Los Angeles.
January 20, 2017 7:30 pm - Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park, Columbus, OH 43214
GIVE WHAT YOU FEEL, so everyone can attend. The recommended donation for this event is $20.
Gird yourself for the coming struggle to preserve basic human rights and equal justice. The Kate Schulte Foundation presents Warriors for Justice in an inauguration day benefit for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the ACLU. Many of Columbus’s finest performing artists will help support the SPLC's efforts fighting anticipated assaults on equal rights by the federal government. Featuring the Jazz Poetry Ensemble, Mark Lomax II, Donna Mogavero, Warriors for Justice a Capella (Debra James Tucker, Vicki Saunders, Tia Harris-Roseboro), Miller-Kelton Redux, Paisha Thomas, the Columbus Liberation Music Orchestra, and more. Rise Up And Resist – A Counter-Inaugural Event
Rise Up and Resist is the first of many Kidd Jordans Place events! We want these events to be accessible to people of all income levels. Door tickets will be be Give What You Feel with no minimum donation.