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The Franklin County Green Party unequivocally condemns the attack on anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters yesterday in Charlottesville, Virginia and are saddened by the death and injuries. The Green Party is an anti-racist organization continually working to create a just and fair society for all.
The Green Party fully supports the fundamental right of counter-protesters to free speech, freedom of assembly and redress of grievances.
The Party holds, as the Black Caucus states, that “In recognition of the central role of racism in the creation of our country's governmental, social, and economic systems and the use of race as a means of dividing and destroying progressive movements for fundamental change, we are actively antiracist. We oppose institutional, interpersonal, and cultural racism.”
We vigorously condemn the President of the United States for using the phrase “on many sides” after a right-wing terrorist attack upon democratic progressive forces lawfully demonstrating. The President’s words embolden and empower the far right. Let our actions as a counter force to liberate the people.
Sunday, August 13, 8-9:30pm
Ohio Statehouse, Broad and High Streets
Columbus DSA, ISO Columbus, Yes We Can, Columbus Citizens for Police Review and others will be hosting a vigil to remember the people killed and injured in Charlottesville. Join us to show that we will not back down in the face of organized hate.
The latest generation has access to an unlimited supply of information at just the touch of a finger. However, recent studies show that young people have trouble evaluating the information they get. This lack of news literacy among the youth contributes to a bigger struggle that ourcountry has and poses a threat to an already unstable democracy.
In the growing age of technology, teenagers spend hours upon hours with their faces buried in their phones. Yet, while they are flipping through social media outlets or surfing the web, they are also actively consuming the news. According to a survey by Common Sense Media, 49 percent of kids get their news from online media. However, a 2016 study carried out by Stanford University shows that despite having so much information, the youth’s ability to reason about this information is “bleak.”
Saturday, August 12, 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St., outside, weather permitting
Facebook Event
Second Saturday Salon features the best of the Left with liberal thinkers, speakers, and performers. Mas Bagua provides the moving muscial background for this Salon. Come join the cult!
Dr. Bob Fitrakis reviews the film; Detroit (2017); Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolling the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
Bob shares his personal experiences growing up in the middle of that conflict, and what he saw during the riots depicted in the film.
Right now, the administration is considering whether to put nearly 800,000 young people at immediate risk of deportation. Despite President Trump’s prior statements that he supports the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, their future hangs in the balance. Ten states threatened to sue the president if he does not rescind the program by September 5, so we need Congress to act now.
Dreamers need you to stand with them right now -- your senator, Rob Portman, is a key voice in this conversation. Tell Sen. Portman to co-sponsor the Dream Act and call on President Trump to protect DACA.
Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 6:00 PM business meeting, 7:00 PM Public Meeting. At 7:00 our guest speaker, Steve Farber will talk about the International Movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the Anti-BDS movement in the U.S. Steve is a Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio. Location: Northwood Building, 2231 N. High St., Room 100. Parking available behind the building in “R” spaces.
A concert to commemorate the 72nd year after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A concert dedicated to the ending of global nuclear weapons and for the liberation of all oppressed by militarism, racism, and classism
August 6, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (Sunday)
Columbus State Community College, Center for Technology and Learning, 290 Cleveland Ave., Columbus (corner of Cleveland and Mount Vernon Avenues).
Free parking for the first 40 participants in the employee lot on the north side of the building (parking vouchers available at the venue)
Central Ohio residents will gather to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings. The concert will feature Rocco Di Pietro’s original pieces along with Korean, Japanese, and American works that focus on the broken world in a quest for wholeness.
Contact for details: Mark D. Stansbery, 614-517-7237, walk@igc.org
Sponsors include:
Community Organizing Center, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control, Central Ohioans for Peace, Puffin West Foundation.
Not since President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty have we seen so much attention paid to poor white people. The iconic Life magazine photo of Johnson sitting on the front porch of a poor white Appalachian family was in part to ensure them that they, too, would be included in his War on Poverty.
The sub-title of Isenberg’s book is The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Yet it is hardly untold, especially here of late. In the last several years we’ve seen a number of books about working class and poor whites: Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance, Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel, Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil and Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South by Keri Leigh Merritt immediately come to mind. (Why is there a book about slavery on this list? Because regardless of what the majority of whites think, everything in this country is connected to slavery.)
Friday, August 4-Sunday, August 6, starts 7pm Friday night
Black representation is important to the Columbus artistic scene and filmmaking community, however, there is a large gap in representation of Black artists in the theater and film being showcased in the city. Columbus is rapidly becoming an important place for film on the national level and there are many Black filmmakers in the city who are underrepresented. Having a film festival that caters to the stories being told by African-American and African Diaspora communities provides an opportunity to change the lack of artistic diversity in Central Ohio.
The primary objective of the festival is to showcase Black filmmakers locally, nationally and internationally, while creating an opportunity to network with various people in the filmmaking
community. CBIFF will highlight a spectrum of stories told by people of the African Diaspora. Filmmakers will have access to workshops and panels discussions during the film festival.
***FULL SCHEDULE***
FRI. AUG 4 – CBIFF OPENING NIGHT! AT WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
KEYNOTE: MARK A. CUMMINGS SR.