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Saturday, July 15, 7-10pm
Wolfe Park Shelterhouse, 105 Park Dr. 43209
Vegan Outreach is proud to present Vegan Mac Down Columbus. On the night of Saturday, July 15th, a legend will be born. Our panel of judges (including the internationally famous Chef Del Sroufe from FORKS OVER KNIVES) will determine who wanted to be the very best that ever was at making vegan mac and cheese.
Saturday, July 15, 10am-6pm
Kossuth Street Garden, 641 E. Kossuth St.
Come help KSG prepare for the garden tour on Sunday! We'll start early while it's cool, may take a break noon to 2 while the sun's high, and resume again in the afternoon 2- 6. While you're helping remove bindweed & grass or deadheading marigolds, enjoy all the beauty of the garden and observe the polliinators in action! Sweet cherry tomatoes, basil and more ripening daily... Shade canopy & refreshments will be provided. Stay as long as you like, don't forget the sunscreen & hat, and bring a bag for goodies from the garden!
Heightened Urgency Seen in Wake of Paris Climate Retreat & EPA Rule Rollbacks; “Family Friendly” Protest to Feature News Event and Speeches from Bipartisan Line-up of U.S. Senators and Representatives
WASHINGTON, D.C.//NEWS ADVISORY///Hundreds of moms and their children from all corners of the United States will gather on Capitol Hill Thursday (July 13, 2017) to hold a unique “Play-In” rally and press conference. Parents and their kids will focus on the need to address climate change and air pollution, and also will demand climate solutions such as renewable energy and limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Following the protest event, Moms and their children from nearly 40 states will meet with their corresponding members of congress.
July 12, 11:30am-1pm
77 S. High St.
Tuesday, July 11, 6:30-8pm
Ohio Statehouse
This past Thursday, July 6th, hundreds of people across the US participated in sit-ins at senators' offices to stand up against Trumpcare. Columbus activists joined in the national action by sitting in at Portman's local office with these demands:
1) That Senator Portman host a public town hall to discuss the healthcare bill with his constituents.
2) That he make a clear commitment to vote against the Better Care Reconciliation Act recently introduced in the United States Senate - legislation which would strip millions of people of lifesaving healthcare.
Join Socialist Alternative Columbus and Junto Remains Unsilenced to call on Senator Portman to discuss the Senate healthcare bill with constituents on Tuesday, July 11th at 6:30pm at the Ohio Statehouse.
Friday, July 7, 5:30-10pm (three plays); Saturday, July 8, 10am-11pm (five plays); Sunday, July 9, 2-10pm (three plays)
Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.
This three-day event is for adults, teens and youth who love the theatre and includes acting workshops, live stage plays, and readings from original playwrights from Ohio and beyond.
Special to the FreePress
Editor's Note: Thanks to a secret satirical recording device implanted into Donald Trump's hair, an actual fake transcript has emerged from the fake president's recent meeting with his actual owner, Vladimir Putin. Reader discretion is advised:
TRUMP: Well, Putie, I think we can talk frankly now. There will be no recording of this part of our conversation.
PUTIN (chuckling): Right, Donald. I would never record anything between us without letting you know first. At the KGB we made it a strict policy to honor the privacy of all citizens, Russian, American, Chechnyan and, of course, Siberian, where so many of our great patriots are still so happy to do volunteer labor.
TRUMP: Well first I must thank you for putting me in the White House. I could never have stolen the 2016 election without you.
Concerned citizens met at the Ohio Statehouse at noon on Wednesday, July 5 for a Save Medicaid Save Lives Rally to protest the fact that Ohio’s legislature passed a budget bill that freezes enrollments in expanded Medicaid after July 1, 2018. The bill has been passed to Governor Kasich, and he is expected to veto the language that freezes enrollments. If that happens, the legislature may have the votes to override his veto and pass the enrollment freeze into law. Under this bill, 500,000 Ohioans will lose access to health care. Next week will be our last chance to protect the Medicaid expansion in Ohio, according to ProgressOhio.
What appears to be a phony 911 emergency medical call was used as a pretense for Columbus Police to forcibly evict and arrest wheelchair-bound Medicaid recipients in a building that houses Senator Rob Portman’s office.
July 6 was a national day of action to sit in at Senate home offices across the country to protest cuts to Medicaid as the U.S. Senate seeks to roll back the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Five activists peacefully occupied Portman’s Senate office at 37 West Broad, where they remained overnight. The next day activists from ADAPT, a disability rights organization, joined members of local groups Junto Unsilenced, Socialist Alternative, and Yes We Can.
Kelly Weber, who organized the sit-in along with John Shade and Bilal El-Yousseph and with support from UltraViolet and Planned Parenthood, said the original demands were for Senator Portman to vote no on the bill to repeal the ACA and to hold a town hall meeting in the district.