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Earth Day Community Service Volunteer Events and Earth Day at the Commons
Volunteer dates: April 8-15, various locations
Earth Day Celebration: April 22, 1-7pm, Columbus Commons, Town and High Streets, downtown Columbus, Free
The largest Earth Day volunteer service project in the nation! Service sites vary in size from 5 to 300 volunteers and range from neighborhood litter sweeps, community gardens, and river-cleanups to tree planting and invasive species removal.
We will cap off Earth Day Volunteer Week with a community celebration on Saturday, April 22, 2017. Join us rain or shine at Columbus Commons downtown for a day-long celebration featuring local music, family-friendly activities, eco-friendly artisans, and Columbus' best food trucks.
Main Stage schedule/line-up:
1:30pm-2:15pm - Joey Hendrickson and The Sleepless Nights
2:45pm-3:30pm – Mr. Eric Music (4 Kids rocks!)
4:00pm-4:45pm - Clemens & CO
5:30pm-6:45pm – Hebdo
The After Party will be indoors at Brothers Drake, 26 E. Fifth Ave., from 9:00pm-9:45pm with Orion and The Constellations, and 10:00pm-1130pm featuring Doc Robinson.
Wednesday, April 12, 7-8:30PM
St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff
Following his executive orders like the Muslim Ban, which rallied protesters at airports across the nation in opposition, plans for a U.S.- Mexico wall, and the recent bombings in Syria, Trump is vehemently attacking immigrants and refugees in the name of economic nationalism and imperialism. These are tactics the Left vehemently opposes and challenges. Now more than ever is the time to organize.
Join the International Socialist Organization for a panel with Socialist Students OSU and Young Democratic Socialists at Ohio State to discuss Left perspectives on immigration, along with how the Left is organizing around immigration on and off-campus. Presentations will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
When a group of Ohio State University students interrupted an OSU Board of Trustees meeting on April 7, the timing was perfect for causing maximum embarrassment to the university’s administration.
While 22 members of the of the Student/Farmworker Alliance and Real Food OSU waited in the back of the conference room at the Longaberger Alumni House, board members and students gave glowing reports of OSU’s philanthropic programs. The College of Dentistry gives free care to underserved communities with the Ohio Project. The Buckeye Civic Engagement Connection provides tutoring for student athletes at East High School.
Then university president Michael Drake gave his annual report to the board, waxing eloquent about OSU’s service to the community and connecting it to swelling enrollment in recent years. But before he finished, PhD student Henry Anton Peller interrupted him.
Tuesday April 11, 12noon
Senator Rob Portman's office, 37 W. Broad St., Suite 300
We've been asking for a public in person town hall for many weeks, but Senator Portman has refused. It's time to call him out!
Hosted by Indivisible Columbus District 3
Hard to imagine a more insensitive gesture than Mayor Andy Ginther’s choice of the Police Academy for his second State of the City address. Shockingly, Ginther chose the occasion to announce that the notorious, overly white police unit known as the “jump-out boys” would be unleashed year-round to torment black, minority and poor youth. Everybody knows that if Henry Green was a young white man in Upper Arlington, legally open-carrying, and was shot by two plainclothes black officers, those officers would be in jail right now.
Also, the State Highway Patrol confirmed that Trump supporters hired private security who guarded the perimeters at their latest Ohio Statehouse rally dressed in military fatigues and carrying AR-15 assault rifles. The police allowed them open-carry on state property. Andy, where were the jump-out boys then?
Sunday, April 9, 5pm
Portia's Cafe, 4428 Indianola Ave.
Facebook event
Join us at Portia's Cafe for lively, HEARTFELT discussion of what the true cause is of our #1 killer... heart disease. Does heart disease "run in the family?"
It's likely the FOOD that runs through the generations, as opposed to "bad genes."
Join us to learn exactly which foods are most protective for heart health, and which to eliminate from your diet. We will demonstrate (and you will devour) 3 delicious recipes that are simple, delicious, and easy to duplicate at home. Come a bit hungry as we'll be eating throughout class. You'll enjoy some video clips of some of the world's leading experts on reversing heart disease, and then I'll teach you how to implement their advice at home in your own kitchen.
1. Chemical weapons are worse than other weapons.
This is not the case. Death and dismemberment are horrific regardless of the weapon. No weapon is being used legally, morally, humanely, or practically in Syria or Iraq. U.S. bombs are no less indiscriminate, no less immoral, and no less illegal than chemical weapons -- or for that matter than the depleted uranium weapons with which the United States has been poisoning the area. The fact that a weapon has not been banned does not create a legal right to go into a country and kill people with it.
2. Chemical weapons use justifies the escalated use of other weapons.
Does shoplifting justify looting? If a Hatfield poisoned a McCoy, would another McCoy be justified in shooting a bunch of Hatfields? What barbarism is this? A crime does not sanction another crime. That's a quick trip to hell.
3. Important people we should trust know who used chemical weapons.
No, they do not. At least they do not know that the Syrian government did it. If they knew this, they would offer evidence. As on every past occasion, they have not done so.
4. The enemy is pure evil and will answer only to force.
"When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, little babies . . . that crosses . . . many lines." -- Donald J. Trump, April 5, 2017
Hypocrisy, because:
Children Killed on January 29 in Donald Trump's Botched Yemen Raid
Asma Fahad Ali al Ameri -- 3 months
Aisha Mohammed Abdallah al Ameri – 4 years
Halima Hussein al Aifa al Ameri – 5 years
Hussein Mohammed Abdallah Mabkhout al Ameri – 5 years
Mursil Abedraboh Masad al Ameri – 6 years
Khadija Abdallah Mabkhout al Ameri – 7 years
Nawar Anwar al Awlaqi – 8 years
Ahmed Abdelilah Ahmed al Dahab – 11 years
Nasser Abdallah Ahmed al Dahab – 12 years
And one of these victims, eight-year-old Nawar "Nora" Awlaqi, was an American citizen.
Gar Smith / Environmentalists Against War www.envirosagainstwar.org
Saturday, April 8, 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St., east side door
Join progressive friends for food, drink, and great music. Jordan Flaherty will be guest speaker at this Free Press Second Saturday Salon. He comes from a New Orleans-based journalist and actionist background and broke into his journalism profession by covering the 2000 OSU-CWA strike; he continues to cover “front line” news. In his new book, No More Heroes, Flaherty calls on social movements to organize within the reality that there are no heroes except for the ones who do the organizing.
Free, no RSVP needed.
614-253-2571
colsfreepress@gmail.com
