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Attached is the report from the September 2016 Pre-Election Citizens Grassroots Congress.
Unity March to protest police brutality.
Friday, October 28, 12noon, Goodale and High Street.
Marching south on high to the state house where there will speeches and then we'll continue the march south on High to the Franklin County Court House.
Donald Trump’s demand for “monitors” at polling places to prevent a “rigged election” is an old and ugly story.
It’s obviously aimed—-KKK style—-at stopping black and Hispanic citizens from voting. But in fact both major parties have used such terror tactics—- and updated electronic ones—-since the birth of the nation.
The cure—-we call it “the Ohio Plan”—- is scorned by both corporate parties: universal automatic voter registration, transparent registration rolls that can be easily monitored, a national holiday for voting, and universal hand-counted paper ballots that stay in one place and are tallied (and re-tallied) in full public view.
The “rigged election” story dates back to the Constitution. Its Electoral College gave a three-fifths “bonus” to slaveowners for blacks who could not actually vote. The race card carried through Jim Crow segregation and the KKK terror unleashed against post-Emancipation blacks who dared try to vote. It continues through the Drug War and the tens of millions of African-American and Hispanic citizens stripped of their freedom and franchise.
Joe DeMare, the Green Party candidate, has been excluded from the Columbus Senate debate. Joseph DeMare is the 2016 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio. Join the Green Party in front of the Channel 10 Studios to demand Freedom of Speech in the U.S.!
Monday, October 17, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
WBNS 10TV 770 Twin Rivers Dr. Columbus, OH 43215
As a candidate for Franklin County commissioner, State Representative Kevin Boyce (D-Columbus) has questionable fitness for the position because of documents released this year concerning his 2009 to 2010 tenure as Ohio’s state treasurer. The documents include an independent investigation report on the treasurer’s office, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and other public records.
Boyce is running against Republican Terry Boyd to be on Franklin County’s board of commissioners. The three commissioners are responsible for a $1.35 billion annual budget providing health care, public safety, economic development, human services, and other essential functions for the nation’s 30th-largest county.
While state treasurer, Boyce was in charge of the nation’s sixth-largest treasury and responsible for investing and protecting $250 billion in state assets. The documents show major failings in his job performance, resulting in the largest bribery and kickback scandal in the state government’s history.
Project Censored has chosen Search Engine Algorithms and Electronic Voting Machines Could Swing 2016 Election as the 4th "Most Censored Story of 2016" with contributions by Free Press writers and editors Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman.
"Because courts have ruled that source code is proprietary, private companies that own electronic voting machines are essentially immune to transparent public oversight, as Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis documented," Project Censored wrote. "On Democracy Now! and elsewhere, Wasserman and Fitrakis have advocated universal, hand-counted paper ballots and automatic voter registration as part of their 'Ohio Plan' to restore electoral integrity."
Every year for 40 years, Project Censored, located at Sonoma State University in California, has chosen the 25 most censored stories of the year.
To read about Project Censored and their top censored stories of 2016, go to:
A jury trial for racial justice organizer Tynan Krakoff is set to begin on Wednesday, October 12 in the Franklin Country Municipal Court. Krakoff is facing charges related to his involvement in a July protest against police-involved shootings.
Krakoff, 28, was arrested during a march to the Columbus Division of Police building in downtown Columbus on July 21. The protest was organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice, in collaboration with the People’s Justice Project. Over 150 residents marched down the street without a permit, demanding justice for Henry Green.
Krakoff was the only protester arrested. He faces three misdemeanor charges: disorderly conduct, failure to obey a police officer, and pedestrian in the roadway. These charges could bring a maximum of one year in county jail or $2,000 in fines.
“We’ve seen black folks around the country put their bodies on the line to fight for black lives, and for an end to racial disparities and police violence. We are seeing more and more white people ready to take action and show up in meaningful ways as well,” said Z! Haukeness, Midwest Regional Organizer of Showing Up for Racial Justice.
On October 7 members and supporters of the Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) held a rally outside Bricker Hall at the Ohio State University, calling on the administration to terminate its contract with the Wendy’s Corporation. The fast food chain has lucrative contracts with universities across the country. Wendy’s operates a restaurant in the Wexner Medical Center at OSU.
Two years ago OSU administrators signed an agreement with the SFA, promising to end its contract with Wendy’s if the fast food chain did not make a verifiable commitment to fair labor practices in its Florida tomato supply chain. This would have meant joining the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program, which includes a commitment to source its produce only from farms that provide fair pay and safe working conditions to their workers. The program also includes a zero-tolerance policy for slave labor and sexual harassment.
Monday, October 10, 2016, 2:00 – 4:00 PM This gathering is to peacefully support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s stance against the Dakota Access Pipeline, call for environmental justice across Indian Country, encourage Ohio to transition to clean energy, and raise awareness around issues faced by today’s Native Americans in Ohio. Location: Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St., Columbus, 43215. Potluck Afterwards: Sierra Club Office, 131 N High Street, 3rd Floor, Columbus, OH 43215. Please bring a dish or dessert of your choosing to the potluck. https://www.facebook.com/events/1516925708333014/
Ohioans will unite this Saturday, October 08, 2016 at the Statehouse to rally and march for fair trade and against the TPP and other secret trade agreements. This event begins at 1:00 PM. During the rally, a series of speakers will share concerns about the proposed deal.
This rally and march is to bring attention to the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that would expand the same failed “free trade” policies that have already cost millions of jobs across the United States. This trade deal will have significant impacts to our jobs, wages, healthcare, and the environment. Last year President Obama sought, and won, approval from Congress to “fast track” trade deals. That means that he can submit the TPP to Congress and put it up for a vote without any amendments. Congress can approve it as-is, or reject it; those are their only choices.