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Friday, February 10, 2017, 7:00 – 9:00 PM.
Location: Norwich Township Safety Services Building, 5181 Northwest Pkwy, Hilliard, OH 43026-3108.
Currently, we are very concerned about the recent executive order by President Trump banning Muslims from certain countries and the message that his administration is sending to minority and historically disenfranchised communities. It affects our youth and families directly in Central Ohio.
Therefore, this Friday, we have called an emergency community meeting of all members of the Central Ohio community, activists and organizations from across Central Ohio to discuss this. We are expecting many elected officials in attendance as well. We would like to invite you to a very important community meeting that is being organized under MY Project USA. As you know, we are dedicated to the well being and empowerment of immigrants and refugee youth and families. We organize the community around issues that matter the most as well as provide services and empowerment programs for young people.
A few blocks north of Old Worthington’s quaint downtown area, Executive Center, an unobtrusive brick office complex, is nestled between a bank and another office building, and surrounded by a generous parking lot. On most days passersby are unlikely to notice the building managed by international real estate giant CBRE, but on January 14th a group of protesters lining North High Street in front of Executive Center with signs bearing anti-racist slogans directed at Greg Anglin, one of its tenants, were hard to miss.
The “Demonstration Against Hate From Worthington To Whitefish,” was organized by Columbus’ chapter of Anti-Racist Action (ARA), to raise awareness about Morningstar Ministries’ ties to Daily Stormer, a neo-nazi news site popular with Alt Right millennials, run by Greg Anglin’s globe-trotting son, Andrew, who grew up in Worthington. On the site’s donation page Andrew Anglin listed his father’s Christian counseling office’s address in Worthington for cash donations, explaining that he and his site have been banned from Paypal and other electronic payment services.
Thursday, February 9 and Friday, February 17 at 1 p.m.
Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad Street
Join the movement for an expanded Columbus City Council with representatives from wards instead of all ar-large. The Charter Review Committee is holding two additional working meetings to deliberate on information presented during its initial six sessions. Members will continue to form recommendations for the full report to be delivered to City Council and Mayor Andrew J. Ginther. Public comments can be made at the meetings. Written comments can be submitted on the committee's website at https://www.columbus.gov/council/Charter-Review/Charter-Review-Committee/
Everyday for the next two weeks you can help us flood fb with Jaron Thomas aka Prince Rasu. You can share this event or just the picture of the event and pick ya times by est time zone. We will be going at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm for full high traffic impact. Please join us and push the Columbus Police Department to tell us #whathappened2jaron And on FEB 18, 2017 at 2 pm we will be knocking on thier door to ask in person
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www.614UNITY.org
Join us on Tuesday to discuss how can we build on the momentum from Monday's protest in Columbus and build a movement to fight back against Trump and the billionaires agenda of fierce right wing attacks on immigrants, refugees, women, unions, and people of color. This event will include a talk and discussion on what we can learn from social movements historically, what it will take to organize effectively against Trump, and info on how to get involved in Socialist Alternative Columbus.
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Tuesday, February 7th, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Communication Workers of American Union Hall
27 Euclid Ave. Columbus, OH
Transportation & Parking
Directly off COTA bus routes #2 & 4
Near COTA bus routes #5, 7, 8, 12, 18, 96
Some parking available on side of building. Additional parking available on street.
Monday, February 6, 6-8pm
Columbus Public Health, 240 Parsons Ave.; continuing each week until March 13 [except that there will be no session on February 20]
• Learn mental, verbal and physical self-defense techniques.
• Have fun, meet new people.
• Learn to take care of yourself and your community.
Wear comfortable clothes and shoes; bring a water bottle.
Please pre-register by calling BRAVO at 614-294-7867.
Co-sponsored by Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization [BRAVO] and the Columbus Public Health LGBTQ Health Initiative.
Ask many a problem gambler in Columbus, especially those who play video slot machines, and they’ll probably tell you this: “I hit big when Hollywood and Scioto Downs first opened, but I haven’t won big since.”
When the two casinos opened in 2012 it was a curiosity for many. Vegas-style gaming was now just a very, very short drive away. No longer did you have to cross state borders or fly to Nevada or New Jersey.
Six years later, here comes the (obvious) fallout from having a casino in your backyard: gambling addiction.
According to a study by WalletHub, a personal finance website, the state is tied for fourth with New Jersey for adults having a gambling problem. The factors weighed were the percentage of adults with gambling disorders, the number of gambling-addiction treatment programs, and the number of gambling-related arrests per 100,000 population.
Not surprising, Ohio is spending more and more to prevent and treat gambling addiction. For fiscal year 2015, the state spent $5.8 million to fight gambling problems, which is up from $4.5 million the previous year. This money comes from 2 percent share of taxes paid by the state’s four casinos.
Saturday, February 4, 9 AM - 4 PM
Hosted by Columbus Community Bill of Rights
The Fracking industry disposes radioactive toxic frack waste water at high pressures into abandoned vertical oil wells and new high volume, high pressure wells. Injection wells can be compromised, and will leak eventually. Injection wells in Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Ohio are causing a growing number of earthquakes.
Currently there are 13 active Injection Wells in the Columbus Metro Watershed.
Our next Morrow County injection well tour will be on Saturday, February 4th. We plan to meet in Clintonville, then drive together up north for the tour. Plan to meet at 9am, and to return to Columbus mid-afternoon, around 4pm.
We will restrict vehicles to three cars, and we may rent a large van to accommodate everyone. Final details will be on this website shortly, and we will be sure to email everyone who requests to join us on February 4th.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AWARDS BONUS TO COMPANY FOR CLEANING UP ITS OWN MESS.
In December, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $3.82 million in "bonuses" to BWXT Conversion Services LLC, the company that operates the conversion facilities at the Nuclear Sites at Portsmouth, OH and Paducah, KY. According to the DOE, “Many activities relate to completing corrective actions and work to restart the conversion plants following the contractor’s suspension of operations due to safety and maintenance issues.” The DOE fails to note that BWXT is responsible for those very problems with safety and maintenance – and that the facilities have not been in operation for nearly 2 years. Operation of the facilities will be taken over by another company, Mid-America Conversion Services LLC, beginning this month, February 2017.
Gov. John Kasich, his allies and some media sycophants made great noise during Kasich's failed Presidential campaign that Ohio's governor was the "adult in the room" and the "prince of lightness."
Folks in Ohio wondered who they were talking about. Kasich's hard-ball right-wing politics of rewarding friends and punishing enemies in the Buckeye State was anything but genteel and grown-up.
Now the dust has settled and Kasich's once lofty favorability rating in Ohio has fallen to 50-50. Many state Republicans have turned against him and he breaks even only because some independents and Democrats have come his way because he opposed and refused to vote for Donald Trump.
President Trump has put Kasich in the doghouse by masterminding the defeat of GOP state chair Matt Borges, a Kasich protégé, and replacement with Trumpster Jane Timken.
Kasich's playground has been reduced from 50 states to one, Ohio, and his persuasive powers have been curtailed by term limits that will cause him to leave the governorship in early 2019.
Here is where my dream comes in.