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Columbus Rally and Walkout on Trump’s Inauguration

Friday, January 20, 11:30am-1:30pm, OSU Oval
Join us on the OSU Oval at 11:30am on Inauguration Day, Friday, January 20, to stand strong against Donald Trump’s racist, sexist, anti-immigrant agenda.
Students and non-students alike are welcome! Donald Trump and the Republican Party are preparing to unleash a storm of attacks on women, immigrants, the Muslim community, LGBTQ people, workers, and the environment. We must stand together in solidarity against Trump’s attempts to divide us! A huge national student strike will send a clear message to Trump, the billionaire class, and the Republican Party, that we reject their agenda of bigotry, hate, and division; that we reject their corporate policies to gut our social services and education. Hosted by Socialist Students Columbus. 
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On January 4th, the Senate voted to begin debate on a budget resolution which is widely seen as the first step on the road to repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The 51-48 vote was unsurprisingly along party lines with the exception of Rand Paul, who voted in the minority with the Democrats. Congressional Republicans are yet to offer any proposals for replacing Obamacare, and any eventual replacement would most likely involve scaling back Medicaid and further privatizing America’s healthcare.

Wednesday, January 18, 7pm, Studio 35, 3055 Indianola Ave.

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We the People 2.0, the movie, is a visual essay about the loss of democracy in the United States. The film utilizes both original footage as well as found footage to describe a profound change in thinking at the grassroots level.

The story unfolds through the eyes of rural people who have faced decades of toxic dumping, drilling and mining in their communities. We learn with them that the reason why, in spite of all their efforts, they “get what they don’t want, again and again,” is because they are, by law, truly powerless in spite of propaganda that says they live in the “best democracy in the world.” These people come to understand that the reason they can’t stop the destruction is that the U.S. has become an oligarchy, run by the corporate few who ignore the rights and will of the people.

This movement is building as you read this, not just in this country but around the world; this film shows how and where it all began.

Free; donations will be accepted.

It was as wonderful sight to see thousands of women, men and children completely wrapped around the Ohio Statehouse at Sunday January 15th's Ohio Sister March event, the Ohio version of the Women's March on Washington that will be held January 21.

First published in The Progressive

As you ride the Amtrak along the Pacific coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, you pass the San Onofre nuclear power plant, home to three mammoth atomic reactors shut by citizen activism.

Framed by gorgeous sandy beaches and some of the best surf in California, the dead nukes stand in silent tribute to the popular demand for renewable energy. They attest to one of history’s most powerful and persistent nonviolent movements.

But 250 miles up the coast, two reactors still operate at Diablo Canyon, surrounded by a dozen earthquake faults. They’re less than seventy miles from the San Andreas, about half the distance of Fukushima from the quake line that destroyed it. Should any quakes strike while Diablo operates, the reactors could be reduced to rubble and the radioactive fallout would pour into Los Angeles.

January 20, 2017  7:30 pm -   Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park, Columbus, OH 43214

GIVE WHAT YOU FEEL, so everyone can attend. The recommended donation for this event is $20. 

Gird yourself for the coming struggle to preserve basic human rights and equal justice. The Kate Schulte Foundation presents Warriors for Justice in an inauguration day benefit for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the ACLU. Many of Columbus’s finest performing artists will help support the SPLC's efforts fighting anticipated assaults on equal rights by the federal government. Featuring the Jazz Poetry Ensemble, Mark Lomax II, Donna Mogavero, Warriors for Justice a Capella (Debra James Tucker, Vicki Saunders, Tia Harris-Roseboro), Miller-Kelton Redux, Paisha Thomas, the Columbus Liberation Music Orchestra, and more.    Rise Up And Resist – A Counter-Inaugural Event

Rise Up and Resist is the first of many Kidd Jordans Place events! We want these events to be accessible to people of all income levels. Door tickets will be be Give What You Feel with no minimum donation.

Tuesday, January 17, 6:30pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join Ohio Revolution and a long list of interested organizations and parties as we discuss and coordinate strategies to address fracking in Wayne National Forest following the Bureau of Land Management’s auction of leases for 17 parcels of the forest to oil and gas corporations in December.

Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

https://www.meetup.com/Save-Wayne-National-Forest/events/236413233/?rv=ea1
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Most Americans never learned that there was slavery in the northern United States. Half of all slave voyages docked in tiny Rhode Island, and slave owner James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island was said to be the second richest person in the U. S. at the time he died in1837. He was a merchant, founded a bank and an insurance company, and owned a rum distillery; all of these profited from his status as a slave trader. Several branches of the DeWolf family were also heavily involved in the slave trade. The DeWolfs were said to have transported twelve thousand slaves from the middle of the seventeenth century through the early 1800s. This alone made them the most successful slave trading family in the country. However, in spite of a small number of wealthy and influential slave owners, and for various other reasons, slavery never became as entrenched in the north as it did in the south. This made it easier for northerners to divorce themselves from the peculiar institute.

Can you name the President who added 10 millions jobs in his eight year term where 94% of the jobs were temporary with little to no benefits? (as per study by Harvard University L Katz and Princeton University economist A Krueger)

Can you name the President since 1980 whose administration saw the widest gap between income for black men versus white men in the USA? (as per study by University Chicago economist KK Charles and Duke University economist P Bayer)

Can you name the President since 1988 whose administration reduced the USA nuclear stockpile the least? (Pentagon figures -hint – this President has also initiated nuclear upgrades that will cost over $1 trillion dollars)

President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees are a basket of deplorables. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is up for Attorney General even though he is well-known as being racist. Ben Carson, nominated to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is vehemently anti-intellectual despite his history as a successful neurosurgeon. Betsy DeVos has been selected as the next Education Secretary after advocating for shutting down public schools in favor of for-profit charter establishments. None of those individuals, as well as the rest of Trump’s picks, should be anywhere near positions of power. However, they have the right to a fair, unbiased confirmation process just like all other nominees.