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Thursday, April 17, 2pm
Franklin County Government Center 373 S. High St., first floor, auditorium
Join us in demanding Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan stop reinvesting in Franklin County’s $33 million in Israel bonds.
• Demand Transparency: The Franklin County Treasurer’s Office is withholding crucial investment information, including the status of $5 million in Israeli bonds.
• Protect Community Funds: With Israel’s credit rating downgraded as Israel continues to kill or severely injure over 100 children a day in Gaza, reinvesting carries significant risk. Join us to advocate for responsible and ethical financial decisions.
• A historic opportunity for change: Your participation sends a powerful message, signaling to other countries that divestment is possible and crucial to ending financial support for Israel’s actions. Your presence will help push for a permanent ceasefire and an end to apartheid.
Sponsored by JVP Central Ohio, AMP Columbus, Columbus DSA, and CPUSA.
Hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 4:30 – 7:30 PM
Mozart’s Bakery and Piano Café, 4784 N High St, Columbus 43214.
Facebook Event.
Join us for the Community Refugee and Immigration Service’s Gathering for Good—an evening of connection, storytelling, and fundraising—at Mozart’s Café. Thanks to the generosity of our friends at Mozart's, this event is free and open to the public with light refreshments provided and a cash bar.
Good Café – a celiac safe restaurant – has joined a network of cafes in Central Ohio where customers can get their takeout drinks in stainless steel reusable cups.
When the basement flooded again, the Taylors didn’t panic. They filmed it. They emailed Beacon Property Management—again. The water damage wasn’t new. Neither was the silence.
For months, Zakee Taylor and his family had been trying to work with their landlord to resolve outstanding issues at their rental in Northeast Columbus: mold from a previous flood, broken fixtures, a faulty bathroom fan, and rising late fees due to the income cycle of the life of a small business owner entrepreneur. The Taylors are not “problem tenants.” They are deeply embedded in the city they’re being pushed out of. Their company, Taylor Branding Co., has operated in Columbus for more than two decades.
What they asked for wasn’t extreme—access to their online tenant portal, a structured payment plan, and time to vacate the property after their son’s high school graduation. They even had the rent money saved.
But their account was locked. Because Beacon filed for eviction. It wasn’t a miscommunication. It was the model.
This isn’t about one family. This is about what happens when profit meets poverty, meets policy, meets silence. Eviction is not a symptom. It’s a strategy.
Tuesday, April 15, 6:30pm, Whitehall City Council, 360 S. Yearling Rd., Whitehall, Ohio
Join us at the Whitehall City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 15 at 6:30pm to support the passage of resolutions to protect trans people and immigrants.
We encourage attendees to speak in support of the resolutions. There will be two opportunities for the public to offer comments at the meeting, limited to three minutes, with sign-up at the meeting.
Even if you don’t speak, your presence to fill the chambers and support others will be greatly appreciated.
The final vote on these resolutions is anticipated at this meeting.
Hosted by Indivisible Central Ohio.
A father is not supposed to bury his children. It goes against the natural order of things and when parents lose their children, it is a tragedy that shakes a parent to the core, not if you live in Palestine. That's exactly what happened in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip yesterday when the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) killed 6 brothers from the Abu Mahadi family by bombing their vehicle as they traveled to aid displaced people through a charity. Their elderly father has to bury his 6 sons, including his youngest of 10 years old.
The men were not carrying weapons, nor were they resisting. They were civilians. The six brothers and their friend were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit their vehicle in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday. Ibrahim Abu Mahadi mourned his sons as their bodies were brought to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, according to Gaza ambulance service. Their elderly father has to bury his 6 sons after he conducted the janaza prayers. AP reports saw the mangled and bloodied car as relatives wept over the bodies.
We all want to live and raise our children in a safe place. Two immigrant parents thought they came to the United States for exactly that, only to have their dreams dashed in March.
Bizarrely, we now seem to have a standoff between the Trump administration and the US Supreme Court and lower federal courts. As wildly, it’s over a situation where the administration admits that they made a mistake, but still seems to be trying to draw a crazy line in the sand and not make it right. What’s building up as a constitutional crisis is all about the deportation of one man, Abrego Garcia, who was deported based on the administration’s unprovable claim that he was a member of a gang. Nonetheless, they sent him to a prison in El Salvador, and, so far, are continuing to refuse to return him despite the US Supreme Court decision that they need to do so.
The backstory on Garcia seems straightforward. He’s been in the Maryland for the last dozen years. He’s married and working in construction. They are raising three children with disabilities. He has never been arrested in the US, and there is no record of illegal activity here or abroad. Yet, somehow, he ended up on the night flight to the notorious prisons in El Salvador.
Monday, Apr.14, 2025
Regular Monday 5 P.M. ET/ 2 P.M. PT
Registration links:
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Register once and you can choose one or more occurrences to attend without having to re-register for each meeting.
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On April 5th, the 50501 Movement joined forces with grassroots organizations across the country to help lead the largest single-day protest since the beginning of the Donald Trump’s disastrous regime. Over 5 million Americans participated in more than 1,000 demonstrations in all 50 states and Washington D.C., uniting to send the People’s Veto: Hands Off our democracy!
The Growing American People’s Movement
The magnitude of this protest exemplifies a thunderous resistance against the erosion of democratic norms and the quest for economic justice. Between Trump’s tantrum-induced tariffs, the hollowing out of necessary government services to line the pockets of anti-American billionaires and the silencing and kidnapping of legal residents, the American people have had enough. Now, they are making their voices heard and standing up for each other like never before.