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To begin with let me give a disclaimer. This review is going to be really hard for me to do. I ought to admit that I really like the producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra's filmmaking sensibilities. When a movie stays with you for almost 30 years and if you still feel like you haven't gotten over it, like his film Parinda, then I guess you really like the filmmaker. If the only movie that you went to the theatre on two consecutive days, 3 Idiots, is made by the same filmmaker, then you really know that you really, really like this filmmaker.

My second reason is that I find it difficult to review someone's life. "Sanju," showing at AMC Village 18, is a movie based on a Indian actor Sanjay Dutt. Even though it is touted as a biography, it revolves only around two major life-altering experiences in the actor's life: his addiction to drugs and his legal battle for carrying illegal weapon. 

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Sunday, July 1, 3-5pm
North Congregational United Church of Christ, 2040 Henderson Rd.
Music that makes a difference – top Columbus songwriters present The Concert for Children at the Border. The event, hosted by North Congregational Church, is raising funds for Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), providing legal counsel for children incarcerated by Homeland Security on the border with Mexico.

Among the scheduled performers are:
- Shaun Booker and Sean Carney, winner, Memphis International Blues Challenge
Rj Cowdery, winner, Kerrville New Folk Festival
Arkadiy Gips, violinist on two world tours with Madonna
TJ George, winner, Columbus Music Awards
Eric Gnezda - Songwriter and Speaker, creator and host of Songs at the Center, the American Public Television Series

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The mood was not only to vote but to resist. A massive crowd filled the Ohio Statehouse capitol square on Saturday morning June 30, 2018 for the Families Stay Together rally. The demonstrators were of two minds. the majority, working on behalf of the Democratic Party to create a blue wave around the immigration issue and the others a plurality of activists who want to defy and resist the Trump administration and are calling for direct action, civil disobedience and some to make the United States ungovernable unless Trump backs off on his militaristic border tactics. Many of the latter forces called for the abolition of ICE and had chants involving "Melt ICE" and Crush ICE." 

The very diverse crowd listened to a number of speakers, many who were experiencing immigration issues, and the rally culminated in a march around the block. At the end intersection of Broad and High Streets some marchers shut down the roads for a short while. Police presence was minimal, the police were restrained in their reactions, and the march ultimately continued down West Broad Street to the ICE headquarters in the Leveque Lincoln tower. 

 

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Two Ohio Republican legislators recently introduced a bill that mandates all medical and mental health care providers, and teachers, disclose if the child they are working with identifies as LGBTQ - or else they’ll be criminalized as felons.

This bill turns care providers into spies, polices LGBTQ youth and puts them into dangerous situations. Suffering from gender dysphoria and seeking help is not a crime!

Sign the petition now to strike down Bill 658 and send a clear message to legislators: Stop targeting transgender youth

Many LGBTQ youth are homeless because of family rejection for their gender identity and sexuality. Transgender youth face added discrimination and violence. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Join us now to annihilate this bill that puts the safety and well-being of LGBTQ youth at risk.

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WCBE is proud to announce its very own Community Relations director, Johnny DiLoretto, will do his community relations thing in high style this July 4th when he assumes the not-so-honorable throne as the Less-than-Grand Marshal at the 35th annual Doo Dah parade.

“My first thought was ‘Who was their first choice?’ Surely, someone better was unavailable” DiLoretto joked. “I'm still in shock about it. It’s such a mark of distinction here in Columbus,” he said. “And, it’s such a no-holds-barred, throw-caution-to-the-wind-anything-goes event, it’s just a perfect fit.”

WCBE president, Dan Mushalko, quipped, “There can be no lesser honor than to be a less than grand marshal. We’re so proud of Johnny for stooping to this level and we desperately hope no one associates him with WCBE on the entire parade route.”

All joking aside, Mz Doo Dah, ChairChick & Queen of Doo Dah, Deb Roberts assures that DiLoretto was indeed their first less-than-grand choice this year. “Johnny's a man about town.  He's funny.  He's a survivor of Sinclair Broadcasting, and,” she added, “he's a man who knows how to make some fun!”

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Saturday, June 30
Families Belong Together Rally
Ohio StateHouse West Plaza, Broad and High Streets, Columbus - 10am
and
121 S. Washington St. Delaware - 10am
"Compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience." Let's become better humans. Let's make #compassioncontagious - Glennon Doyle Melton
Join us by protesting the Trump administration’s cruel & in-humane anti-immigrant policy, which has separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents in recent weeks. Rallies will take place across the nation on 6/30.

“We are people who believe in the worth of every human being,” Elizabeth Warren said the other day, and I wondered for a moment what life would be like if that were true.

The more crucial question, however, is: How can we make it true?

Warren had just returned from McAllen, Texas, where she visited an “immigration processing center” — a place where desperate human beings are stirred into the border bureaucracy and separated into categories — immigrants, refugees, criminals — and where children, including babies, are torn from their parents’ arms, possibly forever.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) search and rescue team and Thai Navy SEALs were unable on June 28 to find 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach in a dark, monsoon-flooded cave in northern Thailand after they disappeared in its six-mile (10-kilometer) maze of stalactites more than five days ago.

 

A British rescue team also joined in the search, supporting nearly 1,000 Thai military and civilian personnel, but incessant rain has flooded the cave so deeply that scuba divers found it difficult to swim through narrow, jagged passageways.

 

The tragedy at the cave has become a national fixation with non-stop television coverage on the plight of the 13 missing people, the rising flood waters inside the cave, the inability of scuba divers to wedge themselves through twisted rock formations, and other hazards.

 

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