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Words Women of Faith Cry out for Immigrant Children #Familiesbelongtogether

Wednesday, June 27, 2-3pm
First Congregational Church, 444 E. Broad St,
Join women of faith crying out for justice for families experiencing immoral and inhumane treatment at the border. The atrocities committed by our government are growing more barbaric by the day, and we must resist!

President Trump recently signed an executive order to lock up entire families at the border. The order does not change his mass deportation and “zero tolerance” policy, which wrongly labels people fleeing violence and poverty as criminals, or their mass deportation agenda, which has unleashed deportation agents to target our communities everywhere.

Top of the front of a building with words CoreLife Eatery

CoreLife Eatery, an active lifestyle restaurant offering a variety of greens, grains and broth-based dishes, will continue bolstering its Ohio presence by opening a new location in Columbus! CoreLife Eatery brings together scratch cooking with flavorful source ingredients and a fast, casual service line for a healthy and affordable eating alternative. The highly anticipated new eatery will open its doors for the first time at 11am on Friday, June 29 at 1791 Olentangy River Road.

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I am honored to be here this week, every day I am here in the Lakota Nation North Dakota, I feel my inner strength and my spirit set loose and free. Everyone is nice and respectful here despite all the genocide the white man and woman have thrown down at the Lakota. To hear these Lakota people tell me the horror stories of genocide and government lies stowed upon them for generations. I fight my tears from coming out. I get angry.

The Lakota set the blueprint for this country and everyone had a home and food to eat. People traded and respected each other back then. Then the pilgrims showed up and got greedy with all they were taught from tribes. This USA we live in is a crooked evil machine that neglects and takes advantage of the Lakota. When will this end? That’s the real question. When will the USA government realize the Hate crimes being done daily to the indigenous? Never, because our crooked government had been stealing and killing them for hundreds of years and covering it up.

Words People's Climate Movement

Monday, June 25, 7-9pm
Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., room 100
AGENDA - Tentative
1. Discuss the national agenda: https://peoplesclimate.org/
2. Identify groups in central Ohio to invite to address the three themes: Climate, Jobs, and Justice
3. Discuss our event in Columbus - location? March? Rally? Speakers? Demands? 
4. Action Network Platform - see my initial posting here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/out-with-the-fossils-win-with-renewables
5. How can we use this platform effectively to mobilize for the Sept 8 event?

 

Remarks at Peace Resource Center of San Diego, June 23, 2018.

There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism.

First, the military budget.

The Nuremberg Principles not only prohibit such crimes but oblige those of us aware of the crime to act against it. “Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity … is a crime under International Law.” […]

The ongoing building and maintenance of Trident submarines and ballistic missile systems constitute war crimes that can and should be investigated and prosecuted by judicial authorities at all levels. As citizens, we are required by International Law to denounce and resist known crimes.

  – Kings Bay Plowshares Indictment of US for war crimes, April 4, 2018
Words Too Many Black Bullets in America with blood dripping off the word America

Sunday, June 24 - Comfest
5:50 PM - Live Arts stage
Spoken Word with African Dance and Drumming

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Sunday, June 24, 2:50-3:40pm
Solar Stage, Comfest
Music and lively political discussion with the Free Press Editor and others.

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The Ohio Student Association expresses its disgust and outrage at the heinous actions of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Sandusky and Salem, Ohio, this month. We as students, workers, activists, and Ohioans have made it our goal to fight against the racist system of mass incarceration in our communities. Therefore, we demand the defunding and abolition of ICE, which has become an unaccountable paramilitary force whose main goal seems to be executing violent attacks upon the most vulnerable members of our society. We demand the immediate release of the nearly 250 people arrested by ICE in raids at Corso’s and Fresh Mark, and the payment of restitution to those families for the trauma experienced.

Black man holding a sign reading My vote has been paid for in BLOOD

The Supreme Court decision blessing the purge of half a million voters in Ohio is NOT the last word.

On Monday, the renowned law firm of Mirer Mazzocchi Julien of New York will serve a 90-day notice on Jon Husted, the Secretary of State of Ohio, of our intent to file suit in federal court unless we receive complete information on each of the hundreds of thousands of voters removed from the voter rolls.

We have already filed a demand for information on Kris Kobach, the éminence grise behind Ohio and other mass purges nationwide, to open his purge program files to us. We are joined in this demand by the ACLU of Kansas.

What we can do

As I explained in my prior report, the Supreme Court did not authorize Ohio to remove voters who skipped an election. Rather, failing to vote was merely one of Ohio's excuses to send a postcard to these voters. Not returning the postcard was taken, absurdly—insanely—as evidence the voter had moved away.

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