Words Unite to End Racism April 3-5 washingtonn DC against a stone wall background

Wednesday, April 3- 5, 2018
Buses are going from around Ohio. 
Sign up by March 1st! Registration.
Cost: $75/person plus incidentals. Buses will depart Columbus approximately More information

Bob talks about Trump's latest desire for a military parade, his immigration policies and about Edith Espinal, the Mexican woman currently in sanctuary in Columbus. The last 15 minutes are from a recent fundraiser for Edith.

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Logo of Central Ohio Worker Center with large COWC with red and black letters and the O in a blue triangle

Sunday, February 8, 1-4pm
400 W Wilson Bridge Rd, Worthington,
Workshop Goal: to prepare participants to meaningfully advocate with and for immigrants who are at risk of deportation.

About this Event

Please join the Central Ohio Worker Center for an introductory training on deportation defense campaigns. You will learn the basics of immigrant-led organizing, how immigration law works, and how and why people are arrested, detained, and deported. You'll also learn how you can help prevent deportation, and provide meaningful support for immigrant families. This workshop is particularly suited for social service providers, health care professionals, educators, and attorneys who have clients/students who are at risk of deportation. You do not have to be a social worker; this is a public event.

Long barbed wire fence and a tower of a prison

Saturday, February 17, 3pm
Columbus Metropolitan Library - Northside Branch, 1423 N High St.
SURJ is hosting an educational session about the history of mass incarceration and policing. Learn about how the practice of policing began and evolved through the present day. Workshop led by Aramis Sundiata from the People’s Justice Project and hosted by the Education Working Group of Showing Up for Racial Justice.

Nikolas Cruz, the south Florida shooter, was enrolled in the Army’s Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program as a 9th grader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The Army taught Cruz to shoot lethal weapons at a very young and impressionable age.

Few in America have connected the dots between military indoctrination and firearms instruction on the one hand, and the propensity for training mass killers, whether their crimes are committed as enlisted soldiers in atrocities overseas or in American high schools.

Let’s examine the JROTC program and the militarization of Florida’s schools as a contributing factor to the Parkland massacre. When Cruz was apprehended he was wearing his JROTC polo shirt, sending a message to the world of his affiliation with the military program.


Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School practice in the school’s firing range.

“Our hopeless, futureless, jobless, parentless, abused, neglected, over-indulged, unloved, sleep-deprived, mal-nourished, over-vaccinated, over-drugged and bullied children, whose main reason for living has been their addictive screen-time, their first-person shooter video games, their isolating FaceBook “friendships” and the media’s glorification of war and violence are understandably angry when they are ‘dissed’, or witness someone else being  abused or see corporate criminals ‘getting away with murder’”.

Ho hum, there was another mass shooting at another school a few days ago.

 

Once upon a time in the United States there was a general perception that organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were both apolitical and high-minded, existing only to calmly and professionally promote the safety and security of the nation. Directors of both organizations often retired quietly without fanfare to compose their memoirs, but apart from that, they did not meddle in politics and maintained low profiles. There was a widespread belief at CIA that former officers should rightly retire to a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains where they could breed Labrador retrievers or cultivate orchids.

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