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President’s Day Protest

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Monday, February 17, 2025, 12:00 – 8:00 PM
This President’s Day protest is sponsored by the 5050/1 group.  Location: Ohio Statehouse.  
More information here.

Overwhelm… Overreach… Overthrown.

Nobody, especially Trump, knows it yet. 

What’s Wrong With Nuclear Weaponry and Energy

To Nuke or Not To Nuke?

Is It An Inalienable Human Right to Self-Destruct and Take Others With You?

Are a few decades of electric power really worth future millennia of radioactive waste deadly to all living things?

Nuclear Logic

  • Atomic reactors were originally developed to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. Using the heat of their operation to produce steam pressure to drive turbines to generate electric power was a convenient cover story necessary to overcome people’s fear and repugnance against using nuclear weapons after the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • Since nuclear reactors’ inception, over 50 years of repeated official promises to ban nuclear weapons have never been honored.

  • Every nuclear power reactor in every nuclear nation, and the accumulated radioactive spent fuel from its operation, is a potential nuclear weapon-in-place for saboteurs and terrorists.

  • Uranium mining, milling, enriching, fuel fabrication and nuclear reactors are also the industrial foundation for nuclear weapons production.

Start a Lasting Peace in Ukraine Now

By World BEYOND War, February 15, 2025

https://worldbeyondwar.org/start-a-lasting-peace-in-ukraine-now/

We are heartened to learn that the U.S. government is communicating with the Russian government, and are only sorry that such a basic step seemingly required a presidential election, when a glance at the Doomsday Clock ought to have been sufficient.

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Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Green Light for Ethnic Cleansing?

Let's be clear: the forced displacement of Palestinians is not a new idea. US President Donald Trump's latest proposal to take “long-term ownership” of Gaza, to “clean out” the “mess”, and to turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” is just the latest iteration of efforts aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland.

 What makes Trump’s comments dangerous is not the immediate threat of US military intervention in Gaza followed by the expulsion of its 2.2 million residents. The real danger lies elsewhere. 

 First, Israel may interpret Trump’s words as a green light to push Palestinians out of Gaza or the West Bank. Second, the US could tacitly endorse another Israeli offensive under the guise of fulfilling the president’s wishes. Third, Trump’s remarks suggest his foreign policy on Palestine will remain largely unchanged from his predecessor’s.

From Doctors Against Genocide:  Urgent Support Needed for Senate Resolution Against U.S. Military Intervention & Forced Displacement in Gaza, Restore UNRWA Funding and Protection of Healthcare

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As concerned citizens, we urge our elected officials to protect international laws.  

1. Support for S.Res. 68, a Senate resolution which says the U.S. should not occupy Gaza and displace its residents.  

2. Support for Welch's S.5388 bill asking to restore UNRWA funding. UNRWA is an essential UN program built to support Palestinians in refugee camps as they work for their right to return to the land they were ethnically cleansed from in the Nakba.

3. Demanding full protection for healthcare workers and Institutions everywhere, ensuring they can provide lifesaving care without fear of attack, detention, or persecution.  

‘A sad state of affairs:’ Ohio Fairness Act introduced for the 12th time, despite waning bipartisan support for LGBTQ+ civil rights

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This article first appeared on the Buckeye Flame.

Ohio Senate Minority Leader and out lesbian Sen. Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) has re-introduced the Ohio Fairness Act for the 12th time, despite waning support among Republican lawmakers.

The Fairness Act – which would extend equal civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ Ohioans – was formerly a bipartisan bill. 

However, Antonio said the Trump administration’s focus on anti-transgender policy and rhetoric has helped set an increasingly anti-LGBTQ+ precedent at the Ohio Statehouse.

“We should already have equal rights in the state of Ohio, so it’s important to introduce legislation that calls for that,” Antonio said. “People from the LGBTQ+ community should already receive equal treatment under the law – and that means in employment, in housing and when traversing the public sphere.”

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