Saturday, December 28 and Sunday, December 29; 12noon-4pm; Ohio History Center, 800 E. 17th Ave.

Join us for the citywide Kwanzaa celebration where tradition meets creativity! This year’s program features an array of hands-on crafts and captivating performances, designed to honor and celebrate the rich heritage of Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa is a seven-day celebration that honors community, family and heritage of African American culture and African traditions. Kwanzaa comes from the Swahili word that means “first harvest” and is based on the principles of Nguzo Saba (the Seven Principles). For the December 28 and 29 events, the Ohio History Connection and TAWI Family Village will celebrate Kwanzaa with African drumming, music, dance, storytelling and hands-on art activities. We will feature a Kwanzaa ornament display made by some of our school partners, with a winning ornament being featured and recognized at the culmination of the celebration. This is a free, family-friendly event. The events at the museum will be part of events that are taking place throughout the community.

Dig, ponder, dig some more.

A year ago I wrote a column about some of the early moments of my growing up – not just memories but profound moments of awareness; flickers, you might say, of becoming who I am. I was 77 at the time. Now I’m . . . oh yeah, 78. Can you believe it? Another year is almost over. Holiday season shimmers, the smell of pine is in the air. It’s Christmas: a perfect time to open, once again, the stocking known as memory.

TATANKA BRICCA opens with a report on LEONARD PELTIER and the desperate need to get him out of prison alive.
Petition: https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier

MYLA RESON follows up with a key point of information on how, hopefully, to do that.

Our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives our GREEP Zoom #204 a perfect opening poem.

MIKE HERSH hearkens back to the formation of the US republic with a warning on the horrors of fascism.

DAVID SALTMAN explains Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, banning insurrectionists from holding public office.

From western Massachusetts, ANNA GYORGY reminds us (https://www.traprock.org) that Inauguration Day, 2025, (Jan. 18 event Poster at bottom) will be Martin Luther King Day.

BARBARA HARRISON adds a plea to fight for democracy

MELISSA HALL asks about calling the White House to help free Leonard.

CATHERINE STEARNS lets us in on resistance organizations in Oregon….including the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research laboratory, is located on Long
Island, New York, where I live. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book, “Long
Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance.”
The book, by Mark A. Torres, an attorney as well as an author, will be released by The
History Press on January 21st. Torres also wrote the 2021 book “Long Island Migrant Labor
Camps: Dust for Blood,” an examination of the plight of migrant farmworkers on Long Island,
published, too, by The History Press.
Torres is general counsel of Teamsters Local 810, a union that covers Long Island, and as
an attorney has long specialized in labor and employment law in federal and state courts. He is
also a professor at Hofstra University.
As an author, he excels at in-depth research. Earlier this year the Association of Public
Historians of New York awarded Torres its Joseph F. Meany Award (named for former New York
State Historian Joseph F. Meany, Jr.) for his book on migrant farmworker camps on Long Island.

Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. 

 The PA security forces used similar tactics as used by the Israeli occupation forces in their routine attacks on the area. 

 The camp, which is a mere half a square kilometer in size, hosts an ever-growing population of 24 thousand refugees, mostly the descendants of Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias during the great catastrophe, or Nakba, of 1948.