War and Poverty: A Compromise with Hell

It’s so easy to paper over the real American security void with verbiage about strength vs. weakness and the endless need to upgrade the military.

Here’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, for instance, quoted the other day in The Guardian: “It is incumbent upon us to field a more lethal force if our nation is to retain the ability to defend ourselves and what we stand for.”

PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Film Reviews

Mainly due to Warren Beatty’s classic 1967 movie, most film fans know who the “Barrow Gang” was - Bonnie and Clyde Barrow’s band of bank robbing desperadoes who roamed the Midwest during the 1930s. But thanks to the Pan African Film Festival, now I know who Errol Walton Barrow was - the independence leader who became Barbados’ first prime minister. I had never heard of him until I was lucky enough to catch Marcia Weekes’ docu-drama Barrow - Freedom Fighter at a PAFF screening, narrated on and off camera by America’s first Black Attorney General, Eric Holder (who has Barbadian heritage).

Witness Out of Palestine

Anna Baltzer’s amazing book Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories has been updated over the years, and I’ve just read it for the first time. Rather unfairly, and — as it turns out — wrongly, my first response upon turning the initial pages was: Do we really need another one of these? Jewish person believes pile of myths. Jewish person confronts reality. Jewish person tries to open the eyes of others. It’s become as familiar as “Dog Bites Man.” Couldn’t we all just share one book around instead of everyone writing his or her own, and then pool our money until we can afford a television station so that people can be made to wake up in large numbers?

Video of Debate #2: Is War Ever Justifiable?

Our first debate was February 12th.

Planned Parenthood sues Ohio over unconstitutional abortion law

On Thursday, February 15, 2018. Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio joined a lawsuit challenging an Ohio law that criminalizes abortions when one of the reasons for the abortion is because of a prenatal genetic test with a diagnosis of Down syndrome. The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, on behalf of Preterm Cleveland and a number of other abortion providers in Ohio, including Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, filed this lawsuit earlier today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati.

Water and Cities in Ohio: Are We Prepared for Climate Change?

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Friday, February 16, 12noon-1pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), in cooperation with the OSU Office of Energy and Environment and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), is pleased to present the first of three events for Spring 2018, focusing on cities, water, and green infrastructure.

Panel Discussion: “Water and Cities in Ohio: Are We Prepared for Climate Change?”

Panelists:

• Kristen Atha, Vice President, AECOM [Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Management]

• Maria Conroy, Professor, OSU Knowlton School of Architecture

• Jay Martin, Professor, OSU College of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

• Keith Myers, Vice President, OSU Planning and Real Estate, Office of Administration and Planning

• John Stark, Ohio Freshwater Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy

Contact: https://cura.osu.edu/feb16

Florida Shooter’s JROTC Took NRA Money, Excelled at Marksmanship

35% of U.S. mass shooters are military veterans, as compared with 14.76% in the general population for the same gender and age. See documentation of this below.

First a couple of Tweets:

Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association 39th Annual Conference: “A Taste for Change”

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Thursday, February 15 to Saturday, February 17, Dayton Convention Center, 22 E. Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio

Registration is now open for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 39th annual conference, “A Taste for Change.”

Ohio’s largest sustainable food and farm conference features:

• Nearly 80 educational and inspiring workshops on sustainable farming, livestock, homesteading, gardening, and business on Friday and Saturday;

• A three-day trade show with 90+ businesses, organizations, and government agencies offering food, books, equipment, products, information, and services;

• In-depth, full-day Food and Farm School courses on Thursday;

• Engaging nationally-recognized keynote speakers Jeff Moyer and Stacy Malkan;

• Made-from-scratch, local, organic meals;

• Thursday and Friday evening networking and receptions;

• Kids’ conference, child care, and more!

Registration: http://www.oeffa.org/conference2018.php

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