People holding a banner that says Veterans for Peace standing in front of a government building

Saturday, January 22, 2018, 7-9pm
Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park  Ave.
Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Speaker Julie Hart, Pathways to Peace. Julie Hart will speak about her book Pathways to Pacifism and Antiwar Activism among U.S. Veterans: the Role of Moral Identity in personal transformation. Details to follow. For questions about Central Ohioans for Peace, please send email to: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com.
 

Young white woman with brown curly hair smiling standing in front of a brick wall with the words Constance for Ohio '18 in the right side bottom

Constance Gadell-Newton, Esq., is a social justice activist, Attorney at Law and Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children in Columbus, Ohio.  She graduated from Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, has a B.A. from the Ohio State University in Philosophy and Women’s Studies, and a J.D. from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, where she studied International, Criminal, and Public Interest Law.     

Constance is committed to promoting the wellbeing of all Ohioans- no matter what happens in Washington, D.C.  Constance will stand up to keep families together in the face of recent changes in U.S. Immigration Policy. Constance wants to make sure that all Ohioans have their needs met for health care and education. She supports universal health care for all Ohioans and free public education from pre-school to college. Constance stands with workers in the fight for a living wage and wage equality for women and minorities.  

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Uh . . . pardon me while I interrupt this false alarm to quote Martin Luther King:

“Science investigates,” he says in The Strength To Love, “religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”

These words stopped me in my tracks on MLK Day. They seemed to fill a hole in the breaking news, which never quite manages to balance power with wisdom, or even acknowledge the distinction.

Lots of young women of different races wearing pink in a huge crowd with peace signs with their fingers in the air

Sat, Jan. 20, 10:30-1:30
Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.
2017 has been a year of women's movements – from the historic Women's March on Jan. 21 to the bravery of the #MeToo Silence Breakers. Let's carry this strength of women's resistance into 2018!

Join Socialist Alternative and the Women's March Ohio – Columbus Region at the Greater Columbus Convention Center to hear speakers on the battle facing us in 2018 – the midterm elections are coming up, and the political establishment doesn't want you to vote! 

Come and hear speakers who fight against sexual assault, harassment, and inequities in the work place. We will also share information on gerrymandering, voting rights, and organizing disenfranchised communities for the Midterm Elections on November 6th, 2018.

We will then march to the Ohio Statehouse and rally – it's been a year of#Resistance to Trump and the political establishment, and we aren't going anywhere!

An unarmed juvenile was shot and killed in the Franklin County Courthouse Wednesday, January 18. Listen to radio interview with Constance Gadell Newton about it: http://wcrsfm.org/audio/user/157

Fearing that peace might break out with the two Koreas talking to each other, Washington instructed South Korean President Moon Jae-in to keep the message about anything but peace. It is not just Trump. A former top official for the Obama administration warned Moon that South Korea was not going to get anywhere with the North Koreans unless they have the "US behind them". Humiliating, that is like saying that Moon's "button" is not as big as Kim's. The metaphor is exactly how the Washington elite see South Korea: as Washington's obedient eunuch. The official went on to say, "If South Koreans are viewed as running off the leash, it will exacerbate tension within the alliance". Running off the leash! Now more humiliation, is South Korea a US poodle? Instead President Moon Jae-in is showing that he has teeth, and that South Koreans want their country back from US humiliating domination.

Man in a suit with a huge elephant head pointing at a green blackboard that has words about voter suppression

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The US Supreme Court may be about to make a second Trump term inevitable.

The nine "Justices" have just heard oral arguments in an Ohio voter registration case. If their decision goes with Secretary of State Jon Husted, it would mean Republicans like him throughout the United States will be able to scrub from the voter rolls millions of citizens merely because they are suspected of wishing to vote Democrat.

In Ohio alone, millions of Ohio voters have tried to vote on Election Day over the past four presidential elections, only to find their names were erased from the pollbooks.

What's technically at stake is whether the federal government has the right to demand fairness in purging voter registration rolls. Or will the secretaries of the various states be free to purge whomever they want.

In other words, it's supposedly a "state’s rights" case.

But this is a country where an Attorney-General who fought for state’s rights to avoid accepting racial integration is now overriding the explicit choice of some thirty states to enjoy legal marijuana.

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