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Heightened Urgency Seen in Wake of Paris Climate Retreat & EPA Rule Rollbacks; “Family Friendly” Protest to Feature News Event and Speeches from Bipartisan Line-up of U.S. Senators and Representatives

WASHINGTON, D.C.//NEWS ADVISORY///Hundreds of moms and their children from all corners of the United States will gather on Capitol Hill Thursday (July 13, 2017) to hold a unique “Play-In” rally and press conference. Parents and their kids will focus on the need to address climate change and air pollution, and also will demand climate solutions such as renewable energy and limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Following the protest event, Moms and their children from nearly 40 states will meet with their corresponding members of congress.

Words Gov. Kasich don't resume executions in Ohio
Stop The Execution Vigil at Riffe Tower
July 12, 11:30am-1pm

77 S. High St.

Banner - People's Town Hall Speakout

Tuesday, July 11, 6:30-8pm
Ohio Statehouse
This past Thursday, July 6th, hundreds of people across the US participated in sit-ins at senators' offices to stand up against Trumpcare. Columbus activists joined in the national action by sitting in at Portman's local office with these demands:
1) That Senator Portman host a public town hall to discuss the healthcare bill with his constituents.
2) That he make a clear commitment to vote against the Better Care Reconciliation Act recently introduced in the United States Senate - legislation which would strip millions of people of lifesaving healthcare.

Join Socialist Alternative Columbus and Junto Remains Unsilenced to call on Senator Portman to discuss the Senate healthcare bill with constituents on Tuesday, July 11th at 6:30pm at the Ohio Statehouse. 

Outdoing Donald Trump’s repeated threats to “send in the feds” to deal with Chicago’s problems, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the man who promised to keep the war on Iraq going in 2007 in order for Democrats to run “against” it again in 2008, and the man who defunded Chicago schools, has

 

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Editor's Note: Thanks to a secret satirical recording device implanted into Donald Trump's hair, an actual fake transcript has emerged from the fake president's recent meeting with his actual owner, Vladimir Putin. Reader discretion is advised:

TRUMP: Well, Putie, I think we can talk frankly now. There will be no recording of this part of our conversation.

PUTIN (chuckling): Right, Donald. I would never record anything between us without letting you know first. At the KGB we made it a strict policy to honor the privacy of all citizens, Russian, American, Chechnyan and, of course, Siberian, where so many of our great patriots are still so happy to do volunteer labor.

TRUMP: Well first I must thank you for putting me in the White House. I could never have stolen the 2016 election without you.

words 5th annual Columbus Black Theater Festival with logo

Friday, July 7, 5:30-10pm (three plays); Saturday, July 8, 10am-11pm (five plays); Sunday, July 9, 2-10pm (three plays)
Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.
This three-day event is for adults, teens and youth who love the theatre and includes acting workshops, live stage plays, and readings from original playwrights from Ohio and beyond.

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Editor's Note: Thanks to a secret satirical recording device implanted into Donald Trump's hair, an actual fake transcript has emerged from the fake president's recent meeting with his actual owner, Vladimir Putin. Reader discretion is advised:

TRUMP: Well, Putie, I think we can talk frankly now. There will be no recording of this part of our conversation.

PUTIN (chuckling): Right, Donald. I would never record anything between us without letting you know first. At the KGB we made it a strict policy to honor the privacy of all citizens, Russian, American, Chechnyan and, of course, Siberian, where so many of our great patriots are still so happy to do volunteer labor.

TRUMP: Well first I must thank you for putting me in the White House. I could never have stolen the 2016 election without you.

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