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Socially Just Dining: Trattoria Roma

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Trattoria Roma, located in the main downtown artery of Grandview, has a vegan friendly staff and excellent service level. They surprised me with their very tasty and robust veganized bruschetta (cashews) and a hearty farro dish. When you are looking for a romantic, fine dining atmosphere for Valentines Day, or any other celebratory occasion, they have great vegan eats. I highly recommend them. They are happy to accommodate special menu requests, you should ideally let them know you are vegan when making your reservation.  
 

An exclusive, local, vegan food dining experience by Griffeth Events, in partnership with Sobremesa Street Kitchen and Simple Times Mixers, are again delivering an “out of sight” opportunity you may want to consider this month: Dining in the Dark on Feb 10th at 1400 Food Lab (formerly known as The Commissary).

Sometimes things aren't for you

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There's a simple fact about geek media that's well-known to every woman, every person of color, every queer person who has ever been a fan, but which seems to completely escape an awful lot of the cishet white men, something which the rest of us have simply lived with all our lives but which some guys just can't handle:

Sometimes things aren't for you.

Sometimes the target audience for something is actually, amazingly enough, not cishet white men. It's rare, but it happens!

That doesn't mean you can't enjoy them. Whole fandoms have been built on adults enjoying cartoons that were created for children. And people of color and women and queer folks have been enjoying movies and comic books and novels about cishet white male heroes all their lives. They kind of have to, since that's the bulk of what's out there. (Thanks, gatekeepers!) They understand that stories about people who don't look like them are still stories about humanity, and that makes them worth experiencing (except when they're just objectively terrible). They know that something doesn't have to be about people who are just like them to be good – though it sure is nice when it is.

Painting the City Red

Black and white photo with people in winter coats outside gathered in a group behind a white banner with black letters saying The Whole Damn System is Guilty as Hell

Who knew there were so many socialists and anti-capitalists in Columbus, Ohio?

If you go to rallies and demonstrations and meetings across this city, you’re sure to see the participation or leadership of one socialist group or another.

 Indeed, the general interest in socialist ideas includes a wider pool of people than those who are formally members of socialist organizations.

Talk to activists in the burgeoning social justice communities in our city and you’ll see much criticism of capitalist greed and stark inequality. Many consider themselves socialists of one kind or another. Certainly not what the mainstream media means when it calls Ohio a “red state.”

Nevertheless, the explosion of interest in organized socialist groups right now is remarkable in a time when there are many other avenues for expressing resistance to the atrocities and inequalities of society, from non-government organizations to electoral campaigns to service-oriented groups. And at a time when the far-right has seen resurgence, encouraged by Trump’s campaign and presidency.

By all accounts, the reds are thriving.

Will Trumputin’s State of the Union Be in Stormy Russian?

ll tortured explanations of Donald Trump and his Russian handlers can be boiled down to one simple word: Mafia.

He dare not mention it in the State of the Union. But with Trumputin, it’s all about rubles.

Republican hackers didn’t need the Russkies to strip and flip the 2016 election.

As Greg Palast has shown, Kris Kobach of Kansas (KKK) and his GOP minions stripped from the voter rolls countless citizens of youth and color. As Bev Harris has shown, GOP insiders flipped more than enough hacked electronic vote counts to guarantee Republican dominance.

They’re all set to do it again. Unless there are serious changes to our electoral system, Trump won’t need the Russkies in 2018 or 2020 either.

New Hepatitis B Vaccine Studies Show Disastrous Results from Vaccinating All Newborns

The Vaccine Program’s Unintended Consequences: A Tale of Two Hepatitis B Studies

by the World Mercury Project Team

In 1991, US public health authorities began recommending that all infants get the hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine, stipulating that they receive three doses within the first six months of life, starting at birth.

Bezos is winning.

If the Second Amendment Was Meant for Genocide, Is It Sacred?

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, could be criticized for how little it seems to focus on the Second Amendment, and how much on topics familiar from the author’s past writing. But the topics are radically unfamiliar to most U.S. Americans and extremely relevant to understanding what the Second Amendment was and is.

Toxic Copper Mine Tailings Ponds to be Located Upstream from the St Louis River and Lake Superior

Requesting honest information from the  Minnesota DNR, the Minnesota PCA and the US Forest Service regarding the latest PolyMet project permit application:

 

Please respond to the concerned folks to which this email has been cc’ed, all the details of the permit that the foreign corporation Glencore has submitted to the MNDNR, MNPCA, or US Forest Service concerning the establishment and manntainence of their enormously dangerous, potentially catastrophic, toxic tailings lagoon, an entity that seems to have been conveniently ignored by the media cheerleaders and even you regulatory entities.

 

I don’t recall seeing any permit application published for the eventual 250 foot high earthen dams that will hold back for eternity the tens of millions of cubic meters of poisonous liquid sludge that the copper/nickel/sulfuric acid mine will inevitably produce (and need to be stored).

 

Anybody with any awareness of the risks of the toxic metal and sulfuric acid recognizes that the tailings lagoon MUST be the center of discusion. So far it is rarely mentioned in the occasional news bulletins.

 

CANDIDE Opera Review

In the history of Western storytelling, along with Homer’s The Odyssey, Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Voltaire’s 1759 Candide ranks as one of the greatest saga’s ever told about protagonists embarking upon great travels. This is what mythologist Joseph Campbell called The Hero’s Journey, and the 18th century title character Candide’s (Minnesota tenor Jack Swanson) epic gallivanting takes him from Westphalia, in what is now Germany, around much of Europe to the New World, where he experiences Uruguay and the legendary golden realm of El Dorado, and beyond.

 

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