Ohio Migration Anthology (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies: Ohio Migration Anthology, Volume Two by Lynn Tramonte (Editor), Marina Manoukian (Foreword by), Gloria Kellon (Illustrator).  Proceeds from the sale of the anthology go to the immigrant writers and artists.  

You can purchase the book from B&N here.

A report from ABC 3 WEAR, reports:

“Chris Lambert is a decorated Vietnam veteran whose battled PTSD for more than 40 years. Lambert’s a three-time Purple Heart recipient, all before his 20th birthday. He says after hearing reports that the suspected gunman in the Maine shooting was treated and released from a facility only weeks later, it’s clear that more long-term care for veterans is needed. However, he feels the shooting suspect’s mental health issues during his service in the military is overplayed. ‘How many people have we watched in these mass shootings and none of them are veterans,’ Lambert said. Stillm, Lambert acknowledged the suspect’s service potentially played a major role in the high number of fatalities. ‘Being a firearms instructor, how accurate he could be, I don’t care if you’re 100-50 yards and you’re jerking a little bit, you’re missing that target. But if he’s instructed and he knows how to breathe, he can take down a lot of people, and that’s tragic,’ Lambert said.”

The screen adaptation of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 book Stamped from the Beginning: The
Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America directed by Roger Ross Williams, the first African
American director to win an Academy Award, is a cinematic masterpiece. Stamped from the
Beginning – which derives its title from a despicably racist 1860 speech delivered by Senator
Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy – is one of the greatest anti-racist nonfiction
motion pictures ever made, in terms of film form and content.
Stamped goes back in time to before the trans-Atlantic slave trade began in Europe, and shows
how racism was a construct to rationalize the brutality of slavery on the grounds that Europeans
were inherently superior to Africans. Blacks replaced Eastern European Slavs (the film contends
that term is the source of the word “slave”) for forced labor because due to the color of their skin,
it was harder for escaped Africans to blend in with the white population.
When slavery was exported to the “New World,” white indentured servants were given more

Friday, October 27, 12noon, Ohio Statehouse

Please join us as we rally for our Ohio state parks, climate, and democracy, on Friday, October 27, at 12noon, at the Ohio Statehouse, West Plaza, on the steps facing High Street.

This rally will bring together a diverse coalition of environmental, faith, health, and democracy groups to tell our state legislators — and the commission that will decide the fate of our beloved state parks and wildlife areas — that we the people own the public land and democracy in Ohio, and we want to see it protected, not fracked.

We have an incredible lineup of speakers that you will not want to miss, including:

• David Pepper, Ohio author, attorney, and democracy activist

• Robert Brecha, director of sustainability at University of Dayton

• Catherine Turcer, Ohio director for Common Cause

• Jess Grim, Ohio co-coordinator for Third Act

• Judy Comeau-Hart, director of Faith Communities Together

• Molly Jo Stanley, Ohio Environmental Council

• Joe Blanda, Physicians for Social Responsibility

• Randi Pokladnik, Save Ohio Parks