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Saturday, September 27, noon
1423 N. High St.

We will be serving the community with a home-cooked meal on the 27th of this month. Thanks to The SOAR Initiative and A Step in the Right Direction, we will also have hygiene products and other items available.

If you would like to donate to this initiative, please use one of the following options:

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It is interesting how President Donald Trump keeps whining about the 20 alleged Israeli hostages that are reportedly still held by Hamas in Gaza, demanding that they be released immediately, while ignoring the hundreds of unarmed Palestinians that are being murdered daily by Israeli military and armed contractors as well as by deliberate starvation. Also, the thousands of Palestinians who had nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza and are nevertheless being held without charge in Israeli prisons under horrific conditions including torture are of no interest to the US president and his team. Trump is of course profoundly ignorant, demonstrated most recently during his 55 minute rambling speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he attacked both the UN institutionally as well as nearly every delegate and nation represented in the room, minus the Palestinians, of course, for whom he had blocked the issuance of visas guaranteeing that they would have no voice or presence in New York.

At a time when the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) cut off about 800,000 Palestinians from the rest of the world and placed them in a total blackout, Israeli tanks and troops rolled into Gaza city after its forces have deliberately destroyed Internet and silenced Palestinian voices as attacks escalated. People are left without food, water, or medicine for several months. This will be the most brutal assault on Gaza City since the start of the war.  
 
Israel has so far assassinated over 270 Palestinian journalists in Gaza while working or during their sleep. No Western journalists have been allowed to cover the Israeli war of genocide in Gaza because Israel prefers to commit its worst atrocities of this genocide in the dark. 
Among the Palestinian journalists who were killed was Mustafa Ayash. According to the IDF, he was supposed to have been killed along with 70 members of his family in an apparent airstrike on his house in Al Nuseirat Camp on Nov. 22, 2023. Later he was resurrected in Austria and then 5 days ago he was arrested in the Netherlands.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.

But it’s an infuriating radioactive lie that demands tangible opposition, especially as it applies to the Diablo Canyon atomic reactors dangerously upwind of Los Angeles, and the California green energy industry, which he has decimated.

Newsom has loudly denounced ABC’s suspension of talk host Jimmy Kimmel. He appeared on Stephen Colbert’s nighttime show in New York as Kimmel was resurfacing in Los Angeles.

Newsom has loudly launched a very high-profile attack wave against Donald Trump. He’s bitterly criticized Trump’s anti-speech assaults on Kimmel and other talk hosts.

But Newsom has also portrayed himself as a green crusader in opposition to Trump’s contempt for climate science.

And here Newsom has hypocritically crossed many lethal lines, especially when it comes to nuclear power and solar energy.

In 2018, as Lieutenant-Governor, Newsom signed on to a hugely popular plan pioneered by then-Governor Jerry Brown to phase out two aging atomic reactors at Diablo Canyon and phase in a rapid statewide transition to renewable energy.

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In mid-September, the Ohio House of Representatives returned from summer break, hearing committees again for the first time. While their immediate focus will likely be congressional redistricting and various property tax reform proposals, we're keeping a watchful eye out for updates on several harmful anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including: 

  • HB 162: The "My Child-My Chart Act" 
  • HB 262: Designating "Natural Family Month"
  • HB 249: The Drag Ban

The Ohio Senate will also be back from recess shortly, and in both chambers we're paying close attention to rumors about potential veto overrides of the anti-LGBTQ+ measures Governor DeWine struck from the budget in June. 

ICE arrests, Imagen patrocinada por la migra (ICE)

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ICE’s television ad enticing Central Ohio law enforcement with a $50,000 sign-on bonus claims officers in sanctuary cities have been “forced to stand down.” Columbus, as most everyone knows, is a sanctuary city even if no formal declaration was ever made. But Columbus, that has the most immigrants per capita in Ohio, is in a red state. And you don’t have to be Cesar Chavez to realize what side most of the Columbus police are on.

Back in 2017, Mayor Ginther ordered Columbus police to never ask a person’s immigration status or apprehend people if suspected of being an immigrant unless ordered by a court. But a question lingers in the minds of activists: Have some Columbus police and Franklin County deputies been surreptitiously helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by calling its snitch line and thus breaking city law?

Ohio Reps You Betrayed Us sign

Wednesdays downtown: 
Wednesday Husted and Moreno Protest, 12-1pm, 200 N High St, Columbus.
Senators Bernie Moreno and John Husted are supporting the fascist takeover of our democracy.
Let's hold them accountable to the people and taxpayers of Ohio. Their offices are both at 200 N High St, with lots of public visibility!
Register HERE

Franklin Country has lent Israel $28 million that could be used to fund its ongoing wars. That means Franklin Country's taxpayers have effectively loaned Israel $28 million to use how it sees fit. While many US officials want you to believe that Israel is considered the United States’ most trusted and dependable ally in a region of the world that is volatile at best, they do not tell you that Israel has a long history of spying on the US, stealing its top secrets, blackmailing US politicians, and killing US citizens in cold blood. Don't believe me, Google search USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Akleh or Jonathan Pollard to name few.

Israeli bonds are inherently political. That seems to be the way the cities, counties, and Ohio State politicians view them: an investment that delivers political capital.

According to Arkansas Times article, "Since the Development Corporation for Israel’s inception in 1951, the Israeli bonds have not only served as financial instruments but also as a gesture of support for the state of Israel. This is, in fact, part of Israel Bonds’ marketing strategy.

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