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A City versus its people. The unjust city: The Columbus Way

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Part Two

Private or Anti-Public Service is also responsible for public utilities of all varieties. This puts them in active relationships with private for-profit electricity, gas, and recycling companies.

In the Columbus Way, private interests trump public. Ginther is in close association with Rumpke Recycling who prevents any competitor from building a plant required to compete with them. Rumpke is best known for not completing its regular routes.

City Attorney Zach Klein only sues negligent private building owners for code violations after their buildings collapse or explode. He informed me that he is unable to sue grifting, consumer-violating electric utilities like American Electric Power after they repeatedly fail and make consumers pay for corporate malfeasance, while he sues Kia, Hyundai, and the State of Ohio.

One case in point: the eight young women who rent the HomeTeam property next to my house immediately learned that the house’s connection to the city water main did not work. Of course, there had been no inspection. After some days, the connection was repaired.

Rally for State Parks, Climate, and Democracy

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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

Guns And Prayers

Meet The New Boss

Students for Justice in Palestine Contextualizing Gaza Teach-In

Details about event

Thursday, October 26th at 6pm
Suszanne M. Scharer Room, Ohio Union
1739 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210, Ohio State University
Teach-in with Palestinian Provost's Fellow, Dr. Bayan Abusneineh, on contextualizing Gaza, Palestine and its history. 

Condiment Co-Defendants

Gaza Strikes Back

It’s amazing how America’s thought-controlled media is able to come up with a suitable narrative almost immediately whenever there is an international incident that might be subject to multiple interpretations. Since 1948 Israel has expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, has occupied nearly all of the historic Palestine, has empowered its army to kill thousands of local people, and has more recently established an apartheid regime that even denies that Palestinian Arabs are human in the same sense that Jews are. Netanyahu-allied government minister Ayelet Shaked memorably has called for Israel not only to exterminate all Palestinian children, whom she has described as “little snakes,” but also to kill their mothers who gave birth to them.

Ignighting a peace fire, even as war rages

Here’s some advice you probably never got about parenting: Write your child’s name on his or her leg or stomach, so that if — when — your building is bombed, the child can be identified when she’s pulled from the rubble.
   Apparently, mothers in southern Gaza are doing this now, as the bombing intensifies. So far at least 2,000 children have been killed — oh my God, such numbers are almost unbearable — and another 5,000 injured. And, perhaps most soul-ripping of all, some 800 children are . . . missing.

‘Human Animals’: The Sordid Language behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

“(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.”

 Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.”

 The first quote was a line repeated frequently by the Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a Rwandan radio station, which is largely blamed for inciting hatred towards the Tutsi people. 

 The second is by former Israeli army Chief-of-Staff, Gen. Rafael Eitan in 1983, speaking at an Israeli parliament’s committee.  

City Council’s magical mystery movers still leaves us “Columbusabama”

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When it comes to Columbus’s new district system for City Council, Eastside activist Jonathan Beard pulls no punches.

“I started calling this ‘Columbabama.’ This is repackaged 1950’s Jim Crow,” he says. “These fake districts were Shannon Hardin’s effort to confuse the ballot, claim responsiveness to an issue, and preserve white money and white voters’ influence over who represents Black folk in Columbus.”

In 2016, Beard unsuccessfully tried to bring true representative districts to Columbus. His non-profit Everyday People For Positive Change spent $13,000 while the City spent over $1 million to distort and then defeat the citizen-initiated vote.

“Our proposal simply sought to enlarge the size of council and bring real council districts to the city. Columbus is the only big city in America to retain an all-at-large election system,” he says.

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