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Reprinted from  The Buckeye Flame

Members of the Ohio House Higher Education Committee met Wednesday to hear public testimony opposing House Bill 183 — which would ban transgender students in Kindergarten through college from using any restroom, changing room, locker room or shower room that is “accessible by multiple students at the same time.”

The bill does not acknowledge the existence of intersex people, and would require students, school administrators, educators, staff and visitors to use the restroom that aligns with the gender assigned to them on the birth certificate “issued at or near the time of [their] birth.”

Maria Bruno — public policy director for Ohio-based LGBTQ+ legal advocacy group Equality Ohio — said the bill’s language mirrors similar anti-transgender legislation:

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Free trees have become available at our South Side (10/14) and Linden (10/21) community giveaways! Have the perfect spot in your yard for a tree? Reserve yours at greencbus.org/freetrees2023.

Act quick! The giveaways were previously sold out, and will likely sell out again. Insider tip: If the tree you want is sold out, you are welcome to swing by the giveaway during the last 15 minutes to check for extras due to no-shows.

 

Details about event

Saturday, October 14, 7-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Speakers:

• Mary Jane Borden on cannabis legislation and a tribute to longtime cannabis activist Angelica Warren

• Lynn Tramonte, Ohio Immigrant Alliance, on new Migration Anthology book and updates on immigration issues in Ohio

A “question-and-answer” will be included.

If you have announcements for the progressive community, let us know at <colsfreepress@gmail.com>.

If you have any announcements for the progressive community, contact us at <colsfreepress@gmail.com>.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event.

Hosted by The Columbus Free Press.

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Statehouse with Palestinian flag

More than 150 gathered at the Statehouse Thursday evening, October 12, to rally for Palestinian rights as violence continues to murder the people of the eastern Mediterranean.

Organized by students and residents alike (all of whom will remain anonymous due to right-wing efforts to discredit and ruin people fighting for human rights), the people gathered to voice their anger not just at the Israel government’s continued use of violence to justify their occupation of Palestine, but hope for a better future.

Friday, October 13, 2023, 7:30 PM
Bill Cohen and friends will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live and familiar 1960’s folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions.  
Proceeds from the suggested $15 donations (at the door) will go to the Mid-Ohio Food Collective.  
Free parking is also available in the lots just South and West of the church.  The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the church basement but get there early for a good seat.  The program is suitable for ADULTS and MATURE TEENS. 
Location:  King Avenue Methodist Church, 299 W. King at Neil in Columbus 43201. 
or more information, call Bill at (614) 263-3851 or e-mail BillCohen@columbus.rr.com.

We begin GREEP #152 with the great LIBBE HALEVY, creator of the Nuclear Hotseat, who tells us about the triumphant debut of the award-winning documentary SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME.  

This SOS masterpiece by MARY BETH BRANGAN & JIM HEDDLE of the Ecological Options Network join us later in the call to explain the great grassroots victory in shutting the two San Onofre reactors….followed by the horrific struggle to deal with their atomic waste.

In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, ANDREA MILLER shares some her amazing native brilliance rooted in her Cherokee background.

Introduced by MYLA RESON, we hear from ANNA RONDON of the southwestern tribes who are fighting to protect our Earth from the horrors of uranium mining.

TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of our Star Origins as well as our Indigenous roots amidst the struggle to call in powers of the Four Directions, and in hopes of freedom for the wrongly imprisoned LEONARD PELTIER..

From PAT MARIDA in central & southern Ohio we hear a brilliant dissection of the catastrophic Portsmouth/Piketon uranium enrichment/Bomb-making disaster in Shawnee/Miami land.

Details about event

Thursday, October 12 - 5pm
Ohio Statehouse
National Students for Justice in Palestine is calling for a national day of resistance from the student movement for Palestine liberation on college campuses.

SJP OSU will be collaborating with the Palestinian Women's Association at OSU to hold this protest against the inhumane crimes committed against Gaza, and we will be condemning the attacks on Gaza, as well as resisting directly through dismantling Zionism.

Please show out with flags, kuffiyehs, signs and your support for Palestine!!

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