Criminalizing UNRWA: How Israel is Delegitimizing the United Nations

On October 28, the Israeli Knesset passed a second reading of two bills that effectively ban the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from carrying out “any activity” in Israel and occupied Palestine.

 Simply put, the decision is catastrophic, because UNRWA is the main international body responsible for the welfare of millions of Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, and throughout much of the region. 

The Mourning After

The Morning After

I voted to make my voice heard. Why did I choose three write-in candidates?

I voted today, on Nov. 5th, to make my voice heard because not voting was not an option for me, and it would not help either Gaza or Lebanon. 
 
From day one, I knew I would not vote for either Trump or Harris because they both support the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and both are very hostile toward Muslims and Palestinians as well as Lebanese. 
 
Dr. Jill Stein was my candidate. She was the only anti-genocide candidate. She met with Arab and Muslim Americans. She took part in pro-Palestinian protests against the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, which I know of. I was fully aware that it would be next to impossible that Jill Stein would win but I would not sleep well at night if I voted for either Trump or Harris, whose nicknames are Doormat Donny and Holocaust Harris.
 
My initial response after Jill Stein's name was removed from the ballot in Ohio 10 days was sadness and disappointment. So, it was time to choose another write-in candidate. After some serious thought, I decided on Gadi Francis for President and Rania Khalek for Vice President.

Millcreek Township: The Bellwether within a Bellwether (Within a Bellwether)

Capitol bldg between two flags

The election is just hours away, yet we likely won’t know the winner for a while. The electoral college has shifted all of the significance onto seven swing states, leaving the election up to a small percentage of our country. This article argues that the people who will decide this election is even smaller than seven swing states; it could be decided by a few thousand people in a small town in Pennsylvania called Millcreek Township. 

For Freedom and Against Fear: From FDR to Kamala Harris

Button saying Every Vote Counts

On Tuesday evening October 29, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the Ellipse, supplanting—with unifying oratory— Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric that prompted an attack on the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Advocating a platform that both protects and expands freedoms, Harris has donned the mantle of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

During the 2024 Democratic National Convention, most media interpreted the repetition of “freedom” as a reclamation of that word from the Republican Party. But what I heard was FDR’s "Four Freedoms Speech," and I still do. That speech was President Roosevelt’s State of the Union address presented to a joint session of Congress on January 6, 1941. Yes, precisely 80 years prior to Donald Trump’s Outrage on the Ellipse and inside the selfsame Capitol Building where MAGA followers tried violently to usurp power. In addition to defining democratic freedoms, Roosevelt denounced dictatorial tyranny in his address, making his words from that January 6th resonate today as a rebuttal to Trumpism.

Columbus Democratic Socialists of America Election Night Watch Party

DSA and its issues

Tuesday, November 5, 7-10pm, Classic’s Victory’s Sports Bar, 547 S. High St.

Hosted by Columbus DSA [Democratic Socialists of America].

Facebook Event

Make America Nuts Again

Electile Dysfunction in the Age of PsyWar

Just a quick offering in the lead-up to our Quadrennial Extravaganza Day Ritual.

The attached suggest the inextricable connections between the overlapping, ongoing psyops relating to election integrity, Covid and Gaza issues.  We invite those with the bandwidth to examine them on your own and reach your own conclusions.

Black Mauritanians in Ohio show everyone what welcome looks like

Mauritanian woman

Migration is an act of courage and love. Some people want Ohio and this country to be narrow and exclusive, denying this basic human reality. They have been trying to thrust Black Mauritanians into a national anti-immigrant conversation. But at the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, we say #OHNoYouDont.

Here are a few facts about Black Mauritanians:

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