The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide. However, the delay in publishing such an indictment is troubling and adds to an existing problem of politically motivated decision-making processes that have, in their own right, prolonged the ongoing Israeli war crimes.

 The report accused Israel of committing genocide, a conclusion reached after a detailed analysis of the military campaign’s intent, the systematic destruction of civilian life, and the government-engineered famine. This finding is significant because it adds to the massive body of legal and testimonial evidence affirming the Palestinian position that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute a genocide.

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What: The Farce. The Fix. The Force. The * …

You support legalizing marijuana, aka cannabis, in Ohio. In fact, you have followed this issue for years. A few citizens you knew were putting the subject on the ballot. You signed their petition, confident that you understood its contents. Sufficient signatures and plentiful petitions placed the issue on the statewide ballot in November 2023 as Issue 2. You made sure your voter registration was current so you could participate in the early vote. After election day, you woke up happily to find that over 2 million other Ohioans voted just like you. Ohio legalized adult use cannabis. The new law went into effect on December 7. And Ohioans lived happily ever after … or not. You recently learned that Ohio legislators are trying to gut the new law. Your reaction? WTF!

WHAT: THE FRAMEWORK

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Earlier this year when Kaufman Development sold one of its “Gravity” apartment buildings in Franklinton, it was another canary-in-the-coal mine moment for a West Side activist. Just a month prior, the Columbus-based developer had sold the nearby Idea Foundry and Gravity Park Experience, which is best described as a playground for adults with its pickle ball courts.

“They are cheap-ass apartments from what we’ve seen at Gravity,” says Rebecca Hunley, a Franklinton homeowner and also the current chair of the Franklinton Area Neighbors Civic Association, an organization she founded. “Yet I don’t see anything telling me, or anybody from our neighborhood, we can move in. I have never paid a mortgage like what they are asking for rent. Gravity, the great flop that it is. It’s a failure.”

Details about event

Sign up for the Saturday, August 9, 2025, 2:00 – 3:30 PM Hands Along High Street event 

Join the final big resistance event of the summer before the beginning of the new school year!

With your participation, we will form a human chain of resistance 8 miles long on the public sidewalk along the west side of High Street from Route 161 in Worthington to downtown Columbus, delivering the message that WE STAND UNITED in defense of fundamental American values and against the corruption and tyranny of the Trump administration. 

Why are so many Americans, especially young ones, depressed, bipolar, overweight, gender-stressed and "on the spectrum"?

Explanations range from endocrine disrupters, forever chemicals and plastics in the environment and food to electromagnetic fields from cell phones and microwaves to helicopter parents. That's before we get to Covid's forced 5-year social isolation and fetal and childhood exposure to prescription drugs. (For example, SSRI antidepressants contribute to bipolar diagnoses according to some research).

Our fabulous Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives us her usual transcendent poem.

Singaporean native HEDY TRIPP talks of her father suffering through Japan’s Gulag & her decades of powerful No Nukes work ever since.

Noted film reviewer ED RAMPELL tells us of the powerful documentary “Atomic People” and its devastating impact on our view of the nuclear Bombings.

Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN questions the military calculations behind dropping those Bombs at all.

Network maven DAVID SALTMAN chimes in on the shocking availability of radioactive materials…& does a deep dive on the state of the modern news media.

All the above is followed by “America’s Mayor” HEIDI LAMPERT updates her battles for democracy in Waldport, Oregon.

Legendary co-host MIKE HERSH warns of the toxic power of the Big/Dark Money warping our elections.

Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO sticks it to both Columbia University & CBS for their lack of spine in standing up to dictatorship.

From Columbus, Ohio, we hear SANDY BOLZENIUS say she’s actually optimistic about the power of the people to fight back for democracy!

Details about event

Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 6:00 PM
University Baptist Church, 50 W. Lane Ave., Columbus 43201

Featuring Rocco Di Pietro, Composer and Concert Organizer.  The event is in support of the Columbus Campaign for Arms Control annual commemoration of Hiroshima/Nagasaki Bombings.

Contact Mark D. Stansbery, 614-252-9255, walk@igc.org

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