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Single Payer Action Network (SPAN) Ohio and Health Care for All Ohioans are collecting compelling stories to highlight the many struggles that people face when dealing with the American healthcare system.

We will be videotaping people's stories at the Health Care for All Ohioans/SPAN Ohio Annual Conference on April 27th, in Columbus, at the Quest Conference Center on Pulsar Road. If you cannot make that date, and your video is selected for this initial effort, we can make arrangements for a video production in Worthington, Ohio, if possible, prior to mid-May. 

Please submit your story by clicking the link to our website here.

West Side Residents Continue Suffering Due to Ginther’s Lack of Leadership and Unethical Behavior Concerning Bus Depot

Joe Motil

City of Columbus officials are now doing what they should have done in early 2023 to prevent their repeated blunders and resulting harms concerning the Greyhound/Barons bus depot on North Wilson Road.

A March 1, 2024 email from city attorney Section Chief Steve Dunbar states: “Next week’s Greyhound hearing is being continued. City, Barons and Greyhound are doing a search for alternative sites. I’ll let you know as soon as we get a new date. It will be about sixty days out.”

If a new trial date is not set for another two months, it will be nearly a year that this bus terminal disaster began to play out.  

Barons officials had reached out to city officials requesting assistance in early 2023 to find a new location for their bus terminal after they could not come to terms with COTA on renewing their lease at the West Spring Street COTA location. The city refused to help Barons find a suitable location.

Identity of “Alligator Mound” revealed by return of Fishers to Ohio

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Small mammals called fishers have reappeared in Ohio after being chased from the state by 19th-century hunters. The return of the fishers clears up an old mystery in Ohio archaeology.

One of the most spectacular ancient earthworks in Ohio is the animal effigy in Granville, west of Newark, which was ignominiously named “Alligator Mound” for reasons that remain mysterious and hilarious. Obviously, there were no alligators in ancient Ohio. My theory is that some young white child told her or his daddy that the mound looked like an alligator, the name stuck, and this became alligator baggage that the archaeological authorities still carry.

Monthly Columbus DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] Happy Hour

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Tuesday, March 5, 7-10pm, Club Diversity, 863 S. High St.

Join us for our DSA happy hour! We will be meeting on the first Tuesday of each month at Club Diversity at 863 S. High St. This will be an informal get together to meet, hang out, talk shop, and enjoy the camaraderie! Non-members are welcome to join and learn more about the chapter.

Hosted by Columbus DSA [Democratic Socialists of America].

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Quotes from Knowledgeable Anti-Over-Vaccination Activists

Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD – Last update: March-6, 2019 (10,485 words)

 

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/07/gary-g-kohls/important-quotes-from-virology-and-vaccinology-experts-that-never-are-interviewed-on-the-mainstream-media/

 “Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.” – Excerpt from the Hippocratic Oath, which forbids physicians from administering poisons to patients.

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To Save Israel: The US is Destroying the International System It Once Constructed

In a conversation in 2020 with Princeton Professor Emeritus, Richard Falk, he told me that historically, colonized nations that have won the legitimacy war have always won their freedom. 

 Palestine is unlikely to be the exception. The Gaza war, however, is confronting the world with an unprecedented challenge, specifically to governments’ relationship with international law, their obligations to international institutions, such as the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and others. 

Talking Like the CIA Is Bad for You

There’s a guide at wordsaboutwar.org to some of the standard war language used for big bucks by professional propagandists and for free by almost everyone else who has normalized it and not given it another thought. Manufacturing tools for mass murder is called “the defense industry,” those murdered are called “collateral damage,” the purpose is labeled “the national interest,” etc.

The trouble with talking like the Pentagon or CNN is not just that it helps to — in the words of George W. Bush — catapult the propaganda, but also that it makes war in general seem more acceptable and less horrific than it is.

I want to add a friendly amendment to efforts to reduce the use of Pentagon language. I think CIA language is a problem as well. I think it’s at least as present as war language in Hollywood productions, and in massive child-focused cultural efforts like the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

Call for ceasefire in Palestine

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Columbus Call to Action:  Pack City Hall for Palestine!  Ceasefire now! 
Monday, March 4, 2024, 4:00 PM
For more than 4 months, we have been asking Columbus City council to pass a ceasefire resolution.  Join us at this city council meeting to support a ceasefire resolution.  

Location:  90 W. Broad St., Columbus. Bring your Ohio photo ID.  

All day long - call city council members and ask for their support for a ceasefire resolution.  
General number:  614-645-7380 and Stanley Gates, Director of Community Engagement:  614-645-3566 segates@columbus.gov.  Ask for the office of these council members:  Shannon Hardin (President), Rob Dorans (Pres. Pro Temp.), Nicholas Bankston, Lourdes Barroso Padilla, Nancy Day-Achauer, Shayla Favor, Melissa Green, Emmanual Remy, and Christopher Wyche. 

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Linking the Andaman Sea & Gulf of Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Bangkok hopes Beijing will help build a $2.8 billion, east-west highway and railway "Land Bridge" across Thailand, linking the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand as a short-cut for oil and other international cargo currently sailing further south via Singapore and the Malacca Strait.

Inland southern China could then also use existing north-south roads and rails to enable Chinese overland access, for the first time, to southern Thailand's two planned deep-sea ports on the Andaman and Gulf coasts, opening westward to the Indian Ocean and east to the Pacific.

Thailand describes the Land Bridge plan as a faster, shorter, cheaper route for international shipping compared to the narrow, congested, southern Strait of Malacca wedged between Singapore and Indonesia.

The Land Bridge could also become an alternative route if hostilities erupt in the region and the Malacca Strait is blockaded.

Many of the international ships passing Singapore carry Middle Eastern oil and other products to China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and elsewhere in the Pacific.

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