Animal Exploitation Viewed Through the Extraterrestrial Mirror

Pig in a cage

Despite recent House testimony by highly credentialed whistleblowers, we do not know if spacefaring extraterrestrial organisms have ever visited Earth. However, the mere possibility of their existence raises an important challenge for our continued exploitation of animals here on earth. 

“Make Jazz Not War at the Hot Times Festival,” hosted by Make Jazz Not War

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Sunday, September 10, 12:30-2pm
Hot Times Festival, 240 Parsons Ave., Main Street Stage

This special edition of Make Jazz Not War (formerly the JazzPoetry Ensemble) brings our irrepressible, irreverent, and downright exciting mix back to Hot Times. Michael Cox joins regulars Roger Hines, Brett Burleson, The Governor, and Michael Vander Does for American protest music that will get you out of your seat.

Hosted by Make Jazz Not War.

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Calling All Seekers -“Fremily”

Ro-Z, Gail and Darryl

We just buried my ex-husband Darryl Mendelson. He had been battling leukemia for several months and finally succumbed on Thursday, August 24, 2023.

He had been a major player in some Columbus institutions, including Comfest, which he helped to create. Darryl, born Stephen Victor, was raised in Brooklyn with his brother Ro-z (Jeffery). I met them at the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969. Darryl, Ro-z, Stan Bobrof, Charlie Einhorn and Steve Terkel had embarked from Columbus and were living on the bus called Progress. They had been traveling to pop festivals around the country and had established an encamptment at the bottom of “Acid Alley” at Atlanta. There were two other buses: Candy Watkins’ little bus Pathfinder and Wonderbread, which looked just like a loaf of bread, with all the spots. Four adults and four kids lived on that bus!

Free Press September Salon at Hot Times Festival

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Saturday, September 9, 7-8pm, Hot Times Festival, 240 Parsons Ave.

Join us at the Hot Times Community Arts and Music Festival for the September Free Press Second Saturday Salon.

We’ll gather on the porch of the Health Department building: 240 Parsons Ave., between E. Main St. and Bryden Rd., on the lawn of Columbus Public Health.

• We’ll have a discussion of protest music and musicians playing some protest songs.

• We will also discuss the Ta’Kiya Young murder and the effort to stop qualified immunity for police.

We will be celebrating 46 Fabulous Hot Times Festivals! Art Cars, three stages, vendors, food, friends, family, and fun!

Hosted by The Columbus Free Press.

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“If the parents are OK, the children are OK”

Father, mother and child

Late last year, two groups of Columbus immigrants sat down with researchers from the Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN) and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) for private “listening sessions.” Ohio was one of seven states chosen by these national organizations.

Listening to immigrants, who are the real experts in immigration law and policy, themes emerged. Research findings are presented in a new report, “If The Parents Are Okay, The Children Are OK.” Next, CTAN and CLASP will move from listening and analyzing into action, incorporating parents’ recommendations into their advocacy plans.

In Columbus, parents said they were terrified about their kids’ safety going to and from school, and inside the classroom. On top of gun violence, stranger danger, and drugs that look like candy, they are contending with bullying, verbal attacks, and even ethnicity-based hate crimes.

Hot Times Community Arts and Music Festival

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Friday, September 8 to Sunday, September 10, 240 Parsons Ave. [northeast of the intersection of E. Main St. and Parsons Ave.]

The Hot Times Community Arts and Music Festival is scheduled for September 8-9-10, 2023.

This weekend-long celebration is a special occasion where the community gathers to celebrate peace, harmony, community unity, friends, family, and the arts.

Please enjoy your time at the festival, and upon leaving, take away with you a bit of happiness and friendship that is Hot Times.

Hosted by Hot Times Community Arts and Music Festival. 

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An American Ally, a Coup, & Prison

BANGKOK, Thailand -- While visiting Bangkok in 2003, then-President George W. Bush designated Thailand a "non-NATO treaty ally" and congratulated Thaksin Shinawatra, the popular, elected, civilian prime minister.

Three years later, a desperate, panicking Mr. Thaksin secretively alerted Mr. Bush about "a threat to democracy in Thailand" by "extra-constitutional tactics" just before a 2006 military coup toppled him.

Today, Mr. Thaksin is a prisoner beginning a one-year sentence -- reduced by the king from eight years -- for financial corruption, ending 15 years as an international fugitive by voluntarily returning to Bangkok on August 22.

This is where so-called "Thai-style democracy" gets tricky, opaque, and imaginative.

Hours after Mr. Thaksin returned and was arrested, Parliament ended a three-month standoff and elected Mr. Thaksin's Pheu Thai Party colleague, a politically inexperienced real estate tycoon, Srettha Thavisin, 60, as prime minister.

Mr. Srettha, a billionaire relatively unknown to the public, said he will "improve the living conditions of all Thai people."

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