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Friday, August 25, 2023, 11:00 PM
In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the Ohio Council of Churches invites you to travel to Washington, DC for a time of Recommitment to Racial and Economic Justice!  

On Friday, August 25 at 11:00 pm, our bus will leave from Woodland Christian Church, 143 Woodland Ave, Columbus, OH. On Saturday, August 26 at 5:00 pm, our bus will depart Washington, DC for Columbus, arriving at approximately 1:00 am.  Overnight parking at Woodland Christian Church is permitted.  Owners assume all risks.  Cost: $100 per person. Costs includes meals and snacks.  

Register and pay here.  

BANGKOK, Thailand -- After 15 years as an international fugitive ousted in a coup, homesick billionaire ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned on August 22, allowing the Supreme Court to sentence him to eight years for corruption and send him under heavy security to Bangkok's grim Remand Prison.

Hours later, in a backroom choreographed arrangement which is still playing out, Parliament ended a three-month deadlock and elected the candidate of Mr. Thaksin's extended party to be prime minister, politically inexperienced real estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin, 60.

Mr. Thaksin's spectacular return may have been in expectation that Mr. Srettha will somehow grant him leniency.

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

The prime minister-elect's name needs the king's endorsement before he can take over.

Mr. Srettha secured the prime ministry only by including, in his 11-party coalition, two political parties -- the United Thai and Palang Pracharath -- linked to the most recent 2014 coup.

People standing in front of billboard

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has put up a billboard in Columbus saying “Abort Theocracy: Keep Abortion Safe & Legal” ahead of a crucial referendum on the issue.

According to the Foundation’s website, it “works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church.”

The national state/church watchdog group and its Columbus chapter designed the billboard message in support of an upcoming November referendum to provide state constitutional protections for reproductive rights — and specifically to call attention to the religiously motivated crusade behind anti-abortion bans and restrictions. It’s a 14-by-48-foot bulletin on Hudson Street, 100 feet east of Summit Street facing west. The billboard went up last week and will be on display through Sept. 10.

“The fight to reaffirm abortion rights is really about the need to buttress the wall separating the state from the church,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The religious dogma of the few should not be allowed to deny rights to the rest of us.”

People posing in front of a Bronzeville Growers Market sign

Thursday, August 24, 3-6pm, 935 Mount Vernon Ave. [near the intersection of Mount Vernon Ave. and N. 17th St.]

Join us each week for fresh, affordable, nutritious produce, local artisan creations, activities for youth, live music, and a food truck. This week there will be a Plant Swap and Recipe Swap; bring a plant and get a plant. And check out tasty plant-based recipes.

Vendors include Local Matters, Cynts Scents, Sankofa Love Designs, R02K, Coffico, and many, many others!

This event will repeat each Thursday, 3-6pm, until September 28.

Hosted by Bronzeville Growers Market.

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Realizing that I’ve been taking something for granted — one grain of infinity — is never an abstraction. It generally happens by whack and wallop.

Oh yeah, the knee. The knee. It’s kind of important.

A crucial part of the realization process is acknowledgment. Maybe even learning something. So, pardon the details I’m about to reveal, but I’m trying to figure out what I may have just learned these past few days, even as I call out to the universe: “Enough!” I don’t want any more life lessons for a while. (Come on, I’m only 77.)

So what happened was, my long-time buddy, Malcolm — we’ve been best friends since 1967 — came to town for a visit last week. Wow, cool. Two long-time-ago hippies on their own in Chicago. The world felt wide open. And I was host. However, the day of his arrival — as I lay in bed that morning — my right knee woke me up with a piercing poke in my consciousness. No, not again!

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