Tuesday, May 30, 6pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

FirstEnergy wasn’t the only Ohio utility company involved in the H.B. 6 bill and the subsequent $65-million-dollar scandal. Join Common Cause Ohio for a virtual forum on the role that American Electric Power (AEP) played and continues to play in Ohio’s largest corruption scandal.

Moderated by award-winning Ohio Statehouse journalist Morgan Trau, we will hear from Energy and Policy Institute’s policy researcher and writer Dave Anderson, and Kathiann Kowalski, reporter for Energy News Network and Eye on Ohio, both of whom have closely followed AEP’s involvement. They will discuss the role of dark money, the corruption it breeds, and how the company is still benefiting from H.B. 6.

This program is co-sponsored by Ohio Fair Courts Alliance, Energy and Policy Institute, and Sierra Club.

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From Equality Ohio:
In addition to their continued attacks against democracy, Ohio Republicans are also hard at work stripping away rights and life-saving care from trans Ohioans.  

Their latest anti-trans bill, House Bill 68, would block access to critical lifesaving health services and gender-affirming for trans Ohioans.  House Bill 68 would also prohibit physicians from prescribing cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers, and from performing any type of gender-affirming surgery on minors. Additionally, the bill would outlaw conduct that “aids and abets,” prohibiting healthcare providers from helping their minor patients receive gender-affirming care in other states.  

ust like we've seen with reproductive healthcare, Statehouse Republicans continue to assert that they should have control over the decisions made between a patient, their loved ones, and their medical provider, regardless of facts or the harm it will cause.  

(Note: This is the edited text for Rampell’s introduction to the April 29 screening of Spartacus at the Academy Museum for The Hollywood Ten at 75 Film Series from April 13-30 commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist. A startling thing occurred during the Spartacus screening: As the first rebellion of the gladiators erupted, one of the warriors struck a Roman with a weapon and at that exact moment one could see the celluloid jump out of the projector’s sprockets and then watch the film literally burn. It seemed as if the gladiator’s mighty blow actually caused a remarkable, real life special effect, which literally brought the show to a halt and the houselights went on in the packed almost 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater in the Academy Museum’s Sphere Building. Stunned audience members were anxious that the screening would not be able to continue, but in that show biz tradition, the show must – and did – go on. Apparently, projectionists were able to splice the film together and viewers were able to watch the epic all the way to the end without any additional mishaps.