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Sunday, May 21 at 2pm on Zoom

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In choosing extremism, Ohio Republicans commit themselves to a political trajectory that lacks decency, commonsense, and integrity

"As Ohio goes, so goes the nation.” The Buckeye State was once considered the ultimate bellwether in electoral politics. While the state has trended conservative in recent years with Republicans, on average, out-performing Democrats in the state by a 54-46 percent margin, the State Legislature’s composition gives the illusion that Ohio is overwhelmingly in the Republican camp.

Grassroot Ohio - Carolyn Harding with Joe Motil & Adrienne Hood, Mayor and City Council candidates running for the PEOPLES’ vote in Columbus on November 7, 2023

Adrienne Hood and Joe Motil

Fri May 19 at 5pm and Sun May 21 at 2 pm

Radioactive Waste Flows To New Mexico & Onto Florida Roads, Women Of Three MIle Island, Cop City

We lead off our 137th GREE-GREE Zoom with the great KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear, WHO gives us the bad news about the licensing of a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, soon to be heavily opposed by voters and government officials in NM..  
Long-time No Nukes stalwart MYLA RESON adds her unique view on how to stop this latest nuke madness.
WENDI LEDERMAN reports on the insane idea of spreading radioactive wastes on Florida’s highways…and other Ron DeSantis madness.
SHAWNA FOSTER updates us on her campaigns for democracy and ecological protection. 
RON LEONARD tells us about Dow Chemical’s purchase of four (4) new mini-nukes.
Gun Control hero JOHN ROSENTHAL gives us our first MONDAY MASS MURDER REPORT.

Bull Durham

Stepping over the border, onto Planet Earth

“. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .”

These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. They emanate a cutting glow, a crying wish and hope that slices to the core of me. At the same time, I feel surrounded by a cynical “realism”: Don’t be a fool. A marriage like that isn’t possible. Be grateful you’re an American. Arm yourself! We’re being invaded.

Autobiography of Assata Shakur Reading Group

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Thursday, May 18 7pm-9pm 
Enarson Classrooms Building Room 214 at OSU
Join online: http://tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting

Join the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists!
This week, we will be meeting from 7-9pm to discuss our local organizing and workshop ideas for promoting the socialist cause in Columbus.
This week we will be discussing our anti fascist work, solidarity with the movement against Cop City in Atlanta, the Stop Intel campaign, and other work we’re involved. We encourage anyone whose interested in organizing in the socialist movement to join us.
Hope to see you there!

How Many People Has the U.S. Government Killed?

I’m looking at the new report from Costs of War.

Five years ago, I think Nicolas Davies credibly and conservatively estimated 6 million people directly killed in U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia.

What Costs of War has now done is to go with the highly dubious but corporate-respectable estimate of 900,000 directly killed in all of those wars, but leaving out Libya and Somalia. They’ve then documented a pattern of four indirect deaths for every direct death. By indirect deaths, they mean deaths caused by a war’s impact on:

“1) economic collapse, loss of livelihood and food insecurity;
2) destruction of public services and health infrastructure;
3) environmental contamination; and
4) reverberating trauma and violence.”

Then they’ve multiplied 900,000 by 5 = 4.5 million direct and indirect deaths.

In “The Columbus Way”, Ginther slings mud and spits lies about Joe Motil

In the last few days, selected Columbus residents received a text message fake opinion “survey” from uncredentialled market research company Research-Opinions.com in a brazenly dishonest and intolerable attempt to discredit me.

A friend of mine alerted me yesterday about the survey, and its unacceptably biased portrayal of Ginther as a successful mayor with absolutely no evidence. At the same time, it grossly misrepresented me as someone who opposes affordable housing and inclusiveness, and only runs for office “so he can get his name on the news.” Contradictorily, professional politician Ginther calls me “a professional political candidate.”

Ginther, his campaign, and his hacks are blatantly slandering and defaming me. These lies about me clearly demonstrate that Ginther, his campaign, and the Columbus establishment are already frightened about the head-to-head November election between two Democratic candidates for Mayor. My record of nearly 40 years of advocacy for justice, fairness, and quality of life issues for neighborhoods and everyday people of Columbus is a proven fact across this city. I am a Democrat. Ginther is not democratic.

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