Our premier guest JERRY ASHTON has retired Billions of dollars in medical debt, freeing millions of American citizens from the burden of servitude to global corporate loan sharks.

Ashton’s legendary RIP Medical Debt organization uses contributions to pay off overdue bills run up in hospitals and elsewhere, but bought by predatory collection agencies and then turned against ordinary citizens.

Begun at the Occupy Wall Street actions many years ago, Ashton has used thousands of private donations to liberate many many families from unsustainable financial burdens.

Abolish Medical Debts was famously featured by John Oliver on his “Last Week Tonight” Show, in which Olver donated Big Money to liberate many many families from their overdue payments.

Jerry is a captivating, personable presenter who gives us a full hour of breakthrough brillianc

Wednesday, May 3, 12:30pm, Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square, 125 E. Broad St.

The Day of Action to stop HJR 1 has been changed to Wednesday, May 3!

The Ohio House session during which we believe that the vote on HJR 1 will take place has been moved to Wednesday, May 3; please join us then. We will gather at Trinity Episopal Church, 125 E. Broad St., across the street from the Ohio Statehouse; we will then march over to the House Chamber at the Ohio Statehouse.

Together, we plan to make it clear that we won’t put up with this attack on our rights and the Ohio Constitution!

A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias (Marin Grigore) returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi (Mark Edward Blenyesi), left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana (Macrina Barladeanu), and to rid the boy of the unresolved fears that have taken hold of him. He’s preoccupied with his old father, Otto (Andrei Finti), and also eager to see his ex-lover, Csilla Szabo (Judith State). When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin veneer of apparent understanding and calm.

I live in a 110-year-old house on a corner lot in the historic but public- and private-destroyed University District (UD) of Columbus. The area is unsafe, filthy, in disrepair, and unpoliced by the City of Columbus, Ohio State University (OSU) that depends on it for housing a majority of its students since its founding in 1870, large corporate property owners whose very existence is technically illegal, and many but not all student tenants.

The UD is a mix of incompatible ingredients simmering at high temperatures on a front burner with no one near the controls. It sometimes burns; lives are lost. Among historic university adjacent areas across the US, it is an extreme example of active and passive neglect.

Consider a telling incident from overnight March 27-28. Our OSU senior tenant neighbors laboriously dragged seven rental electronic scooters and one rental electronic bicycle nto our private property and left them in a jumbled pile blocking our double garage. These students, I note, are 21-22 years of age, university students, allowed to own guns, and vote. But they refuse to follow the law, breaking it more often and violently when asked to respect it.

We start our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom #134 with RACHEL COYLE’s truly astonishing report from the Ohio Heartland.

She starts with the “Education Destruction Act” poised to decimate learning throughout the state.

She then explains the gerrymandered legislature’s attempt to gut the referendum process while assaulting women’s ability to control their own bodies.

She follows with a horrifying account of the legislature’s defiance of the state Supreme Court in defense of the illegal gerrymandered maps that keep it in power.

MARY JANE BORDEN chimes in with a mind-boggling account of the struggle to legalize marijuana in Ohio, which has made remarkable progress cutting through the fascist fog.

WENDI LEDERMAN then explains the horrible official murder of the 27-year-old activist TORTUGUITA, who was shot dead---while seated, with his hands up—with 57 cop bullets in his body.

The fight over the 85-acre Cop City police center in a public forest in Atlanta continues to spiral down into tragic violence.