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April 4th, 1984 and April 4th, 1968

I recently went to a theater production of George Orwell’s ”1984” and also recently viewed the Ken Burns 10 episode documentary “The Vietnam War” on PBS. Although the Burns documentary was flawed in many respects, it was still well worth watching. I highly recommend that everybody watch it. It happens to be still running on PBS (one episode each Tuesday night in my Duluth, MN area).

Posted at: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/duty-to-warn/

Given the fact that the storylines of both the documentary and the play have relevance in our increasingly proto-fascist, increasingly militarized nation, I have decided to re-publish a slightly revised version of my April 4, 2017 Duty to Warn column about Orwell’s work of art and King’s critique of the Vietnam War.

Ohio House Bill 434 is DEAD!

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VICTORY!  Congratulations and thanks to everyone who helped oppose this bill.

HB 434 passed the Ohio House 75-18 on March 3, 2022, but was not voted out of the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee at the end of December.

Under the Radar Bill:  Ohio House Bill 434 would have created a secretive new Ohio Authority that could dip into the public treasury for unspecified amounts of money to support research and development of what the bill termed an “advanced” nuclear reactor. But the entities behind the bill were promoting old and failed nuclear power technology. All this when the cost of new nuclear power to consumers is 4 to 5 times higher than wind or solar. 

The Ohio Nuclear Free Network led the charge against this bill, with help from the Ohio Green Party, the Cuyahoga County Green Party, Our Revolution Ohio, the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Grassroot Ohio, WGRN-LP FM Columbus, the Columbus Free Press, Midwest Energy News, other groups whose members worked on this issue, and individuals.

Book Review: White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White And America’s Darkest Secret by A. J. Baime

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Surely Walter F. White, the superlative black investigative journalist, civil rights leader, author, and member of the Harlem Renaissance, is one of the most neglected figures in the twentieth century freedom movement. Perhaps it is, in part, because he was a black man who looked white. He once wrote of himself , “My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.” An essay in the Winter 1998 issue of the magazine American Legacy, says “The Ethical Culture Society leader Algernon Black was called upon to introduce him before an address. Mr. Black was introducing Mr. White, but Mr. Black was white and Mr. White was black, while of a whiter complexion than Mr. Black.”

Free Press January Second Saturday Salon

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Saturday, January 14, 7-8pm

Join progressive friends on Zoom to celebrate the new year and optimistic hope for the future.

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We'll hear from peace activist and journalist David Swanson of RootsAction about his new book, on the subject of the Monroe Doctrine, that forbid European powers from colonizing the Western hemisphere -- and what to replace it with.

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This Business of Burning Human Beings

Remarks on RootsAction.org’s Defuse Nuclear War livestream on January 12, 2023. Video here.

Thank you for all for being here and for including me.

We know the risks. They’re no secret. The Doomsday clock has almost nowhere to go but oblivion.

We know what’s needed. We’ve made a national holiday of a man who said he would oppose all nukes and all wars without any regard to whether it was popular, who said the choice was between nonviolence and nonexistence.

The Myth of the “Moderate Republican” -- and Why It’s So Dangerous

The current notion of a “moderate Republican” is an oxymoron that helps to move the country rightward. Last week, every one of the GOP’s so-called “moderates” voted to install House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who won with the avid support of Donald Trump and got over the finish line by catering to such fascistic colleagues as Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert.

Central Ohio area business leaders creating the nation’s first recovery center and trade school

Seeing the current workforce exodus crippling other contractors and the dire need for new approaches to addiction treatment, a group of Columbus-area businesses are backing a very innovative and unique nonprofit endeavor to address both problems and launch the nation’s first recovery center and trade school right here in Ohio. 

Although Emerge Recovery & Trade Initiative is located in nearby Greene County, Ohio, a large portion of this nonprofit’s backing and leadership is based out of Greater Columbus and surrounding areas, as dozens of heating, air conditioning, plumbing and  electrical companies throughout Central Ohio are funneling portions of their profits into renovations underway at the facility. 

Once it’s fully operational, Emerge will serve people from all over Ohio; it is located at the former Greene County Career Center in Xenia Township. The 48-acre campus went up for auction in 2021 after the school moved to a new facility and its future was uncertain. 

SPAN program on the Environmental Effects on Health

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Saturday, January 14, 10am on Zoom
Clean air and clean water are critical to our health.  The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Article 25 declares a clean and safe environment as part of our Human Right to Health. 
 
How does air pollution impact our respiratory health?
How does polluted water impact our health?
Have we moved forward in safeguarding our health or backwards? 
Who is most impacted by our neglect of the environment?
 
Join us on Saturday, January 14th at 10:00 am as we explore those issues. Register here.

Raise the Kuffiyeh 2023

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Sat, January 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST

Join us for our annual Palestinian cultural night Raise the Kuffiyeh 2023 featuring guest host Fathi @falas6eeni, and more performers TBA!

By Students for Justice in Palestine at The Ohio State University

Link for tickets - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raise-the-kuffiyeh-2023-tickets-480032860207.

Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #122 Jan. 9 , 2023

In Green Grassroots Election Protection zoom #122 we pay tribute to pioneer election protection mainstay CLIFF ARNEBECK, who has just passed.

This heroic Ohio attorney joined with BOB FITRAKIS, CLINT CURTIS, JULIE WIENER & others who demanded an end to the 2004 electoral fraud that wrongly gave GEORGE W. BUSH a 2d term.

Clint gives us a tour of the paper ballot issue and questions the use of computerized ballot images to count the vote.

We then hear from DEEPA DRIVER and VINCENT DeSTEFANO about the situation with JULIAN ASSANGE.

Deepa delivers a brilliant talk on the absolute need for protected journalism and a public funnel for critical documents.

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