Bricker Hall

Columbus, Ohio is the United States’ oldest and largest city that lacks both identity and history. By history, I mean a tradition of serious, researched, and documented historical writing by trained professionals, with or without advanced degrees. What passes for history in the Sunday edition of the Columbus Dispatch is not historical writing with close attention to context, relevance, and significance. At best, it is anachronistic antiquarianism.

Rooted in disconnected anecdotes, mainly discovered in old newspapers, it bears no relationship to the results of historical study and historical analysis. Let me be clear, this excludes The Ohio State University District: A Neighborhood History and The Ohio State University Neighborhoods—both vanity press publications; Ohio State University Press’ volumes on university presidents and selected decades; Ed Lentz; and the Ohio History Connection.

Underscoring my conclusion is that the city of Columbus has no history—human or natural—museum. That’s a major absence for a 225-year-old city with more than 900,000 population.

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Saturday, March 18, 2pm, Ohio Statehouse

Join PSL [Party for Socialism and Liberation], the ANSWER Coalition, and other progressive organizations on Saturday, March 18 at the Ohio Statehouse.

It has been 20 years since the illegal U.S. invasion into Iraq; demand an end to all endless U.S. wars!

Peace in Ukraine now! Fund people’s needs, not the war machine!

Key demands include:

• End NATO

• Stop the permanent war economy that funnels trillions of dollars away from jobs, education, and healthcare!

• Negotiations now!

• No war with China!

• End US aid to apartheid Israel!

• Hands off Haiti!

• Fight racism and bigotry at home!

#StopTheWarMachine

To endorse this action, message PSL Columbus on Instagram or on Facebook.

Hosted by PSL [Party for Socialism and Liberation] Columbus.

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Woodstock poster

Woodstock is not just one story – it's 450,000 stories! And the Museum at Bethel Woods and ComFest are partnering to collect unique stories from Ohio.

ComFest is the longest-running community festival in the country and had its beginning in the counterculture movement. The Museum at Bethel Woods, the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, is deeply committed to the collection and preservation of stories from the people who know Woodstock best. Since 2020, the Museum has been collecting oral histories from around the country, and April 4 – April 8, 2023, they are going to be in Columbus.

Did you go to Woodstock? Do you know someone who did? We want to hear from you! It’s quick and easy to do. Contact Andy Basista at andy.basista@comfest.com or send an email to oralhistory@bethelwoodscenter.org to schedule an interview. 

 

Two men giving a presentation

City of Columbus mayoral candidate Joe Motil states, “Today’s Columbus City Council press conference previewed their Housing Initiatives. In almost all their points, they all but copied and pasted the proposals that I have been advocating for over a year.” This is the Columbus Way.

Motil continues, “For more than a year, as part of my Affordable Housing proposals, I have advocated for an ‘Empty Homes Tax.’ This is exactly what Councilman Rob Dorans suddenly proposed,  calling  it the ‘Columbus Rental Registry.’ Of course, the City Council members do not acknowledge me or anyone else.”

Motil stated, “My proposed Empty Homes Tax will increase the supply of urgently needed housing. It will incentivize property investors who leave homes vacant until the market favors them to list and then rent or sell the property. It will also force slumlords to renovate housing that sits vacant and contributes to crime and deteriorating neighborhoods. The Empty Homes Tax revenue generated from property owners goes into an Affordable Housing Trust Fund.”   

Military training

I am a citizen of the US currently visiting Palestine. I’m 64 years old. On March 7, myself and another international were attacked by Israeli settlers while standing on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Tuba in Masafer Yatta. I was hit from behind, hard, with a large stick, and my companion was chased and threatened by a settler with an iron bar. The settler who hit me fractured my skull and caused a bleed in my brain. 

This is what the colonialism of Israeli settlers looks like for Palestinian families living in Masafer Yatta in the southernmost end of the West Bank. Supported by Israeli military and Police, settlers from the many settlements and illegal outposts in Masafer Yatta are systematically stealing Palestinian land and violently forcing  people from their land. To be here now in these 15  villages is to witness ethnic cleansing in real time.

In addition to daily settler threats, attacks, land theft, property destruction and violence, the area’s 1300 residents, more than half of them children, are facing imminent forced removal from their homes  to make way for the use of their lands by the Israeli military as a firing zone.  

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Thursday, March 16, 7-10pm, Club Diversity, 863 S. High St.

Join us for our DSA happy hour! We will be meeting on the third Thursday of each month at 7pm at Club Diversity at 863 S. High St. This will be an informal get together to meet, hang out, talk shop, and enjoy the camaraderie! Non-members are welcome to join and learn more about the chapter.

Hosted by Columbus DSA [Democratic Socialists of America].

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Householder and an associate face up to 20 years in a VERY rare instance of a corrupt official actually being convicted of selling the government to a corporation—and an atomic one at that.

We briefly discuss the crucial Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where the Democratic party as usual appears fast asleep.

FRANK KNAPP of Businesses for Democracy tells us how his sustainable cohorts are fighting for the right to vote and other basics of a free society.

Then WENDI LEDERMAN introduces us to MAYA VAN ROSSUM whose Green Amendment proposes the revolutionary strategy of appending to state constitutions the core right to a clean environment.

As hundreds of thousands, throughout Israel, joined anti-government protests, questions began to arise regarding how this movement would affect, or possibly merge, into the wider struggle against the Israeli military occupation and apartheid in Palestine. 

 Pro-Palestine media outlets shared, with obvious excitement, news about statements made by Hollywood celebrities, the likes of Mark Ruffalo, about the need to “sanction the new hard right-wing government of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu”.

Back in 2021, we had the revelation of emails from the German Interior Ministry which showed that it enlisted scientists to scare the population.

Last year it, was revealed that the Covid statistics had been falsified by Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge by inflating the numbers.

And now we have the revelation of over 100,000 WhatsApp messages from former British Health Minister, Matt Hancock. The British “Daily Telegraph” has put them online as "The  Lockdown Files”. 

From all these revelations, it has been shown time and again that the coronavirus was no more deadly than other cold and flu viruses. As we know from flu and colds, these can be fatal to vulnerable, very old people. For anyone under 80, these viruses are almost never fatal. So it was with Covid-19. It was a common cold virus.

Minister Matt Hancock had a discussion with then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, via WhatsApp about this low mortality rate. He wrote that this was a problem because it meant that vaccination targets would not be met.

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