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Time for Action is Now: What Will Happen after the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel’s Occupation of Palestine

Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will offer a legal opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. 

 A historic United Nations vote on December 31 called on the ICJ to look at the Israeli Occupation in terms of legal consequences, the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the responsibility of all UN Member States in bringing the protracted Israeli Occupation to an end. A special emphasis will be placed on the “demographic composition, character and status” of Occupied Jerusalem. 

How safe can we really be?

It was the guacamole’s fault!

That’s the guy’s defense, anyway — that plus his right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and a 12-guage shotgun into a supermarket in Atlanta. Oh yeah, and he was wearing body armor. This was in March 2021, barely a week after an actual mass shooting at several massage parlors in Atlanta, in which eight people were killed. And it was only two days after a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where ten people were killed.

RAPID 5 has a “vision” for a brewery, gondola and the Big “Darby Inn”

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What is described as the “crown jewel” and largest of local Metro Parks – the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – is being coveted by RAPID 5, which  someday may build a brewery, the “Darby Inn” and a gondola within the park. Similar to the one at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, but several miles in length and built alongside the Big Darby Creek.

Far west, past Hilliard and just off Broad Street before the town of West Jefferson, sprawls the 7,000-plus acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Both the Big and Little Darby Creeks cut through this Metro Park, and both creeks in 1994 were designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, which affords them environmental protections.

RAPID 5 has a “vision” for a brewery, gondola and the Big “Darby Inn”

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What is described as the “crown jewel” and largest of local Metro Parks – the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – is being coveted by RAPID 5, which  someday may build a brewery, the “Darby Inn” and a gondola within the park. Similar to the one at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, but several miles in length and built alongside the Big Darby Creek.

Far west, past Hilliard and just off Broad Street before the town of West Jefferson, sprawls the 7,000-plus acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Both the Big and Little Darby Creeks cut through this Metro Park, and both creeks in 1994 were designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, which affords them environmental protections.

RAPID 5 has a “vision” for a brewery, gondola and the Big “Darby Inn”

Map

What is described as the “crown jewel” and largest of local Metro Parks – the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – is being coveted by RAPID 5, which  someday may build a brewery, the “Darby Inn” and a gondola within the park. Similar to the one at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, but several miles in length and built alongside the Big Darby Creek.

Far west, past Hilliard and just off Broad Street before the town of West Jefferson, sprawls the 7,000-plus acre Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. Both the Big and Little Darby Creeks cut through this Metro Park, and both creeks in 1994 were designated as National Wild and Scenic Rivers, which affords them environmental protections.

Busting Myths - The Ohio State University: Not “a failed presidency,” by itself, but a failing university

Part Two

Campus Partners for Urban Community Development

Among OSU’s most glaring if rarely noticed institutional failures is its so-called Campus Partners for Urban Community Development. As I demonstrate in detail in a forthcoming study, this almost 30 year front partners only with developers, never with or for urban community development. It actively neglects the University District whereby any measure of vision, planning, or common sense, its attention should focus.

Its series of contradictions is encapsulated in its self-presentation or identity as a university-based but independent non-profit organization to beneft private developers. Always lacking in planning and direction, it does just that, to the cost of the university’s losing millions of dollars.

Just One More Example of City Council’s Undemocratic Procedures

Joe Motil

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community activist who is circulating petitions to run for mayor in the 2023 May primary election states: “I attended [Monday, January 9) night’s Columbus City Council meeting to testify against an ordinance. I also supported my fellow advocates who spoke at the meeting about the numerous issues and failures by our city and the justice system regarding the murder of Sinzae Reed. My younger fellow citizens were exposed unexpectedly and rudely exposed to one particular element of the undemocratic rules and conduct of Columbus City Council meetings.

“Because two speakers representing the organizations J.U.S.T. and The Downtownerz signed up to testify during the public comments portion of the City Council meeting, City Council procedures call for an adjournment of the scheduled meeting. This results automatically in turning off the cameras and audio that live stream the meeting on YouTube and for those who have basic cable television.

EV 101: How to Get Started with Electric Vehicles

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 2:00 PM
Please join us for this critical discussion as we learn how electric vehicles can help us save money, protect public health, and safeguard our Sacred Earth. Hear from leading EV consumer advocate Rosa Mitsumasu Scotti as well as IPL staff members about the countless benefits of EVs!  If you can't make this time, please register and you'll receive a follow-up email after the event with a recording. Interfaith Power and Light.  More information and registration here. 

Clintonville Area Progressives Meeting: Gerrymandering

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Tuesday, March 10, 6:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Whetstone Branch], 3909 N. High St.

Despite tireless opposition by progressives and advocates for “good government,” the Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly drew unbalanced and unconstitutional state and congressional districts in 2022.

So what do we do now?

Come hear from a panel of experts on potential steps forward, including bringing the issue directly to voters.

• Catherine Turcer, Executive Director of Common Cause Ohio

• Dr. David Niven, professor at University of Cincinnati, specializing in gerrymandering

Hosted by Clintonville Area Progressives.

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The Ultimate Island Odyssey: From Alcatraz to Pitcairn

After departing Mangareva, everyone aboard Aranui 5 – from passengers to crew – must submit to the voyage’s second obligatory covid test, no exceptions. The first swab for the swabbies, of course, had been taken a day before shoving off from Papeete, and now another one to make sure outsiders don’t carry the dreaded plague to the 40-plus inhabitants of way out-of-the-way Pitcairn Island is also required. Testing positive back at Papeete meant being barred from boarding Aranui 5 for the voyage. While if one passed the test but later flunked it before reaching Pitcairn doesn’t quite mean the infected shipmate has to walk the plank, it does oblige the afflicted to remain solitarily sequestered in his/her cabin until testing negative.

 

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