Monday, October 3, 2022, 6:30 PM
We've got an opportunity to Share Our Values and Vote Our Values. What we do over the next 6 weeks will have a big impact on what we can do over the next 6 years.

The Ohio Supreme Court has been the deciding factor for many of the ACLU's pushes to protect and expand our civil liberties and civil rights. This October, we'll work to ensure that we're reaching thousands of Ohioans to let them know our values are on the ballot.  During this meeting we will talk about how we intend to reach out to thousands of Ohioans, lead them through discovering their personal values, and ensuring that the know who is on the Ballot and how that may impact their values.  

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Do bosses trust employees to be productive when working remotely? Not according to a new survey by Citrix of 900 business leaders and 1,800 knowledge workers - those who can do their job remotely.

Half of all business leaders believe that when employees are working “out of sight,” they don’t work as hard. Yet this belief contradicts the facts.

Should we take up a public collection to send Columbus’ “mayor,” at-large unrepresentative city councilors, and non-expert department heads to visit Toronto? Every Columbus resident and voter suspicious of the “Columbus Way” and “Opportunity for ‘a few’ city” should spend time just north of the US-Canadian border in Toronto, Ontario, now the 4th largest city in North America. Canada’s largest city and Ontario’s capital is at once a great city and a challenged city, with countless lessons to teach the much smaller, alienating, undemocratic city with no identity and no history, Columbus, Ohio. We could require our “leaders” to pass a course on cities and urbanism 101 before taking office and for continuing in office.

Two weeks ago, I visited the city where I lived from 1970-1975 while I completed graduate studies at the University of Toronto. To add context, my partner and I were Landed Immigrants, not Resident Aliens, and received free health care instituted not by socialists but by Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party. Tuition at one of the hemisphere’s premier public universities was (and is) far less than comparable US institutions.

Friday, September 30th, at 7 PM
Social Center of the Lincoln Theater , 769 E. Long St.
A documentary and reflection by David S. Harewood
 A work-in-progress based on testimonies taken by the Columbus Police Accountability Project and my own reflections therein. It's part documentary and part magic realism and, as such, feels like a good start. It's easily the most daunting original work I've undertaken in my adult life and I'm eternally grateful to the Greater Columbus Arts Council for entrusting me with this fellowship, which also highlights work done by numerous artists and organizations in Columbus' Near East sid. A reading of portions of the script will be offered this and I'd love it if you could make it. While the reading is free and open to the public. Donations encouraged. 

Thankfully, we’re joined by the uniquely powerful JUDITH WHITMER, rebel Chair of the Democratic Party of Nevada, where an uprising of grassroots activists has transformed the playing field. 

Judith has helped lead the charge to at last put the Democratic Party apparatus in reach of grassroots activists who actually support a progressive agenda….and who are willing to fight for a progressive agenda.

We learn from GREG COLERIDGE that the horrendous Citizen’s United does not protect dark money’s ability to buy primaries, as they’re themselves the bailiwick of private corporations, ie the political parties.  

Thus we realize the possibility of actually having fair and accessible systems to choose partisan candidates, a revolutionary development to say the least.

DOROTHY REIK, THERESA BONPANE, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL and others chime in with great questions.

We’re FURTHER joined by WENDI LEDERMAN, who has compiled a brilliant and extremely important roster of non-partisan grassroots organizations around the country.