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.  

Thursday, September 29 at 7:30 pm ET

Peace activists from across the country will discuss strategies for educating the public and for building the Peace Movement at this critical time.

Featuring:

Don Bryant -- Cleveland Peace Action

Kelly Maracle -- Water Protector & Land Defender

Arrested for Civil Disobedience at Line 3

Sarah Campbell - Vets for Peace - Kansas City

Haig Hovaness -- Green Party Peace Action Committee

Rich Whitney -- Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois

United National Antiwar Coalition

Susan Mirsky -- Massachusetts Peace Action

Nuclear Disarmament

David Pack   -- Kansas City PeaceWorks

Andre Sheldon -- Global Strategy of Nonviolence

Host Madelyn Hoffman -- Green Party of New Jersey

From Ukraine to Somalia, from Syria to Ethiopia, over a dozen wars are raging across the globe. The planet needs a global ceasefire. 

Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines takes on Justice Pat DeWine for his alleged adultery and two messy divorces

To spice up the general election season, the anti-DeWine PAC Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines has finally released a more straightforward political ad called “Cheating Pat DeWine,” which takes aim at Governor Mike DeWine’s son, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine, who is running for re-election this year.

What would we do in a world lacking police, prisons, surveillance, borders, wars, nuclear weapons, and capitalism? Well, we might survive. We might sustain life on this little blue dot a little longer. That — in contrast to the status quo — ought to be sufficient. We might, in addition, do a lot more than sustain life. We might transform the lives of billions of people including each person reading these words. We might have lives with less fear and worry, more joy and accomplishment, more control and cooperation.

But, of course, the question I began with might be asked in the sense of “Wouldn’t the criminals get us, and the forces of law and order be imperiled, and evildoers take away our freedoms, and sloth and laziness deprive us of updated phone models every few months?”

I recommend, as a way to begin answering that concern, reading a new book by Ray Acheson called Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages.