As many of you know, Edith Espinal and other Sanctuary leaders were targeted by ICE and fined hundreds of thousands of dollars. Through community and legal action, Edith and the other leaders were able to get their fines rescinded. However, their freedom is still not guaranteed.

Saturday, July 8, 2022, 7:00 PM
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Theme:
Roe V Wade and other Supreme Court decisions
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Since we aren't getting together in person, we can gather for a couple hours on the second Saturday night of each month from 7-8:00pm Eastern Time on Zoom.
Featuring
Ted Glick, Beyond Extreme Climate
Mary Jane B., states rights and Dobbs
Felicia DeRosa, Equality Act
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Saturday, July 9, noon
Ohio Statehouse
In the past year, Ohio’s legislature has produced a litany of legislation whose purpose is to inflict pain upon the state’s minority communities. HB 327 focuses on race, stating any discussion of “divisive concepts”- like the role of white supremacy in American history- would lead to the school district having its funding withheld by the Department of Education.HB 616 prioritizes gender identity and sexual orientation, saying no school can “teach, use, or provide any curriculum or instructional materials on sexual orientation or gender identity” for grades kindergarden- 3rd, and if a teacher is discovered doing so in grades 4-12, an individual “may file a complaint against a teacher, school administrator, or school district superintendent”, causing the district to lose funding, and teachers to lose their teaching license.HB 454 would ban gender affirming medical care for trans teens, endangering the very children the law’s sponsors allegedly hope to protect. And HB 151 threatens the trans community once again, banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.

“No War 2022, July 8 – 10,” hosted by World BEYOND War, will consider major and growing threats faced in today’s world. Emphasizing “Resistance and Regeneration,” the conference will feature practitioners of permaculture who work to heal scarred lands as well as abolish all war.

Listening to various friends speak of the environmental impact of war, we recalled testimony from survivors of a Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin, Sachsenhausen, where over 200,000 prisoners were interned from 1936 – 1945.

As a result of hunger, disease, forced labor, medical experiments, and systematic extermination operations by the SS, tens of thousands of internees died in Sachsenhausen.

Like its sister holiday 4/20, the origins of the 7/10 holiday are somewhat up for debate. What we do know for sure, though, is that 710 when turned upside down reads OIL, and that’s how it’s suspected that the connection to cannabis oil happened.