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FIRST SoCal GRASSROOTS ACTIVIST SUMMIT

Sunday, March 27 4-6pm EDT
LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tceuhrzsvHdymeeZRwb-i7X50FJa-HMR4
Music, speeches, roundtable, networking, and strategizing on issues: media, election protection, 5G, Solartopia/No Nukes, Housing/Justice.
Mimi Kennedy, Eric Roberts, Danny Sheehan, Sara Nelson, Dorothy Reik
Tatanka Bricca, Andrea Miller, Menna Demessie, Jan Goodman,
Joel Segal, Alan Minsky, 
Christian Nunes, Rev. Donald Whitehead, Molly Basler,
Julie Levine, Tatanka Bricca, Myla Reson, Ankara Patel many more….
Music by Lili Haydn, Keaton Simon.
Moderated by Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman

ColumbusMediaInsider: DeWine Has Power To Push Through Fair Maps, But Flunks Leadership Test

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Ohio's governor is given such great authority that experts say that the officeholder is one of the five most powerful state chief executives in the country.

Then there is Mike DeWine, Ohio's current governor, who acts likes he is among the five least powerful governors in the country when it comes to redoing state legislative and Congressional districts.

DeWine is one of seven members of the State Redistricting Commission. If he had chosen to exercise his authority and his power to persuade, the Ohio Constitutional fiasco would have been over weeks ago and the May 3 primary would be full speed ahead with candidates having filed their petitions.

Instead, the fiasco continues at this writing with the Ohio Supreme Court having turned down the state legislative districts three times and the Congressional boundaries once with more judicial rejections in prospect and the chances of holding the May 3 primary for those races reduced to zero.

Rights of Nature Workshop on Zoo

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Sunday, March 27, 2022, 1:00 - 3:00 PM 
What are rights of nature? What are the opportunities for enacting rights of nature legislation and what will the next fifty years look like if we don’t? Ohioans must move away from our current exhausting and discouraging destruction agenda for one that relates with the natural world. We can secure nature's rights to sustainable existence, and we must.

Presenter: Tish O’Dell, CELDF Organizer, Ohio Community Rights Network board member, and co-founder of Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods who has conducted workshops around the country, appeared in the documentary We the People 2.0, The Thom Hartmann Show, The Daily Show, on NPR, and in many podcasts and webinars.   

When Jim Crow greeted Black Veterans

I figured I’d better write this column while doing so is still legal (at least I think it is), but I don’t recommend reading it aloud in a third-grade classroom.

There’s a piece of legislation sitting in the

figured I’d better write this column while doing so is still legal (at least I think it is), but I don’t recommend reading it aloud in a third-grade classroom.

Busting Myths: A citizen vs. Louis DeJoy and his crippling of the U.S. Postal Service

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For more than 18 months I have suffered failing service from the U.S. Postal Service. Beginning with Donald Trump’s appointment of the unqualified campaign contributor Louis DeJoy, who also invests heavily in competing delivery services, my household along with countless others no longer receives either daily or on-time deliveries. DeJoy claimed that he acted to control costs and cover the poorly designed postal workers’ retirement fund. But at the same time, he actively cut back on legally mandated services and endorsed Trump’s and his allies’ partisan and illegal efforts to repudiate legally endorsed mail-in balloting (which my household has done for more than a decade legally and without incident, and safely during the pandemic).

Support reproductive justice

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April is many things each year but it is also when there is fundraising for reproductive organizations in Ohio, especially Women Have Options - Ohio, which collects and distributes funds to women needing abortion assistance - for travel, for abortions, for whatever the fund is available to provide to support a woman facing the choice of an abortion in this very unfriendly and reproductively unjust times. It is the annual FUNd-a-thon!

 Donate on behalf of Social Workers for Reproductive Justice.

Please go to the BLUE DONATE HERE button >> to join the WHO-O 2022 online fundraising event and support Social Workers for Reproductive Justice today!   DONATE HERE

Columbus Worker Protest at Sen. Portman Office on Ohio Job Cuts

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Dozens of Ohio General Electric workers protested Wednesday, March 23, about job cuts recently announced that impact nearly 200 local workers in the Central Ohio region. These GE workers, who are union members of IUE-CWA, held a rally and press conference at the Columbus office of U.S.

Ohio Debate Commission: No inkling that Ryan will back out of debate with Harper, Johnson

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The Ohio Debate Commission, a nonprofit created in 2018 to facilitate debates among candidates vying for the highest statewide offices, says that US Rep. Tim Ryan’s condition that all US Senate Democratic candidates be on stage during the scheduled March 28 debate have been met. A debate that will go on even if the primary is postponed due to the redistricting mess at the Ohio Statehouse.

In February, Ryan said if either Columbus attorney Morgan Harper and Columbus tech executive Traci “TJ” Johnson failed to qualify, he would not participate. But both Harper and Johnson have met the “candidate participation criteria” required by the Ohio Debate Commission, which is hosting the March 28 debates at Central State University.

Johnson’s participation was in doubt as she only announced her candidacy in January.

From Moscow to Washington, the Barbarism and Hypocrisy Don’t Justify Each Other

Russia’s war in Ukraine -- like the USA’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- should be understood as barbaric mass slaughter. For all their mutual hostility, the Kremlin and the White House are willing to rely on similar precepts: Might makes right. International law is what you extol when you aren’t violating it. And at home, rev up the nationalism to go with the militarism.

 While the world desperately needs adherence to a single standard of nonaggression and human rights, some convoluted rationales are always available in a quest to justify the unjustifiable. Ideologies get more twisted than pretzels when some people can’t resist the temptation to choose up sides between rival forces of terrible violence.

 In the United States, with elected officials and mass media intensely condemning Russia’s killing spree, the hypocrisy can stick in the craw of people mindful that the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions started massive protracted carnage. But U.S. hypocrisy in no way excuses the murderous rampage of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Columbus Protest at Sen Portman Office on Ohio Job Cuts

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Wednesday, March 23, 10:30AM - 12:00PM COLUMBUS WORKER RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE

  • WHERE: U.S. Senator Rob Portman’s Office, 37 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH

  • WHAT: Ohio GE Workers Rally with Picket Signs and Banners for Press Conference at Sen. Portman office in Columbus, Deliver Petition Calling for Action to Stop Oho Job Cuts

  • SPEAKERS: 

    • Carl Kennebrew, President of IUE-CWA national labor union 

    • Tim Burga, President, Ohio AFL-CIO 

    • Will Evans, President, IUE-CWA Local 84704

    • Barb Basore, GE Lighting Bucyrus plant worker whose family has provided a combined 500 years of service to the company

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