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Creating Peace means changing the world

Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right?

Get the bad guy! Russia: bad. If it invades Ukraine, such a “voluntary war of aggression,” according to David Leonhardt of the New York Times, “would be a sign that Putin believed that Pax Americana was over and that the U.S., the European Union and their allies had become too weak to exact painful consequences.”

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio Virtual Voices

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Thursday, February 24, 2022, 5:00 PMPlease join us for our next event featuring Faye Wattleton, the first African American and first woman to be President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Faye will be featured with our own President and CEO Iris E. Harvey, for a special Black History Month Virtual Voices event. More information and registration here. 

Fear and Loathing in Washington

 

 

One can frequently disagree with government policies without necessarily regarding them with disgust, but the Joe Biden Administration has turned that corner, first with its senseless promotion of a new Cold War that could turn hot with Russia and, more recently, with its actions undertaken to undermine and punish Afghanistan. The fact that the White House wraps itself in the sanctimonious, self-righteous twaddle that is so much the hallmark of the political left is bad enough, but when the government goes out of its way to harm and even kill people around the world in pursuit of an elusive global dominance it is time for the American people to rise up and say “Stop!”

Ohio and City of Columbus Ethics Violations Clearly Point to Misconduct

Joe Motil

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime advocate of fairness and opportunity for all people states that, “It is time for Mayor Ginther to ask for the resignation of Public Service Director Jennifer Gallagher.”  

GREEP Zoom #84 Gerrymandering Catastrophe, 5G & Ubiquity University

We start our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #84 with the amazing network UBIQUITY UNIVERSITY, founded by JIM GARRISON, with GEORGE CAPPANNELLI and SHELLY ALCORN.
 
This HUGE global network offers the opportunity to link pro-democracy work throughout the globe.
 
Our deep dive into Gerrymandering features great, powerful organizers such as JENNIFER ROBERTS, ROBERT WILSON, JUDITH WHITMER, RAY MCCLENDON, MYLA RESON, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA & many more fighting at the core of this life/death issue. 
 
In Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin and elsewhere, the mess of our election maps has moved the US to the level of a failed state.  
 
Without a solution to this horrifying problem our democracy cannot survive. 
 
We also hear from Julie Levine and Julian Gesser on the desperate dilemma of fighting life-threatening 5G, now being foisted on the entire nation.  
 
Don’t miss this incredibly vital, powerful & important gathering.  
 

Citizens Climate Lobby February Social - Ales and Climate Tales

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Wednesday, February 23, 2021, 6:00 PM

Housing Stabilization Coalition and Rentful614.com leading epic struggle to fight homelessness

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Evictions in Franklin County were a huge problem before the pandemic, and because the cost of rent is rising by the month in Central Ohio, the entire community is facing an affordable housing crisis – a crisis high-end apartment developers obviously couldn’t care less about.

In 2021 the US Census Bureau reported one in three Ohio renters have little or no confidence in their ability to pay next month’s rent.

Yet also in 2021, there were 15,185 evictions in Franklin County compared to 18,219 in 2019. The numbers are down significantly, even with the pandemic and landlords renting thin-walled three-bedroom apartments for $1,400 a month,

Indeed, many local longtime owners of 1,500 to 2,000-square foot homes are paying hundreds less for their mortgage than local renters of newer apartments, and certainly another canary in the coal mine regarding affordable housing in Columbus and its suburbs.

But here’s the good news regarding affordable housing and homelessness, says Carlie J. Boos, executive director for the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio.

And the reason why evictions were 3,000 less in 2021 compared to 2019.

Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis

Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded “With God on Our Side.” You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs:

I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side

In recent days, media coverage of a possible summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has taken on almost wistful qualities, as though the horsemen of the apocalypse are already out of the barn.

Fatalism is easy for the laptop warriors and blow-dried studio pundits who keep insisting on the need to get tough with “the Russians,” by which they mean the Russian government. Actual people who suffer and die in war easily become faraway abstractions. “And you never ask questions / When God’s on your side.”

“Inhale Exhale: Restorative Healing for Organizers,” hosted by Ohio Voice

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Tuesday, February 22, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Inhale/Exhale is a healing space for organizers in the progressive and left space.

As organizers, we are committed to addressing our own trauma to be better leaders and people. This is important for the well-being of our ecosystem. This Inhale/Exhale we will focus on trauma and being trauma-informed. What is being trauma-informed? Come and discuss how to balance experiencing trauma and working with traumatized folx. Join us for February’s Inhale/Exhale that you don’t want to miss.

Please join Dr. Kynetta Sugar McFarlane (she/her), a clinical psychologist with over 15 years of working with traumatized families and the owner of Transformative Health, on ways to find balance. Social justice work is beautiful and hard. Creating intentional spaces to recharge and uplifting the power of the breath via meditation is not only important, but necessary.

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