ANNA IN THE TROPICS: Theater Review

ANNA IN THE TROPICS: Theater Review

From Russia, With Lust: Tolstoy Meets “Florida Man”

By Ed Rampell

It’s ironic that A Noise Within’s absorbing production of Anna in the Tropics opens, as fate would have it, while Russia is making frontpage news. This is because the titular “Anna” is a reference to the eponymous Anna Karenina in Count Leo Tolstoy’s famed 1878 Russian novel. But in this Pulitzer Prize winning play, playwright Nilo Cruz has transmogrified Tolstoy’s saga of infidelity, moving it from Moscow and St. Petersburg (in Russia – not Florida!) to – of all places! – Tampa in the Sunshine State in 1929.

The Billion Dollar Deal that Made Google and Amazon Partners in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine

“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. 

Biden’s Unhinged Call for Regime Change in Russia

Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the nuclear age, efforts to clean up after him have been profuse. Administration officials scurried to assert that Biden didn’t mean what he said. Yet no amount of trying to “walk back” his unhinged comment at the end of his speech in front of Warsaw’s Royal Castle can change the fact that Biden had called for regime change in Russia.

 They were nine words about Russian President Vladimir Putin that shook the world: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

Demonstration for Affordable Housing Set-asides in Columbus

Columbus City Hall

Monday, March 28, 2022, 6:30 PM
Location:  Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St., Columbus 43215.
The B.R.E.A.D. organization is coordinating a series of three actions to raise awareness of the shortage of affordable housing for people with low income.  The current required set-asides for housing developers do not serve people with income at or below 80% of the Area Median Income.  People with lower income are just left out of the equation, and most often can't afford rent without assistance. 

Busting Myths: The Ohio Attorney General vs. Science, Ethics, and Law

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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost extends his streak of violating the law and science. Yost, who agreed to much-too-small settlements by three large drug distributors with the state (see Eric Lagatta, “Columbus address to join state opioid settlement against three large drug distributors”), now claims with no evidence that there is a causal connection between Spring 2020 Covid “stimulus checks” (under Trump Administration, which Yost never mentions) and opioid drug deaths in Ohio. (See Titus Wu, “Ohio AG Dave Yost says federal Covid-19 stimulus checks fueled opioid deaths. Is that so?”)

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.

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