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Tell Lowe’s and Home Depot: Save monarchs from toxic Roundup!

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I was just thinking -- I haven’t seen a single monarch butterfly in my garden this year. And I’m betting I’m not the only one. Monarch populations have plummeted by more than 80% in the last two decades, and toxic pesticides are a key driver of this decline. Take action now.


Glyphosate -- aka Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup -- is wiping out milkweed, the only food source for young monarchs, and pushing this iconic pollinator toward extinction. And researchers have found this toxic weedkiller can impede the growth of bee larvae and impact bees’ ability to navigate and find food.  

Essential Protections for Essential Work and Navigating Unemployment and Pandemic Assistance

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Central Ohio Workers Center has produced videos on Essential Protections for Essential Work and Navigating Unemployment and Pandemic Assistance.  There will more coming.  Access the videos here. 

Essential Protections for Essential Work and Navigating Unemployment and Pandemic Assistance

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Central Ohio Workers Center has produced videos on Essential Protections for Essential Work and Navigating Unemployment and Pandemic Assistance.  There will more coming.  Access the videos here. 

Will Chief Bryant keep her promise and hold police officers accountable?

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Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant repeatedly stated during her first four months of leadership that she will hold her officers accountable for any misconduct. 

As recently as October 6 at the meeting of the Columbus Metropolitan Club, in response to the recent arrests of two Division of Police narcotics officers accused of selling large amounts of fentanyl and cocaine, Bryant told the audience, "Any time we find officers that are doing wrong we want to hold them accountable so if these allegations are proven to be true we will hold every single person accountable for everything they are found to do that are not within the standards of this division. Period."

One month ago, she was given the opportunity to discipline three supervisors who participated in retaliatory actions against Columbus Police Lieutenant Mellissa McFadden in connection with her book, Walking the Thin Black Line: Confronting Racism in the Columbus Division of Police, released September 2020.

NEW BOOK: A HISTORY OF HATE IN OHIO

Sept. 7, 2021 Interview with Dr. Fitrakis from The Pink Pill, Joan Jones and Marilyn Howard
Audio MP3: https://fitrakis.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PinkPill090721HistoryofHate.mp3

Two events this Saturday - Protest for Public Transit & Conversation about Racial Justice and Climate Action

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Protest for Public Transit
Saturday, October 16, 1-4pm
Ohio Statehouse; 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215
A rally to demonstrate the importance of public transit. We are rallying a few days before Congress is back in session to demand that the Reconciliation Bill pass with 3.5 trillion dollars over 10 years. We want Senator Sherrod Brown to know that cutting corners with climate and transit is not an option. We need financial and political investment in public transit nationwide. Public transit is an economic engine, civil right, and a climate imperative. We are calling on Sherrod Brown to support the passage of the reconciliation bill and to keep the pressure on so that funding for transit remains in the bill. 

Manchin/Sinema Play "The Price Is Right" While the GOP Stars in "Night of the Living Dead"

The whole progressive world is screaming at Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
 
But why are 50 Zombie Republicans getting a free pass?
 
The game Sinema and Manchin now play is painfully obvious.
 
One day before Trump’s violent January 6 coup attempt, the grassroots Georgia Miracle realized a different kind of coup. The Peach State---infamous home to the KKK, with a bloody history defined by centuries of bigotry---unimaginably elected a black preacher and a Jewish filmmaker to the US Senate.
 
In a safe, reliable, fairly conducted election (imagine that!) the Democrats emerged with a 50-50 split in the Upper House. With the deciding vote in the hands of Vice President Kamela Harris, it meant progressives might have an actual shot at making serious social changes while taking some tangible leaps toward saving our planetary eco-systems.
 

Kellogg workers are striking—don’t cross the picket line!

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Kellogg threatened to outsource its workers' jobs to Mexico if they didn’t accept a terrible labor deal—including threatening not to provide pensions to new employees, making changes to vacation and holiday time, and more.

That’s why over 1,400 Kellogg workers from all four cereal plants in the US are on strike. We stand in full solidarity with them—and we hope you will too by not crossing the picket line and boycott Kellogg products.

Here are Kellogg’s brands to stop buying:

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