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Stop Ohio Abortion Ban Bill

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Next week, the Ohio Senate will take the first steps towards completely outlawing abortion with a hearing on Senate Bill 123. The proposed bill would outlaw all abortions in Ohio if the U.S. Supreme Court were to issue a ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

Zapatista Army Warns of Civil War, Brings Out Thousands in Protest

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The street in front of Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior was filled Friday afternoon in solidarity with the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). The peaceful, youthful crowd was made up of mostly organized contingents of long-time Zapatista supporters from Mexico City’s humble neighborhoods, including many indigenous groups.

The Sunday before, the EZLN made a public communiqué warning that the state of Chiapas is “on the verge of civil war,” denouncing “actions and omissions of the state and federal governments regarding” recent kidnappings, murders and detentions.

In Mexico City, this reporter counted about three thousand protesters of many of the country’s ethnicities responding to the EZLN’s call made only the day before to march and protest to this downtown building — the equivalent to the U.S.’s State Department or the U.K. Home Office. Protests were likewise held in cities across the country and at Mexican embassies around the world.

Simultaneous with the march, a contingent took over the Chiapas state offices here in the nation’s capital.

Chiapas on the Verge of Civil War

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September 19, 2021

To the people of Mexico:
To the peoples of the world:
To the Sixth in Mexico and abroad:
To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion:

First: On September 11, 2021, in the early morning, while the Zapatista air delegation was in Mexico City, members of ORCAO – a paramilitary organization serving the Chiapas state government – kidnapped the compañeros Sebastián Nuñez Pérez and José Antonio Sánchez Juárez, autonomous authorities from the Good Government Council of Patria Nueva [New Homeland], Chiapas.

The ORCAO is a political-military organization with paramilitary characteristics: they have uniforms, equipment, weapons, and ammunition purchased with money they receive from [government-sponsored] “social programs”. They keep part of the money for themselves and use part of it to pay off government officials for reporting that they [the ORCAO] are complying with the terms of the social programs. They fire on the Zapatista community of Moisés y Gandhi every night with these weapons.

Book Review: The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate by Tom Brokaw

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On January 22, 2021, Tom Brokaw rendered his resignation as reporter at NBC News, where he had been for the last fifty-five years. He closed out his stellar career at NBC as the only newsman to have anchored all three of its biggest news shows. At the time of Watergate, he was a young thirty-one years old–so young that some in the trade grumbled that he was not experienced enough for the posting–and had been named the White House correspondent for the network. The Fall of Richard Nixon is his experience of the debacle.

Return part of Grandview’s Runaway Bay to everyone by building a public beach

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Let’s face it. Columbus needs to be more like Austin.

Both are state capitals and have massive urban public universities. Both are left-leaning oases. Both began to explode in growth during the 1990s, and for the most part remain landlocked boomtowns.

But one is where many want to visit and live, where the other is maligned for not much to do and a lack of culture. Worse, too much disparity between rich and poor.

Guess which one is Columbus y’all?

Austin is not the slacker hippie, Willie Nelson-loving live music paradise it once was in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. But its public access to oh-so close outdoor adventure remains unparalleled.

Take Barton Springs, called “the soul” of Austin. The natural spring or pool is open year-round, with acres of parks and trails branching out in all directions. It’s icy clear waters drawing people from around the world, its surrounding banks filled with locals and tourists taking a serious chill as someone plays an acid-sounding guitar.

Stop OSU fracked gas plant construction

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WHEN: Friday, Sept 24, noon-2pm

WHERE: 670 Vernon L Tharp St.

WHY: A year into her tenure as OSU president, Kristina Johnson,leads the university in moving forward with construction of a combined heat and power (CHP) fracked gas plant during an international climate crisis and respiratory pandemic. Its contributions to air pollution could be disastrous for an area already plagued by low air quality. Local environmental organizations and campus activists are gathering near the plant site for a press conference and march to Johnson’s office, protesting its construction.

Join this protest to raise public awareness and urge decision makers to halt construction of the plant due to its contributions to air pollution, lofty costs, and environmental impact. The university failed to listen to students’ demands to invest in renewable energy and improve energy efficiency instead of building a costly new plant powered by fracked gas.

Speakers:

●      Chandler Rupert of Students for a Democratic Society at OSU

325 Organizations Propose Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of

Yesterday something that has become tiresomely routine happened; I spoke to a college class about the most obvious climate solution, and neither the students nor the professor had ever heard of it. The 325 organizations (and climbing) listed at the bottom of this article are promoting it, and have joined 17,717 individuals (thus far) in signing a petition for it at http://cop26.info

Many of us have been screaming about it at the tops of our lungs for years and years, writing about it, making videos about it, organizing conferences on it. Yet it is ineluctably unknowable.

Here are the words of the petition:

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