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Study Group on Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

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Sunday, June 6; Sunday, June 20; and Sunday, July 11; 8-10pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join the Revolutionary Socialist Network to discuss Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, which systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.

Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the links between the struggle for freedom in the United States and that struggle in Palestine and beyond. It examines both the historical and contemporary trajectory of the Palestine solidarity movement in order to glean lessons for today’s organizers, and compellingly lays out the argument that, in order to achieve justice in Palestine, the movement has to take up the question of socialism, regionally and internationally.

Contributors include: Jehad Abusalim, Shireen Akram-Boshar, Omar Barghouti, Nada Elia, Toufic Haddad, Remi Kanazi, Annie Levin, Mostafa Omar, Khury Petersen-Smith, and Daphna Thier.

June 6: Chapters 1-3

Banning Anti-establishment Protest Songs from the Distant Past

Below are the lyrics to four powerful anti-establishment songs that were performed and recorded by the song-writing/singing duo, Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman, back in 2005. The pair were “Back to the Land Movement” advocates/activists from Maine. Miller and Boverman are currently part of a farm collective in a rural part of the state (for more info, click on https://www.landincommon.org/board-of-directors/ ). The album was titled “If All the Land Would Rise”, a devastating expose of some of the worst corporate/government corruption in America, corruption that was just raising its ugly head. Miller and Boverman very accurately identified some of the culprits – and named some of them.

Genocide Whistleblower nominated for Order of Canada

Sunday, June 20, 2021

Ottawa:

The man who has led the public campaign to expose and prosecute the Indian Residential School Genocide has been nominated for the Order of Canada.

Kevin Annett, the former United Church minister who first publicized evidence of the deaths of native children in 1995, was named today as “one who, at enormous personal cost for over a quarter century, has compelled Christian Canada to face its shadow and brought not only the truth but hope and life to countless people.” His nomination was made by a group of nineteen Canadians and indigenous elders. (A partial list of nominators is below)

Along with their individual nominations, the group stated in a letter to the Order of Canada Nominations Committee,

Free Press July Second Saturday Cyber-Salon

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Saturday, July 10, 7-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Since we aren’t getting together in person, we can gather for a couple of hours on the second Saturday of each month, 7-8pm Eastern Time, via Zoom.

This month’s theme: “A People’s Budget”

Host: Mark Stansbery, Free Press Board member

Speakers:

• Fadhel Kaboub, Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Denison University

• Ida Mirzaile, Economics expert, The Ohio State University

• Joe Motil, Columbus activist

A question-and-answer period will be included.

“Laughing in the Face of Hate and Violence: A Comedy Cabaret,” a performance to benefit BRAVO [Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization]

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Friday, July 9, 7-11:45pm, District West, 145 N. Fifth St.

BRAVO [Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization] works to eliminate violence perpetrated on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identification, domestic violence, and sexual assault through prevention, education, advocacy, violence documentation, and survivor services, both within and on behalf of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities.

The doors will open at 7pm; the performance will begin at 8pm.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization [BRAVO].\ 

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“Laughing in the Face of Hate and Violence: A Comedy Cabaret,” a performance to benefit BRAVO [Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization]

Details about event

Friday, July 9, 7-11:45pm, District West, 145 N. Fifth St.

BRAVO [Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization] works to eliminate violence perpetrated on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identification, domestic violence, and sexual assault through prevention, education, advocacy, violence documentation, and survivor services, both within and on behalf of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities.

The doors will open at 7pm; the performance will begin at 8pm.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization [BRAVO].\ 

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Joe Motil testimony on "tax abatement districts"

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I guess by now I can label myself as a public hearing specialist. Tonight, Councilwoman Shayla Favor held a public hearing on proposals from the City’s Development Department to create 3 new Community Reinvestment Areas (CRA’s) or as I call them “tax abatement districts” and to expand the boundaries of the already established AC Humko CRA which incorporates the western section of Harrison West. The 3 new districts are in low-moderate income areas and there are projects on the books to build housing for seniors and others at 60% AMI – 80% AMI. I attended the hearing to speak only on the AC Humko CRA which the Development Department wants to include a larger chunk of Harrison West and believe it or not, a part of Victorian Village that includes Neil Ave from Goodale to West Fifth and Harrison Avenue to the west of Neil from W. Fifth to Buttles. That is part of Victorian Villages boundaries. West of Harrison Avenue is Harrison West. The purple map of the AC Humko CRA is the existing boundary, and the dark yellow is the proposed boundary expansion. The following is my testimony:

U.S. Ghosts of War Haunt Afghanistan

BANGKOK, Thailand -- When the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan secured Bagram Air Base in January 2002, a Special Operations officer said he motivated newly arrived 82nd Airborne Division troops with a human skull, because the young Americans became enthusiastic when they saw death's head.

"I'm a skull worshipper," Special Operations Command Sergeant-Major Raymond V. Cordell said in an interview at the time in Bagram Air Base, 42 miles (67 kilometers) north of Kabul.

A human skull, given to him by fellow soldiers, was mounted in his office at MacDill Air Force Base's Special Operations Command headquarters in Florida, he said.

"Apparently they got on the Internet and typed in 'skulls'. And what came up under 'skulls' were medical services, where you could actually buy one.

"They got together and chipped in all their money. I don't even want to know how much it cost them for just the skull.

"He [the skull] wears the actual 82nd [Airborne Division] beret. It's the maroon beret, which is the sign of the American paratrooper on jump status.

Ohio Statewide Organizing Call for Medicare for All

Person holding sign saying We Need Medicare for All

Thursday, July 8, 2021, 6:00 PM
National Nurses United’s Medicare for All Campaign, in conjunction with HealthCare NOW and SPAN Ohio, are hosting a statewide organizing meeting on HR 1976, the Medicare for All Act of 2021. After the introduction of the bill earlier this year, NNU launched 2 lists of 40 priority district campaigns. Three Representatives from Ohio are on that list: Rep. Joyce Beatty, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, and Rep. Tim Ryan.   We need you to join this call to learn about the plan to push these members of Congress to support Medicare for All. Register here.

Kevin's Slim Pickens

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