Saturday, August 18, 1-3pm, N. High St. and W. North Broadway [northwest corner]

Join us on Saturday, August 28, from 1pm to 3pm, at the intersection of North High St. and North Broadway [northwest corner] for a “Justice for All Rally.”

On this anniversary of Martin Luther King’s iconic March on Washington, we welcome the participation of all justice groups at our Rally here in Columbus!

We are highlighting the intersections of all six pillars of justice: Social, Environmental, Political, Economic, Racial, and International. This includes the need to pass S.B. 1, the “For the People Act,” and S.B. 4, the “John Lewis Voting Rights Act.” Time is running out for Congress to pass these and other critical bills, such as the budget and infrastructure bills, that continue to bend the arc of justice.

The Columbus event is part of a statewide “Justice for All” day of action along U.S. Rte. 42 from Cincinnati to Cleveland. It is also a sister event to the “March On for Voting Rights” event in Washington, D.C.

Co-sponsoring groups for this event include the following.

The effort by former President Donald Trump and his ardent supporters to delegitimize Arizona’s 2020 presidential election was supposed to reach a turning point during the third week of August. But as has been typical with this hyperpartisan effort, the pro-Trump contractors empowered by the state Senate’s Republicans faced another delay, ducking an anticipated reckoning with facts and critics.

In many ways, war is ever more and less visible. Of course in U.S. academia, the Pinkerist pretense that we are living through a period of great peace is accomplished by all sorts of statistical manipulation, but first and foremost by declaring civil wars to not be wars, and declaring U.S. wars to be civil wars — a tricky thing to do when the minute the U.S. leaves, Afghans, for example, decline to keep killing each other (damn them!).

But in the United States, war and militarism — or some weird shadow of them — are everywhere: endless thank yous, special parking places and airplane boarding, endless recruitment ads and weapons ads, countless movies and television shows. War is relentlessly normalized. And, oddly, the ubiquity of war celebration has made war so unquestionable that there are few objections when war is not mentioned — even on occasions when it should be.

Since January, 48 states have introduced at least 389 bills that amount to shameful, outright voter suppression -- and many have already become law.

These racist anti-voter bills limit ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting, reduce early voting days and hours, criminalize the distribution of water to voters waiting in long lines, and more.