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One Year Later, The Franklinton Arts Scene Finds Evolution

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An Earth without art is “meh.” In the last year, since COVID lockdowns and restrictions began, artists have turned to creating art to cope with isolation. The arts community in Franklinton marked the one-year anniversary of the global pandemic with a special art show, which was all about change.

The March exhibition at 400 West Rich, “Evolution in Isolation” was a tribute and a reflection on the year that showcase some of the artistic changes that have taken place since the Pandemic began. Artists have had to find ways to create meaningful pieces of work over the last year.

The description that 400 Square gave in promoting this exhibit could be comparable to our everyday lives since the pandemic began: “There was a ‘before’ the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is not yet an ‘after.’ Everything has changed, and these changes are reflected nearly everywhere we look, including our artwork.”

BREAKING: Activists Block Rail Route for General Dynamics Armoured Vehicles Bound for Saudi Arabia, Demand Canada Stop Fueling War in Yemen

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https://worldbeyondwar.org/breaking-activists-block-rail-route-for-general-dynamics-armoured-vehicles-bound-for-saudi-arabia-demand-canada-stop-fueling-war-in-yemen/

London, Ontario – Members of anti-war organizations World BEYOND War, Labour Against the Arms Trade, and People for Peace London are blocking railway tracks near General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, a London-area company manufacturing light armoured vehicles (LAVs) for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The activists are calling on General Dynamics to end its complicity in the brutal Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen and calling on the Canadian government to end arms exports to Saudi Arabia and expand humanitarian assistance for the people of Yemen.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the Saudi-led, Western-backed coalition’s intervention in Yemen’s civil war, leading to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Applications for Virtual Comfest 2021

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Virtual ComFest 2021
Applications are being accepted right now for (1) #ComFest Grants for projects by local nonprofit organizations; (2) Performers and workshop presenters; and (3) T-shirt Logo Contest designs. Deadline for all three is April 1. Details at http://ComFest.com. 

Gun crazy at the ole Westland Mall, as local developer enables the Gun Show

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In the derelict and nearly extinct Westland Mall, where the current owner couldn’t care less about the cratered parking lot, there’s still one last tenant hanging on – and for those who enter this tenant’s premises, they must unload their gun and never, ever take a picture or video of what goes on inside. You could also easily lose your life here too, as was the case back in September.

Welcome to creepy and dystopian 21st-centruy America in all its splendor.

The Westland Mall’s glory days have come and gone but may rise again. In 2019 the entire 88 acres was bought by LGR Realty of Columbus and they have designs on finally demolishing the mall to build condos and offices, or mixed-use.

But like many commercial-leasing companies/developers they have a (greedy) disconnect about what’s best for the community, what’s truly important, and needed. And just like Westland Mall’s moon-scaped parking lot, LGR Realty doesn’t seem to care what the mall’s last renter sells or the repercussions.

The Urgent Need for a Biden-Putin Summit

Last week’s outbreak of rhetorical hostilitiesbetween the White House and the Kremlin has heightened the urgent need for a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The spate of mutual denunciations is catnip for mass media and fuel for hardliners in both countries. But for the world at large, under the doomsday shadow of nuclear arsenals brandished by the United States and Russia, the latest developments are terribly ominous.

The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel Uses ‘the Law’ to Ethnically Cleanse East Jerusalem

A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

Speaking of Democracy: Your Rights and Risks under New Ohio Protest Laws

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Thursday, March 25, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Protesting pipelines, fracking wells, power plants, and other polluting and dangerous “critical infrastructure sites” just got a lot harder now that Ohio S.B. 33 is law. What does this mean for you if you engage in public witness events? What are the new rules about liability for organizations, non-profits, churches, grassroots groups? How are the four new bills recently proposed in the Ohio Senate and House (S.B. 16, S.B. 41, H.B. 109, and H.B. 22) designed to make it even more complicated to engage in public witness in the streets, sidewalks and at the Statehouse?

Though the focus will be on Ohio, similar bills are making their way through state legislatures across the country.

Guest Speakers:

• Tadd Pinkston, Pinkston Law; board member, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio

• Rev Joan VanBecelaere, Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio

This program is part of Move to Amend Central Ohio’s “Speaking of Democracy” series. All are welcome!

Speaking of Democracy: Your Rights and Risks under New Ohio Protest Laws

Cartoon of a justice scale

Thursday, March 25, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Protesting pipelines, fracking wells, power plants, and other polluting and dangerous “critical infrastructure sites” just got a lot harder now that Ohio S.B. 33 is law. What does this mean for you if you engage in public witness events? What are the new rules about liability for organizations, non-profits, churches, grassroots groups? How are the four new bills recently proposed in the Ohio Senate and House (S.B. 16, S.B. 41, H.B. 109, and H.B. 22) designed to make it even more complicated to engage in public witness in the streets, sidewalks and at the Statehouse?

Though the focus will be on Ohio, similar bills are making their way through state legislatures across the country.

Guest Speakers:

• Tadd Pinkston, Pinkston Law; board member, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio

• Rev Joan VanBecelaere, Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio

This program is part of Move to Amend Central Ohio’s “Speaking of Democracy” series. All are welcome!

Waging War . . . at the Supermarket

When a lost soul attempts to reclaim himself in the American way, it becomes, far too often . . . we all know this . . . another mass murder.

In the past week or so, there have been two more of them.

“This cannot be our new normal. We should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores. We should be able to feel safe in our schools, in our movie theaters and in our communities. We need to see a change.”

When I first saw this quote by U.S. Congressman Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder, Colorado, site of one of the shootings, I initially misread that last sentence and thought, oh my God, he’s right. We need a sea change!

The Taboo Question That Must be Asked of All Mass Shooters:

Originally published on August 3, 2012at: https://duluthreader.com/articles/2012/08/03/100731-what-were-the-brain-altering-psych-drugs-that-the

The most recent episode in the peculiarly American epidemic of mass shootings happened yesterday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. Everybody knows the bare details as broadcast on the mainstream media and most people are expecting the seemingly inevitable – and illogical – revenge/retaliations against Middle Eastern immigrants.

The lone shooter in Boulder was a 21-year-old Syrian-born man named Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. He hasadmitted to the shooting.

A week earlier Alissa had legally purchased the murder weapon, a semiautomatic AK-15-style Ruger assault pistol.

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