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A Green Vote is an Anti-Trump Vote, Too

I appreciate the spirt of solidarity in this statement at a time when a number of prominent progressives are calling for a Biden vote everywhere and against a Green vote anywhere. That could wipe out the Green Party for failing to meet the votes threshold for ballot status in many states.

 

This statement also has its priorities straight. Election protection to stop Trump from stealing the election is what we have to do to send Trump packing from the White House to his waiting prison cell. Scapegoating the Greens is a diversion from this top priority.

 

Green presidential campaigns bring new voters to the polls who are disgusted with both corporate parties. 2016 exit polls showed that 61% of Jill Stein voters would have stayed home had she not been on the ballot.

 

Plug that percentage into Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and the outcome would not have changed in 2016. It has been Black voter suppression and the Electoral College, not the Green Party, that has put Republican popular-vote losers in the presidency in the 21st century.

 

“Libby” award winner Adrienne Hood turned tragedy into activism

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When Adrienne Hood joined protests on the downtown streets in the wake of the George Floyd murder, she was there mainly for her son, Henry Green, who was killed by two plainclothes Columbus police officers in 2016 who remain on the force.

“When I go into those spaces, I try to mentally prepare myself in the event I do see them. Because you just never know,” said Adrienne to the Free Press. “I don’t get into things just for the sake of being in something. I am looking to push this needle to where we need to be.”

Adrienne spent several nights and days downtown this summer protesting for her son. She has remained strong and resilient despite the tragedy her family endured four years ago. She has moved from protest to using her power to make positive change. This spring she joined #RepYourBlock and was elected as a Franklin County Central Committee member representing Ward 54.

Concerned Columbus City School Caregivers Organize Against District’s Premature Reopening Plan

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Columbus City School Families and Teachers Call on Superintendent Dixon to improve communications, collaborate with the teacher’s union and school staff, and deploy a comprehensive survey to student caregivers before finalizing plans.

A large group of concerned parents and caretakers, including Columbus City School teachers and staff, are calling on Superintendent Dixon and the school board to reconsider their current plan for school reopening. Most concerning is the lack of communication that the Columbus City School Board has demonstrated with their recent announcement to return to school on October 19, 2020, earlier than originally announced in July and without approval from the Columbus Education Association, the local teacher’s union. This has not gone unnoticed in the district community, and caregivers and parents of CCS students are actively organizing a petition and social media campaign to amplify individual concerns and demonstrate collective support for teachers and the CEA.

Columbus City Council Hearing on Safety Reform Dashboard with Community Safety Advisory Committee

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Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 5:00 PM

Top U.S. Enemy Was Its Ally, the U.S.S.R.

Excerpted from Leaving World War II Behind

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Early Voting Begins Today!

This year...more than ever
 - you need to be an
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Please sign up for at least one shift to be an Election Protection Observer:

•          During Early Voting at your county Boards of Elections -- October 6 through November 2

•          On Election Day, November 3, at a polling site

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The Man Who Would Be President: Mike Pence, Corporate Theocrat

If President Trump dies from the coronavirus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans largely due to his deliberate negligence, the man replacing him will be no less dangerous. While Mike Pence has eluded tough media scrutiny -- in part because he exhibits such a low-key style in contrast to Trump -- the pair has been a good fit for an administration that exemplifies the partnership of religious fundamentalism and corporate power.

The vice president, a former Indiana talk-show host who went on to become a six-term congressman and then governor, has described himself as “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.” But he remains at cross-purposes with the biblical admonition (Matthew 6:24) that “you cannot serve both God and money.” Whether Pence has truly served God is a subjective matter, but his massive service to money -- big money -- is incontrovertible.

FBI Busts Tibetan-American NY Police "Spy" For China

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. Justice Department arrested and charged
a Tibetan-American New York City police officer as an "illegal agent"
involved in "intelligence gathering" for China during the past six
years, after he fought as a U.S. Marine against the Taliban in
Afghanistan.

Baimadajie Angwang, 33, reportedly told China's consulate in New York
that local Tibetans who did not believe in the Dalai Lama or Tibetan
Buddhism would collaborate with Beijing.

After serving in Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014, Mr. Angwang became an
Army Reserve staff sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and received
"secret" security clearance from the Pentagon.

The criminal complaint was unsealed on Sept. 21. in a New York federal court.

If convicted, Mr. Angwang could be imprisoned for 55 years.

His arrest and federal detention in New York comes amid worsening
U.S.-China relations, with both nations suspicious of each other for
alleged spying, propaganda attacks, unfair commercial competition and
other abuses.

Last day to register to vote

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Monday, October 5
Check your registration - https://vote.franklincountyohio.gov/Voters/My-Registration
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Early voting
Oct. 6 - Nov. 2, but dates and hours may vary based on where you live

Absentee ballot deadlines
Request: Received by Oct. 31
Return by mail: Postmarked by Nov. 2
Return in person: Nov. 3 by 7:30 p.m.

Election day is Nov. 3
Registration deadlines
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In person: Oct. 5

 

 

Will Trump Collect His Pardon and Flee Like a Virus?

 macho cult leader can’t seem a mere mortal.

As a dictator-to-be, Trump may be done.

He’s the second White Supremacist president brought down by a virus he helped spread. He’s the second mobster-in-chief desperate for a pardon to stay out of prison.

If the Election Protection movement continues to fight, the election Trump has planned to steal or ignore may now be beyond him. Shy of staying in the White House, only a Mike Pence pardon can keep Trump out of the Big House.

He’s a morbidly obese 74-year-old, precisely the COVID’s favorite demographic.

His Evangelical Death Cult loves his rapist, mobster self as a Lordly trickster, sent down to shutter the feminist uterus and shoot infidels of color.

Both Britain’s Boris Johnson and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro got through the virus. Both were weakened. Neither faced an election 33 days away.

Trump could survive.

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