Pint Size Protesters was created to give kids and their families a safe space in the Black Lives Matter movement, but also to support families with resources and opportunities to learn and grow so that we can truly bring about change.  Our mission is to organize, educate, and demonstrate with the goal of hosting monthly educational and family friendly protest activities.

We formed in early July and were invited to participate in Worthington’s “Why We March” rally where we staged a protest that was well received by the community!  This month, we kick off official Pint Size Protesters events with a lesson in racism featuring the book A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory and our first protest, which took place in Dublin on 8/15.

Now onto September! With this being a very important election year, we thought it important to focus on voting and building the next generation of voters.  Thus Pint Size Protesters presents: “Why Voting Matters” was born:

Date: September 12, 11am - 3pm
Location: The Vanderelli Room (Private Yard Space), 218 McDowell St, Columbus, OH 43215

August 20, 2020, 4:45- 5:15 pm
Ohio Statehouse

Democratic Ohio-12 candidate Alaina Shearer, will lead our weekly Heroes Act protest caravan with her US BUS!
As teachers and shelter volunteers, we are seeing how COVID-19 is undermining the well-being of our community, especially members who were already in vulnerable positions before the onset of this pandemic. We were shocked when Congress did not pass the second relief bill in early August. Instead of extending the $600 weekly federal unemployment payments and eviction moratorium, Congress left for vacation. The Senate must return and compromise in order to pass a COVID relief package. People's lives are hanging in the balance. The economy stands on the edge of an even deeper collapse if a relief package is not passed. Our country needs a comprehensive plan to address our needs during the pandemic and beyond. This week we will be joined by local unions members as well as some citizens helping keep our neighbors safe in shelters.

**The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of the Free Press**

As many authors have documented, the global elite is conducting a coup to take complete control of our lives. It is doing this by using a non-existent ‘virus’ to terrorize the human population into believing that we will ‘catch’ Covid-19 if we do not submit to draconian restrictions on our rights and freedoms.

And while the elite is conducting its coup, the most important challenges that confront our world are being largely ignored, as I will briefly discuss below.

Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 7:00 PM

The story that I am about to relate could well have been a contemporary adaptation of Dickens, yet I feel that even Dickens would have been impressed at the amount of adversity that I am about to tell. There is no exaggeration. I have even omitted parts, but that doesn’t make this story less brutal.

A little empathy is needed to understand this story. You would have to be a monster not to feel some compassion. This is a story of a poor Guatemalan family who escaped the brutality of their own country’s oppression and soul-crushing poverty to only find more heartache in the middle of Ohio.

I work locally as an interpreter and when I first met Huli at his school on the westside of Columbus back in 2017, he was a 10-year-old from Guatemala who was having nightmares. Not the nightmares most of us have sometimes. His nightmares were bloody and horrible and full of violence, impacting his school performance, his relationships, and himself.