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Hands Off! Mass mobilization against Trump

Details about event

Saturday, April 5, 12noon
Ohio Statehouse and many cities around the country and Ohio 

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Columbus is fighting back!

They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.

On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 

  • Columbus, OH: Ohio Statehouse  When: 12-2 pm, REGISTER

  • Westerville, OH: 21 S State St. When: 12-1:30 pm, REGISTER

  • Grove City, OH: 4035 Broadway  When: 4-5 pm, REGISTER

Tariffs can be useful — but not how Trump is using them

Indian woman

President Donald Trump has said “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” He claims tariffs will restore American trade supremacy, bring lost jobs back to the United States, and most bizarrely, replace income taxes.

Tariffs can be a useful tool to regulate global trade in the interest of jobs, wages, labor rights, the environment, and consumers — if applied correctly.

A Different Approach is Needed for Survival in the Nuclear Age

Nuclear symbol

Amid growing international chaos, it should come as no surprise that nuclear dangers are increasing.

The latest indication is a rising interest among U.S. allies in enhancing their nuclear weapons capability. For many decades, remarkably few of them had been willing to build nuclear weapons―a result of popular opposition to nuclear weapons and nuclear war, progress on nuclear arms control and disarmament, and a belief that they remained secure under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. But, as revealed by a recent article in London’s Financial Times, Donald Trump’s public scorn for NATO allies and embrace of Vladimir Putin have raised fears of U.S. unreliability, thereby tipping the balance toward developing an expanded nuclear weapons capability.

What’s going on in Columbus? When the NAACP fights itself, the Movement loses

Portraits of black people

Earlier this week on April 2, members of the Columbus branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) woke up expecting to participate in a long-delayed election. By 9am they were supposed to receive an email link. A link that would allow them to cast votes, decide leadership, and carry forward an institution with more than a century of movement memory.

But the link never came.

For hours, there was silence. Confusion circulated through inboxes, group chats, and whispered phone calls. Had the election been delayed again? Was there a glitch? Had someone forgotten to hit “send?”

It wasn’t until nearly noon – three full hours after voting was scheduled to begin – when members received an email from the NAACP’s national office. The message, sent twice, contained a memo from Ericka Cain, Vice President of Governance, Compliance and Training. It explained that a court had issued a temporary restraining order, halting the election.

‘Far Out: Life On & After the Commune’: An Interview with Harvey Wasserman

A new documentary film, Far Out: Life On & After the Commune, directed by Charles Light, tells the story of a group of leftwing journalists who splintered off from what was known as Liberation News Service (LNS). With candid then-and-now footage, Light’s eighty-five-minute film reveals the communards as young hippies and senior citizens, and shows how their paths intertwined with folk/rock superstars to fight the good fight. 

The Dalai Lama's Escape & CIA Money

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Dalai Lama's dangerous escape into India on March 31, 1959 fleeing Communist Chinese troops seizing Tibet, prompted the CIA's secret financing, training, arming, and parachute-dropping of Tibetan guerrillas into their homeland four months later.

On the 66th anniversary of that epic escape, India's Arunachal Pradesh state government, for the first time, opened a six-day public "Freedom Trail, Route of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama" trek on foot from the border into India following the original passage.

The unprecedented event may irk Beijing which began invading Tibet in 1951 and denounces the Dalai Lama as subversive.

The March 31-April 5 trek's main purpose however is to attract tourists and pilgrims to the mountainous route which showcases the Dalai Lama's historic journey and the Buddhist shrines, monoliths, stupas, and displays along the way.

Global trade war, recession, and genocide

The global trade war was launched yesterday officially by the Trump regime.
It is one of the last gasps and "lashing out" of a dying US empire. A
global recession will follow but the biggest losers will be the western
world (primarily US and EU) and its lackeys (those who tied their future
with it like the Palestinian and other Arab "leaders"). My advice to them
and others: end the genocide now and get rid of your US $ and any
investments you have in multinational corporations tied to
imperialism/Zionism (and thus to genocide) and focus on how to feed people
in an era of climate change and job elimination (due to AI etc). Boycotts,
divestment, sanctions will make the period of pain shorter as a new world
order is being born (see bdsmovement.net). Dare we hope for a new era of
peace, equality, free trade, and sustainability?

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