A pile of colorful books

Sunday, May 19, 5-7pm
379 Chittenden Ave.
We have a ton of requests to catch up on!!!!! Please come and help us send books to people in prisons!! Redbird Books to Prisoners

Two older women at a rally holding a sign saying Trust Women

Although the attack on reproductive rights has vamped up in previous months, the last week has been especially exhausting, with some of the most restrictive abortion bans being considered and passed since Roe V. Wade, the landmark United States Supreme Court decision which guaranteed access to abortion as a constitutional right.

Here is a list of recent legislation passed or being considered around various parts of the country:

A new book called Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby adds significantly to our understanding of Lyme disease, while oddly seeming to avoid mention of what we already knew.

Newby claims (in 2019) that if a scientist named Willy Burgdorfer had not made a confession in 2013, the secret that Lyme disease came from a biological weapons program would have died with him. Yet, in 2004 Michael Christopher Carroll published a book called Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Germ Laboratory. He appeared on several television shows to discuss the book, including on NBC’s Today Show, where the book was made a Today Show Book Club selection. Lab 257 hit the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list soon after its publication.

Storefronts made from legos and Lego word on side of truck and little lego people
Local Ohioan LEGO artists will be displaying various LEGO creations at the BrickUniverse LEGO Fan Convention in Columbus, Ohio next week. The convention will take place at the Ohio Expo Center on May 25-26, 2019. LEGO displays by Ohioan LEGO artists include cities, trains, robots, and mosaics

One of the groups displaying is the Ohio LEGO Users Group (OhioLUG). They are Adult Fans of LEGO, referred to as "AFOLs", who build, play, and display creations built with LEGO bricks. There are currently over 300 LEGO Users Group for Adult Fans of LEGO around the world. In 2010, The LEGO Company estimated that there were around 40,000 AFOLs in the world. That number has dramatically increased with estimates from 200,000 to over 1,000,000. Famous AFOLs include David Beckham, Ed Sheeran, and Britney Spears who have all publicly talked about their affection for LEGO.  

White book with words End Medical Debt

While the politicians dither over universal health care versus single payer versus the current Republican prescription for all non-millionaires (Get Sick & Die Quick), medical debt is still the number one cause of American family bankruptcies.

Throughout the US, people are forced every day to choose between medical care and food, shelter, and supporting their children.

At this point there’s no indication there’ll be an easy victory to bring the US in sync with the rest of the civilized world in providing decent health coverage.

But one back-door guerrilla campaign is being waged to lessen some of the pain. A group called RIP Medical Debt has thus far helped retire around $434,000,000 owed by about a quarter-million Americans. With some $750,000,000,000 in nationwide indebtedness to medical providers and their secondary bill collectors, it might seem like a drop in the bucket. But for those who are helped, it can mean a new life.

People signing petitions in background and words at top: Communities know we have a democracy problem and are organizing to take action.

Saturday, May 18, 12:30-4:30PM
Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St.
The social and environmental justice issues confronting Ohio communities today share a common source: a system of law and government that blocks our right to local community self-governance. Through this workshop we will examine how to use organizing tools such as forming a community action group, writing and running a ballot initiative, and more to create the just communities we envision.

As the nuke power industry slumps toward oblivion, two huge reactors are shutting in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. 

The shutdowns are a body blow to atomic energy. The soaring costs of the decayed US reactor fleet have forced them to beg gerrymandered state legislatures for huge bailouts. 

Just two US reactors are still being built. Stuffed with $12 billion in interest-free federal loans, Georgia’s Vogtle is nearing a staggering $30 billion in cost. Years behind schedule, the lowest possible costs of whatever electricity the two reactors there might produce already far exceed wind and solar.

Virtually none of the 98 US reactors now operating can compete with wind, solar, or methane. All but one are more than twenty years old, with serious issues of obsolescence and decay; some are more than forty, operating far behind their original design life.

Explaining, with easy-to-understand charts, why Autism Spectrum Disorders could soon reach an incidence of 50% among fully-vaccinated children in America (and some of the other half of the over-vaccinated children are at risk of developing the already escalating vaccine-induced disorders such as Autoimmune Disorders, Asthma, Allergies, the ASIA Syndrome, Macrophagic Myofasciitis and Type I Diabetes Mellitus.

 

The time-honored (by the vaccine industry, that is) metallic vaccine ingredients, aluminum and mercury (thimerosal), are both recognized as highly toxic substances when they are allowed to come in contact with human tissue. Among other toxicities, they are known to be poisonous to mitochondria and genetic material.

 

By Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News

15 May 19

 

hile the politicians dither over universal health care versus single payer versus the current Republican prescription for all non-millionaires (Get Sick & Die Quick), medical debt is still the number one cause of American family bankruptcies.

Throughout the US, people are forced every day to choose between medical care and food, shelter, and supporting their children.

At this point there’s no indication there’ll be an easy victory to bring the US in sync with the rest of the civilized world in providing decent health coverage.

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