Friday, July 19, 3-6pm
Northside Library, 1423 N High St.
While serving a prison sentence in 1997, Dan Cahill composed a letter to announce an upcoming work stoppage in protest of Ohio's 1996 "truth in sentencing" law. All new prisoners were to serve the exact time length given to them by a judge, but those already in prison were still subject to continuations from the Parole Board. Using the name of another prisoner, Dan sent his letter about the work stoppage to Cleveland black newspaper The Call and Post, which published it. Unfortunately, the other prisoner informed staff of Dan's activities and he was put in isolation as retaliation. One time while corrections officers were being especially violent with him, another guard physically intervened and fought him off. That was the moment when Rob Jones knew his career as a corrections officer was over.

I want Tulsi Gabbard in the Democratic Presidential debates because she speaks out against wars. She raises the topic unasked. She wants various wars ended or not launched. She wants impeachment made automatic for presidents who launch wars. What’s not to love?

I also want Mike Gravel included for the same reason. If anything, he’s even better than Gabbard. But Gravel openly says he doesn’t want to be elected; he just wants to improve the debates. I wish Gabbard would say the same thing. Here’s why.

February 15, 2003, saw the biggest public demonstration in world history. It was against the obvious lies being used to launch a war against Iraq. Whistleblower Katharine Gun risked her freedom to expose the war in March 2003. The United Nations refused to support the war, and its Secretary General joined many world governments in denouncing the war as a fraud and a crime.

Thursday, July 18, 2019, 5:30 PM

Stéphane Brizé’s award-winning At War (En Guerre) is a French
feature about unions, strikes and class struggle being released in
America shortly after Bastille Day, which commemorates that “other”
French Revolution. In this movie a German-owned company reneges
on promises to keep a factory open in an economically depressed
region of France, despite the workers’ sacrifices, agreeing to cutbacks
on wages and benefits, plus the firm’s receiving of subsidies and tax
credits from the French government. The “problem” is that although
the factory makes a profit, it is not profitable enough for shareholders
obsessed with “competivity” in our increasingly globalized planet.
 
In the workers’ fight to prevent the plant from closing and not lose
their jobs the proletarians resort to industrial actions that become
increasingly militant, including walking off the job, sit-down strikes,
occupations, etc. The failure of the French government and courts to
decisively support the strikers pushes them towards more direct

Call your Ohio state senators and tell them to vote NO on House Bill 6. The bill would:

* Bail out First Energy's unprofitable, crumbling, and leaking nuclear plants;

* Eliminate Ohio's energy and efficiency programs which employ about  
100,000 people and which have saved Ohioans about $5 billion since it  
was created;

* Shut wind power out of Ohio's energy future;

* Slash renewable energy portfolio standards (House eliminates them,  
Senate slashes them by 1/3);

* Bail out two of the dirtiest coal plants in the United States, one  
in Indiana; and

* Signal that Ohio is moving backwards on energy policy.

We have one last chance to call our Senators. Ohioans oppose HB6 three  
to one. We need to speak for the people and contact our Senators TODAY  
to tell them "No On HB6!"