Monday, February 11, 2019, 5:00 – 8:00 PM.  Support CCBOR at City Council Meeting. Please come and show your support on Monday, as we present to city council asking them to place our community bill of rights ordinance on the May 2019 city voting ballot.  Since the state of Ohio refused to place our Columbus city ordinance on the November 2018 ballot, two Ohio supreme court cases have supported a similar city measure to be placed on the Toledo ballot.  This has resulted in the reversal of a Lucas County Board of Elections decision that kept the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) off the Toledo ballot in November 2018, and it will now appear on a special election ballot scheduled for February 26th, 2019. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights will give Toledo city residents power to enforce their right, to protect their source of public water that originates from Lake Erie.

Reader Supported News

04 February 19

In 1985, an activist for the relatives of the disappeared [persons in Guatemala], named Rosario Godoy, was abducted by the army. She was raped. Her mutilated body was found alongside that of her baby. The baby’s fingernails had been torn out. The Guatemalan army, when asked about this atrocity, said, “Oh, they died in a traffic accident.”

When [US human rights official] Elliott Abrams was asked about this accident, he affirmed also that they died in a traffic accident. This activist raped and mutilated, the baby with his fingernails pulled out, Abrams says it’s a traffic accident. 

– Allan Nairn, on Democracy NOW January 30, 2019

The grassroots Medicare for All movement will ramp up like never before Feb. 9-13, during the Medicare for All Week of Action, as volunteers across the U.S. host 150 Medicare for All “barnstorm” mass organizing meetings to kickstart canvassing and grassroots lobbying in local communities throughout the country.

“Nurses have been fighting for decades to win Medicare for All, so we are thrilled to see the movement for real health care reform in America expanding like never before,” said Bonnie Castillo, RN, executive director of National Nurses United (NNU), sponsor of the Medicare for All week of action. “The barnstorms are about harnessing that momentum and continuing to build it out even further, into every community, conversation by conversation, neighbor by neighbor—until the people’s will for Medicare for All becomes the political will to get it done.”

What:         Medicare for All barnstorm

When:         Sunday, February 10 at 5 PM

Where:         Columbus Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd Columbus OH 43214

Friends, fellow inhabitants of planet Earth, I’m not breaking up with you. I just think maybe we ought to see other species for a while. You like dogs, right?

I’ve spent so many years trying to talk with you, and you haven’t heard anything. So, we have the same conversation over and over and over. Let’s just take a little amicable break, OK?

Naked Imperialism

Barely one in five Venezuelans knows who Juan Guaidó is. His newly minted international supporters have trouble pronouncing his name. Yet that is the man whom the Donald Trump administration wants to make President of Venezuela – by any means necessary.  White House national security adviser John Bolton has already floated a trial balloon of “5,000 troops to Colombia.”