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What We Must Do Now: Abrams, Georgia & Something Extraordinary

A week ago, I received a call from Stacey Abrams’ lead attorneys. Our investigative team had “gold,” as they put it, for litigating the election: Expert analysis proving 340,134 voters were wrongly purged by her opponent when he was Secretary of State. Plus, we had, on camera, victims of the purge, including the 92-year-old cousin of Martin Luther King.

But I’m a journalist, not a campaign operative. I could only offer my reports and my affidavit filed in federal court in Common Cause v. Brian Kemp.

With Abrams no longer in the race for Governor, we are now free to open our files to her new voting rights group, Fair Fight Georgia.

Songs Of Gratitude: An Alternative To The Black Friday Buying Frenzy

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Friday November 23, 2018, 7:30 – 9:00 PM  
Bill Cohen sings a unique concert of folk and popular songs that express gratitude for all that we have:  friends, family, freedom, art, music, nature, and more.  Clues to the song list — John Denver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Appleseed, Phil Ochs, The Golden Girls, Don McLean, Peter Paul and Mary, and others.  $10 Suggested donation (any contribution is welcome).  Proceeds will go to help my wife Randi make her annual winter trek to the Dominican Republic.  That’s where she serves as a volunteer translator for the International Medical Alliance of Tennessee, a team of doctors and nurses who provide free basic medical care to impoverished Haitian workers who live and work just inside the D.R. border.  
Location:  Maynard Ave Methodist Church, 2350 Indianola Ave, Columbus 43202.  
For more info, contact Bill at (614) 263-3851 or BillCohen@columbus.rr.com.  

Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Tuesday, November 20, 7-9pm, King Ave. United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave.

TransOhio will hold its annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Tuesday, November 20 at King Ave. United Methodist Church to honor and lift up the victims of violence against the transgender and gender non-binary/non-conforming community, both across the U.S. and around the world, during 2018.

The doors will open at 6:30pm; the program will begin at 7pm.

Child care will be provided; light refreshments will be offered afterwards.

Hosted by TransOhio.

AFI FEST 2018: CAPSULE REVIEWS

The American Film Institute’s annual film festival is arguably Los Angeles’ best and most comprehensive annual fete of feature, documentary, short, animated, domestic and foreign cinema. Here are capsule reviews of some of AFI Fest 2018’s myriad productions.

 

NON-FICTION -

 

The son of film/TV director Jacques Remy (best known for directing the Inspector Maigret series), Olivier Assayas continues the aesthetic of the French New Wave’s auteurs. His sensibilities seem to range from Francois Truffaut’s (when it comes to romance) to Jean-Luc Godard’s in terms of politics (if not film form). His previous movies include the 2002 thriller Demonlover and works dealing with leftwing subjects - 2010’s Golden Globe winner Carlos, about terrorist “Carlos the Jackal,” which scored Edgar Ramirez Emmy and Golden Globe acting noms, plus 2012’s superb Something in the Air, about French radicals shortly after the May 1968 student-worker uprising.

 

BQIC New Member meeting

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Monday, November 19, 2018, 6:30 – 8:00 PM. We invite Black LGBTQIA+ people from all backgrounds to join BQIC! ABOUT BQIC: Black Queer & Intersectional Columbus works toward the liberation of Black queer, trans, and intersex people from all walks of life through direct action, community organizing, education on our issues, and creating spaces to uplift our voices.  DETAILS: Come out to our first new member info session to learn about BQIC's revamped mission and principles, where we're going, and how to get involved!

Tell Ohio PUCO to Approve AEP's Clean Energy Proposals

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As you may have heard, AEP has proposed 900 megawatts (MW) of new renewable energy installations in Ohio -- 400 MW of that will be solar energy, which is enough to power about half the homes in Cincinnati.

Submit a comment today in support of AEP's new renewable energy proposal!

Submit a Comment in Support of AEP's Clean Energy Projects!

AEP's proposed projects would lower our bills over the long-term, help reduce pollution, and bring much needed jobs to Ohio, especially areas that have faced tough economic times, like Appalachian Ohio. But first, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) needs to approve AEP's proposals. You can help make that happen! The PUCO is accepting public comments on AEP's proposed renewables projects and a strong showing of public support will help the projects get approved.

Job growth continues, more needed to rebuild Ohio’s middle class

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Seasonally adjusted data released Friday, November 16, 2018 by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services show Ohio’s job growth picked up slightly in October, with the addition of 10,900 jobs, over a weak September. The state’s unemployment rate, which is generated from a separate survey, held steady at 4.6 percent. October’s increase in jobs was enough to push the state’s 12-month job growth rate to 2.1 percent, solidly above the national average of 1.7 percent. If this trend continues through the end of the year and survives the annual revision of job figures set for early 2019, this year will be the first since 2010 that Ohio outperforms the nation. It will also make 2018 the first year since 1997 that state’s job growth rate hits at least 2 percent. Ohio has added 115,400 jobs in the last 12 months.

#EarthStrike - General Strike to Save the Planet

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Earth Strike is a grass-roots environmental activist movement which aims to pressure governments and corporations around the world to take immediate action to avoid irreversible climate change before it is too late.

Read our full Mission Statement here.

Climate change

The world-wide climatological community has shown beyond any reasonable doubt that the planet’s climate is changing, and human industry is a strong driver of that change. These trends are clearly visible in several global metrics of the climate. Numerous studies and analyses have been published by prestigious scientific organizations which show, without a doubt, that if we do not take action now we will not only commit to those effects we see in our climate today, but we commit ourselves – every human and animal on the planet – to perpetually worsening climate catastrophe.

Radioactive Waste Is Coming through Your Town -- Unless YOU Help Stop It!

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Please help us generate a large number of quality public comments to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in opposition to a 40,000 metric ton highly radioactive, irradiated nuclear fuel, centralized interim storage facility (CISF), proposed by Interim Storage Partners (ISP), at Waste Control Specialists (WCS) in Andrews County, West Texas. NRC's deadline for public comments on environmental scoping has been extended to November 19th. (Please be sure to submit your comments by 11:59pm Eastern time, Monday, Nov. 19, in order to make sure they make it onto the official record!) 

It'd be great to set a new record for number of public comments on this subject matter -- to submit more than the 30,000+ public comments submitted last spring and summer, in opposition to a similar CISF, targeted just 40 miles away, at Holtec International/Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance, in southeastern New Mexico. And we're already well on our way to doing that!

GA And FLA New Elections, CA Fires, Trump Stay Home

GEORGIA & FLORIDA MUST HAVE NEW ELECTIONS!

(article at Reader Supported News):

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/53404-rsn-georgia-a-florida-must-have-new-elections


CA Fires & Mobster Trump:

We talk with a Malibu refugee; then with experts on Mobster Trump & the Mueller Report...

(radio interview at prn.fm)

https://greenpowerwellnessshow.podbean.com/e/solartopia-green-power-and-wellness-hour-111618/

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