On Thursday, November 15, extremist anti-abortion legislators in the Ohio House passed the six-week abortion ban, furthering their goal to outlaw abortion in the State of Ohio.

The Ohio General Assembly passed the six-week ban once before, and Governor-Elect Mike DeWine has promised to sign the bill if it passes the legislature. Despite Kasich’s veto last year, state politicians continue to push this unconstitutional ban, which could mean abortion access in Ohio will become inaccessible for the majority of women.

Statement from Iris E. Harvey, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio:

“The Ohio Legislature is continuing their ideological crusade to ban abortion in Ohio – starting with the unconstitutional six-week abortion ban. Many women do not even know they are pregnant before six weeks.

“This bill takes away a woman’s ability to make a decision before she knows she has a decision to make. This legislation criminalizes physicians from providing critical care to tens of thousands of patients who need it. Women should be trusted and respected to make their own health care decisions, period.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- China's government sent more than one million
majority ethnic Han Chinese to live uninvited in the homes of minority
Uighur families in Xinjiang province and report if the Muslims display
Islamic or unpatriotic beliefs which need to be forcibly reformed.

"Had a Uighur host just greeted a neighbor in Arabic with the words
'Assalamu Alaykum'? That would need to go in the notebook," and
reported to China's authorities, said American anthropologist Darren
Byler.

"Was that a copy of the Koran in the home? Was anyone praying on
Friday or fasting during Ramadan? Was a little sister's dress too long
or a little brother's beard irregular? And why was no one playing
cards or watching movies?" Mr. Byler said, describing traditional
Muslim behavior which China's civilian monitors added to the dossiers.

Mr. Byler's 5,500-word investigative research was published by New
York-based Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations on October
25.

About two weeks after publication, the ruling Chinese Communist Party

Former U.S. Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) knew last week that Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R-AL) had been fired, roughly two hours before the news had been released in the press, according to a report at the Washington Examiner. Is this an oddity, of little or no import? We think it is much more than that, adding to the mountain of evidence that federal courts in Alabama are a nauseating sewer.

Friday, November 16, 2:3-4pm
Ohio Dept of Rehabilitation, 770 West Broad St.
Stand up to ODRC retaliation against the prisoner protest movement in Ohio!

During the massive #August21 2018 prison strike, the Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption (ODRC) engaged in a number of repressive and retaliatory actions against prisoners. These practices continue to this day. 

On Friday supporters from across Ohio and the wider region will gather outside the ODRC central office to demand an end to retaliation against prisoner protests. 

Out of town people will park near and gather at the corner of State and Dakota (behind the Franklinton library) starting at 2, then march together up to the DRC Central Office at 770 W Broad at around 2:30.

Speakers: 
Ishaq Alkhair - a friend of Imam Hasan who was incarcerated at Lucasville during the 1993 uprising. 
Pittsburg Anarchist Black Cross
Central Ohio IWOC

Organizations calling this demo: 
Central Ohio IWOC
Anarchist Black Cross Pittsburg