Thursday, November 15, 1:30-3:30pm
1 Dave Thomas Blvd, Wendy's HQ, Dublin, Ohio
Join the United Methodist Women, The National Farm Worker Ministry and Women Leaders of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as we collectively call on Wendy's to join onto the Fair Food Program. 

For the months of September and October, the United Methodist Women have been collecting postcards to petition Wendy's to sign the Fair Food Agreement. Proclaim "Time's Up" on low wages, poor working conditions and sexual violence in the fields! 
To learn more go to: https://unitedmethodistwomen.org

Earth has a dozen years to turn climate change around, according to the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. Responses to the report give us insight into the political climate, as well as the actual climate, in the Buckeye State.

“Climate change is already happening in the greater Cleveland region,” and it “threatens the biodiversity,” stated Brian Parsons, Director of Planning and Special Projects at Holden Arboretum in the Cleveland area, who spelled out his findings in a 2007 article. Parsons pointed out that “temperatures in the region are increasing” and so are “extreme heat events.” Equally troubling are “heavy precipitation” and also “winters are becoming shorter.”

Well, that doesn’t sound that bad. But Ohioans can expect more flooding from storms, and in the future, increased demands to suck fresh water out of the Great Lakes to share with drought regions in the South and Southwest United States. All this will occur with faster and faster rates of climate change. If we fail to turn it around, Ohio will lose much of the ecological diversity in our flora, fauna and animals.

Thousand Oaks, California: a city torn apart by wildfire and gunfire. Both are unnatural disasters.

“This is the new abnormal,” Gov. Jerry Brown said this week at a press conference, talking about global warming and the three voracious fires that are tearing up his state, one of them — the Camp Fire, in Northern California — the deadliest and most destructive in the state’s history.

“Unfortunately, the best science is telling us that dryness, warmth, drought, all those things, they’re going to intensify,” Brown said.

I predict the extreme polarization of medical sciences. There will be a small (and diminishing) corps of dedicated individuals; real scientists who want to make a difference. Through them, and only through them, we will continue to make significant advances in medicine.

But their effort will be swamped out by the continuing wave of lies and corruption which passes for “science”. It contains no new discoveries, only new ways of lying about what the pharmaceutical industry is peddling.

But those who criticize this system of rampant corruption will be increasingly pilloried and attacked as incompetent, dangerous, dishonest, stupid. It’s already happening with criticism of the “anti-vaccines loonies” and other pejoratives.

The only way of surviving in this coming world of chemicalized madness is to look after yourself. But the medical industry won’t like that. It will become more and more difficult, as suppliers of natural products and experts in non-pharma healing are increasingly marginalized or even criminalized.

People like me could end up in jail, for teaching you that nature can heal!

he 2018 “Blue Wave” that dominates our national healing is, in fact, a mere ripple within the HUUUUUGE “Rainbow Tsunami” that has two years to transform the nation.

It embodies the rise of a new generation – led by women – that embraces diversity and voted that way. Its larger destiny (we hope) is to help move our bleeding nation away from a male-dominated fossil/nuclear autocracy and toward a matriarchal, green-powered social democracy.

It’s now epitomized by the first open refusal of a major Democratic candidate to concede an obviously stolen election. If Stacey Abrams helps remake our elections into an actual democracy, a whole new world is possible.

Let’s count the ways:

This Rainbow vote was powered by a ten-point jump in turnout among citizens under 30, who went more than two-thirds against Trump.