With the latest UN announcements regarding our twelve-year timeline for humanity to adapt to foundationally sustainable practices that mitigate the pollution and cease and desist deforestation that is driving mass global extinction and climate change, there is no better time or reason to embrace a rapid vegan shift in consciousness, policy and behavior. As daunting as this announcement sounds, the good news is – you don’t have to “give up” your favorite holiday meals! The vegans have got you covered and our 100% plant-based alternatives will save you and the rest of the sea and terrestrial dwelling individuals (human and non-human), large and small, who share our world in ways you probably wouldn’t fully grasp until you watched documentaries such as Forks Over Knives, Cowspiracy, Seaspiracy, Racing Extinction, or Earthlings or Dominion. Get connected with us and join The Columbus Vegan Meetupgroup (and/or on Facebook) and attend one of the many gatherings that are happening throughout the holiday season.

It’s time for America to get ready for the November ballots. Time to vote! Vote for your favorite person to represent you and your family when it comes to paying taxes, getting your street repaved and the potholes repaired. We vote for people we know personally and people we don’t know at all. We get our information from the formal and informal “meet your candidates” receptions that are held generally during the pressing weeks up to election day. 

  We watch the media news, the rampant rush of commercials that talk about what the “opponent” is not doing or are doing if its of a criminal nature. We only see images of the candidates wearing freshly pressed clothing, walking hand in hand with their spouses and children, shaking hands of people who mostly look just like them, and telling us only the good news that they will treat our family as if it were their family. 

To vote is a privilege to some and a necessity and a right to others. African Americans and women have not always had the right to vote. Where is the power in the vote of a group of people who have, nothing to gain, it seems, when they do vote? Is there power in the vote?

Wed, Oct 31, 6-8pm
Corner  of South Ogden Avenue and Whitehead Road
We want to support our neighborhood children and keep them safe on Halloween night so SC Hilltop neighborhood is hosting it's sixth annual Trick or Treat Corner, Wednesday, October 31st from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the corner of South Ogden Ave. and Whitehead Road (around 682 S. Ogden Ave).

Please bring a chair (if you would rather sit) and a bowl of treats to share with the kiddos. We want to make sure they receive tons of candy as many years very few neighbors turned on their lights and opened their doors to giving.

Massey's Pizza on Sullivant Avenue is once again sponsoring subs to hand out to the kids as Trick or Treat falls at the end of the month and some families are pretty low on food.

Feel free to come dressed in costume and join in the FUN!.

Let's make wonderful Trick or Treat memories for the children and build community while we're at it.

“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!”
“Don’t be such a purist!”
“Be strategic!”
“Do what’s possible!”
“You can’t deny reality / human nature / religious text.”

The phrases used to oppose proposals for major change haven’t changed much for centuries, in both meanings of that phrase. No doubt these sayings sound better in certain circumstances than others, depending on the details. But in general, I find that they sound worse since the status quo locked in the climate collapse, and since the risk of nuclear catastrophe reached it’s current record high and rapidly climbing position.

I’ve just read a new book called War, Law, and Humanity by James Crossland that looks at efforts to regulate or end war from the 1850s up through the beginning of the 1900s. One strain of thought was that war needed to be eliminated and replaced with nonviolent arbitration. Another was that war needed to be regulated, doctors and nurses admitted onto battlefields, standards upheld for the treatment of prisoners, particular weapons banned, etc. The peace advocates were mocked as dreamers. The humanizers were the “realists.”

Viper Club is too earnest and low-key to qualify as exciting cinema. On the other hand, if you believe in the First Amendment and are concerned about President Donald Trump’s constant and self-serving attacks on the press, it may prove to be a cathartic experience.

Susan Sarandon stars as Helen Sterling, an emergency-room nurse whose son, Andy (Julian Morris), is in deep trouble. While covering Syria’s civil war as a free-lance journalist, he has been captured and is being held for ransom by the terrorist group known as Islamic State.

As the film opens, Helen has already spent months discussing Andy’s dire situation with an FBI agent named Walsh (Patrick Breen), but he’s ordered her not to tell anyone else. Meanwhile, little progress seems to have been made on securing his release.

When Helen asks for updates or makes suggestions, Walsh responds with variations on the theme “We know what’s best.” He also warns her not to even think of giving in to the terrorists’ demands for ransom money, as that would be against the law and would land her and anyone else who’s involved in prison.