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Sunday, March 3rd, 8pm
The Comedy Roast Fundraiser to End Qualified Immunity has changed location! Join us at the LARGER Hilton Columbus/Polaris BALLROOM!
Hilton Columbus/Polaris, 8700 Lyra Dr, Columbus

$30 At The Door (Doors Open At 7pm)

Presented by The Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity

The essence here revolves around using humor as a coping mechanism while engaging in serious discussions. The event blends laughter and fundraising, using a roast format to comically critique Yost, with a focus on his characters, policies, actions, mannerisms, and voice.

Sunday, March 3rd, 8pm
The Comedy Roast Fundraiser to End Qualified Immunity has changed location! Join us at the LARGER Hilton Columbus/Polaris BALLROOM!
Hilton Columbus/Polaris, 8700 Lyra Dr, Columbus

$30 At The Door (Doors Open At 7pm)

Presented by The Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity

The essence here revolves around using humor as a coping mechanism while engaging in serious discussions. The event blends laughter and fundraising, using a roast format to comically critique Yost, with a focus on his characters, policies, actions, mannerisms, and voice.

Re/Descheduling – What It Is and Why It’s Important

It felt like a marathon, right? The two-year trek spanning 2021 to 2023, which led to passage of Ohio Issue 2 (the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol initiated statute), moved through many twists, turns, ups, and downs before arriving at a new age. No longer must we look over shoulders, hide our stuff, or whisper our canna-conversations. We’re free to be who we are … almost.

Federal law, the root of prohibition, remains a different matter. Despite Issue 2, if you find yourself in possession of cannabis on federal land (parks, courthouses, etc.), you are subject to federal penalties. They. Have. Not. Changed. And they are harsh. The War on Drugs, including cannabis, is not yet over. That two-year trek was a walk in the park compared to the last 50 years of prohibition.

Bruce Miller, a Far South Columbus Area commissioner, has caught the eye of City officials after he spoke out about future development plans for the Far South Side. Now he’s facing intimidation, something a Columbus resident should never be dealing with when it comes to simply wanting their neighborhood having a seat at the table.

Miller, a nurse, has alerted hundreds of South Side homeowners and business owners to the City’s new “Zone In Columbus” plan, which has designs on building condos and apartment buildings – twelve stories tall possibly – at the Great Southern Shopping Plaza. Also in the crosshairs is a nearby beloved drive-in theatre, and all of South High Street, for that matter, from State Route 104 to 270, including residential side streets.

Bruce Miller, a Far South Columbus Area commissioner, has caught the eye of City officials after he spoke out about future development plans for the Far South Side. Now he’s facing intimidation, something a Columbus resident should never be dealing with when it comes to simply wanting their neighborhood having a seat at the table.

Miller, a nurse, has alerted hundreds of South Side homeowners and business owners to the City’s new “Zone In Columbus” plan, which has designs on building condos and apartment buildings – twelve stories tall possibly – at the Great Southern Shopping Plaza. Also in the crosshairs is a nearby beloved drive-in theatre, and all of South High Street, for that matter, from State Route 104 to 270, including residential side streets.

Saturday, March 2, 10am
Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. Broad St., and then Ohio Statehouse

Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Ready for real and fundamental change that will shift the status quo and lift from the bottom? Join hundreds of other Ohioans, and thousands of other people, in a nationwide day of action at the Mass Poor People’s and Low-wage Workers’ State House Assemblies and To the Polls! Ohio will join 30+ other states, across the country, in calling on our state and federal governments to address the interlocking injustices of racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation.

Poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in this country, and there are 140 million poor and low-wealth people in the U.S. (almost half the population) who are at, below, or just one crisis away from the (outdated) “poverty line” while subsidies and policy preferences continue flowing to rich individuals and corporations.

We cannot address poverty without addressing ecological devastation, nor can we address systemic racism without addressing the war economy, and so on. It all goes hand in hand, and the time to act is now.

Thursday, February29, 7-8:30pm
Karl Road Library, 5590 Karl Rd. Conference Room 2
 
If anyone lives around the Columbus, Ohio area, we have been trying to form a local chapter of Veterans for Peace. So far, it has been only minimally successful. But it has only been three months. Our hope is to grow enough to need someone to take minutes, maybe a secretary, and a treasurer. Perhaps Co-Chairs, if people think that would be a good idea. We hope you can come to our next meeting.

Community Conversations with the Ohio Community Rights Network
February 28, 2024, 6:00 PM
The Ohio Community Rights Network invites you for a discussion on State Preemption on from around the state. This will be the first in a series of Community Conversations which OHCRN plans to facilitate monthly. The virtual discussion will join an in-person panel from the Athens community.   

Student leaders from universities across Ohio held a press conference on Friday to launch their Ohio Young People's Platform, a collective vision and shared strategy for Ohio's future. They simultaneously launched an accompanying coalition of student organizations that will be organizing around the platform together, called the Ohio Young People’s Platform Coalition.

Tuesday, February 27, 6pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Northside Branch], 1423 N. High St.

Join the PSL [Party for Socialism and Liberation] and friends for the launch of the Vote Socialist 2024 campaign right here in Columbus, Ohio. Meet our comrades, find out ways to volunteer and get involved in the struggle, learn more about the campaign and our Party, and join the fight for socialism and liberation! We don’t just want your vote; we want you to organize! See you there.

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Claudia De la Cruz is a mother, popular educator and theologian born in the South Bronx who has spent her life organizing for justice for working people at home and to end U.S. empire abroad. Karina Garcia is a Chicana organizer, popular educator, and mother who has spent her entire adult life fighting for the rights of immigrant workers, women, and the whole working class.