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The January Free Press Second Saturday Salon was held on January 13 over Zoom.

Listen to the recording here.

Mark Stansbery of the Free Press Board, talked about the salon theme, ending militarism and building community. He introduced the first speaker, Rosan Eldadah. Rose relayed the tragic story of how she lost six family members, including small children, in Gaza during horrendous attacks by the IDF on civilians. Rose herself was harassed by the IDF prior to the current war and her family members detained and tortured.

The next speaker was Shayna Solomon, representing Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She spoke about the work of JVP and their events in Columbus. Both Rose and Shayna emphasized the Israeli oppression and violence of Palestinians that had been going on long before the current situation and the importance of assuring that whatever changes may happen, the horror cannot continue past this war.

Especially in the United States but across the world, we witness a stunning recurrence of an at least 60 year old tradition. University presidents, most loudly former university presidents, publicly blame faculty—most directly tenured professors-—or the  many problems of  higher education today.

There are many motivations. Prominent today are selling books, deflecting all responsibility for their own and other institutions failings away from themselves and on to anyone else; and running for elective office.

In the 1960s and 1970s, faculty and also students were blamed for universities’ awkward and contradictory stances on civil rights and then anti-war movements. Later, it was affirmative action broadly defined from equal opportunity to Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, among many manipulated themes, intended to distract attention from administrative failures of leadership and refusal to accept responsibility. These illegitimate, unprofessional manipulations typically contradict administrators’ wholesale statements about the roles of colleges and universities in the social, moral, and civic orders.

Sunday, January 14, 2024, 2:00 PM
Join Indivisible Central Ohio Friends and Neighbors for our "Kick Gerrymandering to the Curb" Kick off Meet and Greet! Pick up petitions, get shirts and other gear, sign up for events, get tips and tricks, and meet the team as we get set to collect a mountain of signatures and finally end gerrymandering in Ohio! 
Location:  First Unitarian Univeralist Columbus, 93 W. Weisheimer Road.  
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Sunday, January 14, 2024, 2:00 PM
Join Indivisible Central Ohio Friends and Neighbors for our "Kick Gerrymandering to the Curb" Kick off Meet and Greet! Pick up petitions, get shirts and other gear, sign up for events, get tips and tricks, and meet the team as we get set to collect a mountain of signatures and finally end gerrymandering in Ohio! 
Location:  First Unitarian Univeralist Columbus, 93 W. Weisheimer Road.  
Facebook.  

Sunday, January 14, 2024, 2:00 PM
Join Indivisible Central Ohio Friends and Neighbors for our "Kick Gerrymandering to the Curb" Kick off Meet and Greet! Pick up petitions, get shirts and other gear, sign up for events, get tips and tricks, and meet the team as we get set to collect a mountain of signatures and finally end gerrymandering in Ohio! 
Location:  First Unitarian Univeralist Columbus, 93 W. Weisheimer Road.  
Facebook.  

Saturday, January 13, 7-8pm
Zoom

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Local efforts to
END MILITARISM and BUILD COMMUNITY
We will discuss the situation in Gaza and Israel with speakers:
Rosan Eldadah
and
Shayna Solomon, Jewish Voices for Peace, Central Ohio Chapter
And more!

Q & A included.

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Friday, January 12, 11:00 AM – Saturday, January 13, 1:00 PM, 2024
Along with Rev. Jackson, the summit will feature such esteemed speakers as Dr. James Zogby, Peter Beinart, Congressman Jonathan Jackson, Rabbi Brant Rosen, Rev. Fahed Abu Akel, former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, Illinois State Representative Abdelnasser Rashid, Rev. Frederick Haynes, author Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, Dr. Cornel West, and IfNotNow national spokesperson Eva Borgwardt. 

Convened by:  Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow Push Coalition, Arab American Institute, Churches for Middle East Peace, Faith for Black Lives, U.S. Palestinian Council, Fellowship of Reconciliation, If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, Muslim Civic Coalition, National Council of Churches, Progressive Democrats for America, Red Letter Christians, and Sojourners.  

Location:  Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters, 930 East 50th Street Chicago, IL 60615.  

Our first GREEP zoom of 2024 lays out in deep detail the Grassroots path to defeating dictatorship in this fall election.

ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON are the two major architects of “relational” organizing in the southeastern US.

For nearly two hours they lay out the foundational guidelines for a winning strategy among ordinary voters throughout the US.

This presentation will be at the core of progressive non-media-based electoral work for the coming year and beyond.

Needless to say, the future of American democracy rests on the clarity and success of this presentation.

WENDI LEDERMAN adds a brutal assessment of the attack on a woman’s right to control her own body.

JUSTIN LEBLANC adds broad perspective to the issue.

STEVE CARUSO reports on the absolute insanity dominating Ohio.

DR. NANCY NIPARKO gives us critical data on women’s health in the US.

TATANKA BRICCA warns of the loss of our republic.

MYLA RESON bids us a fond farewell.

And we congratulate the University of Michigan football team on its first natonal championship in many decades.

This article originally appeared in the Buckeye Flame

Members of the Ohio House voted 65-28 to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto on Ohio House Bill (HB) 68 Wednesday evening – taking one step closer to banning healthcare for transgender people under the age of 18 and preventing transgender girls from competing in sports from kindergarten through college.

DeWine announced the veto during a press conference last week, where he instead proposed a set of new administrative rules restricting access to healthcare for all transgender Ohioans.

The 1960s has never lost its hold on America, nor has the argument about when the decade actually started. It has primarily been defined by five very tumultuous years–1963 through 1968–because of a number of events–among them, the March on Washington; five political assassinations; the war on poverty, the passage of the Civil Right Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; America’s formal entry into the Vietnam War under Operation Rolling Thunder; and the long, hot summers during which a number of northern cities were roiled by race riots. McElvaine makes a strong case for compressing the decade into those five years.