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Saturday, December 16, 6pm, Makoy Center, 5462 N. Center St., Hilliard, Ohio

Join us, alongside other Columbus Arab and student organizations, and New Generation for Palestine (NGP) for a night of solidarity and urgent support for Gaza. This will be a non-political fundraiser for the sole purpose of collecting funds for two non-profit organizations, PAMA and UHR, that provide aid to Gaza.

There will be food, a silent auction, vendor booths, and Amer Zahr as the host for the night. Also, please refrain from bringing your children; there will be no entertainment with respect for the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Tickets are limited.

Purchase tickets through this link. We hope to see everyone there!

General admission: $25.00 + $1.50 booking fee.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by New Generation for Palestine.

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Let’s be clear – HB 68 is extreme government overreach and state-sponsored bullying of trans and gender non-conforming Ohioans.

Legislators have no business banning evidence-based science, especially affirming, professionally endorsed services by physicians, mental health professionals, and other licensed providers OR barring them from participating in sports. Trans youth belong, and discrimination has no place in our state.

TAKE ACTION: Contact Governor DeWine and tell him to VETO HB 68.

https://action.aclu.org/send-message/protect-trans-youth-stop-hb-68?fbc…

Let’s be clear – HB 68 is extreme government overreach and state-sponsored bullying of trans and gender non-conforming Ohioans.

Legislators have no business banning evidence-based science, especially affirming, professionally endorsed services by physicians, mental health professionals, and other licensed providers OR barring them from participating in sports. Trans youth belong, and discrimination has no place in our state.

TAKE ACTION: Contact Governor DeWine and tell him to VETO HB 68.

https://action.aclu.org/send-message/protect-trans-youth-stop-hb-68?fbc…

We start GREEP ZOOM #160 with a discussion of Ohio’s newly legalized pot access, and the insane interventions against abortion in Texas and Ohio. 

KARL GROSSMAN explains some of the horrors of the radioactive release at Fukushima, Japan, which has been followed by the predicable mass death of millions of sardines and mackerel in northern Japan.

Karl has reviewed RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND by Heidi Hutner, featuring four stalwart women whose health and families have been decimated by radioactive fallout from the 1979 TMI disaster.

KAT KRAMER reminds us of her great work with Kat Kramer’s Films that Change the World which will feature the WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND, perhaps in March.

Karl further describes the KOP28 which was captured by the Emirates’ oil industry and nuke power promoters who want 3X the reactors we have now.

TATANKA BRICCA then joins in with a description of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s sabotage of the phase-out of two decrepit reactors at Diablo Canyon.

WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVE KAISER and JUSTIN LEBLANC add to the dialog.

This article first appeared in the Buckeye Flame

After more than three years and hearing hundreds of witnesses at the Ohio Statehouse, lawmakers have passed legislation that bans healthcare for transgender youth and prevents transgender girls from competing in sports from kindergarten through college.

After receiving a favorable report from the Senate Government Oversight Committee during its fourth hearing, an amended version of Ohio House Bill (HB) 68 passed 24 to 8 during a full Senate vote Wednesday afternoon. 

Wednesday evening, the Ohio House voted 61 to 27 to concur, endorsing the Senate’s amended bill and sending it to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for his signature.

Join us on Thursday, December 7th at 7PM EST for a public meeting discussing the key debates within the Palestine solidarity movement from a revolutionary and internationalist perspective.

This meeting will feature presentations from a leading comrade in the local Palestine solidarity movement, Yezen Abusharkh, and a leader of CORS, Coco Smyth. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion on the issues facing the movement as Israel’s genocidal war continues.

This meeting will take place online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting and in-person at Enarson Classrooms Building Room 314, OSU campus

Columbus’s shamed CEO Sean Lane – who failed spectacularly with his shadowy and shady AI software which promised to cut administrative costs for healthcare providers – has somehow once again convinced venture capitalists his AI hocus-pocus can save companies millions in labor costs.

Strange indeed, is how Lane incorporated his new company “GhostDog Inc.” on the same day his previous AI company announced it was going belly-up and didn’t want to be sentient after all, this according to the local BizJournal.

Lane was the much-hyped leader behind Olive AI which closed for good after it bamboozled hospitals and venture capitalists it could automate routine administrative tasks, such as uncovering whether a patient’s insurance had lapsed. But as former Olive AI employees so stunningly exposed on Reddit, Lane’s AI may not have even been true AI.

Wednesday, December 13, 5:30pm
East Market, 212 Kelton Ave.

Join us for food and solidarity at the annual Central Ohio Worker Center Happy Hour. Meet our staff and board members and celebrate an eventful 2023!

Hosted by Central Ohio Worker Center / Centro de Trabajadores de Central Ohio.

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Every citizen of Columbus should be alarmed by the recent actions of two local politicians. One politician—who was up for re-election in November-directly contacted a judge to influence a pending civil matter in which he was named a party. And that judge then failed to disclose the full details of such ex parte action until after the election.

As Mayor, Andy Ginther is a party to City of Columbus v Wilson 845 LLC et al 2023 EVH 060592. As disclosed by Judge Stephanie Mingo on December 8, Ginther called the personal cell phone of Judge Mingo with specific needs on the case.

We always hear politicians talk about the need for accountability and full transparency in government. This is the exact opposite for both elected officials.

The timeline as indicated in court filings is important:

America’s Trail Networks—An Exploration of the Scope and Impact of the Nation’s Developing Trail Networks

On Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, media are invited to a panel discussion hosted by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) at WOSU’s Ross Community Studio to reveal new data about the trail networks that are developing across the country, and the effect that infrastructure will and is having on America

The panel will feature RTC, Latino Outdoors, and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) for a discussion about the urgency to connect this walking, biking and active transportation infrastructure and what it will take to get there, spotlighting Columbus as a specific example of progress and potential.

What:         America’s Trail Networks—An Exploration of the Scope and Impact of the Nation’s Developing Trail Networks

When:        Dec. 12, 1 p.m. Eastern

Where:       WOSU’s Ross Community Studio, 1800 N. Pearl St., Columbus, Ohio (See it on a map.)

Who:          Ryan Chao, President, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy