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Tuesday, November 14th | 7:00PM – 8:00PM Eastern Standard Time

gather with members of Third Act Ohio for an evening of learning and conversation. Join-in and hear from Third Act Central’s campaign strategist and about how we, as Ohio citizens, can accelerate our state’s transition to a clean energy supply.

Let’s magnify our power by sharing our life experience and discovering, together, our way forward.

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A meeting for the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) to decide whether to approve or deny fracking for four Ohio state parks and wildlife areas will be held Wednesday, November 15, at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) office, 2045 Morse Road in Columbus.

Save Ohio Parks will host a press conference outside the ODNR building on a grassy area at 9:30 am, just before the 10:30 am meeting. The public is invited.

“The OGLMC has had almost a year to educate itself on the human health effects, environmental impacts and climate concerns that would likely affect citizens, Ohio state parks and the world should these fracking leases be granted,” said Randi Pokladnik, steering committee member of Save Ohio Parks.

“We and other environmental groups and citizens have inundated the commission with thousands of emails, citing research, peer-reviewed health studies and climate data associated with fracking. Now it’s up to them to do the right thing for Ohioans by denying leases to frack under our state parks and public lands,” Pokladnik said.

Part One

I preface this continuing investigation with breaking news:

The Ohio State University’s Associate Chief of Campus Safety, former Columbus Police district zone director Dennis Jeffrey and Detective Cassanda Shaffer who is officially assigned to harass and intimidate me by the Office of Legal Affairs both refuse to acknowledge that “there are laws, and that my neighbors, household, and I have rights.”  All Buckeyes should take note.

In a series of essays published in early 2022, I showed that to a considerable and self-incriminating extent universities lead by slogans rather than programs, policies, relationships, and communications. And of course, slogans substitute for honesty. (See my essays on university slogans below)

Tuesday, November 14, 12pm
Columbus State Community College couryard.
We are urging all students and staff to join us in a schoolwide sit out for a free Palestine. The event will have speakers, fundraising and will end with a short march around campus. This is to be a peaceful demonstration showing that there is no business as usual until Palestine is free.

Monday, November 13, 2023, 5:00 PM
Join the community as we shut down city council on Monday in the fight for Palestine!  Please arrive as early as you can as the process to enter city council is time-consuming! No posters or signs are allowed on the premises but bring your keffiyehs and your voices! More information on Instagram. 

Hot and Heavy 

Jimmy Brown got out of the shower and wrapped a large yellow bath towel around his fat waist.  He avoided looking at his image in the mirror. Once he had been young, handsome, slim and a “ladies’ man.” That was when he was in the army. He didn’t recall when he had stopped taking care of his health and body. It happened slowly, gradually, without warning. He believed it began sometime after his wife had divorced him and taken his only child out of the state. Cutting all ties, he had with them. He knew it was his fault that she left him and didn’t blame her one bit.

Sunday, November 12, 2pm
Goodale Park gazebo

OVER 10,000 Palestinians and 4,000+ children have been murdered by Israel. We demand an end to the ongoing bloodshed, and Ohioans are demanding a ceasefire to stop the ongoing U.S. funded genocide in Gaza.

BE THERE. You have no excuse and do not be complicit with your silence. BECAUSE the people united, will never be defeated.

Bring your signs, flags, and kuffiyehs.

Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine.

Saturday, November 11, 1pm, Studio 35 Cinema & Draft House, 3055 Indianola Ave.

This event will be the premiere screening of a new film by Meshach Malley, the son of pioneering Simply Living family, Michael and Ali Malley.

Meshach graduated last year from Denison University with a degree in Cinema. Since then, he and his production company, Gentle Embers Media, have been working diligently to create creative content. See his work on his YouTube channel and on his website.

This movie was filmed in the Columbus area and at Ali’s childhood home on Indianola Ave. The movie is a heartwarming comedy-drama about recent college graduates. The intended audience is older teens and adults. If you can’t make it that day, the film will be available for rent on Amazon Prime Video during November.

IMDb Link

Canada must stop arming Israel, said more than 200 workers who blocked the entrances to a Toronto weapons manufacturer Friday morning.

“Last week we shut down the Toronto arms manufacturer INKAS; today we’re escalating with workers and community members blockading and disrupting production at four different weapons plants this morning, belonging to L3 Harris and Lockheed Martin,” said Rachel Small, organizer with World BEYOND War. “These companies’ weapons components and systems are being used right now to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza. We will not turn away from the horrors we are witnessing and are instead joining people around the world in holding our governments to account, blockading arms factories and shipments, and doing everything we can to cut off the flow of weapons to Israel.”

The typical response in the United States to the gradual buildup to a war, or even the launching of a war, or even the launching of a war that is reported in U.S. corporate media, is absolutely nothing different: work, school, shopping, sports, movies, etc.

Among those who have some response, it’s typically based on their understanding of the particular war, shaped largely by corporate media, by the political party of the U.S. president at the time (which makes waging wars in the name of democracy even stranger), by the accumulated months or decades of related propaganda in the culture at large, and by the nature of the war itself — typically understood as if human history had begun the day the war began.