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Sunday, October 6, 3pm, Ohio Statehouse

To kick off a week of actions (see below)

As a full year of genocide approaches, the zionist regime’s ruthless aggression has only intensified. With over 300,000 martyrs in Gaza and apocalyptic scenes unfolding in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, the occupation’s fascism continues to be laid bare before our eyes.

It has never been more vital to show a unified front against the ongoing genocide in Palestine. We urge everyone to join us at every event to honor all our martyrs and continue the fight for liberation. As long as Palestine, Lebanon, and other countries stand steadfast in their resistance against the zionist entity, so do we. We will remain fearlessly until liberation is achieved.

Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at The Ohio State University.

Saturday, October 5, 12noon-7pm, Mayme Moore Park, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave.

Join us at Mayme Moore Park on Saturday, October 5 for a full day of free festivities and merriment by and for us!

• Live music and performances by local LGBTQ+ bands and artists!

• Vendor booths by local LGBTQ+ artists and entrepreneurs!

• Info fair for local LGBTQ+ organizations!

• Kids activities!

• Food trucks!

• Workshops!

• Beautiful queer people and our love!!!

Accessibility information (please email us at <columbuscommunitypride@gmail.com> if you have any questions).

• The festival is all outdoors, except for the workshop and sensory tent as they are covered. There will be air purifiers in the tent spaces.

• Masks are required; we will provide masks for those who need one.

• There is a paved pathway that runs throughout the park that will be clearly marked on the festival map.

• There will be ASL interpreters for the performances.

• There will be hand sanitizer stations throughout the park.

Today’s Ohio Capital Journal reported that, “A former city employee received a $195,000 settlement from the city of Columbus after claiming she was illegally required to work on the 2023 reelection campaign of Mayor Andrew Ginther.”

“Ohio law prohibits the use of public resources, such as a public employee’s hours worked, on political campaigns. Columbus’ policy forbids office holders and employees from engaging in political activity forbidden by state law.”

Crossposted from Medium

There are two famous songs called “Ohio.” One is from the 1953 musical “Wonderful Town,” sung by NYC transplants Eileen and Ruth. From the “gossipy neighbors and everyone yapping who’s going with who” and “dating those drips that I’ve known since I’m four,” the women remember exactly “why, oh, why, oh, why, oh” they “ever left Ohio.” But they also recall what is good about the place.

Water is life. Water is a necessary item to survive.

The Open Shelter needs bottled water for the homeless & marginally housed men, women, and children we serve. Can you help with a donation of a case or more?

We are open for donation drop-offs Monday through Friday 9am until 2pm for donation drop-offs. 1037 Parsons Ave. Columbus OH 43206.

Give us a call at 614-222-2885 when you arrive or if you have any questions. Thanks!

The phenomenon of “mental health disorder” has become so influential that, according to recent studies, every second person has—or will have—at least one diagnosed mental illness in their lifetime. This figure presents an existential and statistical impossibility: when more than half of the population is inflicted with psychological abnormality, the norm has become abnormal.

How can it be that the majority of us are sick? To answer this troubling question, some point to modern realities—social media, social isolation, environmental doom—while urging for societal change.

Others see an aggravating factor. Maybe, they argue, there isn’t a true rise in mental illness, but that one distinctive force is inflating what is a relatively stable emotional landscape—no worse or better than before.

In such a scenario, the seeming escalation of mental illness is largely due to an increase in the identification of psychiatric disorder, and not a rise in genuine illness. That is, people are not suffering more, but rather, normal suffering is, more and more, being called “sickness.” 

For the beginning of October, Dr. Bob and Dan-o talk about Christopher Columbus and how we rid of city of celebratory Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People's Day ad the statues. The music is from artists who have Native heritage -- Rebdone, Blackfoot, John Trudell, Buffy Sainte Marie, Jackson Browne, Lila Downs, Link Wray, Bill Miller and more!
Listen Friday nights Oct 4 and 11 at 11pm on WGRN 91.9FM or streaming at wgrn.org.
And Mondays October 7 and 14 on WCRS 92.7 and 98.3FM or streaming at wcrsfm.org.

Thursday, October 3, 6pm
Come in person to Enarson Classrooms Building Room 240 or attend online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting.
A presentation and discussion on the struggle for trans liberation!

WHAT: Students, faith leaders, and Ohioans are coming together for a powerful rally in Columbus to oppose Project 2025 and its architects, convening in the city for the Essential Summit--an effort to co-opt faith in the name of hate. Our diverse coalition is making it clear: hatred and attempts to undermine our freedoms have no place in our state.

WHEN: Thursday, October 3rd, 4:00 PM

WHERE: Outside the Columbus Convention Center located at 400 N High St, Columbus, OH 43215 

WHO:  

Students from colleges across Ohio organized by the Ohio Student Association

Interfaith coalition of religious leaders led by the Amos Project

Concerned citizens from Springfield, Portage County, Columbus, and beyond

Advocacy groups fighting to preserve freedoms

A new book called Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre And The Struggle For An American City’s Soul by Aran Shetterly provides a detailed examination, in historical context, of a largely forgotten incident in which KKK and Nazi shooters (some of them veterans of the war on Vietnam), with the complicity of local and federal “law enforcement,” shot at black people in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five, wounding many, and dragging social progress backwards.

I was nine years old and geographically not that far away but cannot recall hearing one word about the Greensboro Massacre at the time it happened, November 3, 1979. But on November 4, 1979, the “Iran Hostage Crisis” was launched as the biggest news story for over a year to come, yellow ribbons appeared on trees everywhere, and friends at school who made casual jokes about murdering black people but never imagined living near violence or Klan rallies began doing things like singing a song in a school show with the lyrics “Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.” (More apologies owed the Beach Boys, and the threat to Iranians has never yet gone away.)