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Sunday, September 1, 2024, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Come listen to Bill Cohen as he sings songs made famous by a wide variety of folks: Woody Guthrie, Sam Cooke, Dolly Parton, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Alabama, Leadbelly, etc. Location:  Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus 43214.  

$15 suggested donation, but everyone is welcome! Half of the proceeds will go to Central Ohio Workers Center.  

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Phil Donahue, whom we lost last week, put honest, antiwar, anticorporate, antiracist, pro-feminist voices on millions of U.S. television screens for decades. Then he was banished by a corporate cartel that had monopolized the airwaves.

Social media provides an illusion of diversity, while establishing new monopolistic gatekeepers. Google was ruled an illegal monopoly in federal court earlier this month.

Media is only one area where corporate monopolization has taken over. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is the strongest U.S. government official against this trend that we've seen in a very long time.

But Big Tech billionaire and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman has donated tens of millions of dollars to Democrats in recent years, and he wants Khan fired.

Using words such as “stolen” or “hijacked,” members of the Tuttle Park Community Recreation Council (CRC) say the City of Columbus took over their Ohio State game day parking fundraiser which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Tuttle Park just north of the off-campus area.

“I was unofficially informed by an upper management Columbus Recreation and Parks Department [CRPD] employee that the CRPD and Columbus Parks and Recreation Foundation [CPRF] decided that due to the profitability of our fundraiser that they were taking it away from us after 29 years,” stated former mayoral candidate Joe Motil in a recent Facebook post.

Motil of Clintonville has been president of the Tuttle Park Community Recreation Council since 1992.

“Those making this decision did not even have the common decency to personally inform us of this takeover. We were informed that the CRPF had hired a private vendor to take over the football parking fundraiser,” stated Motil in his post.

With high temperatures forecasted to be above 90 degrees this week, Columbus Recreation and Parks will open cooling centers at five regional community centers to give residents a place to cool off during this week’s extreme heat. The following centers will be open daily from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28 through Friday, Aug. 30:

Like most Americans, Vice President Kamala Harris has evolved on marijuana.

In 2010, when she was San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris urged voters to reject a proposed ballot initiative to legalize the adult-use marijuana market. At the time, Harris’ position aligned with that of most California voters, 54 percent of whom ultimately decided against the measure.

But not long after, Harris — and most Americans — changed their stance. 

Tuesday, August 27, 6-8pm, Nocterra Brewing Company Audubon, 516 Maier Place

When: Tuesday, August 27 from 6pm to 8pm

Where: Nocterra Brewing Company Audubon, 516 Maier Place

What: Join us for drinks and to learn more about upcoming fall opportunities with Green Columbus. These include the Scioto Sweep and fall tree giveaways!

Why: We need community help with these programs

Who: Open to the public; must be 21+ to enjoy drinks.

Hosted by Green Columbus.

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Right now, some of America's biggest corporations are playing a dangerous double game. They're plastering their websites with commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) while secretly funding the very people working to destroy these values. Let's break it down:

Mastercard claims DEI is "part of our core values and underpins everything we do." Yet they're funding a platform for anti-DEI rhetoric.

Coca-Cola declares that "diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of our values." Apparently, that includes supporting those who fight against these very principles.

Meta (formerly Facebook) says diversity is a "must-have." But they're happy to sponsor events featuring those who actively work against such goals.

DoorDash asserts that "DEI is a tenet of our company because it is the right thing to do." Unless it seems, there's a chance to align with anti-DEI forces when they think no one's looking.

Sunday, August 25, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location:  Northern Lights Branch of Columbus Metropolitan Library, 4093 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, Meeting Rooms 1 & 2.
Register HERE. 

Green power surges in the US

Over 100,000 new jobs and 334 major renewable energy projects are the results of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to a new report. 

It has been about two years since the IRA was made into law. A recent report by E2, an industry consulting firm, documents the IRA legislation effect on the renewable energy industry and society in general. 

The E2 report suggests that every dollar of public funding spent by the IRA has generated nearly $3 in private investment.

A separate report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) indicates the benefit was close to $5 or more of private investment for every $1 of public funds spent. 

The largest recipients of this money from the IRA are Michigan, followed by Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee. 

Republican hypocrisy regarding renewables