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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows slavery if it's punishment for a crime. In Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, state governments force prisoners to work without pay. In many other states, prisoners are forced to work for virtually no pay.

At the state level, many states allow slavery, most of them in their Constitutions with language very similar to that of the 13th Amendment. In 2018, Colorado changed its Constitution to fully outlaw slavery. Since RootsAction began advocating on this issue, Nebraska and Utah have done the same in 2020, as have Oregon, Alabama, Tennessee, and Vermont in 2022.

Tuesday, July 16, 2024  |  noon–1:15 p.m. EDT  |  Zoom

After months of rulemaking, following the template Ohio voters put into law through passage of Issue 2, the Ohio Department of Commerce has established a licensing process for the state’s first adult-use cannabis operators. Ohio medical marijuana operators have a priority in obtaining adult-use licenses, and Ohio could have adult-use stores operating around the state as soon as this summer. Yet many questions about industry regulations and operations remain unanswered, including what legal changes might move forward in the Ohio General Assembly, when and how Issue 2’s social equity provisions will be implemented, and the impacts of an adult-use market on the state’s medical marijuana program.

Please join the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and our panel of experts as we discuss these topics and more.

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Once again, Ohio is trying to pawn off one of its worst politicians on the country. It’s long been a strategy of the Buckeye State to get rid of our crumb-bums by getting them elected to national office. Consider William Henry Harrison, who did the country a favor by catching pneumonia on his way to inauguration; James A. Garfield, whose assassin was smart enough to shoot at point-blank range; William Howard Taft, who aided the nation’s poets by rhyming with graft; and Warren G. Harding, whose cronies from his Ohio hometown were so corrupt that they sold off the country’s first petroleum reserve privately for kickbacks.

Let’s face it: Donald Trump is in a stronger position than ever to win a second term in November, with his active supporters even more motivated in the wake of the shooting Saturday. Preventing a Trump victory is now unlikely. But we must try.

Top Trump strategists are very eager for their candidate to run against Joe Biden. They’re now worried that the Democratic Party might end up with a different standard bearer.

Monday, July 15, 5pm
Ohio Statehouse. Broad & High Streets
Over 360 martyrs and wounded in Al-Mawasi massacre, shortly after, dozens killed in Gaza City!

No more!

At the beginning of Conversion, a man tells the story of his first love—and first loss.

At 15, he had a boyfriend whose parents had put him through a doctor’s treatment program in an attempt to convert him to heterosexuality. After classmates discovered the two youths holding hands behind the school, the boyfriend said he was terrified that he’d be sent back into the program.

Later that night, he took his own life.

“Our love killed him,” the man remembers thinking at the time. But, of course, what really killed the boy was society’s problem with homosexuality, as well as the doctor’s attempt to “cure” him through what’s often called “conversion therapy.”

Though this practice is now widely condemned and even illegal in nearly half of U.S. states, thousands of LGBTQ people have been subjected to it down through the years. Three of them tell their stories in Zach Meiners’s new documentary.

A new Israeli massacre of 71 civilians and injuring 289 others in Al-Mawasi
tent city near Khan Younis. This is a place Israel asked residents to move
to as a “safe place”. The victims include civil defense personnel,
ambulance drivers, aid workers, women, children, worshippers in a prayer
tent (mosques were already bombed), and journalists (now 150 journalists
were murdered in Gaza). The scenes are too horrific. The only nearby
hospital is essentially able to offer only first aid as no medical or
surgical equipment are allowed to enter. The world still watches massacre
after massacre daily. Also watching mass starvation. 21000 Palestinians are
also being tortured literally to death in Israeli gulags worse than any of
the medieval age.

This is taking place now on the West Bank.  Bulldozers at work.  First you
take away the infrastructure to make life impossible.  And, then?

Saturday, July 13, 6:30pm
Pat Marida's house, 1710 Dorsetshire Rd. Columbus OH 43229

Facebook Event

Let's get together in person for a Salon at Pat Marida's house! Some refreshments provided - please bring a potluck dish, BYOB., lawn chair.

Pat Marida and Julie Weatherington Rice will talk about current nuke issues.

Steve Dodge, the one-man-band, Dan Dougan and Steve Caruso will provide music.

Free and open to the public.

Pastor Roscoe D. Robey of the 7th Avenue Community Missionary Baptist Church has helped support the Weinland Park area with his spirituality since 2009. His church has tangibly been a part of Weinland Park’s revitalization, albeit in an aggravating kind of way. And what he’s had to deal with – mixed-use development crowding his church on both sides – could be a “Zone In” harbinger of things to come for those homeowners or small businesses in Columbus’s major corridors.

Just a short walk up from High Street, the church has been a source of help and inspiration for the Weinland Park community for roughly 60 years. The congregation’s summer project of raising money for school supplies is underway, and they are mentoring young boys from the neighborhood who are in trouble, Pastor Robey told the Free Press.

“We have a big thumbprint, and often times when folks get into trouble and need a little help, they can come to us, and they come to us, because I lobby for things downtown,” said the Pastor who is pictured above top left.

Dr. Bob and Dan-o hear from old friend Michael Alwood about his exploits with different local and national bands. Everybody Knows plays at 11pm on Friday nights on WGRN 91.9FM community radio, and Mondays at 2pm on WCRS 92.7 and 98.3FM.

Listen to archived shows at the Free Press Network.