Tuesday, October 21 - various times and sites

Across central Ohio, thousands of people will gather for one reason — to connect.

When we sit down, listen, and share our stories, something incredible happens: community grows stronger.

Pull up a chair, bring your curiosity, and get ready to be part of an unforgettable day of conversations.

Amid this epic battle against fascism and in the wake of Oct. 18, the largest protest in US history, I wanted to take a moment to remember and celebrate the life of a friend and comrade who died recently - Bruce Bostick.

My deepest condolences go out to Bruce's family. Others have written about him, and I'm sure his family, friends, and comrades will continue to share memories.

I got to know Bruce right out of college when I joined the CPUSA and was a community organizer in Cleveland, Ohio. Bruce, a Midwesterner through and through, was radicalized by his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement. In the early 1970s, he was already a young, experienced trade union activist at US Steel in Lorain, OH, and one of the leaders of the growing rank and file movement that was trying to transform the United Steelworkers of America into a fighting union. That movement played an important role in changing the USWA and the AFL-CIO.

The massively successful NoKings2.0 has again underlined Donald Trump’s four failing MAGA fascist roots: male dominance; global white dominance; US financial dominance; and the end of fossil/nuclear fuels.

They’re all linked to the impending collapse of the petro-dollar, the century-old pillar of American prosperity, about to disappear.

Autocratic hucksters like Adolph Hitler and Donald Trump have forever feasted on the human inability to cope with a perceived loss of status.

Hitler’s Nazi putsch was rooted in Germany’s inability to accept losing World War I.

Deutschland’s “Christian” misogynists had ultimate faith in their assumed superiority. Their “incomprehensible” 1918 defeat was made unbearable by the 1929 crash.

So Hitler’s Mein Kampf promised to make Germany “great again.”

Under the thumb of Adolph’s white male Master Race, women were defined by the KKK: Kirche (church) Kitchen (cooking) & Kinder (kids). Gays were untermenchen. Jews, gypsies, slavs, trans, Jehovah Witnesses, immigrants…all were “vermin,” fit only for extermination.

The No Kings Downtown Columbus protest was slated for 4:00 pm during an OSU football game Saturday. No Kings is a nationwide protest which rejects Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. Around the country, seven million people attended No Kings Saturday 10-18-2025.

The importance of these No King’s protests is simple: We don’t want a fascist government. Trump is using secret police in an attempt to intimidate free speech. At No Kings, people protest in rejection of Trump’s opposition of constitutional promises we were taught in elementary school.

No Kings protests fill the streets in every major city with people who don’t like a campaign promise Trump kept: Trump’s vow to act like dictator.

Under Donald Trump ICE works as gestapo secret police force that kidnaps people and ships them into for profit prisons indefinitely. Trump fired people for working while black. Trump opposes free speech unless it’s a complete lie for white supremacy.

Human Rights First’s Innovation Lab announced the launch of ReadyNow!, a free and secure mobile app designed to help immigrants prepare for possible detention and act quickly in moments of crisis. The app empowers users to create an emergency plan to notify pre-selected contacts; arrange emergency plans for childcare, medical needs, legal support, and more.