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Cops spraying at a protest
23 June 2020

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime outspoken critic of the Columbus Police Department states, “Sunday’s use of tear gas and pepper spray on peaceful protesters in downtown Columbus should not have surprised...

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23 June 2020

Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
We are witnessing a global uprising from people of color in the United States and around the world: 400 years of systemic racism and the unrelenting historical momentum it has...

No justice no peace
22 June 2020

Daily
EVERY NIGHT we will be marching from Ohio's Statehouse to different Columbus communities.
Start gathering around 5:00 pm each night outside the Statehouse.
** We will begin the march around 6:30 pm and return...

Protestors with shields as police in riot gear prepare for attack
21 June 2020

After a day including an LGBTQ-Black Lives Matter march at noon and other anti-police brutality gatherings at the Statehouse this evening, the Columbus Police and SWAT seemed to anticipate trouble with an unprecedented and unnecessry...

Cop hitting someone on the ground
21 June 2020

Back in the mid-sixties, in the heady days of Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society Program,’ I was working in my first job out of college as an ‘intergroup relations professional’ at the Detroit Commission on Community Relations. I spent my...

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21 June 2020

Sunday, June 21, 12pm
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square
“We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.”
Bayard Rustin
Join Kingfinity and the Columbus, Ohio LGBTQ+ Community as We March...

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