Ohioans to Stop Executions Vigil for Robert Van Hook

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July 18 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
OTSE and its supporters will be standing vigil outside of the Ohio Statehouse in response to the planned execution of Robert Van Hook. All are welcome to join. Contact abe@otse.org with any questions.

At the Trumputin Mob Summit, Fredo Kisses Much More Than Don Corleone's Ring

he Manchurian Money-Launderer has just kissed every inch of his mafia don’s anatomy.

The Donald has been washing Russia’s mob cash since the 1980s. The constant stream of ruble injections has funded his many bankruptcies.

In 2016, GOP election thieves like Kris Kobach, Jon Husted, Scott Walker, Rick Snyder, Rick Scott (state secretaries of Kansas and Ohio, governors of Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida) and so many more turned Trump’s 3-million-vote loss to Hillary Clinton into a victory for the Russian mob and America’s corporate 0.01%. They’re set to do it again in 2018 and 2020.

The brutal, ruthless Putin is orders of magnitude more savvy and capable than the orange American. Globally, he is the mob boss Don Corleone, lording it over his addled son Fredo.

Amidst Trump’s Helsinki rant storm against US intelligence, Putin admitted he favored Trump in the 2016 election.

The Dems could win if they Stood for Something

The Democrats have been in turmoil for the last half century and then some, when they abandoned their racist base and supported the civil rights movement.

Revved up by the spirit of the ’60s, the party began opening itself to further change, even daring to push beyond the financial interests of its controlling oligarchs and declare an opposition to war. “I have no secret plan for peace. I have a public plan,” George McGovern said during his 1972 presidential campaign . . . and that was that. After his crushing defeat, at the hands of Richard Nixon and his “Southern strategy,” the Dems quietly retreated. Their prevailing slogan ever since, whispered subconsciously, has been: We don’t stand for all that much.

The Dems are now Republican lite. They don’t have the will to disrupt anything that seems tried and true — such as, for instance, American exceptionalism and bloated militarism.

Climb Down From the Summit of Hostile Propaganda

Throughout the day before the summit in Helsinki, the lead story on the New York Times home page stayed the same: “Just by Meeting With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead.” The Sunday headline was in harmony with the tone of U.S. news coverage overall. As for media commentary, the Washington Post was in the dominant groove as it editorialized that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is “an implacably hostile foreign adversary.”

 

Meet Your Creative Community: American Indian Live Paint

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Thursday, July 19, 6:30-8:30pm
Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St.
Experience an American Indian live paint event presented by The Ohio History Connection and Columbus Museum of Art. Renowned American Indian artists, Tom Farris (Otoe-Missouria/Cherokee) and Micah Wesley (Creek/Kiowa) will create new works of art that embrace the story of contemporary American Indian people as artists, tribal citizens and individuals.
CMA values the role artists play in society to imagine and question and we see the Museum as a laboratory for new ideas. Meet Your Creative Community features artists premiering new projects at CMA. Enjoy a family-friendly evening in CMA’s Sculpture Garden with live painting, a cash bar, and tasty bites available for purchase from Schokko Café. 
Cost of the program is included with general admission, which is $5 for nonmembers and free for CMA and OHC members.

Lauren Sanderson Announces Summer U.S. Trust The Universe Tour

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Riveting newcomer Lauren Sanderson has announced summer U.S. headlining dates, aptly dubbed the Trust The Universe Tour, her first major trek since signing with Epic Records this past spring. The live run kicks off in Milwaukee, WI on July 12 and hurtles through much of the country’s heartland, winding down in early August. It’s an enticing rollout from the Midwest-reared 22-year old whose alluring blend of alternative, R&B, and hip hop has captivated music fans and critics across the globe. She will be in Columbus on July 31 at The Basement, 391 Neil Ave, 

GeeklyCon Columbus

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July 19-22
Renaissance Columbus downtown hotel
The heart of the annual GeeklyCon is the board game room, Dungeons and Dragons is just one of the dozens of board games available to play with new geekly friends. But there are panel discussions, contests and lots more! Tickets are $90, which includes:

A ticket to the kickoff party (+ drink ticket & food, live show entrance, karaoke, and farewell party)

Hang out in the Game Room with a board game library featuring approx.100+ boardgames

Sign up for a tabletop RPG, or run your own

Access to the Live Show including Drunks & Dragons & More

Access to Panels and Talks throughout the day

Outings including Brewery tours, Boardgame Bars + more

GeeklyCon-wide House Cup games to help you to get to know people.

https://geeklycon.com/collections/tickets/products/geeklycon-2018-basic-ticket

Tell your representative - No on House anti carbon tax resolution

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Help us keep all the options open for climate solutions. Call your U.S. Representative today and tell him/her to vote NO on the anti-carbon tax resolution H Res Con 119, “Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.” A vote is expected on Wednesday or Thursday.

Ohio Canna-Activism Training Columbus

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Monday, July 16, 6:30-8:30pm

SKYSCRAPER & SIBERIA Film Reviews Double Feature: 2 South Seas Cinema Superstars Open Different Movies on Same Day

It never fails to amaze (and amuse) me how movies mirror reality and are emanations of the collective psyche and/or motion picture prophecies. Just days after the premiere of The First Purge, about a race war aimed at exterminating African Americans in Staten Island, a Black Staten Island resident - Congolese immigrant Patricia Okoumou - heroically climbed the Statue of Liberty on July 4 to protest the racist Trump regime’s cruel purging of refugees, seekers of asylum and other immigrants.

 

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