Dr. Brett Joseph, a northeast Ohio-based attorney, educator and sustainability professional, announces that he will run for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio in 2018

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Brett R. Joseph, LL.M., Ph.D.today announced his decision to run in the Ohio 2018 mid-term election as the Green Party's candidate for Lieutenant Governor, joining on the ticket with Columbus attorney and social justice activist Constance Gadell-Newton, who announced her candidacy for Governor of Ohio in late May, 2017.  

Dr. Joseph (or Brett as he prefers to be called) is an organizational systems design consultant, attorney, community action researcher, and environmental educator.  He serves his native northeast Ohio as a sustainable agriculture program coordinator and permaculture instructor at the Lorain County Community College.

7 days in … Anticipation

Blue background white letters saying Government Shutdown and the edge of the capitol building in DC

This week was the first of the year where we all knew what was going to happen. We sat waiting for the inevitable shutdown to begin. We were on tenterhooks over who would be the next to leave or be fired from the government. We soiled ourselves as the results of the president’s medical were released. It all sounds like enthusiastic anticipation, and it was. All of us living in Central Ohio do what we can to create a modicum of excitement.

The shutdown of the federal government overshadowed everything else this week. Otherwise noteworthy stories barely received any attention, and nothing else happened at the national level to generate news. That is no complaint; the reasons for the shutdown and the effects it will have over, at least, the next few days deserve to have the huge spotlight on them.

Time Machines Hurt Military Regime

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Twenty-five wristwatches totaling $1.24 million
have become painful tourniquets on the arm of Thailand's
coup-installed defense minister.
   The luxury timepieces are also threatening to derail Prime Minister
Prayuth Chan-ocha's chances of remaining in power after elections in
November or 2019.
   For the past six weeks Defense Minister Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon, who
is also deputy prime minister, has been targeted by media photographs
purportedly documenting the dates and venues when he has worn 25
different expensive watches in public.
   "I have friends, and my friends lent me those watches. They did not
buy them for me," a visibly irritated Mr. Prawit told reporters on
January 16.
   That explanation drew immediate demands by activists and others for
a public naming of people who lent watches to Mr. Prawit, plus serial
numbers and receipts proving the purchases.
   The escalating scandal over possible corruption is now impacting
upon the upcoming election to change the military regime into a
civilian-led government.

Pathways to Pacifism and Antiwar Activism among U.S. Veterans

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Saturday, January 22, 2018, 7-9pm
Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park  Ave.
Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Speaker Julie Hart, Pathways to Peace. Julie Hart will speak about her book Pathways to Pacifism and Antiwar Activism among U.S. Veterans: the Role of Moral Identity in personal transformation. Details to follow. For questions about Central Ohioans for Peace, please send email to: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com.
 

Constance Gadell-Newton, Co-Chair of the Ohio Green Party, announces that she will run for Governor of Ohio in 2018

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Constance Gadell-Newton, Esq., is a social justice activist, Attorney at Law and Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected children in Columbus, Ohio.  She graduated from Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, has a B.A. from the Ohio State University in Philosophy and Women’s Studies, and a J.D. from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, where she studied International, Criminal, and Public Interest Law.     

Constance is committed to promoting the wellbeing of all Ohioans- no matter what happens in Washington, D.C.  Constance will stand up to keep families together in the face of recent changes in U.S. Immigration Policy. Constance wants to make sure that all Ohioans have their needs met for health care and education. She supports universal health care for all Ohioans and free public education from pre-school to college. Constance stands with workers in the fight for a living wage and wage equality for women and minorities.  

Actions to Stop Exectutions

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#1 - Pass the Bill!

The Wisdom of Mass Salvation

ncoming! Incoming!

Uh . . . pardon me while I interrupt this false alarm to quote Martin Luther King:

“Science investigates,” he says in The Strength To Love, “religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”

These words stopped me in my tracks on MLK Day. They seemed to fill a hole in the breaking news, which never quite manages to balance power with wisdom, or even acknowledge the distinction.

The Other Side of the News January 19, 2018-Eyewitness to homicide at the Franklin County Jail

Constance Gadell Newton, Green Party candidate for Ohio governor, witnessed the tragic shooting of the juvenile on Jen. 17 at the Franklin County Jail. She recounts the incident and its implications to Bob and Dan.

Listen here:  http://www.wcrsfm.org/audio/user/157

Ohio Women's March

Lots of young women of different races wearing pink in a huge crowd with peace signs with their fingers in the air

Sat, Jan. 20, 10:30-1:30
Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.
2017 has been a year of women's movements – from the historic Women's March on Jan. 21 to the bravery of the #MeToo Silence Breakers. Let's carry this strength of women's resistance into 2018!

Join Socialist Alternative and the Women's March Ohio – Columbus Region at the Greater Columbus Convention Center to hear speakers on the battle facing us in 2018 – the midterm elections are coming up, and the political establishment doesn't want you to vote! 

Come and hear speakers who fight against sexual assault, harassment, and inequities in the work place. We will also share information on gerrymandering, voting rights, and organizing disenfranchised communities for the Midterm Elections on November 6th, 2018.

We will then march to the Ohio Statehouse and rally – it's been a year of#Resistance to Trump and the political establishment, and we aren't going anywhere!

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