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Thursday, June 22, 7-8:30pm
St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 30 West Woodruff, Campus
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We are living in an era when trans women of color are specially subject to police violence, receiving adequate trans-inclusive healthcare is a great hassle, and violence against trans people is at an all-time high.
During this Pride month, a month celebrated for the Stonewall Rebellion and the key leadership of trans women such as Marsha P. Johnson in that struggle, join us for a panel and discussion that will get to the heart of the oppression of trans people and the fight for liberation.

It’s routine for right-wing outlets like Fox to smear progressive activists under the guise of “news” coverage. But why the New York Times? And why the special venom for Bernie Sanders?

 

After the horrific June 14 shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise and three other participants in a Republican baseball practice, the media floodgates opened for slimy innuendos. Before the day was done, a major supplier of the political sewage was the New York Times, which prominently published a left-blaming article that masqueraded as news reporting.

 

Monday, June 19, 8:30am
Franklin County Courthouse, 375 S. High St.
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Remarks at United National Antiwar Coalition in Richmond, Virginia, June 17, 2017

Did you hear about Trump calling up the mayor of Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay and telling him that, contrary to all appearances, his island is not sinking? I want to focus on one element of this story, namely that the guy believed what he was told, rather than what he saw.

Did you hear about Secretary of War Mattis telling Congress that for the 16th year in a row he would produce a plan for “winning” a war on Afghanistan? Congress either believed it or has been paid to act as if it believes it. Congress members Jones and Garamendi have a bill to defund this endless act of mass-murder. We need a movement that can nonviolently shut down Congressional offices until they do so.

It’s June in L.A., so that can mean only one thing (besides “June gloom,” that is): Hollywood Fringe Festival is taking place through June 25! This year, 2,000 performances and 375 (count ’em!) different shows are being staged - and dare I say, upstaged - in various venues across Hollywood and West Hollywood. As Hamlet (who but of course presented his own unauthorized play) put it: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

According to the Fringe’s ambitious, 226 page program: “The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community… Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival’s mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival is able to exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to offer.”

Los Angeles, June 15, 2017 – The Los Angeles Workers Center and Hollywood Progressive co-present the revolutionary classic Arsenal.

 

Reactionaries howl in outrage at Kathy Griffin’s photo of the comedienne holding a faux severed, bloody head of the president and against Shakespeare in the Park’s modern dress version of Julius Caesar, wherein the assassinated emperor is a Trump look-alike. Of course, these condemnations of exercises in free expression are spewed by the same cry babies waging holy war against whatever they perceive as “political correctness.” Trump and his minions denounce efforts to protect religious, ethnic and LGBTQ minorities from public insults and hate speech as infringements on their First Amendment right - but cry bloody murder whenever their sacred cows are mocked and raked over the coals.  

 

The word Pride, then Stonewall Columbus 2017, and the words on the river with a rainbow colored skyline

Friday-Sunday, June 16-18
Columbus Pride is an LGBTQ festival in Columbus, Ohio, that remembers the Stonewall Riots and celebrates the accomplishments of the LGBTQ community. Started in 1981, it has grown into the 2nd largest Pride event in the Midwest. In 2016, Stonewall Columbus estimated over 500,000 participants.
Friday, June 16th: Festival (4pm-11pm), Bicentennial and Genoa Parks by the river
Saturday, June 17: Parade (Step-off at 10:30am), Starting at Goodale Park, Short North, to Genoa Park
Saturday, June 17: Festival (11am-8pm), Bicentennial and Genoa Parks by the river
Sunday, June 18th: Pride Brunch (11am-1pm), Columbus Athenaeum, 32 N. 4th
Visit www.columbuspride.org for more information!

Movie poster of the Russians are coming with lots of guys coming off a ship like they are Russians menacing the US

Russia, Russia, Russia!!!   But what about the Americans?

Attorney-General Jeff Sessions has confirmed the Russians hacked into as many as 39 state data bases, and did all they could to affect the electronic vote count that put Donald Trump in the White House.  

But Americans could have done it much easier.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach set in motion a Jim Crow/Crosscheck purge of hundreds of thousands of mostly black, Hispanic and Asian-Amrican citizens prior to the election in at least 29 states.  

Now Trump has appointed Kobach to an "Election Integrity" Commission.  His co-commissioner is J. Kenneth Blackwell, who as Ohio Secretary of State helped steal the 2004 presidential election.

What isn't this pair of election thieves being called to testify before Congress?  Why is there no national viewing of Greg Palast’s BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY on precisely this topic?

The electronic flipping techniques Blackwell used in Ohio 2004 are part of the “black box voting” syndrome documented by Bev Harris.  No Russians needed. 

The word, inappropriately uttered, has the news value of a bullet fired off at the mall. One word. It’s the ticking time bomb of American history. It pulsates with paradox.

I want to take a moment to honor at least that: the paradox. How come its meaning changes depending on who says it? Some Americans can say that word with a sort of joyous irony, indeed, find a triumphant sense of empowerment in its use, while others can’t say it even in solidarity without risking an avalanche of censure?

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