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Interfaith March for Peace and Justice

Dove in a circle with words Interfaith March for Peace & Justice

Sunday, April 2, 2-4pm.
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Guiding Principles:
1. We believe that all people in Ohio should be free to practice their faith without fear of discrimination, intimidation, or reprisal. 
2. We believe that multiple religions can coexist peacefully in Ohio and contribute to the common good. 
3. We believe that the government of the great state of Ohio should protect those who are most vulnerable and never turn a blind eye on violence perpetrated against minorities by those who claim superiority or dominance.

4 Dying Nukes vs. Fleet of Gigafactories: Which Will Gov. Cuomo Choose?

Elon Musk's SolarCity is completing the construction of its "Buffalo Billion" Gigafactory for photovoltaic (PV) cells near the Niagara River in Buffalo, New York. It will soon put 500 New Yorkers to work inside the 1.2 million-square-foot facility with another 700 nearby, ramping up to nearly 3,000 over the next few years.

The production of some 10,000 solar panels per day will put thousands of New Yorkers to work doing the installations. The panels will produce electricity cheaper, cleaner, more safely and more reliably than any fossil or nuclear source of power, including fracked gas, thus fueling a bright industrial future for the state.

With a little common sense from the governor, upstate New York could have many more of these massive factories, create many thousands of good, stable, high-paying jobs and solve its energy problems along the way.

Prison Strike Leader Moved to Infirmary after Twenty Four Days Refusing Food.

Two photos side by side, two men, on the left is white he is bald with a gold necklace, on the right he is black with a white hat and a beard.
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a national prisoner leader has been on hunger strike since Monday, February 27th. On Friday, March 24th he was moved to the infirmary, presumably due to failing health. His appeal to the Rules Infraction Board (RIB) was also denied by Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) Director Gary Mohr. 

The administration at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) has been targeting and restricting Hasan's communication access on any pretense they can find or invent since his outspoken support for the nation-wide prisoner strike on September 9th of 2016. 

Hasan and another prisoner, Jason Robb began refusing food when the OSP administration put them on a 90 day communication restriction for being interviewed by the Netflix documentary series Captives. Hasan appealed the RIB's decision, arguing that they violated policies regarding timelines, access to witnesses, and prisoners' due process rights. Director Mohr's response to the appeal was a form letter that did not address any of the issues Hasan raised. 

“It’s a hard rain’s gonna fall…”

People marching in the rain with Boycott Wendy's signs
Photo report here The march — and the storm — approaches… In what would become an unforgettable march celebrating the end of the week-long fast by students and alumni at The Ohio State University — and the start of a rolling fast of students across the Fair Food Nation in support of the Wendy’s Boycott — nearly 500 farmworkers and their consumer allies braved cold winds and a soaking rainstorm to march three miles through the streets of Columbus this past Sunday in pursuit of justice for the workers who pick Wendy’s fruits and vegetables.

Big gatherings on April 1

Black men in concert, one in red singing into mic
Fifth Annual Ohio Move To Amend Network Gathering

Saturday, April 1, 9:30am-4:30pm [registration begins at 8:30am], First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd. Facebook Event

A statewide gathering of local chapters of the national Move to Amend organization that is calling for a U.S. Constitutional amendment to reverse several U.S. Supreme Court decisions during the past century and thereby to firmly establish that corporations are not people and that money is not free speech. Join us on April Fools’ Day to debunk several long-standing constitutional hoaxes — including the legal fictions that corporations are “persons” and that money is equivalent to “free speech” — and together build the growing national movement to create real democracy.

Is Donald Trump Losing His Mind?

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, appears to have achieved an impressive new level of madness. You would think that being Commander-in-Chief and Leader of the Free World is an all-consuming job, starting in the early morning hours and stretching well into the night. Between myriad pressing domestic and global issues such as the economy and fighting terrorism there should be little else that successfully competes for Trump’s attention, right? Guess again. These days, rather than doing his job and promoting the interests of America, he seems more preoccupied with promoting Fox’s television shows and Tweet-shaming everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger and the New York Times to the GOP’s Freedom Caucus.

How Many Civilians Can We Kill?

“The wooden carts that residents use to carry vegetables and other wares in the once busy market area instead ferried out cadavers recovered from the rubble last week.”

Impeachable Offenses Announced Live on TV - by President Trump!

We were very close [on the health care bill]. It was a very, very tight margin. We had no Democrat support. We had no votes from the Democrats. They weren’t going to give us a single vote, so it’s a very difficult thing to do. I’ve been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do, politically speaking, is let Obamacare explode. It is exploding right now…. It’s going to have a very bad year…. This year should be much worse for Obamacare…. We’ll end up with a truly great healthcare bill in the future, after this mess known as Obamacare explodes…. I know some of the Democrats, and they’re good people – I honestly believe the Democrats will come to us and say, look, let’s get together and get a great healthcare bill or plan that’s really great for the people of our country. And I think that’s going to happen. – President Trump, press briefing March 24, 2017

Young feminists celebrate the revolutionary roots of International Women’s Day

Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright scolded young women for supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton before the 2016 presidential primary. They implied that in supporting a candidate based on politics instead of gender, millennials are either ignorant or complacent about the feminist struggle.

On March 8, the International Women’s Day celebration on the Ohio State campus revealed just the opposite. Many of the young women, men, and non-cisgender people who gathered on the Oval had just come from a 1,000-strong solidarity teach-in organized by Columbus Coalition for International Women’s Day. Most were far more in touch with the radical foundations of the women’s movement than its most recognized “icons” are.

“I’m a Marxist feminist, like Angela Davis and Rosa Luxemburg,” said Emily Shaw of the International Socialist Organization.

Authentic Relating Games

Lots of different colored skin happy faces

Authentic Relating.  It is the art of getting someone’s world.

Authentic Relating Games is made up of a series of facilitated activities that help people connect and dive deeper, below surface-level small-talk.

We have a weekly reoccurring class at Thompson Recreation Center from March 23 through May 25 - Thursdays at 7pm -8pm.

The class is free

Each week is different and has a unique theme.

Come here to make new friends, build emotional intelligence, feel connected to those around you, and leave feeling seen and better understood.

Authentic Relating is a warm, open, inclusive, safe place.

A little about me, I went to Ohio State for undergrad.  I moved to Austin for grad school.  I started going to Authentic Relating there.  I have moved back now and want to keep the practice in my life.

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