Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 5:30 PM
Location:  City Hall Council Chambers, 90 W. Broad St., Columbus
Councilmember Shannon Hardin is conducting a public hearing related to the process of drawing districts, per the Charter Review Committee’s report and recommendations. City staff will be on hand to present information and answer any questions.  All interested citizens are invited to offer public testimony. Comments are limited to three minutes. Anyone wishing to address City Council on this matter must fill out a speaker slip on the day of the hearing. Testimony must be limited in scope to charter review recommendations. The meeting will be broadcast live on CTV, Columbus’ cable access channel 3.  

The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders.

“Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.”

So said an expert on North Korea recently, quoted in the New York Times following the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, six days after he had been released in a comatose state from a North Korean prison. He had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor a year and a half ago because he had taken a propaganda poster off the wall in his hotel. He had been with a tour group.

Monday, June 26,  June 23-28th - times listed on Facebook
Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St., Columbus.  

This powerful new documentary highlights the struggle by Leaders for Equality and Action in Dayton (LEAD) with the help of their lawyers at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE) on behalf of Dayton residents to gain access to jobs and education by bus to the neighboring suburb of Beavercreek. This clash between neighbors and the issues it raised are reminiscent of resistance faced by advocates and developers of affordable housing in communities across the country and this important film imparts important lessons for all of us.