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WGRN Community Radio - St. Pat's Community Dinner

Woman holding bullhorn and information about March 18 event

Saturday, March 18th from 2 - 6 PM, at the Barack Community Recreation Center, 580 E. Woodrow Ave. Columbus 43207
You are invited to a free community event!
WGRN wants to say Thank You Columbus, for your support during WGRN’s first year on the air!!
Get to know Community Radio, WGRN 94.1 with some blarney and fun! The Day Afterparty, the St. Pat’s Community Dinner.
2PM Meet & Greet
3PM Dinner
Corned Beef & Cabbage * Mac&Cheese * Refreshments
4-6PM Music! Speakers! Raffle!
Complementary dinner with ticket 
Children 12 and under—no ticket needed
Download free ticket at eventbrite.com or get them at the Barack Center
Contact info@wgrn.org or call the Barack Center at 614-645-3610.

Rally demands justice for Shelton Adams

Young black woman with bullhorn outside at rally

Jodi Ann, one of the organizers of the rally for justice in the case of Shelton Adams, spoke to Channel 4 during a demonstration March 16 across the street from Grant Hospital, where Mr. Adams was pepper sprayed and wrestled to the ground by Ohio Health security guards on Monday. Jodi Ann told the TV news crew that she thought the actions by the security guard were unfounded and that video showed Adams was not doing anything wrong. Adams had been outside the Hospital smoking a cigarette when the guards approached him and without obvious rationale, started pushing him and spraying his face with pepper spray from a distance of five feet or more, the video showed. Adams ended up on the ground in very cold weather, pepper spray in his eyes, without getting any medical assistance -- again, right outside Grant Hospital.  

Dana White, a participant at the rally, recounted his own encounter with the same three security guards while waiting for a neighbor to receive treatment in the emergency room at Grant Hospital four months ago. The guards physically threw him out of the building for no apparent cause, causing injury to his back. 

Justice Rally For Shelton Adams

Photo of three white policemen outside one spraying pepper spray at a black man

Thursday, March 16, 6:30pm
Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.
Columbus Activists are organizing a Justice Rally for Shelton Adams, a black man who was maced, hit with a baton and tackled by 3 Grant Police Officers and in return charged with disorderly conduct after posing no threat. Police violence in Columbus needs to come to an end TODAY! Police in our OWN CITY has continuously abused their powers by cold heartedly killing unarmed black men, antagonizing confrontations, physically abusing People of color as well as macing groups of peaceful protesters beyond reason. When will enough, finally be ENOUGH? 

Columbus citizens and activist will all come together again on Thursday, 6:30 PM across from Grant Medical Center to demand All Charges be DROPPED against Shelton Adams and to have the 3 Police Officers Identified and released from the company, while protesting against police violence in our own city. 

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/253321338460614/?ti=icl

Is the Vault 7 Source a Whistleblower?

It is the leakiest of times in the Executive Branch. Last week, Wikileaks published a massive and, by all accounts genuine, trove of documents revealing that the CIA has been stockpiling, and lost control of, hacking tools it uses against targets. Particularly noteworthy were the revelations that the CIA developed a tool to hack Samsung TVs and turn them into recording devices and that the CIA worked to infiltrate both Apple and Google smart phone operating systems since it could not break encryption. No one in government has challenged the authenticity of the documents disclosed.

Why Do Some Men Rape?


A recent report from Equality Now titled 'The World's Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic' http://www.equalitynow.org/campaigns/rape-laws-report offered a series of recommendations for strengthened laws to deter and punish sexual violence against women and girls.

The Problem With the CIA and Drones

Thanks to a recent Wall Street Journal article, I've been hearing from Democratic partisans that President Trump has done something brand n

The Deep State Hasn't Gone Away

“In a statement to WikiLeaks, the source details policy questions that they say urgently need to be debated in public . . .”

Let me interrupt this quote from the world’s declassifier in chief, regarding its latest release of impertinent, humiliating and shocking data about the American security state, simply to absorb this statement of the obvious: There is an urgent need for public debate — ongoing public debate — not simply about this or that new revelation gifted to the world by an anonymous whistleblower, but about the very fact that “national security” is a game played in secret, against a mysterious, shape-shifting array of “adversaries.”

TEN FILMS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

Los Angeles, March 13, 2017 – The Los Angeles Workers Center and HollywoodProgressive.com are co-presenting the revolutionary classic Potemkin.

 

Based on a true story, Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Potemkin is a stirring account of the mutiny by sailors aboard the Battleship Potemkin who refuse to eat maggoty meat and the mass strike by workers supporting them during Russia’s 1905 Revolution is widely considered to be Soviet cinema’s greatest masterpiece. The terrifying Odessa Steps scene encapsulates czarist brutality, while Potemkin’s theme of triumphant solidarity expresses the essence of Russia’s three revolutions, symbolized by pounding waves. (75 minutes.)

 

What: Battleship Potemkin screening.

 

When: Friday, 7:30 p.m., March 24, 2017.

 

Where: The L.A. Workers Center, 1251 S. St. Andrews Place, L.A., CA 90019.

 

The Ides of Trump postcard mailing campaign

Envelope addressed to The President and in parentheses (For Now)

Wednesday, March 16 all day
Nation-wide
On March 15th, 2017 each of us will mail the White House a postcard that publicly expresses our vocal opposition to the new president. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm Washington with the President’s unpopularity and our opinions of his agenda. We will show the man, the media, and the politicians how vast our numbers are and we will bury the White House post office in pink slips, all informing the President that he’s fired!

Each of us — every protester from every march, each Congress calling citizen, every boycotter, volunteer, donor, and petition signer — will write a single postcard and put them all in the mail on the same day, March 15th, 2017.

No alternative fact or Russian translation will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of fury. Hank Aaron currently holds the record for fan mail, having received 900,000 pieces in a year. We’re setting a new record: over a million pieces in a day.

Franklin County Green Party meeting

Green earth with leaves growing around it and words Green party

Tuesday, March 14, 6pm-business meeting, 7pm-public presentation
Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., room 100, parking in rear in "R" spots only
Addressing Trump's Domestic and Military Agenda
A discussion of the proposed policies and how to fight back!
Healthcare -  Bob Krasen, SPAN Ohio State Council member will discuss the Trump healthcare plan and compare it to the Single Payer Plan recently introduced in the Ohio Senate. Also discussion of immigration issues and military spending.
fcgreenparty@gmail.com
614-374-2380.

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