Wendy's Headquarters Call-in Day!

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CALL WENDY'S HEADQUARTERS OCT. 18!

Next week, the CIW Women's Group hits the road to its first stops in the new "Harvest without Violence" campaign to end sexual violence in Wendy's supply chain: Columbus and Dublin, Ohio. Exhibiting the "Harvest without Violence Mobile Museum" at OSU and other schools in the area, they'll draw attention to the fast-food holdout's unconscionable choice of violence and impunity over justice and human rights in Wendy's home and headquarter towns. 

On Monday, Oct. 23, they'll head directly to headquarters to attempt to meet with Mr. Todd Penegor, Wendy's CEO, and other Wendy's decision-makers to urge them to make the right choice and join the Fair Food Program once and for all!

We're calling on the Fair Food Nation to stand with farmworker women by phoning the offices of Mr. Todd Penegor this Wednesday, Oct. 18!

Trump's New Strategy on Iran Embraces “Israel-First”, “Saudi-Second” and “America-Last” Perspective

President Donald Trump’s move to decertify the Iranian nuclear Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), entered into a little over two years ago, was applauded by Israel, Saudi Arabia and a couple of Persian Gulf States, but by no one else. Quite the contrary, as the European and Asian co-signatories on the agreement, having failed to dissuade Trump, have clearly indicated that they will continue to abide by it. Also, the decision to kick the can down the road by giving Congress 60 days to increase pressure on Tehran in an attempt to include other issues beyond nuclear development like its ballistic missile program and labeling the country’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group are likely to create confusion as Washington is unable to communicate directly with Iran. That uncertainty could possibly lead to a fraught-with-danger Iranian decision to withdraw completely from the agreement.

As a Team Owner, I Demand the Green Bay Packers Hire Colin Kaepernick

For many years, I have held two shares in America’s only publicly owned major sports team, the Green Bay Packers. There are no dividends, no special seats, no stadium perks. I cannot sell the shares. I can only pass them on to immediate family. But owning these shares does in fact make me a part-owner. And as such, I am registering my first demand: The Pack must hire Colin Kaepernick.

Kaepernick’s pathbreaking “take a knee” before the national anthem guarantees him an historic place in the civil rights hall of fame. Begun last year, it is a carefully considered,well-timed, and very public call to pay attention to ongoing police brutality toward black people in this country.

Two events Monday October 16

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Monday, October 16, 2017, 7:00 – 8:45 PM.  Environmental Film Series.  Screening of An Inconvenient Sequel with lively discussion led by leading OSU and local experts.  Al Gore shares how close we are to a real energy revolution.  Location:  Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering & Chemistry (CBEC), Room 130, 151 W. Woodruff Ave., Ohio State University.  Details at epn.osu.edu.   (Free pizzas and beverages @ 6:45 PM.  Sponsored by the School of Environmental and Natural Resources & Office of Energy and Environment.  

Monday, October 16, 2017, 4:30 - 6:30 PM.  Learning From Your Community: The State Of Free Speech And Civil Progress In Ohio.  This panel will discuss the state of free speech in Ohio and at Ohio State, as well as how to proceed civilly while honoring marginalized voices. This will be followed by a Q&A/discussion. The organizations helping sponsor this include ACS, the Multicultural Center, NICD, Sustained Dialogue, and the Council of Student Affairs.  Location:  Moritz College of Law, OSU, 55 W. Twelfth Ave, Columbus, in Saxbe Auditorium.  

As U.S. Pounds Seven Nations, Congressional Committee Warns of Running Out of Bombs

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My letter to Larry Flynt on Trump Impeachment

Larry Flynt,

Bigoted and Unprofessional Police Chief Backed by Michigan Governor

“Dear NFL: We will not support millionaire ingrates who hate America and disrespect our Armed Forces and Veterans. Who wins a football game has ZERO impact on our lives. Who fights for and defends our nation has every impact on our lives. We stand with the Heroes, not a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, ungrateful, anti-American, degenerates. Signed, We the people.”

The Secure, the Dispossessed, and the Mentally Deranged Dotards

In The Secure and the Dispossessed, Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes have collected an unflinching survey of a species gone mad. The book’s subtitle is “How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World.” In short, the Authoritarian Exceptionalist Military Corporate Complex is flamboyantly recognizing the hole it is in, and exponentially increasing the rate of digging, while hiring PR firms to redefine “digging” as “robust engagement in advanced resilient green initiatives that save us all by further enriching the rich, militarizing the world, and rendering the earth uninhabitable.”

Two events with Ajamu Baraka Saturday

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Resistance and Black Liberation in the Age of Trump
Saturday, October 14
2:30-4pm
A+ Arts Academy, 270 S. Napoleon (near Lowe's in Whitehall)
Join the Black Caucus of the Ohio Green Party in a conversation with Human Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka.
Mr. Baraka is an internationally recognized leader of the emerging human rights movement in the U.S. and has been at the forefront of efforts to apply the international human rights framework to social justice advocacy in the U.S. for more than 25 years. He will be in Columbus, Ohio to engage and encourage our community in light of the recent incidents of police brutality, ongoing concerns about socio-economic conditions, and rise of activism in our city.
Admission is FREE

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