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Colonialism is hardly a thing of the past – it’s alive and vibrant as ever . . . from the Middle East to Western Europe to the United States to India and God knows where else. And it can be profitable as hell, at least for the right industries.

Be afraid. Be very afraid!

This is true especially if you belong to a wealthy, heavily armed nation – because your enemies are everywhere, clustering at your borders or, even worse, daring to claim possession of their ancestral land and inconveniencing your possession of it.

No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people across the globe, would, once again rally for Palestinian freedom. 

 The last year witnessed an Israeli genocide in Gaza, unprecedented violence in the West Bank, but also legendary expressions of Palestinian sumud, or steadfastness. 

 It is not the enormity of the Israeli war, but the degree of the Palestinian sumud that has challenged what once seemed to be a foregone conclusion to the Palestinian struggle. 

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October 11-13, 2024
Madlab Theater, 227 N. Third St., Columbus OH 43215
Have you ever searched for something all of your life, and when you finally find it:  you realize THAT'S what you'd been looking for? Only to have the thing you finally found, that you had been searching for all of your life, get stolen from you in an instant?
A Crime of Forgiveness is about an unlikely friendship between two people who find forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation through a tragic incident.  
A bond of friendship and a journey of healing develop that aren't readily welcomed with open arms-- and that reach far beyond the grave.
Based on a true story.
Friday, Oct 11 - 8pm
Sat, Oct 12 - 1pm, 8pm
Sun, Oct 13 - 4pm
Tickets - $20.00

Faces of black immigrants

Black immigrants have been methodically making their mark in Ohio with little notice or fanfare for decades, until Haitian-Ohioans in Springfield were unwittingly thrust into the national political conversation. Black Immigrants in Ohio: A Demographic Data Brief” is the latest installment from “Behind Closed Doors: Black Migrants and the Hidden Injustic

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Over the weekend, Hurricane Helene caused widespread devastation in the Southeast and left more than 100 people dead and communities reeling. From record-breaking climate disasters to rising threats from extremist plots like Project 2025 -- it's a lot to hold all at once. The climate crisis, driven by the continued burning of fossil fuels, is causing weather events like this one to be more frequent and more intense.  We must take bold climate action.  Join us for a livestream with Sierra Club experts to make sense of the moment, learn what this means for the climate and our future, and find out how to get involved.  

A sociopath is a person whose behavior is antisocial, often criminally greedy, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility, empathy or social conscience. Sociopaths never sincerely apologize nor are they capable of exhibiting remorse for wrongs that they have committed.

 A narcissist is person who has an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration, sexual gratification, applause and a lack of empathy for others.

A paranoid person or group exhibits excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of other individuals or groups.

 A megalomaniac is a pathological egotist, someone with a psychological disorder who exhibits symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with greatness, power or wealth.

A xenophobe is a person who is fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or of people from different countries or cultures.

A demagogue is a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.

Don't be fooled by Netanyahu. Israel is targeting all Lebanese, not just Hezbullah, Shiia, Sunni, Christians, Druze, Alwis, and Syrian and Palestinian refugees who live in Lebanon, Crime Minister Netanyahu acts as if he lives by the law of jungle. Why is that not making news?
 
There are currently 250,000 Palestinian living in Lebanon. Mostly, they are living in 12 refugee camps that have been run by UNRWA since 1948. Lebanon is also home to around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, many of whom are now being forced to flee again.
 
The IOF is now bombing many residential buildings in Lebanon without warning the civilian population. Just like in Gaza, whenever Israel gets hammered by Hamas on the ground, they bomb civilians from the sky. Lebanese political commentator said, " Israel is telling Lebanese civilians to evacuate their buildings in Beirut in the middle of the night they are sleeping before bombing them 10 minutes later. And then they say, "We warned civilians." 
Fearing to face resistance fighters on the ground in Palestine and Lebanon, The IOF is now resorting to what they do best.
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If there is anyone who can protect Central Ohio’s water supply from Intel, it is the grassroots environmental group the Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR).

For years they have warned that toxic radioactive fracking wastewater has been leaking out of 13 storage chambers located above the region’s watershed. And even if the proof is not definitive, it is likely an unknown amount of this fracking “brine” has moved down through the area’s five major rivers.

The oil and gas industry is not to be trusted, but on the horizon is perhaps the Columbus CCBOR’s greatest challenge. Intel’s massive New Albany campus which will be sucking 1.5 million gallons or more of water per day out of the Hoover Reservoir – a major source of water for the City of Columbus – beginning in 2027. Apparently this is needed to make their advanced microchips, as the tech giant demands.

Chart about chemical recycling

Tuesday October 8th, 7:00 - 8:00 pm.  

Our planet is choking on plastic and it is imperative that we change how we produce, use and dispose of plastics.  But Big Oil & Gas along with the Petrochemical Industry, driven by greed are doing their best to confuse consumers so this doesn’t happen.  We’ll hear from plastic experts from Athens based Rethink Plastic and Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services on the problem with plastics and the new greenwashing threat of “Advanced Chemical” recycling during our plastics 101 teach-in.  

Link for October meeting.  

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