Poor and low-wage people will join Ohio Poor People’s Campaign Tri-Chairs Clair Hochstetler and David Guran, and Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan, Bishop Tony Minor, Imam Horsed Noah, and Yvonka Hall, among many others, for a mass assembly at the Ohio statehouse to launch a 40-week effort to mobilize poor and low-wage voters in Ohio, and demand legislators take immediate action to end the crisis of death by poverty in the United States.

During Saturday’s mass assembly, a powerful fusion coalition, including impacted people, poor and low-wage voters, faith leaders, and social justice advocates, gathered to declare their votes are demands for living wages, voting rights and other policies to combat poverty and save lives. As part of the assembly, poor and low-wage voters shared testimony of how poverty has impacted their lives and why politicians need to champion the issues that matter most to poor and low-wealth individuals. 

Sunday, March 3rd, 8pm
The Comedy Roast Fundraiser to End Qualified Immunity has changed location! Join us at the LARGER Hilton Columbus/Polaris BALLROOM!
Hilton Columbus/Polaris, 8700 Lyra Dr, Columbus

$30 At The Door (Doors Open At 7pm)

Presented by The Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity

The essence here revolves around using humor as a coping mechanism while engaging in serious discussions. The event blends laughter and fundraising, using a roast format to comically critique Yost, with a focus on his characters, policies, actions, mannerisms, and voice.

“By the way, there’s also been slaughter in Israel. So, there’s a lot of pain on both sides. So, we don’t really need a lecture on the problem. I’m not talking about the politics of this tonight.” That was Anderson Cooper’s response before shutting Nina Turner down.

Bakari Sellers interject by saying that “prior to October 7 there was a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.”

Left to its own devices, Israel would never grant Palestinians their freedom. 

 In the past, some, whether ignorantly or not, claimed that peace in Palestine can only be achieved through ‘unconditional negotiations’.

 This mantra was also championed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he cared enough to pay lip service to the ‘peace process’ and other US-originated fantasies. Back then, he spoke about his readiness to hold unconditional negotiations, though constantly arguing that Israel does not have a peace partner. 

 All of this was, of course, ‘doublespeak’. What Netanyahu and other Israelis were, in fact, saying is that Israel should be freed from any commitment to international law, let alone international pressure. Worse, by declaring that Israel has no Palestinian peace partner, the Israeli government has essentially canceled the hypothetical and ‘unconditional negotiations’ before they even took place.