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Behind Closed Doors: Black Migrants and the Hidden Injustices of U.S. Immigration Courts

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As the Circuit Courts and Supreme Court are increasingly called upon to correct immigration injustices, people are starting to realize that the U.S. immigration courts do not operate with independence and fairness.

War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust

Over 100,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Gaza, an area slightly smaller than the City of Detroit, Michigan, resulting in the recorded deaths of at least 60,000 Gazans and injuries to hundreds of thousands.¹

It is impossible to overstate the effects of the abominable bombing war on Gazans, their lives, their families, their health, and their communities.

What has escaped attention up until now is the undeniable environmental and health effects of the bombing of Gazans on Israelis, as well as on citizens of neighboring states, and the potential harm to U.S. military personnel in the region.

A study of explosion physics based on declassified Department of Defense data, as well as blast temperature data and consequent emissions; a review of wind patterns, together with publicly available data of health effects from 9/11, as well as data gathered from U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War, yield a shocking conclusion.

Community Improvement 614 meeting

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 6:00 PM
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Hilltop Branch Library, 511 Hague Ave., room 1, Columbus. 

Columbus neighborhood historians and environmentalists you are invited! Will discuss effect of LinkUs on historic buildings and on the environment along the proposed corridors. Required public notice about federally required historic review and environmental impacts were not mentioned to public in numerous meetings citywide.  Adverse effects on environment and historical buildings bus were not advertised. COTA/City were selling the project to the public for a “yes” vote November 2024.

Please RSVP to communityimprovement614@gmail.com by April 20 at 5:00 PM. 

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Democracy or Plutocracy?

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Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule).

The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its contemporaries.  In the eighteenth century, European nations, governed by kings, princes, and other wealthy hereditary elites, usually provided a contrast to the more unruly, less hidebound new nation, where some Americans even had the vote.

Even so, the overwhelming majority of Americans didn’t have the vote, which was largely confined to property-owning or tax-paying white males―about 6 percent of the U.S. population in 1789.  Women (comprising about 50 percent of the population) were, with very few exceptions, denied voting rights.  And slaves (about 18 percent of the population) lacked both voting rights and citizenship.

Franklin County Treasurer Decides to Not Reinvest in Israel Bonds, For Now…

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After over a month of withholding information surrounding public investments in Israeli Bonds, the Franklin County Treasurer’s Office finally released the county investment reports for February and March of 2025. These reports, alongside discussion at the meeting of the Investment Advisory Committee (IAC) on April 17, 2025, confirmed that Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan has decided not to reinvest holdings from Israeli Bonds that matured on February 1, 2025 into additional Israeli Bonds. 

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Reel Time With Richard Ades: Deneuve as a first lady out to reinvent herself

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What’s it like to be the wife of a leader who forces you to live in his shadow and ignores your political advice? The President’s Wife answers that question with its feminism-informed biography of former French first lady Bernadette Chirac.

But don’t expect a sober-minded piece of historical revisionism. The film, directed and co-written by Lea Domenach, refuses to take itself too seriously, and it’s clear from the first scene that we shouldn’t, either.

As Bernadette (the legendary Catherine Deneuve) makes her way to a confessional booth for a heart-to-heart with her priest, the church choir informs us that what we’re about to see is based only loosely on reality. In fact, the singers warn us, it’s a “work of fiction.” 

Still, it’s hard not to hope that what follows is least partly true, because it’s a delicious story of self-reinvention and political comeuppance.

Indivisible Central Ohio Congressional Recess Event at Representative Mike Carey’s Office

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Tuesday, April 22 @ 2:00 PM 
On Tuesday, April 22, Indivisible Central Ohio is hosting a Congressional recess event outside Representative Mike Carey’s Columbus office. To date, Rep Carey has been avoiding conversations with constituents, so we will meet at his office and ask again for a meeting with Carey or his staff.  

Residents of Ohio’s 15th Congressional District have logged countless calls and requests for meetings with Rep Carey or his staff, but Carey’s office has been avoiding these calls and requests. Concerned Ohioans need access to communicate directly with their elected representatives and Rep Carey and his staff are not honoring this part of their responsibilities.

During this office visit, if Rep Carey and his staff refuse to meet with constituents, Indivisible Central Ohio and constituents in Ohio’s 15th Congressional district will bring signs to show their representative they demand to be heard and will picket outside.

Members of the media are invited to attend to cover this event. 

Lead organizers with Indivisible Central Ohio will be available for interviews throughout the event. 

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