#101 Gree-Gree

We start the GREE-GREE gathering #101 with a remarkable report from DEEPA DRIVER on the torturous treatment of JULIAN ASSANGE. Reporting from London, Deepa gives us a brilliant history of Wikileaks and its astounding impact on the world of internet journalism. She also fills us in on the horrific treatment being criminally imposed on its founder and the courageous willingness to bust official secrecy that he represents.

Thursday, July 14, 3-6pm
925 Mt Vernon Ave., corner of 17th.
Free parking is located across from the market.

Our theme: Sharing the Wealth refers to the wealth of the land and the community. BGM@MPACC reserves space for Ohio farmers/growers, as well as cottage food operations and small processors that source ingredients locally and local craft artisans.

The market encourages the following: developing and niche farmers; farmers/urban gardeners practicing organic farming methods and season extension; producers that source locally; community gardens and producers eager to educate consumers about their products.

WASHINGTON -
Declaring that “President Biden has been neither bold nor inspiring” and “his prospects for winning re-election appear to be bleak,” the national activist organization RootsAction announced today that it will launch a campaign to prevent his renomination.

With an email list of 1.2 million current supporters in the United States, RootsAction issued a statement saying it is committed to nationwide organizing to prevent Biden from being the Democratic Party’s 2024 nominee for president. This is the first time that a large national organization has announced such plans.

“In 2024 the United States will face the dual imperatives of preventing a Republican takeover of the White House and advancing a truly progressive agenda,” RootsAction said in a statement. With so much at stake, renominating Biden “would be a tragic mistake.” The statement concluded: “A president is not his party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination. Joe Biden should not seek it. If he does, he will have a fight on his hands.”

The full RootsAction statement announcing the #DontRunJoe campaign is posted at DontRunJoe.org.

Wednesday, July 13, 1:30pm, this event will be livestreamed on the PUCO YouTube channel.

Join us in watching and live tweeting the public meeting and help hold AEP and PJM accountable!

RSVP for this event by using this link.

PUCO Press Release

PUCO schedules power outage review for July 13

COLUMBUS, OHIO (June 29, 2022) The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) announced today that officials with AEP Ohio, AEP Transmission, and PJM Interconnection will appear before the Commission on July 13 to discuss this month’s electric power outages.

“The PUCO’s mission is to assure access to reliable utility services. Consistent with our mission, the PUCO will conduct a review of the outages, why and where the outages occurred, the impact on vulnerable populations, communication efforts, the decision-making surrounding the forced outages, the timeline of events, and what can be done to better protect or assist consumers in the future,” stated PUCO Chair Jenifer French.

Joe Motil, former Columbus City Council candidate and longtime community advocate who has been circulating petitions to run for mayor in the 2023 May primary election stated that, “City Council and Mayor Ginther have not spent one dime of the taxpayers federally allocated $187 million of American Rescue Plan funds to help address our city’s affordable housing crisis, but without a blink of the eye will shell out $900,000 to upgrade the Convention Center's ventilation system.”

Columbus City Council along with the blessing of Ginther’s Development Department, approved of a $900,000 ARP expenditure  at tonight’s City Council meeting to improve the Greater Columbus Convention Centers HVAC system. And although Mr. Motil testified that “I am not completely against the use of $900,000 to pay for the upgrading, but what continues to dismay and irritate me is that not one dime of the $187 million dollars of city of Columbus taxpayer ARP funds has been spent on providing not even one unit of affordable housing for an individual with an annual income of $35,000 or less. And not one dime of these ARP funds has been spent on affordable housing period.”