Two events this Saturday - Protest for Public Transit & Conversation about Racial Justice and Climate Action

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Protest for Public Transit
Saturday, October 16, 1-4pm
Ohio Statehouse; 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215
A rally to demonstrate the importance of public transit. We are rallying a few days before Congress is back in session to demand that the Reconciliation Bill pass with 3.5 trillion dollars over 10 years. We want Senator Sherrod Brown to know that cutting corners with climate and transit is not an option. We need financial and political investment in public transit nationwide. Public transit is an economic engine, civil right, and a climate imperative. We are calling on Sherrod Brown to support the passage of the reconciliation bill and to keep the pressure on so that funding for transit remains in the bill. 

Manchin/Sinema Play "The Price Is Right" While the GOP Stars in "Night of the Living Dead"

The whole progressive world is screaming at Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
 
But why are 50 Zombie Republicans getting a free pass?
 
The game Sinema and Manchin now play is painfully obvious.
 
One day before Trump’s violent January 6 coup attempt, the grassroots Georgia Miracle realized a different kind of coup. The Peach State---infamous home to the KKK, with a bloody history defined by centuries of bigotry---unimaginably elected a black preacher and a Jewish filmmaker to the US Senate.
 
In a safe, reliable, fairly conducted election (imagine that!) the Democrats emerged with a 50-50 split in the Upper House. With the deciding vote in the hands of Vice President Kamela Harris, it meant progressives might have an actual shot at making serious social changes while taking some tangible leaps toward saving our planetary eco-systems.
 

Kellogg workers are striking—don’t cross the picket line!

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Kellogg threatened to outsource its workers' jobs to Mexico if they didn’t accept a terrible labor deal—including threatening not to provide pensions to new employees, making changes to vacation and holiday time, and more.

That’s why over 1,400 Kellogg workers from all four cereal plants in the US are on strike. We stand in full solidarity with them—and we hope you will too by not crossing the picket line and boycott Kellogg products.

Here are Kellogg’s brands to stop buying:

Asylum Seekers Sponsor Project

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If you're interested in serving as a sponsor for an asylum-seeker, simply fill out the form below with your information and your capacity to help out. One of our volunteers will be in touch with you soon -- though please be patient, as we're an all-volunteer team handling hundreds of sign-ups!

​While all asylum-seekers must have an individual named sponsor in order to secure release, we have heard from an increasing number of congregations that are interested in housing folks currently being detained, especially now that coronavirus is posing an increased threat. If you are part of a faith community that is interested in sponsoring/housing someone currently in detention, please email asylumcongregations@gmail.com to learn more about that process.

War Powers Reform and the Pretense Thereof

I’ve just read through three of the most boring but potentially most important documents around. One is the War Powers Resolution of 1973 which you can print on 6 pages and is what’s referred to as existing law even though it’s violated as routinely as air is breathed. Another is a war powers reform bill that has been introduced in the Senate and seems very likely to go nowhere (it’s 47 pages), and the third is a war powers reform bill in the House (73 pages) that seems virtually certain to go nowhere.

We have to set aside a couple of major concerns, beyond the unlikelihood of Congressional “leadership” allowing such bills to pass, before taking these things seriously.

A Zen Koan on Columbus Day

It’s too easy, right? Too simple — shoving Christopher Columbus off the historical honor roll, pulling down his statues, yanking his “day” away from him and renaming it in honor of the people he murdered, kidnapped, turned into property?

Or is Indigenous Peoples Day seen by the world as simply a starting point, a launching of the transpatriarchal change in collective humanity we so desperately need but do not understand? I certainly put myself in that category: clueless. I both oppose and participate in environmental devastation, consuming my share of fossil fuels, plastic, etc., etc., even as I join those demanding change and pushing back against political-corporate interests. Yeah, Indigenous Peoples Day, that should do it . . . even as the Amazon burns, the tar-sands oil flows, militarism rules and moneyed interests continue getting what they want.

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