Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity is a repro justice, POC led org engaging young people & centering POC & LGBTQ+ folks in the South & Midwest. Tell your local elected officials that they must divest away from militarized police and invest in Ohio’s Black and Brown communities!

Sunday, May 23, 8-10pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join the Revolutionary Socialist Network to discuss Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s article for The New Yorker, “We Should Still Defund the Police,” that had been published August 2020.

“Police brutality has been the single most important political rallying cry across Black communities for decades, because it is the most visceral evidence of the second-class citizenship of poor and working-class African-Americans. When the police can stop and question you, frisk and beat you, potentially arrest and occasionally murder you, then you are not an equal citizen. The consequences of Black encounters with the police and the broader criminal-justice system are life-altering and often life-shattering. Of course, the loss of a loved one from gun violence is also catastrophic, but it comes without one element that is specific to encounters with state violence: the abrogation of fundamental human and social rights.”

Friday, May 21, 2021, 6:30 PM
Palestinians have been suffering at the hands of the oppressive Israeli occupation forces. This latest bit of violence sprouted from the forced displacement of Palestinian families from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and the multi-day bombings of Gaza as well as oppression and attacks the Palestinians are facing all over their land. Join us in supporting the Palestinians in their resistance to the oppression they face.   Location:  Goodale Park. Facebook. 

Human Rights Watch recently labeled Israel an “apartheid regime,” their recent bombing campaign on Palestine sparking protests across the world – including one this coming Friday in Goodale Park at 6:30 pm. Yet Ohio taxpayers are funding Israel’s military occupation of Palestine through both federal and state taxes. While the US federal government pays almost $4 billion a year for Israel’s military, Ohio’s Treasury also invests hundreds of millions in Israel, holding a total of $220 million in Israel Bonds – the highest amount for any state in the US.