A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

Thursday, March 25, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Protesting pipelines, fracking wells, power plants, and other polluting and dangerous “critical infrastructure sites” just got a lot harder now that Ohio S.B. 33 is law. What does this mean for you if you engage in public witness events? What are the new rules about liability for organizations, non-profits, churches, grassroots groups? How are the four new bills recently proposed in the Ohio Senate and House (S.B. 16, S.B. 41, H.B. 109, and H.B. 22) designed to make it even more complicated to engage in public witness in the streets, sidewalks and at the Statehouse?

Though the focus will be on Ohio, similar bills are making their way through state legislatures across the country.

Guest Speakers:

• Tadd Pinkston, Pinkston Law; board member, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio

• Rev Joan VanBecelaere, Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio

This program is part of Move to Amend Central Ohio’s “Speaking of Democracy” series. All are welcome!

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The most recent episode in the peculiarly American epidemic of mass shootings happened yesterday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. Everybody knows the bare details as broadcast on the mainstream media and most people are expecting the seemingly inevitable – and illogical – revenge/retaliations against Middle Eastern immigrants.

The lone shooter in Boulder was a 21-year-old Syrian-born man named Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. He hasadmitted to the shooting.

A week earlier Alissa had legally purchased the murder weapon, a semiautomatic AK-15-style Ruger assault pistol.

Fresh from the headlines: short, noteworthy developments in the cannabis world with an Ohio point of view. All sources are linked:

The Feds

·       Full Legalization. As a follow-up to the MORE Act – passed in the U.S. House, stalled in the U.S.  Senate and expired at the end of last year – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has signaled his intent to introduce legislation that would remove marijuana from federal scheduling, expunge records and focus on small businesses in communities hit hard by the drug war. (March 2020)

Tuesday, May 23, 9-11am, this on-line event requires advance registration

Budgets are moral documents that establish Ohio’s priorities for the next two years. Come and learn about what is in the budget to address poverty, inequality, and hunger in our communities. The Ohio Council of Churches and our statewide partners will work with legislative offices so that you will have an opportunity to share your thoughts and opinions with your State Representatives on how we can promote the common good in Ohio.

Join the Ohio Council of Churches and the Hunger Network of Ohio for a day of public witness regarding the State Biennial Budget. Budgets are moral documents that establish Ohio’s priorities for the next two years.

We are thrilled to announce that there will be comments from Bishop Michael Curry, the 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church and a homily from Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, as part of this spirited event.

Come in be inspired as we prepare for meetings with members of the Ohio General Assembly to speak against hunger, homelessness, and inequity.