As was foreseen, last week the Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Now, there are millions of Americans who have a choice to make. Republicans, conservativesand even some libertarianshave stretched their usual political norms to make excuses for Trump’s erratic behavior for years, but while the Congress and Vice-President counted the 2020 Electoral College votes on January 6, we finally saw in plain sight how far Trump and his rabid supporters would go. The riots at the Capitol were a direct attempt to usurp the democratic processes of our constitutional republic and any attempts by anyone to defend those actions are fundamentally flawed.

Save Kossuth Street Garden: Don't Let Developers Destroy Our Community!
Sunday, February 14, 4:30pm
614 E. Kossuth St.

Please register for this event here: https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/374283/

Kossuth Street Garden is a 15 year old community garden in a working class community of color. It won the Franklin Conservatory's 2020 Neighborhood Improvement Project of the Year award. This garden has been an educational and social space for the community.

Although the community that runs the garden had offered to buy the land, it was instead sold to developer Tracy Cohen for the same amount of money.

Now, the developer is planning on building expensive homes ranging from $250,000-$350,000. On top of contributing to gentrification, the future owners of these homes would likely receive tax abatements.

Saturday, February 13, 7-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Facebook Event

Since we aren’t getting together in person, we can gather for a couple of hours on the second Saturday night of each month, 7-8pm Eastern Time, on Zoom.

Speakers include:

• Bill Cohen with a promotion of his upcoming concert and a song.

• Marty Stutz with new ComFest updates.

• Stu Nicholson from All Aboard Ohio on the prospect of trains in Ohio — even in Columbus!

• Rachel Coyle from How Things Work at the Ohio Statehouse.

• A preliminary look at Bob Fitrakis’ new book!

• News from the Nina Turner for Congress campaign.

• And more.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event.

Hosted by The Columbus Free Press.

Saturday, February 13th, 12 PM
1Divineline2health Center, 2424 Sullivant Avenue, Columbus, OH

Columbus Stand Up and the 1Divineline2Health Center is convening a community conversation around mental wellness as well as a community meditation in commemoration of Black History Month. The event will be outdoors, adhere to social distancing protocols, and participants will be provided free hot coffee from Third Way Cafe to keep warm throughout.

Columbus Stand Up! is a non-profit dedicated to mobilizing people in Central Ohio to serve the community, engage in the political process, hold elected officials accountable, and advocate for policies that will ensure everyone in our community can lead a stable life. 

1DivineLine2Health is a nonprofit organization fighting sex trafficking and serving vulnerable populations through grassroots movements in Columbus, Ohio and all over the world.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Myanmar's coup leader may be lucky his Southeast Asian country is wedged among authoritarian regimes which are interested in making money by accessing its natural resources and strategic geography, instead of condemning the destruction of its fledgling democracy.

Nearby key investors, including China and Thailand, muted their responses to the coup in Myanmar, a France-sized nation also known as Burma.

But the U.S., Europe, Australia and several other more distant lands denounced Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung's bloodless coup at dawn on February 1.

"We call upon the military to immediately end the State of Emergency, restore power to the democratically-elected government, to release all those unjustly detained, and to respect human rights and the rule of law," the Group of Seven major economic powers said after the coup.

The G7 comprises the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the U.K.

In contrast, China did not support a UN Security Council's effort on February 2 to produce a joint statement condemning the putsch.