Saturday, January 30, 12noon-4pm, Goodale Park [central parking lot], 120 W. Goodale St.

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Gather and unite with us as we celebrate and honor the life of Casey Goodson, Jr. and all Black lives killed by police in Columbus, Ohio

Demands

• The immediate termination, arrest, and indictment of Michael Jason Meade for the murder of Casey Goodson, Jr.

• Revocation of Jason Meade’s pension.

• Transparency in the investigation and release of all video and audio recordings.

• Immediate release of all evidence to Casey’s mother, Tamala Payne.

• Franklin County Sheriff’s Department cover the funeral expenses for Casey Goodson, Jr.

• The resignation of Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin.

• Fire Columbus Police Chief Quinlan for negligence in failing to contact Ohio BCI [Bureau of Criminal Investigation] in a timely manner.

• Commitment from Franklin County Commissioners to divest from Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

Robin Lutz’s visually compelling, inventive M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity strikes just the right note of whimsy in exploring the graphic art of a talent known for his sense of the whimsical. Just as his compatriots Bosch, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh, created new ways of seeing with, respectively, surrealistic symbolism, chiaroscuro, photorealist style and Post-Impressionism, the Dutch Escher expanded the sense of perception on the flat “limited plane” of paper he imprinted with his unique “visualization of infinity.”

Escher called this sensibility “expressing endlessness” and stated: “I’m not an artist… I’m a mathematician.” The Dutchman’s thoughts and theories have been culled from his letters, diaries and notes. They are read aloud with panache by the English actor Stephen Fry (he has appeared in many mostly British films, such as 1992’s Peter’s Friends), who provides playful, lively, witty narration that sounds, in a good sense, like a performance.

Arab normalization with Israel is expected to have serious consequences that go well beyond the limited and self-serving agendas of a few Arab countries. Thanks to the Arab normalizers, the doors are now flung wide open for new political actors to extend or cement ties with Israel at the expense of Palestine, without fearing any consequences to their actions. 

 African countries, especially those who worked diligently to integrate Israel into the continent’s mainstream body politic, are now seizing on the perfect opportunity to bring all African countries on board, including those who have historically and genuinely stood on the side of Palestinians. 

It took a variety of approaches to market the 2003 war on Iraq. For some it was to be a defense against an imagined threat. For others it was false revenge. But for Samantha Power it was philanthropy. She said at the time, “An American intervention likely will improve the lives of the Iraqis. Their lives could not get worse, I think it’s quite safe to say.” Needless to say, it wasn’t safe to say that.

Did Power learn a lesson? No, she went on to promote a war on Libya, which proved disastrous.

Then did she learn? No, she took an explicit position against learning, publicly arguing for the duty not to dwell on the results in Libya as that might impede willingness to wage war on Syria.

Samantha Power may never learn, but we can. We can stop allowing her to hold public office.

We can tell every U.S. Senator to reject her nomination to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).