Wednesday, Sept. 23, 6:30-8:30pm
Ohio Statehouse

Wednesday, September 23, 12noon-1:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

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Due to COVID-19, many of us have concerns about voting in the November election. Bring your questions and join us to learn about: voter eligibility and registration, three ways to vote, absentee ballots, important dates, common problems to avoid to ensure that your vote is counted, and ways you can get involved in voter education and advocacy. You may even get answers to questions you did not know to ask such as how many stamps you need to mail in your ballot.

Presenters

• Rev. Joan VanBecelaere is the Executive Director of Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio and Ohio UU the Vote. She serves as the Chair of the Registration Team of the Nonpartisan Ohio Voter Outreach Committee [NOVOQ]. She has also worked with the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign. Prior to moving to Ohio, she was Vice-President for Student Services at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her spouse, Jerry, and four furry felines.

The Hilltop Historical Society was going forward with its annual Camp Chase cemetery memorial later this week – when scores of Confederate flags are placed on gravestones – but they canceled the September 27th ceremony due to COVID concerns. This historical society told the Free Press the ongoing social justice movement had nothing to do with the cancelation.

More disconcerting and surreal to some, is what Hilltop Historical Society President Dave Dobos – who is also Vice Chair of the Franklin County Republican Central Committee – told the Free Press in regard to the canceled event.

We asked Dobos: if the event had not been canceled, would the society still have brought out scores of Confederate flags during this summer of all social justice summers?

“If it hadn’t been for the coronavirus, yes,” said Dobos, who was scheduled to speak at the canceled event. “I think anytime you are accurately portraying history, it is appropriate. Folks can make their own opinion.”

As many are aware, Camp Chase on Sullivant Avenue is a VA-owned cemetery where over 2,000 Confederate soldiers and a handful of Union soldiers are laid to rest.

From Code Pink:

1. The effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for journalism is a threat to future journalism that challenges power and violence, but a defense of the media practice of propagandizing for war. While the New York Times benefitted from Assange’s work, its only reporting on his current hearing is an article about technical glitches in the court proceedings — utterly avoiding the content of those proceedings, even falsely suggesting that the content was inaudible and otherwise unobtainable. The corporate U.S. media silence is deafening. Not only does President Donald Trump’s effort to imprison Assange (or, as he has publicly advocated in the past, kill him) conflict with media fictions about Russia, and contradict fundamental pretenses about U.S. respect for freedom of the press, but it also serves an important function that is clearly in the interest of media outlets that promote wars. It punishes someone who dared to expose the malevolence, cynicism, and criminality of U.S. wars.