It is difficult - and futile - to argue which American president has historically been more pro-Israel. While former President Barack Obama, for example, has pledged more money to Israel than any other US administration in history, Donald Trump has provided Israel with a blank check of seemingly endless political concessions. 

Certainly, the unconditional backing and love declared for Israel is common among all US administrations. What they may differ on, however, is their overall motive, primarily their target audience during election time. 

One extreme example from inside the Columbus Division of Police exposing how reckless and rogue some white male officers can be towards minority and women officers happened roughly two years ago when a female officer and a male officer were vying to run a high-profiled unit.

The white female candidate had more seniority over the white male candidate, and the female candidate won the promotion. But the male officers within the unit never wanted her to win the job and scoffed at her authority – and it soon turned ugly.

Who recalls the popular insurance commercial which portrayed a fisherman dangling a dollar bill with his fishing pole over the needy arms of young woman who desperately tried to swipe the dollar bill off the hook?

Soon after the female officer won the promotion, someone under her authority took time to create a poster which mocked her. They took a picture of her face and superimposed it on the face of the fisherman in the insurance commercial. As for the losing male candidate, they took his face and superimposed it on the young lady’s face.

“Plastics!”

Yeah, it’s everywhere ... not just in grocery store aisles and department stores and every other commercial outlet you can think of, not to mention your own cupboards and closets and trashcans, but on the grass and on the sidewalks, in the landfills, in the lakes and rivers, in the oceans. And it doesn’t go away. Ever.

You know, it doesn’t biodegrade. And “the vast majority of all plastic made up to now, will likely not be recycled,” Zoë Schlanger writes at Quartz. “And it will exist virtually forever, crumbling into microplastics that show up most everywhere scientists look for them.”

Thursday September 3, 2020

4:00 pm - 5:15

Columbus, Ohio 

For the fourth time we gather to protest the Senate leaving town for their August vacation without passing a Covid-relief package. An unprecedented number of people have lost their jobs, and the number who have fallen ill and died is staggering. What this crisis makes clear is that our communities need an economic foundation- a home, cash payments for necessities, health care, childcare, and other services to safely weather the long lasting impacts of this pandemic. We know that if we do not act now millions more will lose their jobs, fall ill, and lose a roof over their heads as the pandemic continues to unfold. We are here today to tell Senators Portman and McConnell to join Senate Democrats at the table and work out a compromise in good faith. 

Wednesday, September 2, 2020, 7:00 PM