Thursday, August 27, 2020, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
We will caravan to Ohio Statehouse to call attention to the need for Congress to act now. Join us to elevate this message! Caravan will start at both locations: East High School parking lot, 1500 East Broad Street, Columbus OH 43205 or Whetstone Community Center parking lot, 3909 North High Street, Columbus OH 43214.  Cars will gather at these locations from 4:00p-4:30pm then we will proceed to the Statehouse and drive around it for 30 minutes. Create signs for your car or come without and we can provide. Let's join forces to support the #HeroesAct! 

In the spirit of Protest Reports, the Free Press reprints this from:

Charlie Pierce, who cut his teeth writing sports:

I always found [NBA coach Doc Rivers] a smart and aware human being, the son of a Chicago cop. He met his wife, Kris, when they were students at Marquette together. Kris is white. When they were dating, her parents’ home and auto were vandalized. While he was in San Antonio, his house was burned to the ground. He’s been there. He’s seen things. And, on Tuesday night, he turned his history loose.

"It’s amazing we keep loving this country and this country doesn’t love us back."

Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would set free an unspecified number of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons.

Instead of the much-anticipated announcement of some kind of a deal, on August 10, Israeli bombs began falling on the besieged Strip and incendiary balloons, originating in Gaza, made their way to the Israeli side of the fence. 

So, what happened?

The answer lies largely—though not entirely—in Israel, specifically in the political conflict between Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing political camp, on the one hand, and their government’s coalition partners, led by Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, on the other.

Definition from the Greek paradigm meaning pattern: “A paradigm is a scheme for understanding and explaining certain aspects of reality.”

For the last 2000+ years we’ve been in the Piscean Age which focuses on, among other values, money, power and control. The Aquarian Age is the new paradigm we entered in 2012. The focus of the Aquarian Age is love, brotherhood, unity and integrity. This book talks about the paradigm shift that we are currently experiencing on Earth. Paradigm Shifts don’t happen quickly; they can take hundreds of years to emerge, yet it seems like an abrupt change. As we saw in Who Moved My Cheese, people resist change and cling to the status quo with everything they’ve got. In our world today we see intense tribal and ethnic loyalties. Politics has become polarized all over the globe; you either agree with me or you are my enemy.

We’re still in the throes of this birthing process: bringing forth the new world order. As painful as the process is, no matter how tenaciously we cling to the old ways, the new paradigm WILL arise out of the ashes of the old paradigm.

David Rovics' political commentary through songs can all be found as episodes on the Song For Today podcast.  Everything else can be found as an episode of the podcast, This Week with David Rovics.  Both podcasts are at least allegedly available on all the usual podcasting platforms.  They can also both be found front and center at davidrovics.com and on the David Rovics mobile app, as well as on the audio feed you can subscribe to via