End the War on Black Trans People

Sign saying Black Trans Lives Matter

Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 7:00 PM

Hands off Lebanon: Macron’s Self-serving ‘New Pact’ Must Be Shunned

 

French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political and economic reforms. Just as thousands of Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut demanding “revenge” against the ruling classes, the French people have relentlessly been doing the same; both peoples have been met with police violence and arrests. 

 

Migration nightmare to Columbus could end in more heartache

Photos of people in article

The story that I am about to relate could well have been a contemporary adaptation of Dickens, yet I feel that even Dickens would have been impressed at the amount of adversity that I am about to tell. There is no exaggeration. I have even omitted parts, but that doesn’t make this story less brutal.

A little empathy is needed to understand this story. You would have to be a monster not to feel some compassion. This is a story of a poor Guatemalan family who escaped the brutality of their own country’s oppression and soul-crushing poverty to only find more heartache in the middle of Ohio.

I work locally as an interpreter and when I first met Huli at his school on the westside of Columbus back in 2017, he was a 10-year-old from Guatemala who was having nightmares. Not the nightmares most of us have sometimes. His nightmares were bloody and horrible and full of violence, impacting his school performance, his relationships, and himself.

United Against Trump - a virtual event at the Democratic National Convention

Details about event

Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Join Senator Bernie Sanders and over a dozen powerful national progressive organizations to lay out our plan to win in November 2020. We are engaged in an independent campaign to reach millions of Black and Brown voters, young people, and progressives to defeat Donald Trump, and move a transformational agenda in 2021. Panelists will share strategies for fighting voter suppression, boosting voter enthusiasm, and building long-term political power - including how you can get involved in the fight! Sponsored by CPD Action, Peoples Action, RootsAction, Mijente, United We Dream Action, Working Families Party, Black Voters Matter Fund, Seed The Vote, Sunrise Movement, Progressive Democrats of America, Our Revolution, Make the Road Action, and more. Register here. 

Columbus puts luxury prices on their affordable housing

Chart with rent prices

In Columbus, the housing crisis is everywhere. People who have been left behind are begging on street corners. For those with housing, rents have skyrocketed, smaller landlords and properties have been bought up by massive corporations, and tenants have been forced to renew their leases or look for a new place to live sooner and sooner after moving in. "Affordable housing" has become a regular topic for city officials challenged by a frustrated public. But what does Columbus think "affordable housing" looks like?

The document above is connected to Columbus's infamous tax abatement policy--through which many large developments in our city pay zero property tax for years. That policy requires some developments to have 20% of housing units set aside for "affordable" housing: 10% to be "affordable and rented to households making up to 80% AMI [Area Median Income]" and an additional 10% "affordable and rented to households making up to 100% AMI".

Will Ohio Finally Inherit Its Wind?

Amidst an astonishing billion-dollar nuke reactor corruption scandal, one of the world’s richest wind resources—the key to Ohio’s economic and ecological future—is being trashed by a single sentence.  

According to the American Wind Energy Association, Ohio is being robbed of $4 billion worth of industrial development, thousands of jobs, and a wealth of cheap, emissions-free energy by a single easily-removable clause in the Ohio Code.  

ECU 646 Nuclear Corruption

Transformative Justice: Ending Incarceration of Women and the Case for Reparations

Two speakers at event

Monday, August 17, 2020, 7:00 PM

Black women's march

Black woman speaking into a mic

Sunday, August 16, 2pm
Downtown Columbus
Black womens march is for people to see we have a voice too as black women and black young women. We want to show the community we are here for them we are here for justice and we are here for you. We will have food after the march as well .Everyone is invited no matter the gender all women please be in dresses shoes the color don’t matter.
 

Black women's march

Black woman speaking into a mic

Sunday, August 16, 2pm
Downtown Columbus
Black womens march is for people to see we have a voice too as black women and black young women. We want to show the community we are here for them we are here for justice and we are here for you. We will have food after the march as well .Everyone is invited no matter the gender all women please be in dresses shoes the color don’t matter.
 

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