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Ohio’s “Nuclear” Attack on Democracy

Nuclear tower with lots of white smoke coming out against a blue sky

A terrifying series of gestapo-style assaults, petition buying, bribery, mass media manipulation and systematic intimidation has disrupted the attempt of Ohio citizens to repeal a nearly billion-dollar bailout for two dangerously failing atomic reactors on Lake Erie.

The unprecedented assault threatens the referendum process in Ohio and across the nation.

It also threatens to keep on line two very old, dangerously decayed reactors where melt-downs and explosions could forever contaminate the Great Lakes region and more.

On Monday, October 21, petitioners with the anti-nuclear referendum fell 44,682 signatures short of the number needed to qualify for the November 2020 ballot to repeal the bailout.

Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts (OCAB), the anti-nuclear group, filed a preliminary injunction in US District Court to force Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to extend the length of time they had to collect signatures.

The New Columbus Crew Stadium Will Cost the City of Columbus Almost 100 Million. Why Can’t The Money Go Towards Its Actual Residents?

Two soccar players on the field on opposite teams, one in blue and one in yellow kicking the ball

To the relief of many Columbus residents, the Columbus Crew has been saved from relocation and will remain in the city. After efforts by fans and the city government to keep the Major League soccer team in town, the Columbus Crew has not only agreed to stay in Columbus, but also will soon have a new stadiumin the city’s downtown, set to open in 2021.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the new stadium took place on October 10, drawing in about 4,300 local fans. Many have expressed excitement for the new state-of-the-art facility, and the owners of the team say that they’re in it for the Crew to have the best of the league. In addition to the 20,000-seat stadium, the complex will include a bar/restaurant/event space and a plaza to host outdoor concerts.

Certainly, many see the new stadium as an exciting upcoming thing for the city. But at what cost, literally?

Vigil for Kashmir

Words Vigil for Kashmir 2019.10.27

Protest video

Columbus remembered the plight and resilience of the Kashmiri people on Sunday. October 27. Sponsored by CAIR. 

Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting screening the film The River and the Wall

Woman holding a sign saying US Out of the Middle East

Monday, October 28, 2019, 7:00 – 8:30 PM

Ukrainian-Americans Must Speak Out

Ed Rampell is a Ukrainian-American L.A.-based freelance writer and author.

 

Her earliest memories were of endless wheat fields and the sweeping steppes. She also remembered being afraid of the police - and the bitter cold. My babushka advised me: “If your feet stay warm the rest of your body will, too.” Like Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof’s beloved dairyman who dreamed of being “a rich man,” my grandmother Dorothy Kwass was a Ukrainian Jew who migrated to America.

 

On my father’s paternal side, Samuel Alexander Rampell was born in Odessa. Shortly after Czar Alexander II’s 1881 assassination, vicious pogroms (race riots) were unleashed against Jews and little Samuel sailed to America with his mother.

 

The Kwasses, my dad’s maternal line, were innkeepers in Kiev’s shtetl (ghetto). Their name is derived from kvass, the fermented sweet drink served at their inn. When the menfolk were drafted around 1904 during the Russo-Japanese war they became draft dodgers and fled to the land of the free, with five-year-old Dorothy.

 

AMERICAN WOMAN Film Review

DTLA FILM FESTIVAL Film Reviews

By Ed Rampell

The 11th annual DTLA Film Festival is now underway. According to the Festival’s website: “Our programming reflects downtown L.A.’s vibrant new urbanism, the unique ethnic and cultural diversity of its neighborhoods, its burgeoning independent film community, its singular blend of late 19th and 20th century architecture, and the seminal role it played in the early days of American cinema (epitomized by the world’s largest group of vintage movie palaces located in the Broadway Theater District).”

DTLAFF is screening features, shorts, documentaries etc., at two primary locations: Regal L.A. LIVE 1000 West Olympic Blvd., L.A., CA 90015 while the Dome Series is at the Wisdome Immersive Art Park in DTLA’s Arts District, 1147 Palmetto St., L.A. or the Vortex Dome Theater at L.A. Center Studios. Panels, parties, etc., are being presented at various Downtown L.A. locations. For info on the DTLA Film Festival see: https://www.dtlaff.com/.

AMERICAN WOMAN Film Review

Citizen Hearst

Hong Kong's Wong Predicts Insurrection in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Hong Kong political activist Joshua Wong
predicted Thailand's young people will unleash an urban insurrection "
the same as Hong Kong youngsters did in the past four months" if
Thailand's Army Chief Gen. Apirat Kongsompong crushes Thai aspirations
for democracy and human rights.

The defiant Mr. Wong was responding to U.S.-trained Gen. Apirat's
harsh condemnation of protests in Hong Kong and his claim that Thais
could duped by Mr. Wong and "brainwashed" to protest in Bangkok.

"Hong Kong is suffering from the threat from Beijing," Mr. Wong said
in a 10-minute audio file emailed to Bangkok-based Prachatai.com news.

"And when the army chief asked Thai youth not to do the same, my only
response is if the government in Thai[land] do the same, the youth in
Thai[land] they will do the same as Hong Kong youngsters did in the
past four months. So it depends on the authorities instead of
depend[ing] on us."

Mr. Wong also proudly defended sharing similar political values and

The World Must Compel the U.S. to Allow Korea to Have Peace-한국은 평화를 가질 수 있도록 세계가 미국을 강요해야한다

Asia, Culture of Peace, Demilitarization

KOREAN BELOW THE ENGLISH

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 26, 2019

I’ve never heard of or even seen fantasized a society or a government that wasn’t deeply flawed. I know neither North nor South Korea is an exception. But the primary impediment to peace in Korea appears to be the United States: its government, its media, its billionaires, its people, and even the arm of the U.S. called the United Nations.

Candlelight Vigil for Kashmir

Candles and details about event

Sunday, October 27, 2019, 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Join us in remembering the plight and resilience of the Kashmiri people. Sponsored by CAIR.  Location: 233 Civic Center Dr., Columbus 43215. Facebook.

Silicon Valley Karma: Faith in Electricity

From the VC “masters of the universe” on Sand Hill Road and Y Combinator to the social media FAANG monopolists to the adolescent male libertarian bros with their internet startups — all share the fundamentalist faith in electricity.  

 

Rarely did they question how their burgeoning digital economy disruptions were based largely on fossil and over-age nuclear powered electric utilities.  Lately, many are seeing the solution to climate change and the foreseeable future of blackouts as installing solar panels on their buildings. 

 

As Pacific Gas & Electric, reeling in bankruptcy due to fires it caused, prepares for another round of deliberate outages in California’s North Bay17 counties, Southern California Edison is planning more such precautionary blackouts in its service area.

 

Silicon Valley’s self-proclaimed entrepreneurial innovators came late to climate change and the global shift to renewable energy and materials, now driving 21st century circular economies. We noted this omission in our TV coverage of the first “cleantech“ investors‘ conference in San Francisco in 2014. 

 

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