​​The head of NATO is visiting the White House and Congress next week to be publicly praised by the U.S. President and both big political parties. For more on how they love NATO, keep reading.

The foreign ministers of the NATO nations are meeting at the State Department on April 4th.

We’re planning to unwelcome them, and to throw a party for peace and for the nonviolent activist, racial-justice, economic-justice, and peace vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: No to NATO – Yes to Peace Festival— April 3-4, 2019, Washington, D.C.

To participate in preparations on the 3rd for protests on the 4th, REGISTER.

So, I loves me some Greek mythology. Under the influence of Homer’s Odyssey and Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautika - especially inspired by the 1963 screen version of that third century B.C. epic poem called Jason and the Argonauts, co-starring Todd Armstrong as the title voyager and a pre-Pussy Galore Honor Blackman as the goddess Hera, with Ray Harryhausen’s scintillating special FX and Bernard “Psycho” Herrmann’s score - when I was 21 I embarked on my very own Oceanic Odyssey. While Ulysses and Jason journeyed around the relatively puny Mediterranean, lured by them thar South Seas sirens, in search of paradise I peregrinated around the Pacific Ocean’s vast expanses, often on cargo boats to far-flung Kapingamarangi and Nukuoro atolls and the Marquesas, outrigger canoes, zigzagging from Raiatea to Bora Bora aboard motorboats during purple sunrises, riding the wild surf to Molokai’s Kalaupapa in a kayak or on a yacht from Oahu to Lanai in choppy seas and the like. When I think that I could have squandered my youth in New Yawk City and gone corporate, I am endlessly slapping myself on the back for having been such a hardy adventurer and would-be Argonaut!

To my Colleagues in the Anti-Over-Vaccination Activist Community:

In the last few days there has been a lot of commentary generated online about a recent publication (from the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Research on the Media, Technology and Health) about the internet and the vaccine controversy. The article is being published in the pro-over-vaccination journal Vaccine. The summary is printed further below.

ORAC (the pseudonym of the infamous David Gorski and his “respectful insolence” website) has already commented favorably on the findings, and he has praised the two co-authors that are employed by the pro-over-vaccination, Kids Plus Pediatrics clinic in Pittsburgh (which, in any fair and open society should be the “kiss of death” for Dr Wolynn).

Wednesday, March 27, 3-9pm
3pm - Community gathering
5:30 - Vigil by the river
7pm - Community dinner
St. Philips Episcopal Church, 166 Woodland Ave.
All who loved Amber are welcome to come for emotional support and community forum. We will convene and then drive to the Scioto Mile for a vigil at 5:15pm. The vigil begins at 5:30pm. Where we will meet at the river will be announced at St. Philips. After the vigil we will meet back at St. Philips for a community dinner at 7pm. Please come with family and friends to uplift Amber. Volunteer to carpool to help folks get to the locations. 

Through March 28
Student Academic Services Building, 281 W Lane Ave, Columbus
Join Students for Justice in Palestine and Palestinian Women's Association for Apartheid Week 2019 on Ohio State's Main Campus.

3/27: Wednesday, 5-6pm
Ohio Union Lobby
Come ready to participate in a dabke flashmob! We will be making a statement with the traditional dance, then have a tour through Arab Student Union's "Apartheid in Palestine" display case at the Union, in front of the Great Hall Meeting Room on the first floor, where we'll explore the basics of Palestine's occupation and its daily consequences.