January 24, 2019, 1:30 – 2:45 PM

Provost's Discovery Themes Lecture with Mary Robinson
One of the world's most respected advocates for climate justice and Ireland's first woman President, Mary Robinson leads the Mary Robinson Foundation—Climate Justice, a center for thought leadership, education and advocacy for the poor and disempowered in the world that are disproportionately threatened by climate change.  Her new book, Climate Justice, has received glowing reviews from former world leaders and the environmental and human rights community. 

Barack Obama, awarding Robinson the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, praised her as an “advocate for the forgotten and the ignored,” noting that she has “not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world.”  Mary Robinson first rose to international prominence as President of Ireland from 1990-97.  She is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and transformational leader who elevated the public role of the Irish presidency, helping to shape modern Ireland in a period of rapid and unprecedented economic growth. 

Kaleidoscope Youth Center (KYC) is excited to announce that we are now directly serving and supporting homeless and housing insecure LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults with the introduction of three new housing programs! Since 1994, KYC has worked in partnership with young people in Central Ohio to provide safe and affirming spaces for LGBTQIA+ young people in our drop-in center, in the schools, and in the community. Over the last year, KYC, in partnership with other local organizations, has worked to prevent and end youth homelessness through coordinated community planning.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's U.S.-trained military, unable to win
its 15-year-long war against Muslim Malay-Thai guerrillas, announced
it is considering "autonomy or special administrative arrangements" in
the south where insurgents staged fresh assaults, adding to the 7,000
people killed on all sides.

"I do not demand a cease-fire first before the dialogue," said Gen.
Udomchai Thamsarorat, head of the National Security Council's Peace
Dialogue Panel.

"Autonomy or special administrative arrangements, yes we can talk and
we can compare it, or we can map it out if we believe the [Thai] prime
minister's instruction about decentralization for people to feel
comfortable under the government," Gen. Udomchai said describing a
compromise that Bangkok earlier avoided.

Academics and researchers suggested autonomy should allow southern
Muslims to run their communities including school curriculums, the
election of governors, wider use of Malay language instead of Thai,
family legal decisions, and other local issues.

January 21, 2019- Ohio State Representative Bernadine Kennedy Kent called for greater police accountability at the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration and breakfast put on by the Police Officers for Equal Rights (POER) at the First AME Zion Church. “It is imperative as we celebrate the life of Dr Martin Luther King that we speak up and demand Police Chief Jacobs, Commander Mark Gardner, and Detective Jay Fulton receives a full, complete, and unbiased investigation by law enforcement,” Kent said.