he Trump Administration has delivered yet another concession to Israel’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve of parliamentary elections: the Israeli military occupation of much of the Palestinian West Bank and of the Golan Heights will no longer be referred to in official U.S. government documents as an occupation. America’s so-called Ambassador to Israel is a former Trump lawyer named David Friedman who is more involved in serving Israel than the United States. He personally supports the view that the illegal Jewish settlements are legitimately part of Israel, choosing to ignore their growth even though it has long been U.S. policy to oppose them. He has also long sought to change the State Department’s language on the Israeli control of the West Bank and Golan Heights, being particularly concerned about the expression “occupied,” which has legal implications.

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Featured during this esteemed film festival is a real life example of biased law-enforcement running roughshod over a community of color. A challenge to our solidarity, a plea to donate to the defense fund for 16 years young Masonique Saunders, who is being charged with Felony Murder (and being charged as an adult has been mentioned), for the murder ACTUALLY committed by a Columbus Police officer and his Columbus Police issued gun. ...and his Columbus Police issued training.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Tickets: $5 for two drinks. In collaboration with Grange Audubon Center and Great Lakes Brewing Company, we invite you to join us for our March Green Drinks 2018. We will be selling drink tickets at $5 for two drinks. Snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided for free. All proceeds will go towards Earth Day Columbus supplies (mulch, topsoil, etc).  We are excited about what can happen right here in Columbus in 2019. Help us make this event a great success. Bring your friends and family, and we hope to see you there! Stay updated and find out more about our participating tabling partners!  For more information regarding Earth Day: http://www.earthdaycolumbus.org/.   

Loft Ensemble’s lofty, must-see, powerful production of Blues for Mr. Charlie is the latest in a growing list of a revival of works by author/ playwright/polemicist James Baldwin, one of America’s “poet laureates” opposing racism. I believe this Renaissance was launched by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s Best Documentary Academy Award-nominated 2016 I Am Not Your Negro, with Samuel L. Jackson giving voice to the man who wrote 1962’s The Fire Next Time and so much more.

Democrats have gone all atwitter (pun intended), scattering ruffled feathers all over the barnyard as if a fox were after them when the only serious threat to their blinkered preconceptions comes from a bird of different plumage. Not all Democrats are squawking like chickens with their heads cut off (as it were), but enough of the older, backward-looking birds are making enough noise to make the whole party look idiotic.

In plainer language, the Democratic Party remains in the grip of white privilege, which can only be a losing position in a country where there’s no effective challenge to Trump for the white supremacy vote. Want proof? Nominate Biden. But that’s only a prediction. What’s going on right now in the House of Representatives is reprehensible enough as reflexive ideologues swarm to block the smallest whiff of any fresh air.