Action Alerts

Sunday, May 11, 12-8pm
Makoy Center, 5462 Center St, Hilliard, OH 43026

This is an all day event with indoor sessions (see agenda) and outdoor activities, traditional games, craft stations, and so much more. A Baladna bazaar and silent auction will also be ongoing throught the day. This event commemorates the 77th year of Nakba, uniting our Central Ohio community and providing varied sessions on culture, heritage, hisory, advocay, education and more. All welcome. 

12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
Welcome and Kids Music Performance

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
From Awareness to Action: Empowering Ourselves (Advocacy Panel)

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Dabka Performance

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Voices in Palestine

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Speaking of Home: Poems and Stories for Palestine

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The Hands Off demonstrations are different. They are an early warning signal that, as one pundit put it, “Americans have freedom in our DNA” and they are proving it by taking to the streets with their homemade signs.

This is a Zoom/Facebook event salon Saturday, May 10 from 7-8pm

Our theme is: Resistance in May

Speakers:
Lynn Tramonte -Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Theresa Hice-Formille - American Association of University Professors and Springfield Neighbors United
Mazen Rasoul - Immigration lawyer

Including:
Post-primary election discussion
Workers rights
Immigrant rights
Joining the fight against this administration

Questions or if you have an announcement about your event or group, let us know here: colsfreepress@gmail.com

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87630301989...

Saturday, May 10, 1-3pm
Bicentennial Park, 233 S Civic Center Dr, Columbus 43215

On Saturday, May 10, join us in Columbus to say no to the bullies and billionaires who are threatening our freedoms and disappearing residents from our streets.

In honor of Mother's Day weekend, and as part of actions happening throughout the state, we invite mothers and others to join us in standing up and speaking out against fascism.

We will have speakers, music, sign language interpretation, a great sound system, and an opportunity to march. Please join us at Bicentennial Park as we build momentum against Trump, Musk, and the hostile takeover of our government.

Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center

Haitian immigrant Marie Ange Blaise, 44, died on Friday, April 25 in ICE detention at Broward Transitional Facility in Pompano Beach, FL. Blaise had been in ICE custody, transferred between several facilities, since Feb 14. According to Florida Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the only Haitian-American member of Congress, Blaise had been denied adequate medical attention prior to her death. Cherfilus-McCormick and Representative Frederica Wilson, another south Florida Democrat, called for additional congressional oversight as well as an independent investigation. 

2025 Iberian Peninsula Blackout

After an unprecedented power outage hit Spain, Portugal, and parts of France last week, many in the media speculated that the large amounts of renewable energy in the Iberian system was to blame for the blackout. 

The exact cause of the grid collapse is not yet known, but at 12:33 p.m. on April 28, electricity generation in Spain dropped rapidly from around 27 gigawatts to just over 12 gigawatts. The sudden drop in grid load destabilized electricity flows, resulting in a peninsula wide power outage.

At the time of the incident, Spain and Portugal were sourcing about 80 percent of their electricity from wind and solar, leading to the speculation that the grid could have been overloaded with renewable energy. 

While renewables are well known for being more intermittent than generation from fossil fuels, the consensus amongst grid experts is that the generation source had nothing to do with this week's blackout. 

This Wednesday, May 7th at 9am, the Ohio House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee is hearing Opponent Testimony on HB 170, to "Establish process to regulate carbon capture, storage technology."

Please join us in urging the committee members to VOTE NO by submitting written testimony and, if you can, speaking at the hearing, and by calling the committee members and telling them that you are a concerned Ohioan and you want them to vote no!
 

Want to submit testimony? Here's how!

On Wednesday, May 7th, requests will be sent out by Representatives Michele Grim and Tristan Rader, to all Ohio House representatives asking them to co-sponsor 'The Ohio Healthcare Plan', the bill which would establish a universal, publicly funded healthcare finance system in Ohio.

Please call your Ohio representative and ask him/her to co-sponsor and support the bill.

Don't know who your Ohio rep is?

Go to 'Find My State Legislators', then it will ask for your address to find your rep. and his/her phone number.

Here's what to say:

I am ______, your constituent in ______County.

Ohioans have suffered from lack of access to good health care for too long. We have worse health outcomes than most other states.

This is due to being uninsured or having insurance that has such high deductibles that we hesitate too long before seeking care.

It's time you realize that a large majority of Ohioans favor a universal system of healthcare financing.

I ask that you co-sponsor and implement 'The Ohio Health Care Plan'.

Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4, 7pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

We’re turning up the volume on 35 years of harmony, strength, and song!

Join the Columbus Women’s Chorus for our spring concert, “It’s All About the Music: 35 Years of Singing Together,” two nights only, May 3 and 4 at 7pm.

Come celebrate our legacy of feminist music-making and community through powerful performances that honor where we’ve been and where we’re going.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

https://www.colswomenschorus.org/buy-tickets

Doors open at 6:30pm. Parking may be limited and the concerts will start promptly at 7pm, so allow extra time!

Hosted by Columbus Women’s Chorus.

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Recently, I attended a town hall meeting with the three candidates running for District 7 Columbus City Council. The residents at the event live in District 7 and love Columbus. They love our city so much that they took their valuable time and energy to attend and ask questions. Unfortunately, nobody had the courage to tell them that THEIR VOTE DOESN’T MATTER to Columbus City Council.

Our Republicans in the state capital rule Ohio with “gerrymandering” mixed with a generous amount of hate and a dash of religion. Jealous as always, Columbus City Council has their own upside-down version of “Gerrymandering” that they are proud to call “Citymandering.”

Sure, the residents of District 7 will vote in the primary election Tuesday, May 6, but so will EVERYONE ELSE IN COLUMBUS. My wife and I live on the Far East side. We have no clue what’s important to the residents of District 7. Yet, our votes will count just as much as theirs. It’s just like “gerrymandering,” but for Democrats instead of Republicans.