Imam Paul Hasan is a Northeast Ohio AFSC Committee Member and long-time community activist in Northeast Ohio. Today's interview was to discuss the End Poverty Now march coming up on July 18, 2016.
We summarize last week’s activities; share next week’s upcoming events; and comment on the status and causes of the ongoing home foreclosure crisis in Ohio and nationally, update the status of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) “trade” agreement, and summarize the new ACLU Ohio protestor rights manual (Length 33:30)
Responses and resistance to militarism
Learn how you can bring the traveling exhibit 'Humanize, not Militarize' to your community and host events to challenge the narrative of militarism in the US and around the world with Mary Zerkel.
Mary Zerkel is co-coordinator of AFSC’s Wage Peace Campaign, which works toward the demilitarization of US foreign and domestic policy. Mary is on the steering committee of the New Priorities Network, a national network of diverse organizations working to cut the military budget and fund human needs.
We summarize last week’s activities; share upcoming events for next week; and comment on the proposed Ohio bill to extend the freeze of green energy standards for 3 more years, the comparison of Wall Street executive and employee pay vs low income workers, and the recent Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring DC march, rallies and arrests (Length 34:04)
We summarize last week’s activities; share upcoming events for next week and interview David Cobb, Move to Amend National Outreach Director and principal of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy on his “barnstorming” speaking tour in Ohio, elections, social movements, corporate rule, race and oppression, and the Move to Amend 10 year plan for ending corporate constitutional rights and money as speech (Length: 45:12).
Interview of David Cobb, Move to Amend National Outreach Director and principal of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy on his “barnstorming” speaking tour in Ohio, elections, social movements, corporate rule, race and oppression, and the Move to Amend 10 year plan for ending corporate constitutional rights and money as speech.
We summarize last week’s activities; share upcoming events for next week; and interview George Friday, national Move to Amend Leadership Team member and Field Organizer of the national Bill of Rights Defense Committee on Move to Amend, corporate rule, money in elections, social movements, race, class and her recent speaking tour in Ohio (Length 39.16).
Interview of George Friday, national Move to Amend Leadership Team member and Field Organizer of the national Bill of Rights Defense Committee – on Move to Amend, corporate rule, money in elections, social movements, race, class and her recent speaking tour in Ohio.
We summarize last week’s activities; share upcoming events for next week; and comment on the corporatization/privatization of collecting court fines, the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision abolishing aggregate political contribution limits, downward economic trends, and the latest Ohio community to take action calling for an end to corporate personhood (Length 37:32).
We summarize last week’s activities; share upcoming events for next week and interview Nathan Rutz, Organizer for the Communities United for Responsible Energy, a project of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, on proposal of First Energy Corporation before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to increase fees to pay for their obsolute and polluting power plants (length: 38:43).
