Opinion
With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the wire. Progressives could make the difference.
While no one in their left mind plans to vote for the fascistic and unhinged Donald Trump, some say they won’t vote for Kamala Harris because of her loyalty to President Biden’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza. That might enable Trump to win with enough electoral votes from swing states -- Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Those seven states are where progressives may well hold the future in their voting hands.
The policy that Harris has defended for the war on Gaza is despicable. At the same time, she is the only candidate who can spare us from another Trump presidency, which -- from all indications -- would be far worse than the first one.
We're proud to announce the Columbus Women's Chorus’s next concert, celebrating our 35th anniversary!
Seasons of Song: 35 Years of Sharing Our Voices
Sunday, November 24, 3:00pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church
93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
Columbus 43214
We’ll be performing old favorites and new material by composers including Sally Fingerett, Holly Near, Cyndi Lauper, Carly Simon, and Joan Szymko.
Tickets are $15 for adults and children over 12 and may be purchased at the door or online at this link:
https://www.colswomenschorus.org/buy-tickets
Sliding scale tickets are available at the door.
For group sales, please contact finance@colswomenschorus.org
CWC is bigger and better than ever. Our artistic director Lisa Springer can meet potential new (and returning!) singers at our first rehearsal on January 6 at 6:30pm at the FUU Church (above) to see if we have room on the risers. But, meanwhile, please come to hear us next month.
Just days ago at a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump said: “Your child goes to school and they take your child. It was a he and comes back a she. And they do this. And they do it, and often without parental consent.” It is, of course an absurdist lie, now repeated more times than you might believe. The claim is so non-credible that we should wonder why Trump is employing it. The probable answer lies in the race for US Senate in Ohio.
Long before Trump imagined that American children are given sex-change operations at school, the race between Sherrod Brown and car-salesman Bernie Moreno for the US Senate in Ohio devolved to blaring accusations that “Brown backed allowing children to receive sex change surgery.” This too, of course, is a lie except in the technical sense that some children are born with conditions that require procedures to resolve gonadal ambiguity as part of standard health care, obviously with parental consent.
Last night on Saturday Night Live, there was that rare moment when a performer chose to give voice to the 200 million or so of us Americans who, for over two years, have been in a rage that the Supreme Leader in America (aka, the “Supreme Court,” that group of 5 or 6 religious right-wing nutters who rule over what women can and cannot do with their bodies in this country), overturned Roe v. Wade.
The great Stevie Nicks, in her own rage over this injustice, sang for the first time live on national television her new song about those who have committed this atrocity against women. It’s called “The Lighthouse” — and my jaw dropped as she belted out one fiercely brutal lyric after another aimed squarely at the Court, at Trump, at MAGA Nation — and imploring all women to take a stand, to fight back now, it’s not too late.
On January 8, 2009, my friend Tammy Obeidallah (known by the moniker "Intifada girl") and I co-authored an open letter to our US Senator Goerge Voinovich to have the name of Meir Dagan, the head of the Israeli Mossad, be added to the US "Terrorist Watch list and " No Fly List. Voinovich died in 2016 at age 79 and we never got a courtesy response letter from him. Mr. Dagen, who also passed away in 2016 at age 71, was notorious for committing war crimes during his military service in the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1970s in Gaza and 1980s in Lebanon. Meir Dagan established his reputation by severing the heads of innocent and unarmed civilians in both aforementioned locations. Shamefully, Israel's Channel 2 named him the country's "Man of the Year" in 2008.
Charli XCX walked out ointo the stage wearing a wedding veil. The wedding attire conjured Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” for a second. Queen Brat then said, “Columbus, Ohio. Will You Marry Me?”
During the evening. Charli kept an intimate dialogue during stage banter as if every individual in the packed arena were Charli’s kindred spirit who understood with the deepest emotional connection.
Charli XCX rotated sets with Australian pop singer Troy Sitivan. Charli took the stage with Brit wave rapper-singer ShyGirl. Charli intertwined a marriage proposal for our city while performing 365’s Remix.
One of my hobbies before Saturday’s show was finding Chali XCX rap songs. Everyone I knew cracked up that Charli XCX recorded with Ed Banger’s Uffie. Uffie, and Balam ACAB’s involvement with Charli XCX sorta changed a perception…
Should Charli XCX be a Taylor Swift/Britney Spears star or someone who didn’t quit once Daft Punk and Justice fans couldn’t use Kanye West as their pop sensation.
Ed Banger Records might be Kanye’s political stances biggest casualty.
You have the power. In your hand at your polling place, in your booth and on your ballot, you can change the world. You can bring peace to the planet, regain your rights, frame your future, and advance the plant. That’s what your vote will do if cast properly.
Via hundreds of email messages and television commercials, you probably know about the importance of this year’s election. It’s both preidential and local. It’s both candidate and issue based. And it’s pivotal: who and what wins will chart the course of the future or become the dust of history.