Gee, Gordon won't like this one! Be there!
This Thursday hundreds of Ohio State University students, and citizens will gather at the West Patio of the OSU Student Union in support of worker rights.
In addition to collecting signatures to repeal SB 5, this event will include live bands and a variety of speakers. There will be musical performances by Columbus Hip-hop artists Illogic, Stretch Lefty, and others. Speakers include a number of Ohio State students, State Reps. Michael Stinziano, Nancy Garland and others (see below).
WHEN: Thursday May 26th 5pm till 10pm.
WHERE: The Ohio State University Student Union
West Patio (facing OSU, not High St.)
1739 N. High St.
Columbus Ohio 43201
WHAT: OSU Progressive Student Coalition are hosting an event called Live Against 5 . The event, organized by students, is a show of support from hundreds of buckeyes for workers' rights to collective bargaining and a push-back against the corporate agenda of Gov. Kasich, and the Republican state legislature.
The event will provide opportunities for students and attendees to register to vote, interact with the campus progressive community, and learn about the work of other student groups at the university.
WHO: OSU Student groups collaborating include:
With support from Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Jobs with Justice, as well as community activist, union members, and progressive political leaders.
Along with OSU students, other speakers include:
Rev. Joel L. King, Jr. Associate Minister Union Grove Baptist Church
Norm Wernet, director of the Ohio ARA, on the importance of collective bargaining
Michel Ervin helped form a union almost 50 years ago at OSU
Michael Stinziano, State Representative, 25th District
Nancy Garland, State Representative, 20th District
Tracy Heard, State Representative, 26th District
Ami Williams, President of Fairfield County Democrats
WHY: Students, many of whom are also workers, support the right to collectively bargain. This attack is about taking power away from the working class and not about balancing the budget. Public-sector unions are not the only group under attack at the Ohio Statehouse, where it seems every public resource has a price tag. Ohio State's progressive coalition recognizes that Ohio, and the nation as a whole, faces fiscal challenges.
OSU progressives reject the notion that the state and national budgets must be balanced solely on the backs of the middle class and school children. OSU progressives are against the privatization of K-12 schools and state universities. It is nothing short of shocking that some politicians are OK with 50 to 1 student teacher ratios, continued support for corporate tax loopholes that cost us in Ohio billions of dollars a year, and proposing fracking and logging our state parts. Most recently drillers are setting their sights on state university owned land. Rather than creating jobs those in the Ohio Statehouse are cutting taxes for the rich and slashing social services for the poor, this is not the answer to our problems.
OSU progressives believe that balancing the state budget must be an equitable and humane process, rather than an attack on collective bargaining.
posted by Kathie Bracy at 1:35 PM
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