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2 days ago
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No Kings, Pride protests scheduled in Columbus this weekend. See where they will happen.
It is looking to be a week filled with sign-waving and chant-shouting in Columbus and Central Ohio as several large protests supporting LGBTQ+ people and defying a Washington D.C. military parade are planned for the coming days. These protests are set against a national backdrop of growing unrest due to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Protests that started in Los Angeles on June 6 have spread to cities across the U.S., like Austin, San Francisco, New York City and Columbus. Two hundred to 300 people marched across downtown Columbus on June 10 to protest ICE and show solidarity with Columbus' immigrant communities, The Dispatch previously reported. The protests scheduled for Columbus this week were planned before the Los Angeles protests erupted. Here are the protests you can expect to see in Central Ohio soon. The Stonewall Columbus Pride March will take place at Broad Street and High Street on Saturday, June 14, starting at 10:30 a.m., and the Pride Festival and Resource Fair will take place on June 13 from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and June 14 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Goodale Park. Today's Pride Month and pride marches stem from the Stonewall Uprising of 1969, when members of the LGBTQ+ community in New York rioted after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, on June 28 of that year, The Dispatch previously reported. The first pride march was held on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the uprising, according to the Library of Congress. Stonewall Columbus was founded in 1981 after an anti-Moral Majority Rally at The Columbus Baptist Temple, according to the organization's website. Nationwide "No Kings" protests are scheduled to defy the large military parade the Trump administration has planned in Washington D.C. to commemorate the Army's 250th birthday on June 14, which is also President Trump's birthday. The $30-million plus taxpayer-funded parade of soldiers, armored vehicles and tanks will roll down the streets of Washington D.C. on that day, USA TODAY previously reported. There are several "No Kings" protests set to take place in central Ohio on June 14. They are: An Indivisible Central Ohio No Kings protest from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. during the Stonewall Columbus Pride March A No Kings Hilliard protest at Warehouse 839 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. A No Kings Clintonville protest at the intersection of North Broadway and Indianola Avenue from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. A No Kings: National Day of Action protest at Westerville City Hall from 3 to 4 p.m. A No Kings Grove City protest from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. A No Kings Pickerington protest at the intersection of State Route 256 and Refugee Road from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. A No Kings Delaware protest at Delaware City Hall from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. A No Kings London protest at the Madison County Courthouse from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. There are also several recurring protests organized by Indivisible Central Ohio that are happening this week. Support Veterans Rush Hour Rally at the Chalmers P. Wylie Ambulatory Care Center from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on June 10 Highway sign waving on the footbridge over State Route 315 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on June 10, June 11 and June 13 Worthington Rush Hour Rally at the intersection of State Route 161 and High Street from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 10 Wednesdays at Bernie's Columbus Office Protest at U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno's office from noon to 1 p.m. on June 11 Breaking and Trending News Reporter Nathan Hart can be reached at NHart@ and at @NathanRHart on X and at on Bluesky. This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Upcoming Columbus protests: Pride, No Kings events this weekend
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24-03-2025
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Fired-up crowd jeers Ohio senators, representative for not standing up to Trump and Musk
An enthusiastic crowd of about 1,400 Ohioans on Saturday packed the Valley Dale Ballroom to say their federal officials aren't representing them — and that they're not standing up to President Donald Trump as he allows the world's richest man to slash federal programs. The event, staged by Indivisible Central Ohio, was facetiously called a town hall. Chairs were placed on the stage for U.S. Sens. Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted, both Republicans. They sat empty, and organizers said the senators' offices didn't even bother to say they wouldn't be coming. Instead, organizers asked the questions they would have put to the senators to the AI program Chat GPT. The program said that the massive layoffs and cuts to federal programs would cost Ohio jobs, harm university research and stunt the biomedical sector. Mia Lewis, an organizer, urged the crowd to turn out regularly to protest what's happening. 'This is an unprecedented moment in our country. This shit is not normal,' she said of an administration that regularly attacks the judiciary, and allows an unelected, unconfirmed Elon Musk hack wildly at the federal government. 'Just two people standing on a highway is not the same thing as 50 people being there every day.' Members of the audience held signs that said things like 'Nobody elected Putin,' 'Nobody elected Musk,' and other things that aren't publishable by a general-audiences news organization. Moreno and Husted weren't the only ones to be mocked for their absence. Joyce Beatty, a Democrat and longtime congresswoman from Columbus, begged off, citing a 'prior commitment.' An unfortunate constituent was regularly heckled as she tried to read in first person a letter Beatty had sent. When the constituent read a passage implying Beatty was present, a man yelled out, 'You're not here!' The crowd laughed. Arnold Scott summed up the general tenor. 'As an ex-federal employee and a union member, I'm mad as hell,' he said. 'How about these billionaires pay their taxes? When they cut employees at the various agencies, actually what they're doing is cutting the services that the taxpayers are paying for. When they cut the VA, they're cutting veterans. You stand there and say you support the veterans, but then you cut the veterans. When you cut them, that translates into it taking longer for them to receive the services that they're entitled to.' Scott said an Ohio federal worker lost her job and complained to one of the Ohio senators. 'What do you want me to do?' Scott claimed the senator responded. Then Scott turned to the two empty chairs and said, 'Mr. Senator, what we want you to do… we want you to do your job.' That brought the crowd to its feet to chant 'Do your job!' Musk's 'Department of Government Efficiency' is cutting resources the VA, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Social Security Administration, the Park Service and much more. Catherine Duffy told the crowd that buried in that list is a cut that is deeply damaging to Ohio's poor and its farmers. Musk's supposed agency axed $1 billion nationally for overstressed food banks to buy directly from farmers. 'Every dollar we don't have is produce we don't grow,' Duffy said. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
