Riley Roliff

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Wisconsin's Uninstructed Campaign Has Momentum

Mar 30, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Riley Roliff

Above photo: There were large protests in Milwaukee when President Joe Biden came to visit on March 13, 2024 because of his support for the genocide in Gaza. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images. “This Is a Movement of Hope.”The Uncommitted national movement has reached Wisconsin, perhaps the most critical swing state in the country, for the April 2 primary.
Wisconsin's "Uninstructed" Campaign Has Momentum

Mar 29, 2024 | progressivehub.net | Riley Roliff

The Uncommitted national movement has reached Wisconsin, perhaps the most critical swing state in the country, for the April 2 primary. To learn more, In These Times interviewed Wisconsin organizers Reema Ahmad and Kyle Johnson, as well as elected officials Francesca Hong and Ryan Clancy.
“This Is a Movement of Hope": Wisconsin's Uninstructed Campaign Has Momentum

Mar 28, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Riley Roliff

Organizers with Listen to Wisconsin, the group driving the state’s “Uninstructed” campaign, say next week’s primary will send President Joe Biden the “final, unequivocal message from the Midwest” that if he wants to beat Trump, he must act immediately to end the genocide in Gaza. Wisconsin may be the most pivotal swing state in the country, and Biden only beat Trump by the narrowest of margins there in 2020 — a little more than 20,000 votes, or just over 0.6%.
“Questions Around Timing”: U.S. Cuts Gaza Aid After ICJ Ruling

Jan 25, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Riley Roliff |Omar Shakir

Shortly before the new year, South Africa moved to take Israel to the United Nations’ (UN) highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), for the atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7. The ICJ recently issued an interim ruling granting some of the emergency measures requested by South Africa that aim to protect Palestinians under attack in Gaza.
Ohio healthcare providers fear DeWine’s ‘draconian’ rules will block gender-affirming care

Jan 17, 2024 | thebuckeyeflame.com | Riley Roliff

Doctors across Ohio fear that two new administrative rules will restrict gender-affirming care for people of all ages. The rules were signed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Jan. 5. Among other things, the rules require trans adults to obtain a detailed care plan and medical consent from a psychiatrist, an endocrinologist and a bioethicist before the “prescription, initiation or provision of treatment for a gender-related condition” can take place.
Ohio Lesbian Archives settles into a new home. All you need to do is visit.

Jan 2, 2024 | thebuckeyeflame.com | Riley Roliff

After 17 years spent in a cramped, moldy church basement in Cincinnati, the Ohio Lesbian Archives (OLA) has moved up into a more spacious location at the Emanuel Center, in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Formed in 1989 by longtime friends Phebe Beiser and Victoria Ramstetter, the OLA is one of only a handful of lesbian archives in the United States, and certainly a sparkling trove of a resource here in the Midwest.
Big Walnut School Board Bans Pride Flags

Dec 26, 2023 | columbusunderground.com | Riley Roliff

BY RILEY ROLIFFAfter several intense hours of public comment and discussion that turned to bickering between board members, the Big Walnut School Board on December 14 passed a resolution banning the display of Pride flags and other symbols in the district. The Big Walnut Local School District is located in Ohio’s Delaware County, near Columbus. The resolution passed 3-2, with the board’s three conservative members voting in favor of it.
Central Ohio school board votes to ban Pride flags

Dec 19, 2023 | thebuckeyeflame.com | Riley Roliff

After several intense hours of public comment and discussion that turned to bickering between board members, the Big Walnut School Board on December 14 passed a resolution banning the display of Pride flags and other symbols in the district. The Big Walnut Local School District is located in Ohio’s Delaware County, near Columbus. The resolution passed 3-2, with the board’s three conservative members voting in favor of it.
How many anti-trans hate crimes are happening in Cleveland? No one has any idea. – The Land

Nov 17, 2023 | thelandcle.org | Cid Standifer |Riley Roliff

This article was republished from The Buckeye Flame. Henrietta says she doesn’t know exactly how it happened. One moment she was driving home from the dentist, and the next she had struck her neighbor’s parked car. Her neighbor emerged from his house furious, and Henrietta said she called the police because she got scared. But she says she has no idea why police labeled the incident a hate crime motivated by anti-trans bias.
Riley Roliff, Author at The Land

Nov 16, 2023 | thelandcle.org | Cid Standifer |Riley Roliff

As incidents of anti-transgender violence spike across the state, Ohio law enforcement agencies struggle to accurately track and document reports of anti-trans hate crimes.