Three activist mothers met Tuesday night as part of a virtual conversation to discuss the impact of society on their families and their efforts to promote change.
The women include Edith Espinal, a mother of three who lived in sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite Church for three years; Adrienne Hood, the mother of Henry Green who was killed in 2016 by plainclothes Columbus police officers; and Jackie Kifuko, a former refugee and refugee organizer with Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) who has been separated from her young son for seven years.
Dubbed tres madres, or three mothers, the women first met on May 20, 2018, at the church where Espinal was living. Brought together by the late activists Ruben Castilla Herrera and Amber Evans, the three women talked then about their struggles and how they can relate to one another.
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The last days of Kossuth Street Garden
Established by Michael Doody in 2007, the South Side community garden is being shuttered to make way for a new housing development following a prolonged fight
Columbus Alive
About five months ago, when he realized that Kossuth Street Garden would not be saved, Michael Doody, a former journalist and now private investigator, distracted himself by starting on a children’s book with the working title
The Life and Death of a Community Garden, a process that Doody termed therapeutic.
Though geared to children, the ending, as described by Doody, is one filled with horror, the garden gasping what it knows are its dying breaths. “Is this how humans treat each other?” she asks, finally giving in and releasing her spirit as the book draws to a close.