Local
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Auditorium, 96 South Grant Avenue Columbus, OH 43215
Join this free film screening followed by a panel and Q&A, hosted in collaboration with multiple local organizations.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a 2025 documentary on doctors working during the Gaza war, detailing the killings and torture of healthcare workers and attacks on hospitals by the Israel Defense Forces. This film screening and panel addresses the healthcare infrastructure and features different healthcare professionals with lived experience in Palestine. Baladna: Palestine Society of Columbus.
Power struggles and spats within local Area Commissions are nothing new, but the events unfolding within the Clintonville Area Commission appear to be reaching a disturbing level of absurdity and alarm.
In August, Clintonville resident Will Klatt, well-known for his progressive community activism, overwhelmingly won his vote to be seated on the Clintonville Area Commission (CAC) and representing the commission’s District 3. He ran against three other candidates for an open seat and received 65 votes. The second place candidate, with the second highest number of votes, received 26 votes.
No doubt it was a victory for the many Clintonville residents worried about how out-of-control development could impact their community. To be clear, Klatt is not anti-development. But he believes development must have regulatory input from impacted neighbors.
“I ran on a platform of putting community needs before special interests,” said Klatt (pictured above with his family). “I am broadly concerned with zoning changes are prioritizing economic interests over community needs. That’s not always the case but that’s been the MO [modus operandi] for a long time.”
Wednesday, October 11, 6-8pm
GRND, Ground x Grind, 1106-1108 E. Main St., Columbus, OH 43205
Signature Drive + Info Session hosted by OFUPAC x the Columbus Safety Collective Campaign (CSCC).
We’re organizing to create a nonpolice emergency response system that serves all Columbus residents — rooted in care, anti-racism, and true community safety.
This is your chance to:
Sign the petition Learn about the campaign Connect with neighbors Get involved in building a safer Columbus
We believe safety means more than policing. It means showing up for each other. It means accountability, community, and care.
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance is an organization of immigrants and allies working together to build a stronger state, because Ohio is home. We need leaders who understand that debate is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy, and real solutions come from the people, not politicians. The truth is, we know what we need to create healthy communities and a rational immigration policy. Politicians need to listen to us, not the other way around.
An interview recently with the United Auto Worker’s (UAW) Sean Fain was a time and temperature check on the reform movement in the union that propelled his election several years ago. Before that, the long running efforts of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is known to many and continues to be active. We talked to Ken Paff of the TDU several years ago on Wade’s World and it’s clear the fire still burns.
More than fifty years ago, the reform movement that caught all of our attention was centered on the Mine Workers of America, which, even though declining, was still in the 60s and 70s, a major factor in both the labor movement and the US economy. The Miners for Democracy (MfD) rose in reaction to the assassination of Jock Yablonski and members of his family, a reformer who had lost a contested election unfairly to Tony Boyle. MfD was a rank-and-file effort that consolidated around Arnie Miller, a leader among miners campaigning to get health relief from black lung that was killing many. This was a huge campaign that attracted attention both inside and outside of the labor movement back then, even though not well-known now.
Now in its twelfth year, the Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) 5K & Advocacy Fair is our largest annual event, bringing together hundreds of Central Ohioans in support of refugees and immigrants in our community.
Whether you’re a runner, walker, or a friend of CRIS, we would love for you to join us in downtown Columbus at Genoa Park on Saturday, October 4th, 2025, for a morning of fitness, food, and fun.
The CRIS mission is to help refugees and immigrants reach safety and stability, sustain self-sufficiency, and achieve successful integration into the Central Ohio community.
CRIS is an independent non-profit organization that serves the growing refugee and immigrant populations in Central Ohio. Our various programs have dedicated staff members from around the world who speak many different languages. Among other things, we are a refugee resettlement agency, meaning we have a contract with the Department of State to directly receive and place refugees in our community. In partnership with Church World Service, we resettle individuals and families from all over the world.
Vermont, New York, Washington, New Jersey and Maine have the best combination of relatively low environmental risks and robust environmental policies, according to a report released this week.
West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi ranked lowest on the 50-state scorecard produced by the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that advocates for health care improvements.
Ohio ranks 31.
Researchers at Northeastern and Yale universities ranked states based on risks from extreme heat, flooding, poor air quality, natural hazard risks to health care facilities and greenhouse gas emissions by the health care sector. The authors of the report also analyzed states’ clean energy policies and climate change mitigation efforts.
We Have a New Resource for Central Ohio Recyclers!
Recycling can be confusing — the details of what can be recycled and how we recycle keep changing in Central Ohio as advances in technology allow us to do more! That’s why Simply Living created a Household Recycling Resource Page
How to Recycle Household Items in Central Ohio.
We hope this cheat sheet, brought to you by volunteer Ann Marie Condo and Board Member Vilvi Vannak here at Simply Living, serves as a great resource. And we promise to keep it updated as new information becomes available.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
RSVP here.
Knowledge is Power is an inclusive and accessible group of progressive learners who are working to educate ourselves about the issues facing us today. From Central Ohio politics to climate change, we are arming ourselves with knowledge to actively work to better our world. We meet monthly all around Central Ohio to discuss a topic chosen by the group members.
We offer multiple ways to access materials for each topics, from books and articles to podcasts and documentaries– because everyone learns best in different ways! For this meeting, we will be discussing POLITICS IN OHIO. The materials are below, but will also be emailed directly to all who RSVP.
BOOK: Laboratories of Autocracy, by David Pepper (Intro, Ch. 1, and Ch. 11). PODCAST: “Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map,” on This American Life (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/784/mapmaker).
South Side Tree Giveaway
OCT 5th, 10AM-1PM
Barack Community Center. Address: 580 E Woodrow Ave, Columbus, OH 43207
Register to volunteer here: https://www.greencbus.org/events/south-side-tree-giveaway
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Linden Tree Nursery Giveaway
OCT 12th, 8AM-2PM
Linden Tree Nursery, Address: 1142 E. 17th Avenue
Register to volunteer here: https://www.greencbus.org/events/linden-tree-nursery-giveaway
Register for YOUR free tree: https://www.greencbus.org/freetrees
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Help Green Columbus PLANT Trees!
South Side Tree Planting
OCT 18th 9AM-1PM
Address: 1128 S. 22nd St. (at the corner of S. 22nd St. and Siebert St.)