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Make New Habits ~ Choose your Actions -- Spend only a little time or go crazy!
Themes include Nourishing Food, Cultivating Community, Balancing Consumption, Regenerating Nature, and more.
Thursday, October 20, 7-20pm, Club Diversity, 863 S. High St.
Join us for our DSA happy hour! We will be meeting on the third Thursday of each month at 7pm at the Club Diversity patio at 863 S. High St. This will be an informal meeting to get together, meet, talk shop, and enjoy the camaraderie! Non-members are welcome to join and learn more about our chapter.
Wednesday, October 19th from 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Philip Metres is poet, scholar, translator, essayist, playwright, and peacebuilder. He is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (2018), Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera (2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (2015). His work has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Watson Foundation.
He has been awarded the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Cleveland Arts Prize, and the Hunt Prize. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.” His poems have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, French, Polish, Russian, and Tamil. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and Core Faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He will be sharing readings from Shrapnel Maps and other works.
The Compost Exchange is hiring Booth Managers! If you, or someone you know is passionate about sustainability, read below:
Requirements & Responsibilities Include:
Great communication skills to educate and explain How It Works to current and potential new members.
Must be well organized and able to work independently. Each booth has a Samsung Tablet that we use to record when TCE members drop off their food scraps.
A sincere desire to serve others with a positive & outgoing personality.
Setting up, managing, and tearing down the booth.
Come to our work with a sincere desire to learn all about how composting works so as to be able to answer composting related questions.
Shift lengths = 3.5 – 4.5 hours, depending on the location.
Compensation is $65/$75 depending on if the shift is 3. 5 hours or 4.5 hours.
Must be 18 years of age or older and in good physical shape.
There are openings for booth managers who work every week at the same location + subs who fill in at various booth locations where needed.
We're in a critical moment to finally repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). The 2002 AUMF authorized war against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq – allowing George W. Bush to invade Iraq.
This outdated war authority is unnecessary for ongoing military operations, but as long as it remains, it can be used and abused by this or future administrations. The 2002 Iraq AUMF was used in January 2020 by the Trump administration to justify the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, which Congress never authorized, the UN concluded as "unlawful" and brought the U.S. dangerously close to war with Iran.
We need to put an end to our forever wars. The House recently passed a provision led by Rep. Barbara Lee to repeal this dangerous authorization in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Saturday, October 15, 2022
12noon
East North Broadway and High Streets
Peace vigil until 1pm. Medea will join us!
Presentation about book
6:30 PM
Kafé Kerouac, 2250 N. High St., Columbus, 43201.
Facebook Event
Join us for a discussion and book signing by Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and co-author of War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. “This careful, informed, judicious study is an invaluable guide to understanding Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, and most crucially, how we can act to help bring this terrible tragedy to an end.” – Noam Chomsky.
Sponsored by the Central Ohio Peace Network, Progressive Peace Coalition and others.
Questions? Contact cmhammond11@att.net.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 4:00 PM
We have a chance to both hold and gain ground on civil liberties this election season – but it's going to take all of us to make that happen.
Join the townhall to hear from ACLU leaders who will outline our strategy for mobilizing people to vote their values – and how dedicated supporters like you can help in your communities.
Tuesday, October 11, 6pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Your health matters; learn how fossil fuels, that are the feedstock for plastics, are impacting the health of our children and our own physical and mental health.
With this latest report from the Physicians for Social Responsibility out about how PFAS [Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances] have been used in the fracking industry in Ohio, it is more important than ever that Ohioans and everyone in the Ohio River Valley and beyond understand the impacts of petrochemicals on their health. Use this link to view this report.
Many people don’t know that fracked gas is mostly used to make single use plastics.
Join us on October 11 at 6pm; please share this event widely!
RSVP for this event by using this link.