Action Alerts
Tuesday, May 18, 11am, this on-line event requires advance registration
The Our Voices Together Coalition invites you to turn up the heat on anti-protest bills by lighting a fire under Ohio Legislators. Every Tuesday, we will come together at 11am for training and a group action.
This coming Tuesday, we will be turning up the heat on Twitter with a TweetStorm. Never participated in a TweetStorm? Don’t know who to Tweet or what to say? No problem. We’ll give you everything you need to know. Jump in and away we will go.
Register at bit.ly/turnuptuesdays and we will see you there.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Stop Ohio Anti-Protest Bills.
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For over seven years, waves of Ohio State University students have been working tirelessly to remove Wendy's from their campus, drawing attention to the University's complicity in farmworker exploitation due to its ongoing business relationship with the only major fast-food chain yet to join the award-winning Fair Food Program. Year after year, students have peacefully demonstrated, marched, and even held a courageous weeklong fast in 2017 after the University went back on its promise to students and renewed its contract with Wendy's. This spring, building on the rich and lengthy history of student organizing at OSU in solidarity with farmworkers, the Undergraduate Student Body passed a unanimous resolution endorsing the Wendy's Boycott and calling on the University administration not to renew the Wendy's lease, which is set to expire on June 30. As that date grows closer, the students' calls for justice have only been met with inaction on the part of the administration. But the fierce student organizers with the Ohio State Student/Farmworker Alliance are committed to fighting tooth and nail until Wendy's no longer has a home on their campus.
Sunday, May 16, 1:30pm, Bicentennial Park, 233 S. Civic Center Dr.
Ohio is coming together to stand in #solidarity against hate, hate crimes, racism, and violence in our community. We are #united, and we will have Asian American, Black, Jewish, Latino, LGBTQ, Muslim, Women, and more #representation.
We will have family-friendly activities like “chalk and bubbles,” and we will participate in a “community art build” hosted by the Columbus Museum of Art.
Parking will be available in nearby garages.
Please wear your masks, bring your signs, and observe 6-foot social distancing guidelines.
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Saturday, May 15, 10am-12noon, Barack Community Recreation Center, 580 E. Woodrow Ave.
This event will be a workshop on “Re-Imagining Community” with discussion led by Adrian Jones, aka “Stuff.” Other community partners include Peoples’ Justice Project, Community Organizing Center, Social Justice Committee of the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio, and Southside Community Collaborative’s Teen Leadership Academy.
“In any social revolution, there are times when the tailwinds of triumph and fulfillment favor us, and other times when strong headwinds of disappointment and setbacks beat against us relentlessly. We must not permit adverse winds to overwhelm us as we journey across life’s mighty Atlantic; we must be sustained by our engines of courage in spite of the winds. This refusal to be stopped, this ‘courage to be,’ this determination to go on ‘in spite of,’ is the hallmark of any great movement.”
What Does it Take to Build Safe, Productive, and Healthy Communities? Resiliency, Engagement, and Vision
The Israeli government is threatening mass evictions of non-Jews and brutalizing protesters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jersusalem.
At least three U.S. senators have spoken out. All 100 U.S. senators should do so immediately.
Click here to quickly email your senators.
Last week Mayor Ginther announced a list of 34 candidates for the next chief for the Columbus Division of Police. This week, we learned that 9 top candidates for chief have been chosen. Interviews began yesterday. Ginther has said that the new chief would be hired from outside CPD.
Join us in calling Mayor Ginther to bring in an anti-racist Chief of Police for Columbus.
We have seen the culture of excessive force and racial inequity inside the Columbus Division of Police. As people of faith, we understand that it is time for transformation. We need a chief of police who is anti-racist, one who has earned the trust of the community, someone who can ensure transformation and who has no current or former ties to Columbus Division of Police.
Wednesday, March 12, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Please join Equitas Health and All On The Line Ohio for a conversation about redistricting and the impact that political maps have on public policy outcomes.
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Hosted by Equitas Health.
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Support Improved and Expanded Medicare for All
The SPAN Ohio yard signs are going fast, but you can still get a yard sign. Contact Bob Krasen, 614-261-0754, or brkrasen@gmail.com to make arrangements. When we run out, we hope to get more!