Action Alerts
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
The Go Go, 987 N. Fourth Street, Columbus 43201
Go Go and Not Ur Grandmas Bingo is hosting a benefit event to raise money for RESULTS Ohio and also helping a fellow entertainer, Ty Blaq Fenix Diggs raise money for Physical Therapy.
We will have performances, raffles, and we are splitting all proceeds. We have raffle items of Designer Handbags, Autographed Merchandise from Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips and much more!
RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed people who advocate that our legislators move to build a more just and equitable world. We envision a world beyond poverty and the oppression that causes it.
Bingo is always free to play!
(P.S.: This is for adults, and it is really fun!)
Episcopal Church Immigration Updates
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 1:00 – 1:30 PM
Due to the number of executive orders, immigration raids, and other policy changes, Episcopal Migration Ministries is scheduling weekly immigration calls. EMM will share updates and resources and will be joined by the Office of Government Relations and the Chief Legal Officer. Spanish interpretation will be available.
Register here.
What if we all took a new pledge?
For you. For me. For the people and for the country that deep down — in spite of its MAGA-heads, in spite of its insanity — we’ve decided to fight for its survival, holding onto a belief that we can make it better, that we can fix it, that we can end the madness and create a true Democracy for which it stands.
I’ve taken the liberty of writing one for us on this day:
"I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE DEMOCRACY FOR WHICH WE ALL STAND: ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE, ONE NATION, PART OF ONE WORLD, EVERYONE! A SEAT AT THE TABLE! EVERYONE! A SLICE OF THE PIE! WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND KINDNESS, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS FOR ALL."I would love to speak these words each morning with all of you!
And then — WE ACT!
We do not have a minute to spare.
Sunday. June 8, 11am-1pm
Hidden Leaf Cafe, 181 E. Innis Ave.
Join us to check out these anime-inspired vegan restaurant, so bring your costume if you’d like! They are opening early just for us! Come and enjoy their anime-inspired delicious vegan dishes and mingle and meet fellow vegan and vegan-curious friends!
For more information, here is their menu.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Columbus Vegan Meetup.
Saturday, June 7, 2-4pm, Upper Arlington Public Library [Friends Theater], 2800 Tremont Rd.
DEI stands for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” In our nation today, there are significant changes taking place within identified DEI programs on all different levels: companies, organizations, universities, schools, government, and more. Whether DEI programs are worthwhile or not is a topic worth learning more about and discussing by using “The Braver Angels Way.”
Some believe that these programs are essential to achieving fairness in our society. Some believe these programs have created more division and even furthered discrimination.
Join us for a discussion on this timely topic. There will be three panelists who will help us understand differing perspectives. A non-partisan panelist will provide a helpful overview of the purpose of and what is involved in DEI. Two other panelists will discuss the pros and cons of DEI programs from their knowledgeable and differing perspectives:
• Cindy Burack, Political Theorist and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio University
Trump is building a giant database of our personal information with the help of tech giant Palantir.
Trump intends to use the company’s mass data-collection technology to compile master lists of Americans’ personal data, including everything from bank account records to disability status to medical claims, without their consent. Trump could then use these vast datasets to abuse the law, persecute his adversaries, and advance his political agenda.
The Trump administration has already awarded Palantir, founded by Trump mega-donor Peter Thiel, more than $895 million in government contracts.
Former Palantir employees have warned, “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”
Let’s put a stop to this mass data collection before it’s too late. Tell Congress to oppose Trump’s surveillance scheme and Thiel’s data collection cash grab.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Please join us for an in-person and live-streamed event. Together, we’ll hear from key experts—like international tunnel expert Brian O’Mara—about the latest on Line 5 and learn how to take action at this critical moment. The federal administration has fast-tracked the Line 5 tunnel permit, and your voice is more important now than ever!
Line 5 is an outdated oil and gas pipeline that poses unacceptable risks of a spill, especially as it travels along the lakebed through the Straits of Mackinac in a four-mile section known as the dual pipelines.
Bill McKibben, who has been advocating for a shutdown since the beginning of this movement, will make a virtual appearance with a special message.
Tuesday, June 3, 5:30-7:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join Jason Salley (Investigative Journalist, Ohio Atomic Press) and Terry Lodge (Lawyer, Veterans for Peace) for a discussion highlighting connections between the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) in Piketon, the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, and the proposed AI drone weapons manufacturer, Anduril, in Pickaway County.
Discussants will outline how these three facilities will likely work together to ramp up new Cold War tensions with Russia, exacerbate environmental injustices in Appalachian Ohio, further militarize Ohio’s police and surveillance state, as well as realize the imperial ambitions of Anduril CEO and virulent Zionist, Palmer Luckey.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Ohio Nuclear Free Network.
Anti-democracy lawmakers are attacking our rights, and they are moving the legislation forward so fast that Ohioans are barely getting a chance to get the facts and speak up.
Well, here are the facts.
SB 153 and HB 233 are an attack on volunteers who put boots on the ground, collecting signatures for our democracy. These are our grandmothers and grandfathers, our parents, our family and friends and our coworkers, all who spend their weekends and spare time collecting signatures and fighting for workers’ rights and voters’ rights.
Volunteers who collect signatures would be forced to sign away their 5th Amendment constitutional rights, potentially subjecting them to politically motivated investigations. “Compensated” circulators would be required to wear badges, but “compensated” is defined so broadly it even applies to volunteers who receive free pizza or a t-shirt.
Those are the facts.
SB 153 and HB 233 are an attack on our democracy and our freedoms.
Sunday, June 1, 1-4pm
School of Rock Columbus, 949 W. Third Ave.
The Tri-Village Family Fun Fest will be a free street festival located on Dover Ave. (right next to School of Rock Columbus), where we will have live music, food trucks, vendors, face painting, free music lessons, and so much more. This is an event for the community for all ages.
Featured vendors: Sadie Baby Sweets, Clay Cafe, Chick Happens Food Truck, Hook and Ladder Ice Cream, Bricks and Minifigs, Discovering You Portraits, Flocal Co., Ballooning with Izzy, Funatics4u Face Painting, and more!