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Franklin County Green Party meeting

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Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:00 PM  Open business meeting
7:00 PM General Meeting and speaker.  Join the Franklin County Greens - we meet on the second Tuesday of each month.   Program:  Sandy Bolzenius will update us on the Columbus Community Bill of Rights efforts to have a Community Bill of Rights for Pure Water, Clean Air, and Safe Soil on the Ballot in November.   Location:  Northwood Building, 2231 N. High St., Room 100.  Parking available behind the building in “R” spaces.  For more information, contact:   fcgreenparty@gmail.com or facebook.com/FCgreenparty. 

Abolition Study Group #1: Are Prisons Obsolete?

A wooden door and the words Angela Y. Davis and Are Prisons Obsolete?

Monday, September 10, 6:30-7:30
Page Hall, 3rd Floor, 1810 College Road, OSU
If you're interested in learning more about the prison-industrial-complex, policing or hyper-incarceration, please join us for a political education series called, 'Abolition Study Group.' The purpose of this group is to learn the theoretical frameworks necessary to build an abolitionist practice.

Each week, we'll meet on the 3rd floor for a discussion and that discussion will include commentary/questions provided by our incarcerated accomplices.

For Abolition Study Group #1, we will read 'Are Prisons Obsolete?' by Angela Y. Davis. The pdf is available here: bit.ly/2m6ihNa

If you're interested in co-hosting this event please advise.

C.J. Chenier Returns to Headline Hot Times In Olde Towne East

White men playing in a band on a stage

With the passage of Labor Day comes fall, football, pumpkin patches and Hot Times. The 42nd Annual Community Festival on the Near East Side returns to the Columbus Health Department Grounds from September 7 through 9.

The annual community festival will feature food vendors, a flea market and entertainment on two stages, the Parsons Stage and the Main Stage. On Saturday and Sunday, afternoon there will be performers on the Swing Patio, on the front patio of the Health Department.

The Hot Times Community Festival started as a Flea Market by the Olde Towne East Neighborhood Association (OTENA) in the late 1970s. The festival is now, according to the Arts Foundation of Olde Towne (AFOOT) Website, an “all-volunteer driven community and arts festival.”

Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio Meeting

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Wednesday, September 5, 2018, 7:00 – 8:30 PM JVP members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals.  All are welcome.   Note new location:  Columbus Public Library, Main Library, Meeting room 3A, 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus 43215.  Parking available in the library garage.  For more information please contact,  centralohio@jvp.org. 

Pig Roast Against Prison Slavery

Cartoon pink pig on a roaster with a police hat on, fire below and word Roast

Tuesday, September 4, 6-8pm, Franklin County Municipal Court, 373 S. High St.

Come out to the Pig Roast Against Prison Slavery, a solidarity event with the #August21 National Prison Strike!

This event will be a community gathering outside of the Franklin County Municipal Court where there will be:

• Food and drinks available for all in the area

• Information, scripts, phone numbers, and other materials provided by the Central Ohio Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee [IWOC] for you to participate in phone zaps and letter-writing campaigns at the event to support prison strikers

• Short speak-outs from people about the importance of the 2018 Prison Strike

• A papier-mâché pig in a police hat that we will “roast” after you drop a note inside about why you want to set flames to prison slavery

Hosted by Central Ohio Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee [IWOC] and Black Queer and Intersectional Columbus [BQIC].

The Official Columbus March for the Animals

Words The Official Animal Rights March 2018 with animals in the background

Saturday, September 1, 11am, Studio 35 Cinema & Draft House, 3055 Indianola Ave.

The Official Animal Rights March is an annual march founded by the U.K. animal rights organisation Surge. The march began in London in 2016 with 2,500 vegans; in 2017, the march doubled to 5,000 vegans marching for animal liberation through London. In 2018, we’re bringing The Official Animal Rights March to Columbus, Ohio to spread the message of animal liberation across the globe.

In order to make this march succeed, we need your help. Invite your friends, tell every vegan you meet, this is the day where we unite, where we stand up, rise up and say, “no more, not in our name.”

The future is vegan, but we must continue to speak out on behalf of the animals until the day that their suffering ends.

Save the date, spread the word, and let’s make history for the animals.

Note: this march will begin and end at Studio 35 Cinema & Draft House and will follow a circular route through the nearby neighborhood.

Free tickets for the After-March Speech, featuring Joshua Entis, are available at the following URL:

Bill Cohen’s Oldies But Goodies Concert [1957-1963] to benefit the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center

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If you like the early rock songs of 1957-63 and the memories they spark, please join me Friday August 31 for a fun “oldies but goodies” concert.  I’ll be doing hit songs made famous by the likes of Chubby Checker, Ricky Nelson, the Everly Brothers, Sam Cooke, Paul Anka, Del Shannon, Fabian, and others.
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