Action Alerts

Living Wage For All Rally at the Ohio Statehouse

Orange drawing of lots of people standing and holding signs that say Fight for $15

Thurs, May 17, 3:30-5pm, Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square
Rally in support of raising Ohio’s minimum wage to $15 an hour co-sponsored by the United Methodist Women, Policy Matters Ohio, the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign, and SEIU District 1199. We will start gathering at the West Plaza at 3:30 PM & the rally will begin at 4PM.

#LivingWage4All #OhioNeedsARaise #FightFor15 #UMW4LivingWage#UMWAssembly2018

Nakba - March and Rally

Black and white photo of women and children walking down a dusty path outside with the woman in the foreground carrying a big heavy bag on her head

Tuesday, May 15, 4:30-6:30pm
Broad Street United Methodist Church, 501 E. Broad St.
We will gather outside Broad St. United Methodist Church (corner of E. Broad St and S. Washington Ave) at 4:30 PM for a March to the Statehouse.

This event is in the planning stage. Please contact us if you would like to be part of the planning of this event at centralohio@jvp.org or message us on Facebook. We need speakers who can relate the history to the continued displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. 

May Volunteer Workday

Trees and a pond, tall grass and a white gazebo

Saturday, May 12, 9am-12pm
Goodale Park, 101 Buttles Ave.
Our next workday of the season is just around the corner!

Help keep Columbus, Ohio's oldest (and BEST!) city park looking beautiful. Weeding, watering, litter pickup and more. Our 13+ gardens are 100% volunteer planted and maintained. Can you lend a hand? 

Join us Saturday, May 12th, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Goodale Park. Meet at the Caretaker's Residence in the center of the park (use Park St driveway into the park and follow until it dead-ends). Please wear weather-appropriate clothing, as we will be working outdoors. 

A weather update will be posted on Facebook (Friends of Goodale Park) and on our Twitter page (@GoodaleParkFrnd) at 8am the morning of the event, so please check before heading to the park. 

Got tools? Bring 'em! We have a supply of garden gloves and tools, but we always need more. Hand trowels, shovels, and clippers (non-electric, please) are always in demand. 

Need more info? Email Emily at volunteercoordinator@goodalepark.org.

Three Mothers — Tres Madres

Black and white photo of three women, two black and one Latina smiling at the camera

Thursday May 10, 7pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

We are building a future where mothers and their children can be together.

As Mother’s Day approaches, join us for an intersectional, sacred, and movement-building conversation where three women will come together to share their stories as mothers.

• A Mexican immigrant mother who has been in sanctuary for seven months and is fighting to be at home with her family.

• An African-American mother whose son was killed by the Columbus Police Department.

• A refugee mother who had to choose which son to leave in Uganda because she could only bring one child with her.

We will release a short video of their story and share individual and collective actions on how we must fight to keep mothers with their children.

Hosted by Solidarity with Edith Espinal.

Contact: SolidaritywithEdithEspinal@gmail.com

Columbus Community Bill of Rights-Help get Signatures-Early Voting

Blue blackground with words Early Voting in white

Monday, May 7, 8am-2pm
Franklin County Board of Elections, 1700 Morse Road
The Columbus Community Bill of Rights Ballot Initiative is gathering Columbus Voter Signatures to put this Ordinance on the Nov 2018 ballot. 
Contact Us w/ Availability: ColumbusBillofRights@gmail.com

SAFE WATER FOR OUR KIDS.
COLUMBUS -
NO PLACE FOR FRACK WASTE!

ColumbusBillofRights.org
https://www.facebook.com/ColumbusBillofRights/

 

March for Freedom against Human Trafficking

Blue background with three legs walking at top, one white, one gray and one black and the words below March for Freedom Columbus

Sunday, May 6, 2-3:30pm
Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St.
The 2018 March for Freedom, is our 4th annual human trafficking awareness event. We are hosting our 4th Annual March for Freedom in Columbus to raise awareness of the human rights violations of prostitution and trafficking on Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 2 p.m. We will meet at Columbus City Hall, 90 West Broad St., and walk to the Ohio Statehouse where we’ll hear several heart stirring messages and take a pledge to personally fight human trafficking.

A People's Open Mic Night

Lots of people with their backs to the camera sitting and watching someone standing at the mic, with art on a table in the foreground

Saturday, May 5, 7-10pm
It Looks Like It's Open, 13 E. Tulane Rd.
Join us for a night of political music, poetry, speeches, dance and other art!

Too often political movements and works of art are separated into different spheres, the public and the personal, where each is only tangentially related to the other. But art and politics have always been bound up together. Art isn’t just often about political movements–it’s a living part of them.

A People’s Open Mic is meant to intentionally celebrate the political side of art and the artistic side of political movements. Bring your own art, or bring somebody else’s. We are living in a unique political moment, and we want to find the art that moves us, that speaks to this moment.

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