Action Alerts
Friday, February 16, 12noon-1pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.
The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), in cooperation with the OSU Office of Energy and Environment and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), is pleased to present the first of three events for Spring 2018, focusing on cities, water, and green infrastructure.
Panel Discussion: “Water and Cities in Ohio: Are We Prepared for Climate Change?”
Panelists:
• Kristen Atha, Vice President, AECOM [Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Management]
• Maria Conroy, Professor, OSU Knowlton School of Architecture
• Jay Martin, Professor, OSU College of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
• Keith Myers, Vice President, OSU Planning and Real Estate, Office of Administration and Planning
• John Stark, Ohio Freshwater Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy
Contact: https://cura.osu.edu/feb16
Thursday, February 15 to Saturday, February 17, Dayton Convention Center, 22 E. Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio
Registration is now open for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 39th annual conference, “A Taste for Change.”
Ohio’s largest sustainable food and farm conference features:
• Nearly 80 educational and inspiring workshops on sustainable farming, livestock, homesteading, gardening, and business on Friday and Saturday;
• A three-day trade show with 90+ businesses, organizations, and government agencies offering food, books, equipment, products, information, and services;
• In-depth, full-day Food and Farm School courses on Thursday;
• Engaging nationally-recognized keynote speakers Jeff Moyer and Stacy Malkan;
• Made-from-scratch, local, organic meals;
• Thursday and Friday evening networking and receptions;
• Kids’ conference, child care, and more!
Registration: http://www.oeffa.org/conference2018.php
Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Primary tabsand Songs of the Black Experience
Stories and Songs of the Black Experience
Tuesday, February 13, 12noon-1pm, Ohio Statehouse Atrium
We’ve Known Rivers is an organization of teaching artists. They share timeless stories of America’s history through the impact and influence of the black experience. They make history come alive by creatively sharing dramatic presentations of famous African American characters, less well known, and composite characters through artistic dramatic performances.
Monday, February 12, 7-9pm
Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Today’s program: Pat Marida. Pat will speak about Ohio’s nuclear reactors and the Portsmouth Nuclear Site, nuclear threats to the Great Lakes, and bad state and federal legislation. Pat Marida has been an Executive Committee member of the Ohio Sierra Club and chair of their Nuclear Free Committee for the past 10 years. She has been a member of the national Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign Core Team since its beginning in 2010. She was an office volunteer and board member of the Ohio Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign throughout the 1980s. As such she has followed nuclear issues at the state, national and international (with Canada) levels. She will give an overview of nuclear issues in Ohio and beyond. Pat was chair of the Central Ohio Sierra Club for 9 years and edited their newsletter for 11 years in the 90s and early 2000s.
Contact: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com
Saturday, February 10, 2018, 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St. Columbus
East side door
Parking in side lot, on street or in back parking lot
Free, no RSVP needed
Join progressive friends for food, drink, and great music. Presentation on the Year of Cannabis.
colsfreepress@gmail.com or 614-253-2571.
Saturday, February 10, 2018, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
All are welcome to attend. We will be discussing the strategy going forward on how to gain Medicare for All in Ohio. SPAN Ohio supports Healthcare as a Human Right! All are welcome to attend. Location: First UU Church of Columbus, 93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus, OH. More information about SPAN Ohio: www.spanohio.org and Facebook.
Thursday, February 8, 7-8:45pm
St Stephen's Episcopal Church, 30 W Woodruff
Wednesday, February 7, from 7-9pm
Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Join Cesar and other activists/allies across OH to help champion a Clean Dream Act and fight for justice for the 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Cesar Vargas will share his story followed by a short training.
Event is open to everyone and free of charge.
Invite your friends and family!
Cesar Vargas, was the first openly undocumented lawyer in the state of NY. He is a nationally recognized leader for immigration reform, DREAMers, and has political experience from working on Bernie Sanders' campaign.
Tuesday, February 6, 11am-1pm
112 E Main St, Columbus
We live in a city in which our elected officials take millions of dollars from our failing schools to prop up commercial real estate properties in the hottest real estate markets in the sound.
We live in a city where 2-3 babies die every week before the age of 1 and Black babies die at twice the rate White babies do. The counter-measures proposed by the current machine have barely made a dent.
We live in a city where police brutality is ever on the increase and affordable housing is on the decline.
In the meantime, people who earned votes based on raising real issues are passed over for empty Council seats by City Hall insiders and party loyalists. Nothing changes, but it will.
Join us as leaders and friends of Everyday People for Positive Change address these and other issues as we prepare to submit the over 40,000 signatures of Columbus residents demanding to bring political power back to the people and away from the corporations and party power brokers they pay with our tax dollars.