Action Alerts

Thursday, August 17, 6-8pm
Driving Park Public Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave. 
Facebook event
Join us this Thursday at 6 PM in conference room 1 at Columbus Metro Library Driving park! 
How to fight the alt-right? The urgency of confronting the new surge in fascist, racist, and other ideologies of hate has become obvious with this weekend’s terroristic attack. But besides simply showing up to rallies and protests, how do we fight the alt-right more effectively, with more persistence, and over a long period. How do we undercut their movement, while also building our own? These questions and more will be discussed this weekend and hosted by Socialist Alternative.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
Location:  COSI, 333 W. Broad St., Columbus 43215.
Facebook Event 

Sunday, August 13, 8-9:30pm
Ohio Statehouse, Broad and High Streets
Columbus DSA, ISO Columbus, Yes We Can, Columbus Citizens for Police Review and others will be hosting a vigil to remember the people killed and injured in Charlottesville. Join us to show that we will not back down in the face of organized hate.
 

Saturday, August 12, 6:30-11pm
1021 E. Broad St., outside, weather permitting
Facebook Event
Second Saturday Salon features the best of the Left with liberal thinkers, speakers, and performers. Mas Bagua provides the moving muscial background for this Salon. Come join the cult!

Right now, the administration is considering whether to put nearly 800,000 young people at immediate risk of deportation. Despite President Trump’s prior statements that he supports the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, their future hangs in the balance. Ten states threatened to sue the president if he does not rescind the program by September 5, so we need Congress to act now.

Dreamers need you to stand with them right now -- your senator, Rob Portman, is a key voice in this conversation.  Tell Sen. Portman to co-sponsor the Dream Act and call on President Trump to protect DACA.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 6:00 PM business meeting, 7:00 PM Public Meeting. At 7:00 our guest speaker, Steve Farber will talk about the International Movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the Anti-BDS movement in the U.S.  Steve is a Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio.  Location:  Northwood Building, 2231 N. High St., Room 100.  Parking available behind the building in “R” spaces. 

A concert to commemorate the 72nd year after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A concert dedicated to the ending of global nuclear weapons and for the liberation of all oppressed by militarism, racism, and classism

August 6, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (Sunday)
Columbus State Community College, Center for Technology and Learning, 290 Cleveland Ave., Columbus (corner of Cleveland and Mount Vernon Avenues).
Free parking for the first 40 participants in the employee lot on the north side of the building (parking vouchers available at the venue)

Central Ohio residents will gather to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings. The concert will feature Rocco Di Pietro’s original pieces along with Korean, Japanese, and American works that focus on the broken world in a quest for wholeness.

Contact for details: Mark D. Stansbery, 614-517-7237, walk@igc.org
Sponsors include:
Community Organizing Center, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control, Central Ohioans for Peace, Puffin West Foundation.

Friday, August 4-Sunday, August 6, starts 7pm Friday night
Black representation is important to the Columbus artistic scene and filmmaking community, however, there is a large gap in representation of Black artists in the theater and film being showcased in the city. Columbus is rapidly becoming an important place for film on the national level and there are many Black filmmakers in the city who are underrepresented. Having a film festival that caters to the stories being told by African-American and African Diaspora communities provides an opportunity to change the lack of artistic diversity in Central Ohio.

The primary objective of the festival is to showcase Black filmmakers locally, nationally and internationally, while creating an opportunity to network with various people in the filmmaking
community. CBIFF will highlight a spectrum of stories told by people of the African Diaspora. Filmmakers will have access to workshops and panels discussions during the film festival. 

***FULL SCHEDULE***

FRI. AUG 4 – CBIFF OPENING NIGHT! AT WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

KEYNOTE: MARK A. CUMMINGS SR.

Thursday, August 3, 7-9pm
Gateway Film Center, 1550 N. High St.
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. 
Former Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world to train an army of activists and influence international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes -- in moments both private and public, funny and poignant -- as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/huX1bmfdkyA
Join us for a panel discussion immediately following the film including:
Rev. Susan Smith (Crazy Faith Ministries) - environmental justice
Chad Stephens (Sierra Club) - energy efficiency
Cathy Cowan Becker (Sierra Club) - Ready for 100 campaign

Wednesday, August 2, 11:30am-1:30pm
Columbus Citizen Police Academy, 1000 N Hague Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43204
*****Emergency Call to Action*****
Jeff Sessions is a fascist, racist man who has no place in the White House. Sessions has white supremacist ties, a racist and homophobic legislative record, and a history of opposing voting rights, however, is the top law enforcement officer in the country.
When Sessions was up for a federal judgeship in 1986, Coretta Scott King — the late widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. — begged the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote against his appointment. Senators on both sides of the aisle ultimately considered him too racist for the job, based on his disparaging comments about African Americans. He reportedly said the NAACP and ACLU were “Communist-inspired” and “un-American,” calledone of his black staff members “boy,” and joked that the worst thing about the KKK was its marijuana-smoking members.
In 2007, he argued that immigrants “create culture problems,” steal jobs from Americans, and that their “numbers cannot be too great.”