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Wednesday, October 12 and Thursday, October 13, 8:30am-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Bringing together scholars, policy makers and practitioners from around the world, this symposium will analyze the roots and understand the reach of the far-right in the United States. The goal of this symposium is to facilitate learning and collaboration to support the identification of strategies to stop the spread and break the hold of broadly defined far-right movements in our political and social systems.

Wednesday, October 12 and Thursday, October 13, 8:30am-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Bringing together scholars, policy makers and practitioners from around the world, this symposium will analyze the roots and understand the reach of the far-right in the United States. The goal of this symposium is to facilitate learning and collaboration to support the identification of strategies to stop the spread and break the hold of broadly defined far-right movements in our political and social systems.

Wednesday, October 12, 12noon-1pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

We are a support group for LGBTQ+ people who have experienced shame, rejection, and harm in the name of religion. Please join this event from your computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Please use this Zoom link to join this event. This meeting is locked with a password: care4all.

This event will repeat on the second Wednesday of the month and on the fourth Sunday of the month.

Tuesday, October 11, 9pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

October 11th is National Coming Out Day! Coming out as LGBTQ+ still matters. When people know someone who is LGBTQ+, they are far more likely to support and help break down the stigma. Beyond that, our stories can be powerful to each other.

The process of coming out can be scary, confusing, beautiful, and unique. Unfortunately, many people in LGBTQ+ communities continue to face rejection, shame, and even expulsion from their families.

Sunday, October 9, 1pm, beginning near the northwest corner of Goodale Park.

Come and celebrate all things Italian; come and celebrate all things Columbus, come and celebrate all things Columbus and Italian!

The Italian Festival parade will line up at 12noon on Dennison Ave. between Poplar Ave. and Buttles Ave. [near the western boundary of Goodale Park]. Beginning at 1pm, the parade will travel east on Buttles Ave., north on N. High St., east on Warren St., and will end at N. Fourth St. [about one block from St. John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church].

Saturday, October 10, 6:30-8:30pm, Mozart's Cafe [party room], 4784 N. High St.

We’ll gather to honor Joe Motil with the 2022 Free Press “Libby” Award for Lifetime Achievement in Community Activism.

Special guests:

• Esther Flores of 1DivineLine2Health [our 2021 “Libby” honoree]

• Clay Jones, Free Press cartoonist and winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award in Editorial Cartooning.

We will be celebrating 52 years of the Columbus Free Press!

Saturday, October 8, 12noon-3pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Parsons Branch], 1113 Parsons Ave. [this event will also be occurring via Zoom]

The Humanist Monthly Program is our longest running event and still a community favorite. In the old days it used to be called “Going to HCCO” and we still like to think of it as our flagship event.