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Monday, March 26 to Friday, March 30, The Ohio State University
Defend Our Future will be hosting a clothing drive on Ohio State’s campus during the week of March 26! Make sure to collect some old clothes while you are home and drop them off at any of the participating dorms listed below. All items will be donated or re-purposed sustainably to reduce the harm of textiles on the Earth. Every small action plays a big role in helping #DefendOurFuture!
Dorms at which to drop off clothes include:
Monday, March 26 to Friday, March 30, The Ohio State University
Defend Our Future will be hosting a clothing drive on Ohio State’s campus during the week of March 26! Make sure to collect some old clothes while you are home and drop them off at any of the participating dorms listed below. All items will be donated or re-purposed sustainably to reduce the harm of textiles on the Earth. Every small action plays a big role in helping #DefendOurFuture!
Dorms at which to drop off clothes include:
Sunday, March 11, 2-4pm, Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Dr. [near Ohio Dominican University]
Saturday, March 17, 9:30am-12:30pm, Northside Branch Library, 1423 N. High St.
Cages are disabling and traumatizing environments. As a result, prisoners suffer from low morale. They also suffer from a variety of human rights abuses committed by jail and prison officials such as torture and “extremely-poor-quality health care.” These forms of violence are state-sanctioned. Therefore, we can’t expect meaningful oversight of Ohio’s concentration camps to come from the state.
Wednesday, March 7, 5:30-8:30pm, Northside Branch Library, 1423 N. High St.
Cages are disabling and traumatizing environments. As a result, prisoners suffer from low morale. They also suffer from a variety of human rights abuses committed by jail and prison officials such as torture and “extremely-poor-quality health care.” These forms of violence are state-sanctioned. Therefore, we can’t expect meaningful oversight of Ohio’s concentration camps to come from the state.
Sunday, March 18; Candidate’s Forum, 2-4pm; Candidate “Meet and Greet,” 4-5pm, Norwich Township Safety Services Building, 5181 Northwest Pkwy., Hilliard, Ohio
Confirmed Candidates: Rob Jarvis (D), Johnny Miller (L), and Rick Neal (D)
Invited Candidate: Steve Stivers (R)
Moderated by Carol Luper (former Channel 10 and Channel 6 news reporter)
Ohio District 15’s Congressional race has national impact!
Thursday, April 5, 7-8:30pm, Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio [inside of Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church], 2350 Indianola Ave.
Join us for an engaging and fun introduction to Compassionate-Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the Language of the Heart, led by Susanna Warren.
People of all experience levels, ranging from beginners to experienced practitioners, are welcome to this gathering. We will have a short explanation, a demonstration, and then we will give everyone a chance to practice giving and/or receiving empathy.
Wednesday, April 4, 6:45-8:45pm, King Arts Complex, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave.
Join us for a collaboration of The Ohio State University College of Social Work and the King Arts Complex on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Through song, narration, and images, we will commemorate the African-American resistance to the violence and oppression that have defined the Black experience in America.
Contact: Keith Kilty, at kilty.1@osu.edu
Saturday, March 31, 5-7pm, MCL Kingsdale, 3154 Kingsdale Center, Upper Arlington, Ohio
Come out and join us for dinner and conversation! We’ll be in the back room unless there’s a special event going on in that room.
Wednesday, March 28, 8pm, Rambling House Soda, 310 E. Hudson St.
Word Church is a poetry reading held the last Wednesday of every month at 8pm at Rambling House Soda, 310 E. Hudson St. Bring your poetry, get your rhyme on, and meet some interesting people.