Meeting
Monday, August 27; Monday, September 10; and Monday, September 17; 6:30-7:30pm; Page Hall [third floor], 1810 College Rd.
If you’re interested in learning more about the prison-industrial-complex, policing, or hyper-incarceration, please join us for a political education series called, “Abolition Study Group.” The purpose of this group is to learn the theoretical frameworks necessary to build an abolitionist practice.
Thursday, September 6, 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.
Thursday, September 6, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.
We are the Columbus branch of the International Socialist Organization. We are opposed to all oppression and fight for a world centered around human need, not corporate greed. We are students, community members, workers, and activists. We are socialists.
Contact: iso.columbus@gmail.com
Thursday, September 6, 6-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.
Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a multi-racial group organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice.
Email SURJColumbusOH@gmail.com with any questions.
Wednesday, September 5, 7-8:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.
Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy that is based on these ideals.
Contact: centralohio@jvp.org
Monday, August 20, 7-8pm, Central Ohio Transit Authority [COTA] headquarters [William J. Lhota Building], William G. Porter Boardroom, 33 N. High St.
The Accessible Transportation Advisory Committee [ATAC] meets quarterly and advises the Central Ohio Transit Authority [COTA] on matters pertaining to accessible transportation. Members include customers and people in the community who advocate for those with disabilities.
Contact: Tonia L. Pullins, Mobility Coordinator, 614-275-5833 or PullinsTL@COTA.com
Saturday, August 18, 12-2pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
The monthly meeting of the local affiliate of the national Move to Amend organization that is calling for a U.S. Constitutional amendment to reverse several U.S. Supreme Court decisions during the past century and thereby to firmly establish that corporations are not people and that money is not free speech. Find out what can be done locally to restore democracy! Bring a brown bag lunch.
Tuesday, August 14, 6pm (business meeting); 7pm (general meeting); Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100
Join the Franklin County Greens. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month. Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.
Contact: fcgreenparty@gmail.com
Monday, August 13, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Today’s program: a screening of “Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II” (89 minutes)
This 2005 BBC documentary recounts the world’s first nuclear attack and examines its alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the New Mexico test blast to dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, this program chronicles America’s political gamble and the planning for that momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects take viewers aboard the Enola Gay and inside the exploding bomb.
Thursday, August 9, 7-9pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100
Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.
Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com