Meeting
Monday, April 16, 1:30-3pm, Thompson Library [11th floor], 1858 Neil Ave. Mall
“Food Pyramid Scheme” explores the structural inequalities that exist in the domestic food system for both producers and consumers, paying particular attention to the underlying sociological and theological assumptions that permit the current food system, whose shortcomings disproportionately affect communities of color, to be viewed as normative. Carter will offer three theologically-grounded food practices that seek to reduce our complicity in the current food system.
Sunday, April 22, 2-5pm, Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare, 100 Hospital Dr., Athens, Ohio
NASW [National Association of Social Workers] Ohio is excited to be collaborating with the Central Ohio Worker Center [COWC] for an introductory training on deportation defense campaigns.
Thursday, April 12, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.
The ISO’s “Where We Stand” document, which details ISO’s guiding political principles, reads, in part:
“To achieve socialism, the most militant workers must be organized into a revolutionary socialist party. The ISO is committed to playing a role in laying the foundations for such a party. We aim to build an independent socialist organization, rooted in workplaces, schools and neighborhoods that, in fighting today’s struggles, also wins larger numbers to socialism.”
Saturday, May 5, 2:30-4:30pm, Grandview Heights Public Library, 1685 W. First Ave.
A Cincinnati woman whose granddaughter was murdered during the Parkland School shooting on February 14 will speak at a gun violence symposium on Saturday, May 5, 2:30-4:30pm, at the Grandview Heights Public Library, 1685 W. First Ave. Ethel Guttenberg, whose granddaughter Jaime had died in the shooting, which has spurred a national youth movement against gun violence in the United States, will be one of the speakers at this symposium.
Thursday, May 3, 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, May 3, 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, May 2, 7-8:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Rm. 1-A], 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 based on these ideals.
Contact: centralohio@jvp.org
Saturday, April 28, 9:30am-4pm, Quest Business and Conference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place [south of Polaris Pkwy.; east of I-71]
SPAN Ohio is a coalition of individuals and organizations working together to achieve fundamental reform of the health insurance system.
Keynote speaker: Dennis Kucinich
When Dennis Kucinich had been in Congress, he had always been a co-sponsor of H.R. 676, the national single-payer bill that often had been referred to as the Conyers-Kucinich bill.
Featured speaker: Yvonka Hall
Saturday, April 21, 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, April 17, 3-4pm, Derby Hall [Rm. 1080], 154 N. Oval Mall
This presentation will be by OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis [CURA] guest speaker William Hunt, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University.