Meeting

Tuesday, May 9, 6pm [business meeting]; 7pm [general meeting]; Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join the Franklin County Greens to help our local candidates at 6pm or to plan the Party’s annual events at 7pm. 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

Tuesday, May 2, 6-8pm, Martin Luther King Branch Library, 1600 E. Long St.

Wednesday, April 26, 9am-2:30pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Immigrant families in our community are being torn apart by immigration enforcement raids. As a faith community, we are called to walk in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors in this difficult time.

Putting solidarity into action will require new skills and strategic approaches. That is why we are coming together as a faith community to learn and plan how we will support our immigrant brothers and sisters.

Tuesday, April 25, 6:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

For-profit, corporate-run charter schools have been milking public education budgets for years, paying executives huge salaries, making large donations to government officials and providing, in many cases, sub-standard education or little education at all. In Ohio alone, $10 billion has been paid to charter schools since 2000 out of the Public Education Funding system.

Wednesday, April 5, 9am-3pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. Broad St., and Ohio Statehouse

Want to learn how laws get passed at the Statehouse, and how you can have more influence in the process?

The legislature is currently considering the state biennium budget and now is the perfect time to meet with your legislators and let them know what you think should be funding priorities.

Monday, May 8, 7pm, The Center on High, 3208 N. High St.

The monthly meeting of the central Ohio chapter of Friends Committee on National Legislation [FCNL], a national lobbying group of Quakers and friends who are working for public policy change on Capitol Hill.

Contact: Greg Pace, gpace67@gmail.com or 614-565-6067

Thursday, May 4, 7:30-9pm, 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 and Pat De Silva or other Compassionate Communication practitioners.

Thursday, May 4, 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 4, 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.

Saturday, April 29, 9am-4pm, Quest Conference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place [south of Polaris Pkwy.; east of I-71]

The purpose of this conference is to bring together advocates of health care for all — businesses, community groups, faith groups, health care providers, unions, women’s organizations, and others — to devise ways to build support for publicly funded, not-for-profit universal health care that guarantees comprehensive coverage for all Ohioans.