Meeting
Friday, February 16, 12noon-1pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.
The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), in cooperation with the OSU Office of Energy and Environment and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), is pleased to present the first of three events for Spring 2018, focusing on cities, water, and green infrastructure.
Panel Discussion: “Water and Cities in Ohio: Are We Prepared for Climate Change?”
Panelists:
Tuesday, February 13, 5-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.
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, February 7, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave., Rm. 23
Join Cesar Vargas and other activists/allies across Ohio to help champion a Clean Dream Act and fight for justice for the 11 million undocumented immigrants. Cesar Vargas will share his story; a short training will follow.
Saturday, February 24, 9:30am-1pm, Parsons Branch Library, 1113 Parsons Ave.
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, February 14, 7pm, Page Hall [Rm. 020], 1810 College Rd.
Public discourse on Islam often opines that Islam still stands in need of a Reformation similar to the Reformation of European Christianity. What this discourse misses, however, is that early modern Muslim societies did witness the rise of Reformist thought. This talk examines the most important Sunni expression of Reformist thought in modern Sunni Islam — Salafism — and explores some of the reasons why it failed to achieve much of its political program and reformist aims.
Saturday, February 10, 11:30am-2pm, South High Branch Library, 3540 S. High St.
This month’s program: “Building Community and Protecting the Vulnerable: The Power of Fact-based Communications and the Pro-Truth Pledge.”
Saturday, February 10, 1-3pm, Panera Bread, 4519 N. High St.
We will be discussing Marxist concepts of exploitation and surplus value, planning for the 2018 elections, and other local struggles for justice.
The Columbus Club represents the Communist Party USA (established 1919) in Central Ohio.
Contact: Charlie Atkins, <pkdlenin@yahoo.com>
Thursday, March 1, 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, March 1, 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.
Monday, February 26, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Today’s program: Greg Pace will talk about the current work 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.
The current focus of the FCNL Central Ohio Advocacy team is to reduce the most urgent risk of nuclear war in a generation — with North Korea.
Contact: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com