Meeting
Monday, June 26, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.
Today’s program: “Syria: Imperialism, Dictatorship, and Revolution.”
Sunday, June 11, 3-5pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.
The aim of this monthly reading group is to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by providing holistic political education. We seek to create community-based interventions to IPV that do not rely on the police or governmental institutions.
We are currently reading “Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation and Practical Guide for Everyone to Stop Violence.”
Wednesday, June 7, 7-8:30pm, King Avenue United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave.
Stonewall Columbus Presents “Love Will Win: From Uganda to Columbus” in collaboration with Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS). “Love Will Win” is created and shared by two Ugandan refugees who escaped religious and governmental persecution of their sexual orientation. Our presenters will share their powerful stories about their journey to the United States in hopes of finding safety, compassion, and acceptance.
Friday, June 2, 9:30-11:30am, Columbus Public Health [Auditorium], 240 Parsons Ave.
Franklin County Fetal-Infant Mortality Review [FIMR] is part of a community-wide effort to decrease fetal and infant mortality in Franklin County.
FIMR is a process that identifies local issues through the review of fetal and infant deaths in order to develop initiatives to prevent future deaths.
Please join us for this important exchange of information.
Contact: Lauren Rose-Cohen, RN, FIMR Coordinator, 614-645-6537
Friday, July 7, 3pm; to Sunday, July 9, 5pm; Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.
Every year at the SSA Annual Conference, hundreds of secular students and community leaders gather to share ideas and learn from each other. The SSA Conference’s primary goal is to train student leaders and activists from across the United States in grassroots organizing and leadership skills.
Friday, July 7, 3pm; to Sunday, July 9, 5pm; Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.
Every year at the SSA Annual Conference, hundreds of secular students and community leaders gather to share ideas and learn from each other. The SSA Conference’s primary goal is to train student leaders and activists from across the United States in grassroots organizing and leadership skills.
Thursday, July 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, July 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.
Sunday, June 18, 6:30-8:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
Saturday, June 17, 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.