Meeting
Thursday, April 13, 7-9pm, Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Dr. [near Ohio Dominican University]
Lubna Shomali will discuss the struggle for human rights from the U.S. to Palestine. As a Palestinian human rights defender/activist, Mrs. Shomali will present BADIL’s comprehensive rights-based approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with a focus on forced population transfer, refugees, and internally displaced persons, according to international humanitarian and human rights law.
Tuesday, April 11, 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
Monday, April 10, 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
Sunday, April 9, 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.”
Saturday, April 8, 11:30am-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]
This month’s program: “Can Sex Work Be Reasonable and Compassionate?”
The challenges that society faces when dealing with the subject of sex work are numerous and ongoing, especially in today’s modern world, where sexual liberation and sex positivity are taking ever-growing roles as issues of concern.
Thursday, April 6, 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.
Tuesday, April 4, 12noon-3pm, OSU Moritz School of Law [Drinko Hall] [William B. Saxbe Law Auditorium], 55 W. 12th Ave.
Sunday, March 26, 8-9:30pm, click here to register
Dr. Prince White in this class will explore mass incarceration and the criminalization of black youth. Dr. White will discuss:
• Understanding the school-to-prison pipeline
• Treatment of youth as adults in the criminal (in)justice system
• Efforts to counter the criminalization of youth of color
Hosted by Communist Party USA.
Wednesday, March 29, 3:30-5pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Rm. 120
Sunday, March 26, 3-5pm, North Congregational Church, 2040 W. Henderson Rd.
Join us on Sunday March 26 at North Congregational Church for an informational forum presented by the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).