Meeting
Tuesday, January 10, 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, January 16, 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, January 5, 6pm, Barack Community Recreation Center, 580 E. Woodrow Ave.
Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] Columbus is hosting a Mass Meeting to bring together as many people as possible and to mobilize for the year ahead. This Mass Meeting focuses on learning about SURJ, gaining skills for leading house meetings to get more folks on-board, and talking about the Platform for the Movement for Black Lives. In the coming year, Columbus needs as many white folks on-board to fight racial injustice as we possibly can get. So, come one, come all and bring a friend!
Wednesday, January 4, 7-8:30pm, Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St.
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
Thursday, January 5, 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
Monday, January 2, 7:30-9:30pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200
Columbus Rationality, a part of the Humanist Community of Central Ohio, is a group of secular people dedicated to figuring out how to improve our thinking as a means of most effectively achieving our goals and enacting our values.
We generally begin with introductions and socializing at 7:30pm; the program starts at 7:45pm.
Parental warning: we are a very casual group; there is some swearing and discussion of mature issues.
Wednesday, December 21, 4pm, The Dempsey Family Education and Resource Center at Riverside Methodist Hospital [first floor of the Silver Tower across from Starbucks], 3535 Olentangy River Rd.
Do you feel that it is hard to eat healthy during the holidays? Join us for a free presentation about healthy eating during this busy, stressful time. You will learn about healthy options and quick meal ideas.
Presented by Stroke Prevention Clinic Dietitian, Laura Ridolfi, M.S., R.D., I.D.
Monday, December 19, 7:30-9:30pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200
Columbus Rationality, a part of the Humanist Community of Central Ohio, is a group of secular people dedicated to figuring out how to improve our thinking as a means of most effectively achieving our goals and enacting our values.
We generally begin with introductions and socializing at 7:30pm; the program starts at 7:45pm.
Parental warning: we are a very casual group; there is some swearing and discussion of mature issues.
Saturday, December 17, 2-4:30pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.
We are a grassroots organization for poor working-class people. We discuss current events and explore how commons-based transitions, Fab Labs and other models can end class exploitation and transform the capitalist system.
Contact: economictaskforce@gmail.com
Saturday, December 17, 12-1:30pm, 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.