Meeting
Saturday, October 15, 12:30-2pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
When the Founding Fathers signed the Constitution in 1787, less than six percent of Americans could claim their rights as legal persons. A hundred years later, the Supreme Court recognized personhood rights for corporations while denying those rights to the majority of actual human beings living in the U.S.
• How have corporations gained constitutional rights? Through unelected Courts without a democratic process.
Saturday, October 15, 7:30am-2:30pm, Columbus Downtown High School, 364 S. Fourth St.
This conference will include the following:
• Exciting community workshops sharing best community engagement of residents
• Dynamic keynotes and master workshop presenters
• Attendees receive a “ToolKit” bag of community resources practices information
Sponsored by United Way of Central Ohio.
Contact: 614-241-3071 or Sharon.ware@uwcentralohio.org
Thursday, October 13, 7-9pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100
Bob Studzinski will present a program with slides from his extensive travels in Guatemala: “Mayan Rites and the Struggle for Mayan Rights.”
Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.
Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com
Thursday, October 13, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.
This week’s topic: “Race, Class, and Marxism.”
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
Tuesday, October 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, October 10, 7-8pm, Thompson Library (Rm. 460), 1858 Neil Ave. Mall
Ohio State University administrators, led by Chief Financial Officer Geoff Chatas, plan to sell off our energy to a private corporation for monopoly control through the Comprehensive Energy Management Plan. This deal has been happening behind closed doors and it will only profit corporate CEOs and OSU administrators.
We, as students, do not stand for our public university being bought and sold. Resist the corporate takeover of our education!
Sunday, October 9, 1-3pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.
We will read and discuss the book, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. This book breaks the silence surrounding intimate violence within social justice circles and offers alternatives that don’t rely on the carceral state. It also offers examples of people who have used those alternatives to build a movement where no one is left behind.
Thursday, October 6, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.
This week’s topic: “No Power Greater: Why The Working Class Can Change the World.”
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
Wednesday, October 5, 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
Wednesday, October 5, 12noon, Columbus Public Health, 240 Parsons Ave., Rm. 119-C
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