Meeting
Monday, September 12, 6-7:30pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.
Once each month at the Driving Park Branch Library, central Ohio residents, city and state leaders, non-profit organizations, community professionals, activists, Columbus City Schools professionals, law enforcement, faith-based communities, and leading thinkers come together to discuss central Ohio’s current issues and solutions. This event is coordinated by the emerging non-profit, State Of The Community.
We will be discussing the following:
Monday, September 12, 3pm, OSU Research Commons [18th Avenue Library, third floor], 175 W. 18th Ave.
In June 2013, Gezi Park became the staging ground for the most serious challenge to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decade-long rule in Turkey. When police brutally cleared the Istanbul park, five young men lost their lives, becoming official “martyrs” of the Gezi movement.
Saturday, September 10, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]
This month’s program: “Save Lives Using Reason and Compassion”
Save lives, using reason and compassion, by attending today’s event! For every participant, $10 will be donated to a charity, and best of all, it’s free for you - the donations will be sponsored by an external party.
Thursday, September 8, 7-9pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100
Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.
Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com
Wednesday, September 7, 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, September 1, 6-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.
Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a group of white people 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.
Thursday, August 4, 6-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.
Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a group of white people 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.
Saturday, September 3, 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, August 20, 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.
Saturday, August 20, 2-4:30pm, Martin Luther King Branch Library, 1600 E. Long St.
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