Meeting
Thursday, April 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.
Saturday, April 1, 9:30am-4:30pm [registration begins at 8:30am], First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
A statewide gathering of local chapters 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.
Thursday, March 30, 7:30-9pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.
Hemant Mehta is the editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, appears on the Atheist Voice channel on YouTube, and co-hosts the uniquely-named Friendly Atheist Podcast. He is a former National Board Certified high school math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago, where he had taught for seven years. He is also the author of several books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist’s Survival Guide.
Saturday, March 18, 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, March 18, 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.
Wednesday, March 15, 8am-4:30pm, Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.
The 2017 Ohio Concussion Summit brings together experts on the nature of a concussion, changes that take place in the brain that has been injured, how a concussion is diagnosed and treated, as well as recommendations for optimal post-concussion recovery.
This event will include the following:
Sunday, March 12, 3-5pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant 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, March 11, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]
This month’s program: “Columbus’s Discriminatory At-Large City Council Elections”
Thursday, March 9, 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
Tuesday, March 7, 10am, Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354 E. Broad St. (free parking in rear)
The Central Ohio Worker Center (COWC) is proud to be a part of the coalition One ID Columbus organizing for a recognized city-wide Municipal ID. Many in the Columbus community, including members of COWC, do not have the benefits of a form of identification, something that most take for granted. A form of ID is a crucial need that is felt by these members of our community.
A Municipal ID for Franklin County would have many benefits, including: