Meeting
Thursday, August 18, 7-8:30pm, Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center [conference room], 3222 N. High St.
The Columbus Club represents the Communist Party USA (established 1919) in Central Ohio.
Contact: 614-325-1926
Saturday, August 13, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]
This month’s program: “Transhumanism: Taking Humanism to the Extreme”
What is at the heart of a human? What does Humanism celebrate, at its core? As the blinding notions of the past and the physical constraints of the present are cut away by science, technology, and reason, what will remain?
Thursday, August 11, 2016, 7pm, Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church, 2350 Indianola Ave.
Saturday, July 30, 8:30am-5pm; and Sunday, July 31, 12-3pm; First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
Join three Ohio Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] chapters, and two national SURJ staff people, for a training on direct action, organizational building and deep canvassing! The training will be led by Erin Heaney, the National Organizer for SURJ, and Z! Haukeness, the Midwest Regional Resource person for SURJ.
Saturday, July 30, 8:30am-5pm; and Sunday, July 31, 12-3pm; First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.
Join three Ohio Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] chapters, and two national SURJ staff people, for a training on direct action, organizational building and deep canvassing! The training will be led by Erin Heaney, the National Organizer for SURJ, and Z! Haukeness, the Midwest Regional Resource person for SURJ.
Monday, July 25, 7pm, St. John’s Evangelical Protestant Church [UCC], 59 E. Mound St.
We cordially invite you to attend this forum, which will include presentations by the following:
• PFLAG Columbus: Growing up LGBTQ
• CBS video: Family with a young transgender son
• GLSEN [Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network]: Gay/Straight Alliances in high schools
• TED video: College-age transgender woman
• Equality Ohio: Ohio’s LGBTQ laws
Thursday, July 14, 7-9pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100
This month’s topic: There is a lot to discuss pertaining to the election year, with the various current issues and attempts to bring forward the Bernie revolution. Here are the items we will try to resolve/report on in no particular order:
1. Report from the People’s Summit
2. Upcoming activism: August 2 election for district representation
3. Set date for our labor movie outdoor event
4. Establish committees
5. Set another happy hour/fun event
Tuesday, August 9, 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, August 8, 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, August 8, 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