Meeting

Mondays, 7-9pm, Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center, 14 W. Lakeview Ave.

Columbus Residents are working to ensure safe drinking water, clean air, and safe soil in the City of Columbus.

Mondays, 7-9pm, Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center, 14 W. Lakeview Ave.

Columbus Residents are working to ensure safe drinking water, clean air, and safe soil in the City of Columbus.

Friday, October 2, 6:30-9:30pm, Whetstone Gardens & Care Center, 3710 Olentangy River Rd.

We are excited to announce a workshop sponsored by a national lobbying organization, Friends Committee on National Legislation [FCNL], to start a local lobbying advocacy team here in Columbus. This workshop will be led by Maiya Zwerling, the FCNL National Field Organizer, who is launching FCNL Advocacy Teams around the country. We’ll be establishing a Local FCNL Advocacy Team here in Columbus with this event.

We will view the film, “The Harvest/La Cosecha: The Story of the Children Who Feed America”

The Accessible Transportation Advisory Committee (ATAC) advises the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) on matters pertaining to accessible transportation. Members include customers and people in the community who advocate for those with disabilities. ATAC meets monthly and twice a year with COTA leadership.

Contact: columbusatac@gmail.com

PFLAG Columbus is a local chapter of PFLAG National. “PFLAG” is Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians And Gays. We are a national support, education and advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, their families, friends and allies. With 200,000 members and supporters and local affiliates in more than 500 communities across the U.S. and abroad, PFLAG is the largest grassroots-based family organization of its kind. PFLAG is a non-profit organization and is not affiliated with any religious or political institution.

We advocate for alternative economic models that pose serious challenges to the capitalist system. Please join us this month as we explore how FLOK Society, Open Cooperatives and Fab Labs can empower marginalized communities in central Ohio. These meetings are free and open to the public.

Contact: Michael Vinson, 614-843-8721

Saturday and Sunday [September 19-20, September 26-27 and October 3-4], 8am-5pm, Clintonville/Beechwold Community Resource Center, 14 W. Lakeview Ave.

Want to learn how to install solar systems? Want to prepare to become certified in the solar field? Now you can spend just six days (three weekends — 5½ days instruction; ½ day taking the certification test) in Columbus, OH to realize your goal.

In most cities, the city budget is usually decided by the mayor but with Participatory Budgeting, ordinary people decide how to spend the budget. This practice originated in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989 and has spread to cities and countries all over the world, including Chicago, New York City, Boston, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Puerto Rico and many others.

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.