Meeting
Wednesday, May 6, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
We will continue our regular monthly meetings on Zoom. During May, we will be discussing chapter 2 of Alice Rothchild’s book, Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine. This book can be ordered directly from the publisher, Just World Books.
Wednesday, May 6, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
With a massive vote by mail effort needed for the November 2020 election, how should Ohio proceed?
This on-line event will be a video forum with voting rights experts from Colorado, Oregon and Ohio.
• Amanda Gonzalez Executive Director, Colorado Common Cause
• Jen Miller Executive Director, League of Women Voters Ohio
• Kate Titus, Executive Director, Common Cause Oregon
• Catherine Turcer, Executive Director, Common Cause Ohio
Friday, April 24, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Are you a renter in Columbus? Did you struggle to pay rent on April 1 or will you struggle on May 1? Join us on Friday, April 24 for a virtual Zoom meeting to discuss how renters in Columbus can fight to stay in our homes, defeat evictions, and avoid going into debt from missed payments.
Thursday, April 23, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists [CORS] this Thursday for a public Zoom meeting! “Unionizing 101: How to Unionize and the Philosophy of Power” will feature Puja Data and Boyd McCamish with CMRJB Workers United [Chicago and Midwest Joint Board of Workers United, SEIU], where we will learn how to organize with our co-workers and analyze systems of power!
Wednesday, April 29, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Ohio’s reliance on the cash bail system has created a two-tiered system of justice: one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us. Being locked in jail can lead to job loss, housing instability, and precious time away from family and loved ones. Cash bail is the entrance into the beast of mass incarceration. Join Melekte Melaku, lead organizer for the ACLU Ohio’s Campaign for Bail Reform and member of UUJO to learn more about this issue and what you can do.
Saturday, April 25, 10am-12noon, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join us for a presentation by our keynote speaker, Wendell Potter.
The mission of the Single Payer Action Network Ohio (SPAN Ohio) is to educate the citizens and legislators of Ohio to the need and advocate for a fundamental change in our healthcare system so that all residents have affordable access to healthcare through a publicly funded, privately delivered comprehensive system that fulfills the basic human right to health care.
What Does “Single-Payer” Really Mean?
Tuesday, April 28, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
The reality of COVID-19 has made health care a primary concern for all of us. And how we vote this November will impact the future of healthcare for everyone. Come and talk about current health issues that keep us up at night as well as the future of policy with people from a variety of non-profit groups focused on Ohio health.
Presenters include the following:
Graham Bowman: Ohio Poverty Law Center
Maria Bruno: Ohio Votes
Saturday, April 25, 9:30am-12:00 noon, this on-line event requires advance registration
UUJO [Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio] will hold its Spring Gathering online, via Zoom, due to the COVID-19 virus. Together, we will explore a number of the issues addressed in the coming fall 2020 election and the need for voter advocacy, election protection, and support networks for Get-Out-The-Vote. We will discuss how UUJO and congregations with “UU The Vote” are working together with partners in the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition.
Presenters:
Thursday, April 23, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
The coronavirus pandemic is tragically illustrating why tying health care to employment is such a bad idea, as millions of Americans are being furloughed or laid off and are losing their health care.
Join us online for a Medicare for All Roundtable, with Michelle Mahon from National Nurses United, Yvonka Hall from Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition, and Dr. Matthew Noordsij-Jones from SPAN [Single Payer Action Network] Ohio.
Wednesday, April 22, 7-8:30pm, on-line webinar [advance registration is possible but is not required]
Join Rev. Joan VanBecelaere, Executive Director of UUJO [Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio], Tadd Pinkston of Pinkston Law, and others to discuss what is happening this month in the Ohio Statehouse. We will discuss key legislation and governmental actions, including the fight against COVID-19, voting rights and the fight to vote, criminal justice reform, and more. The discussions can be very lively.