Meeting

Saturday, August 17, 10am-12noon, Seafarer’s International Union, 2800 S. High St.

What can you do in 2019 to advance the rights of immigrants and workers in Columbus?

Thursday, August 15, 6:30-8:30pm, The Destiny Center, 1561 Old Leonard Ave.

Calling all the S.E.X.Y. Voters come and be EMPOWERED! Ask questions of the Candidates asking for YOUR vote!

Hosted by WTF?Weigh The Facts.

Wednesday, August 7, 6-8pm, Whetstone Branch Library, 3901 N. High St.

This will be our launch meeting for RAID [Resistance Against Immigrant Detention]. Our work will center around an action that will be held on August 16.

We’d love your help to build community and allyship to help support our undocumented friends here in Central Ohio!

Hosted by RAID [Resistance Against Immigrant Detention].

Tuesday, September 10, 12noon-10pm; Wednesday, September 11, 8:30am-2:30pm; Holiday Inn Columbus Downtown Capitol Square, 175 E. Town St.

Join us for the second Faith Leaders Summit.

This two-day event is for faith leaders of all traditions and stakeholders within faith communities.

Tuesday, September 10, 12noon-10pm; Wednesday, September 11, 8:30am-2:30pm; Holiday Inn Columbus Downtown Capitol Square, 175 E. Town St.

Join us for the second Faith Leaders Summit.

This two-day event is for faith leaders of all traditions and stakeholders within faith communities.

Thursday, September 5, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

Living in Columbus, it’s not hard to see that the system is broken. We live under a reign of police terror where working-class black and brown youth are targeted for execution and imprisonment; Ohio State University and the city of Columbus have been working together to gentrify neighborhood after neighborhood; tens of thousands of students are getting into life-long debt for an education; ICE harasses undocumented immigrants with impunity; landlords and capitalists exploit and oppress us.

Monday, August 19, 7-8pm, Central Ohio Transit Authority [COTA] Mobility Services Facility, 1330 Fields Ave.

The Accessible Transportation Advisory Committee [ATAC] meets quarterly and 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.

Note: this meeting is being held at a different location because of construction at the 33 N. High St. building.

Monday, August 19, 6-7:30pm, South High Branch Library, 3540 S. High St.

We have launched our fourth campaign to protect Columbus water from toxic, radioactive frack waste dumping in our water supply. We are an all-volunteer group gathering signatures to put the Columbus Community Bill of Rights on the Columbus Ballot by November 2020.

Come learn what’s going on and sign the petition at the following Columbus Metropolitan Libraries.

• Monday, August 19, 6-7:30pm, South High Branch Library, 3540 S. High St.

Sunday, August 18, 1:30-2:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Northside Branch], 1423 N. High St.

Saturday, August 17, 12noon-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.