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Meeting

Saturday, July 20, 10am-4:30pm [check-in at 9:30am], Columbus Early Learning Centers [Champion Avenue Center], 240 N. Champion Ave.

Join us for Advocacy University, an “activist bootcamp” featuring a full day of free trainings, workshops, and group activities, so that together we can strengthen the culture of social and political activism across Central Ohio.

ACLU experts will be on-site to outline our 2019 priorities and to lead powerful sessions on campaigning, lobbying, and messaging.

Thursday, July 18, 6:30-7:30pm, Northside Branch Library, 1423 N. High St.

Join us for our monthly membership meeting! Come hang and talk about how we can work together to build Columbus that works for the many, not the few.

As always, there will be free pizza!

Yes We Can [YWC] was founded as an independent grassroots political organization in December 2015. We stand for getting big money out of City Hall, building stronger schools, and putting working families’ interests ahead of wealthy developers and corporate donors.

Monday, July 15, 6:30-8:30pm, First English Lutheran Church, 1015 E. Main St.

Please join us on Monday, July 15, at 6:30pm, as we continue the conversation on how we can best support Miriam Vargas and her family.

We will be moving forward on ideas from our February 25 meeting.

Outreach: Intersectionality, starting with the local community

Care/Logistics: Miriam’s day-to-day needs

Media/Communications: Creative messaging

Fundraising: Funds for Freedom

Thursday, July 11, 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.

Thursday, July 25, 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.

Thursday, July 18, 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.

Saturday, July 20, 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.

Wednesday, July 17, 7-8:30pm, Upper Arlington Public Library [Rm. A], 2800 Tremont Rd.

You are invited to join Equal UA’s Books and Beyond Discussion Group at 7pm on Wednesday, June 17.

Concerned about the effect of poverty here in America? Join Equal UA to learn more about the Poor People’s Campaign and the Moral Action Congress. Curtis Walker, who attended the Poor People’s Moral Action Congress, will be leading our discussion.

Hosted by Equal UA.

Wednesday, July 17, 6-8:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Main Branch], 96 S. Grant Ave.

Wealth, an individual’s or family’s financial net worth, can function as a generational stepping stone that older generations pass on and future generations benefit from and build over time.