Meeting
Join our Black Heritage Special Collections Librarian Nicole Sutton for this month's afternoon talk about Black History in Columbus. We will have a conversation with special guests Zinna Scott, Ron Bryant, and Jevon Collins using photographs and materials from the library's digital collection, My History, to give context to the past.
The DSA’s City Council Non-Cooperation Campaign focuses on creating non-cooperation resolutions in cities across Central Ohio, which pressure cities from cooperating with ICE and discriminating against trans individuals. This work includes attending city council meetings, providing testimony, canvassing, and working to create clear, concise language in resolutions and petitions, among other documents. In addition, they host educational events to explain this work and engage the public in how they can also pressure local councils to take action.
Are you frustrated hearing about private school vouchers taking funding from Ohio public schools? Meet Honesty for Ohio Education organizers and campaign leaders from around the state—and if you're brand new to the issue, don't worry, we'll get you up to speed!
Join us and learn 1) how to support new accountability legislation and 2) how you can ask your local school board to support Vouchers Hurt Ohio lawsuit! Want to learn more, ask questions, and learn simple but powerful ways you can take action, or even join the team?
VAP no CAP!
The agenda:
Intros/Icebreaker - Mark (10 min)
Spring & summer event volunteering - Rebecca (5 min)
Legislative Update - Cathy (10 min)
Guest Speaker - Great Ohio Climate March (20 minutes)
Crowdsourcing in-person event ideas (15 Minutes)
Open Floor
Save Ohio Parks is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Join Save Ohio Parks for this informative discussion.
Topics include the environmental and social justice concerns about data center energy use, how data centers could be powered differently while providing benefits to the communities where they are based, and recommendations for local officials and for needed changes to state laws.
Register HERE.
Ohio's voucher programs have devastated public school funding by moving public dollars away from public schools to private schools, which are not held to the same standards. Vouchers aren't free... they're fraud.
Join Honesty for Ohio Education for the official launch of the Voucher Accountability Project—a press event and protest against the institutional defunding of our public schools, hosted at Moler Elementary, a Columbus City School that will be closing at the end of this school year due to state funding cuts.
We have a community conversation regarding policing. We’ll be discussing the victory of the Goodson/Payne family, next steps, as well as the current and future police contract and the current powers of the oversight board.
PEOPLE POWERED
Join us Wednesday 5/27 at 7:00 PM to learn what ballot initiatives are, how they’re critical to our democracy, and why they're being threatened.
We’ll be joined by our friends from Ohio Ballot Protection and other coalition partners who have common sense petitions currently in circulation to move us toward the Ohio we want to become.
Learn more about the following petitions: Equal Rights, Right to Marry, Banning Mega Data Centers, and Qualified Immunity.
Meet and speak one-on-one with Columbus City Councilmembers and city department leadership!
Join your Columbus City Council for an evening of conversation! Council members will be present along with City of Columbus Department representatives, to speak one on one with you.
More information and registration here.
The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need One of Our Own summarizes recent survey data to argue that a majority of voters in four industrial states support bold policies intended to curb corporate power, ensure the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, and improve the job prospects and standards of living for the millions of Americans who depend on their labor, not their investments, to support themselves.