Meeting

Thursday, September 27, 11:30am-7:30pm; Friday, September 28, 8:30am-6pm; OSU Moritz School of Law [Drinko Hall] [William B. Saxbe Law Auditorium], 55 W. 12th Ave.

Monday, September 24, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Today’s program: a screening of “The First Amendment Project” (67 minutes)

Thursday, October 4, 7-8:30pm, Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio [inside of Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church], 2350 Indianola Ave.

Join us for an engaging and fun introduction to Compassionate-Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the Language of the Heart, led by Susanna Warren.

People of all experience levels, ranging from beginners to experienced practitioners, are welcome to this gathering. We will have a short explanation, a demonstration, and then we will give everyone a chance to practice giving and/or receiving empathy.

Thursday, October 4, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

We are the Columbus branch of the International Socialist Organization. We are opposed to all oppression and fight for a world centered around human need, not corporate greed. We are students, community members, workers, and activists. We are socialists.

Contact: iso.columbus@gmail.com

Thursday, October 4, 6-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a multi-racial group organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice.

Email SURJColumbusOH@gmail.com with any questions.

Wednesday, October 3, 7-8:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.

Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy that is based on these ideals.

Contact: centralohio@jvp.org

Saturday, September 29, 9am-5pm, Quest Conference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place [south of Polaris Pkwy.; east of I-71]

Are you overwhelmed by the number of issues confronting our communities and our state?

Are you growing tired of putting out fires and putting on band-aids?

Do you wonder why we work so hard with little to show for it and what we can do differently?

Join us for the Ohio Community Rights Conference: Growing Roots and Rights for Just Communities.

Thursday, September 27, 2018, 3:30-5pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Rm. 120

Meir Elran is a senior research fellow and head of the Homeland Security Program and a co-head of the Society-Military Program at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Brigadier General (retired) Elran served in the Israel Defense Forces as a career officer for 24 years in senior command and staff positions, primarily in the Military Intelligence Directorate. His last post was deputy director of Military Intelligence (1987-1989).

Saturday, September 22, 2:30-5:30pm, Linden Branch Library, 2223 Cleveland Ave.

Cages are disabling and traumatizing environments. As a result, prisoners suffer from low morale. They also suffer from a variety of human rights abuses committed by jail and prison officials such as torture and “extremely-poor-quality health care.” These forms of violence are state-sanctioned. Therefore, we can’t expect meaningful oversight of Ohio’s concentration camps to come from the state.

Friday, September 21, 7-9pm, Worthington United Methodist Church, 600 High St., Worthington, Ohio

Join us on the International Day of Peace to view selected clips from the phenomenal documentary, “Human Flow,” and to hear from three people who have experienced forced migration themselves. This event will be free of charge; free-will donations will be accepted and will be shared with Community Refugee and Immigration Services [CRIS].

• View excerpts from Ai Weiwei’s documentary, “Human Flow”

• Listen to first-hand accounts of migration