Meeting

Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists weekly meeting

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.

Accessible Transportation Advisory Committee

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.

Columbus Community Bill of Rights [CCBOR] Public Meeting

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.

Move to Amend monthly update meeting

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.

Jail Voting Training

Wednesday, August 14, 6pm; Northern Lights Branch Library, 4093 Cleveland Ave.

Did you know? Many individuals who are detained in jails do retain the right to vote. In Ohio, only those in jail or prison following a felony conviction lose their right to vote. But while those awaiting trial can still cast a ballot, few are able to do so because officials do not have voting programs in place. Join All Voting is Local and the ACLU of Ohio for a training to learn how you can help to register voters currently detained in Ohio’s jails.

At this training you will learn:

Franklin County Green Party August 2019 Meeting

Tuesday, August 13, 7:30pm [preceded by a 7pm business meeting], Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

This month’s program: “Reaching Across the Divide: Greens and Libertarians”

Ohio’s two minor parties, the Greens and the Libertarians, will join on Tuesday August 13 at 7:30pm. Don’t miss this exciting event where two very different political groups work together on a democracy problem. How can third-party candidates run in elections to give Ohio citizens more choices?

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