Meeting

Saturday, February 10, 1-3pm, Panera Bread, 4519 N. High St.

We will be discussing Marxist concepts of exploitation and surplus value, planning for the 2018 elections, and other local struggles for justice.

The Columbus Club represents the Communist Party USA (established 1919) in Central Ohio.

Contact: Charlie Atkins, <pkdlenin@yahoo.com>

Thursday, March 1, 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, March 1, 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.

Monday, February 26, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Today’s program: Greg Pace will talk about the current work of the central Ohio chapter of Friends Committee on National Legislation [FCNL], a national lobbying group of Quakers and friends who are working for public policy change on Capitol Hill.

The current focus of the FCNL Central Ohio Advocacy team is to reduce the most urgent risk of nuclear war in a generation — with North Korea.

Contact: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com

Monday, February 26, 7-8pm, Central Ohio Transit Authority [COTA] headquarters [William J. Lhota Building], William G. Porter Boardroom, 33 N. High St.

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.

Contact: Tonia L. Pullins, Mobility Coordinator, 614-275-5833 or PullinsTL@COTA.com

Monday, February 26, 3:30-5pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

Wednesday, February 21, 7pm, Maple Grove United Methodist Church, 7 W. Henderson Rd.

Topic: a presentation by Zack Johnson, the Executive Director of Call To Action.

Sponsored by Call To Action (CTA), a national organization of Catholics working together to foster peace and justice in our world, our church, and ourselves. Call To Action is the country’s largest church reform organization.

Sunday, February 18, 1-3pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Rm. 3-B], 96 S. Grant Ave.

Join International Socialist Organization [ISO] Columbus for the second session of a two-part study group on “Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?,” a collection of essays on police violence and resistance in the United States compiled by Truthout.

Saturday, February 17, 12-2pm, 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.

Thursday, February 15 to Saturday, February 17, Dayton Convention Center, 22 E. Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio

Registration is now open for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 39th annual conference, “A Taste for Change.”

Ohio’s largest sustainable food and farm conference features:

• Nearly 80 educational and inspiring workshops on sustainable farming, livestock, homesteading, gardening, and business on Friday and Saturday;