Meeting

Thursday, January 4, 7-9pm. Whetstone Branch Library, 3909 N. High St.

Join us in the Whetstone Branch Library meeting room for updates on what we’ve been working on [since we had formed last February], news about upcoming actions and events [including trainings, a “bioblitz,” and a solar fair], and information about volunteer opportunities. Come and share your ideas with us!

Snacks will be provided!

Hosted by Keep Wayne Wild.

Thursday, February 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, February 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.

Tuesday, January 30, 6:30-8:30pm, Old Worthington Library, 820 High St., Worthington, OH

Sara Ward, director of Ohio Interfaith Power and Light [IPL], will explain how their volunteers and staff help Ohio faith communities conserve energy, become more energy efficient, and promote renewable energy in response to climate change.

Tuesday, January 23, 2-7pm, Vineyard Columbus, 6000 Cooper Rd., Westerville, OH

During the past year, we have faced a deluge of hateful political rhetoric that stigmatizes people based on their creed, color, or nation of origin. It’s not only disrespectful, it’s dangerous — and we don’t want it in Ohio.

Faith leaders in the Columbus area and across the country can prevent dangerous speech from provoking even more violence. It takes training, skill and, most of all, relationships across religions.

Monday, January 22, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Today’s program: Julie Hart, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace and Justice Studies at Ohio Dominican University, will speak about her recent book, Pathways to Pacifism and Antiwar Activism among U.S. Veterans: The Role of Moral Identity in Personal Transformation.

Contact: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com

Saturday, January 20, 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.

Saturday, January 20, 10am-5:30pm, Stratford Ecological Center, 3083 Liberty Rd., Delaware, OH

The Central Ohio Community Project is a group of central Ohioans uniting their forces to address the threats of climate change. By talking together, comparing what we are already doing, and looking for steps where we can take things further, we can increase our momentum in addressing this urgent global problem with effective local action. We are committed to the hope that changes are indeed possible and can even bring us and our neighbors together in ways that we may not have imagined.

Tuesday, January 16, 8am-5pm, Ohio Statehouse

Join us for the sixth annual Secular Summit!

Unhappy with the number of laws restricting women’s rights? Feel like too many laws are infused with religion? Want to feel like more of the civic process? Feel it is time your Ohio General Assembly members understand where we are coming from as Secularists?

Join us for a day of training, a Statehouse tour, and speakers!

Meet with your Ohio Representatives, during prescheduled appointments, to lobby for laws based on science and reason and not on religion.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER

Monday, January 15, 7pm, The Center on High, 3208 N. High St.

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