Protest/Rally
Saturday, January 15, 6pm, Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd.
“World’s Toughest Rodeo,” originally scheduled for 9-4-2021, has been rescheduled for 1-15-2022. We’ll keep a close eye on the event status leading up to it.
Join Columbus Animal Activism in a peaceful demonstration against rodeo cruelty. We will be outside of Nationwide Arena until the rodeo begins at 7:30pm or until everyone has entered the building.
We will have extra signs, but please feel free to bring your own. Homemade signs are strongly encouraged, as they make a greater impact.
Friday, December 31, beginning at 2pm at First Congregational Church, 444 E. Broad St., and ending at Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St.
Join us in a solidarity march for Imam Mohamed Hassan Adam. This march and vigil will be to show support and to call for justice and accountability.
The march will begin at 2pm sharp at First Congregational Church, 444 E. Broad St., and will conclude at Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St., where there will be speakers from the Muslim and interfaith communities.
For questions please contact:
Wednesday, December 8, 11:30am-12:30pm, Supreme Court of Ohio, 65 S. Front St.
Black, white, or brown, native, or immigrant, Ohioans believe that voters should pick our leaders, not the other way around.
The unfair, illegal, and heavily-rigged legislative maps that Republicans rammed through the official process will literally shape our lives and our communities for the next decade.
Thursday, December 9, 12noon-1pm, Ohio Statehouse
Join us at The Statehouse to send a message to state legislators to end the OVEC [Ohio Valley Electric Corporation] coal plant bailouts from H.B. 6!
We will line the street holding signs and banners in support of the bailout repeal bills S.B. 117 and H.B. 351. Holiday-themed clothing and signs are encouraged! We will have extra signs for those who need them.
Top Five Reasons to repeal the OVEC coal bailout
5. The 1950s plants are severely outdated, and one is in Indiana!
Saturday, November 20, 3:30-5pm, Ohio Statehouse
Join us to tell reactionary lawmakers:
• Stop H.B. 480! Stop the attacks on abortion and reproductive healthcare!
• Stop H.B. 454! Stop the attacks on trans kids’ healthcare!
Join us to demonstrate against H.B. 454 and H.B. 480! These bills are part of a coordinated and aggressive attack against women, trans people, and gender-nonconforming people in the state of Ohio! Gather with us at the Ohio Statehouse to learn more about these bills and what you can do to help stop them!
Saturday, November 6, beginning at 12:45pm in the parking lot at 144 N. Fourth St.
The movement for “Medicare for All” will continue in Columbus with a car caravan that will be dedicated to encouraging Congressional Representative Joyce Beatty to again become a cosponsor of H.R. 1976, “Medicare for All,” this Saturday, November 6.
Saturday, November 6, 12noon, Ohio Statehouse
World leaders will meet in Glasgow in November at the global climate talks, COP26. This event is in conjunction with mass mobilizations across the world, bringing together movements to build power for system change: from indigenous struggles to trade unions, from racial justice groups to youth strikers. Aligned with the ten Key Values, the Ohio Green Party will host a protest at the Ohio Statehouse.
Saturday, October 23, 12noon-2pm, Ohio Statehouse
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Join us Saturday, October 23, to help protect victims of domestic violence.
• Ohioans lost 131 lives to domestic violence in the past year, from July 2020 to June 2021.
• 86% of fatalities were from guns.
• There were 2,600 victims in 2020, up 35% since 2019.
• Shelter capacity in Franklin County is up 30%.
• 1 in 3 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence.
• Ohio has 28 domestic violence calls per hour.
Tuesday, September 28, 12:30pm, Ohio Statehouse
This event is in conjunction with an “international solidarity protest” “from Ohio, to Texas, to Mexico.”
Sunday, September 19, 4pm, stepping off from Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St.
Join us as the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio gathers to celebrate the unity found in the diverse community of the nine faith traditions that are represented within our membership. Faith communities will be calling for voting rights to be respected.
• County leaders maintain that we are a welcoming community, so central Ohio faith traditions are marching to demand that access to the ballot is critical to that claim.