Sunday, August 15, 1pm, Goodale Park Gazebo, 120 W. Goodale St.

We’ll plan to meet by the gazebo! Street parking is free on Sundays.

If you feel comfortable with participating, please bring a whole food plant-based dish to share with everyone who attends (details are below). If you do not feel comfortable, no worries — we’d still love to have you join us! Also, please bring along a towel and/or chair for you to sit on.

Please ensure that your dish is:

• whole food plant-based, which means primarily made from unprocessed, unrefined fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts and seeds, etc.,

• made with little to no added oils, and is

• free from animal-derived products, such as meat, dairy, egg, fish, etc.

If you are able, please bring a copy of your recipe for people to pass around / take a picture of, as well as the necessary serving utensils that your dish requires, such as a ladle if you bring soup.

If you have any questions about what to make or bring, feel free to check out the following:

Saturday, August 14, 7-8pm
Zoom

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Also available at 7pm on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/freepress.org/live_videos/

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2984211631851002

Since we aren't getting together in person, we can gather for a couple hours on the second Saturday night of each month from 7-8:00pm Eastern Time on Zoom.

Friday, August 13, 6-9pm, Wild Goose Creative, 188 McDowell St.

Six Ohio artists are crafting posters, inspired by insights from incarcerated and justice-impacted artists, about the importance of the work that they do.

In August, we will release the six posters in a limited edition of fine prints. You can buy the prints at this pop-up show, and on-line later. The event takes place at Wild Goose Creative’s new space in Franklinton (at 188 McDowell St.).

We’ll follow this release with a mass run of prints to be distributed widely to schools, community centers, prisons, and on the street. We are partnering with Cincinnati’s Pull Club, a women-owned studio, to advise and teach and to do the screen-printing for the series.

As a part of this project, we are partnering with Cincinnati’s Wave Pool to provide professional artist development workshops for the artists and for other returned citizens.

Thursday, August 12, 7-9pm, this Zoom event requires advance registration via Meetup

Life After Belief Groups meet for support, encouragement, and growth in the process of living life without supernatural belief. Our core concerns are Community, Charting a New Course, Compassion, and Coming Out. [Read more about these Core Passions below.]

Many in this Secular Community Group are still in various stages of recovery from religion and are processing the feelings, thoughts and struggles of leaving a religious community behind. We include people ranging from those who are attending their first “secular/atheist” group ever and have fears and concerns of being “found out” to those who have been on this journey for a longer time.

• We are a Diverse and Inclusive Secular Community.

• Atheist, Humanist, Non-Religious, Agnostic, Free-Thinker, Anti-Theist, Spiritual But Not Religious, Naturist, Curious But Still with Some Faith, etc.

• From younger families to singles, from baby boomers to teenagers and kids, we are diverse and welcoming having those who identify as LGBTQ, Straight, Polyamorous, etc.

There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades. 

On July 26 and 27, two separate but intrinsically linked events took place in the Ein al-Hilweh area in the occupied Jordan Valley, and near the town of Beita, south of Nablus. 

In the first incident, Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Maskiyot began construction in the Ein al-Hilweh Spring, which has been a source of freshwater for villages and hundreds of Palestinian families in that area. The seizure of the spring has been developing for months, all under the watchful eye of the Israeli occupation army.