Action Alerts

Friday, October 17, 2025, 7:30 PM
King Avenue Methodist Church, 299 W. King at Neil in Columbus 43201

Bill Cohen and friends will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live and familiar 1960’s folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions.  Plus, Bill will also challenge the audience with sixties trivia questions.  

Special guest performers – LaJoyce Daniel-Cain, Joanne Blum, and Joe Lambert -- will be on hand to add beautiful vocal melodies, harmonies, and extra energy.  And Ann Fisher will add elegant touches on her flute.  Proceeds from the suggested $15 donations (at the door) will go to the Mid-Ohio Food Collective. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the church basement but get there early for a good seat. The program is suitable for ADULTS and MATURE TEENS.  

Free parking mis also available in the lots just South and West of the church.

October 16, 8pm

The movement against nuclear weapons is at least as old as the weapons themselves. The movement had huge impacts during the Cold War, with massive popular demonstrations and a high degree of public awareness of the issue. Today, there is a persistent, increasingly vibrant movement – using a range of approaches – to reduce the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. This teach-in invites experts and advocates with a diverse range of experiences, strategies, and analyses of the current political environment to talk about their work, their commitment to working on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament issues, and their view of the future of the movement.

Speakers will include Norman Solomon, National Director of RootsAction and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy; Jessica Sleight, Research and Strategy Consultant; and Seth Shelden, General Counsel and UN Liaison for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

Thursday, October 16, 2025, 4:30 – 5:30 PM
349 E. Livingston Ave, Columbus, OH 43215
If you think the U.S. is rapidly moving in the wrong direction with healthcare cuts, rising prices, student loan changes, corruption, loss of rights, eroding democracy, personal data collection, tariffs and massive funding for a militarized police force... Say Something! Join our rally on the South Side. Gather at the corner of Grant and Livingston! 

Sign up here.

#Nuclear War, #Armageddon, #Doomsday Clock, #Nuclear Waste, #Nuclear Meltdown, #Nuclear Arms Treaty, #Nuclear Disarmament; et al

You probably haven’t read much in depth news coverage about nuclear war, right? Nuclear holocaust, like Climate Change and the possibility of an uninhabitable earth for human civilizations — or is it the probability? or inevitability? Both “topics” are too big, too scary, and most eyes and ears would likely ignore the “story” or change the channel.

And yet, we are all aware of these topics. Putin and Trump both make threats about the escalation beyond drone warfare, the new norm, to the use of “small scale” or “tactical” nuclear weapons designed for battlefield use rather than strategic destruction, with yields from less than 1 kiloton (1000 tons of TNT) to tens of kilotons. How small are these weapons, you might ask? They’re small enough to be deployed by individual soldiers.

Wednesdays, October 15 and 22, 7:00 – 8:15 PM
More information and registration for the zoom here
Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipline.

This training is for all of us who want to stand up in solidarity, especially those of us who are white who are ready to organize, respond, and show up with commitment and care.

Join us for Solidarity Mobilizations, a powerful two-part training series hosted by Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and Solidarity Organizing Initiative (SOI). We’ll break down the political moment we’re in, the authoritarian playbook driving these attacks, and the role those of us who are white and/or citizens can play in pushing back effectively and strategically.

Wednesday, October 15, at 9 a.m.
We will meet at 8:45 a.m. in the Statehouse Rotunda to gather and distribute small signs.
Then we will walk together to the hearing in Room 116 of the Ohio Statehouse shortly before 9 a.m.

he House Natural Resources Committee will hear sponsor testimony on House Bill 399 – a two-page bill that would ban oil and gas extraction from under Lake Erie or any Ohio state park.

From Indivisible Central Ohio
Last week, Jordan McLaughlin gave a fascinating presentation to ICO members about private equity and the housing crisis in Columbus that shows how the purchase of property by private equity in our community is driving up prices and making home ownership unattainable for many in our community. Jordan has written an ordinance that he would like the City Council to consider.

Call Shannon Hardin at 614-645-6354 and urge him to introduce the ordinance!  

Sample script: 
Hello, my name is [Your Name], and I’m a resident of Columbus. I’m calling to ask Council President Hardin to support Evict Private Equity Columbus and to introduce an ordinance limiting the number of single-family homes that private equity and corporations can own in our city. Private equity doesn’t care about our community. They only care about profit. We need to protect Columbus families and ensure fair, local homeownership opportunities.

Join us for a variety of community conversations at our in-person Free Press Second Saturday Salon
Saturday, October 11 from 3:30-5:30pm at the Columbus KTC Buddhist Center, 645 W. Rich St.

Vegetarian potluck dishes welcome!
This is a no-meat, no-alcohol event

Speakers:
Jahwara Qutiefan - Ohio Bonds Canpaign
Pat Marida - Anduril campaign
Lea Austin - Ohio Poor Peoples’ Campaign/ Moral Mondays
Sandy Bolzenius - Veterans For Peace - Sumud Flotilla updates

A Central Ohio Chapter of Veterans For Peace (VFP) has been operating in the Columbus and surrounding areas for over a year. We have 15 core members, all of whom are experienced activists.

It is Chapter 183. Up until it was formed, Columbus was one of the largest cities in the United States that was not represented by a local chapter. Ohio was the most populous state without a chapter. There are over one hundred chapters throughout the U.S. and several international chapters. The national organization has had activists on the flotillas that have tried to break the Gaza blockade. VFP members have been arrested numerous times at demonstrations for standing up for freedom, veteran's rights, and the civil and humanitarian rights of people throughout the world while promoting peace and opposing unnecessary militarism, intervention, and war.

Friday, October 10, 6-8pm
Madison Township Community Center, 4575 Madison Lane, Groveport
Urgent discussion on Anduril's AI surveillance drone factory at Rickenbacker airport and what that means for our community.

Open to the public.

Food provided by Eddy's Chicken and Waffles.