Community

Tuesday, March 29, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

“Inhale/Exhale” is a healing space for organizers in the progressive and left space.

Monday, March 28, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Informed consent is often understood as a pillar of ethical research. But the process is riddled with challenges and ambiguities. How informed do participants really need to be to give valid consent? Whose duty is it to make sure they truly understand what they are signing up for? What if there are pressures that make it difficult to say “no”? This panel will explore some of the ethical and practical challenges that researchers readily face.

Featuring panelists:

Sunday, March 27, 5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join us for Part 2 of our conversation about the deleterious and disproportionate affect high levels of lead in water and pipes has on poor and non-white people in Ohio.

Sunday, March 27, 2-4pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join us for our Abolition 101 training! Come out to learn about the history of policing and the future in abolition.

This training is open and free to all, but we ask non-Black attendees to consider the space they take up and donate to BQIC and/or the trainers, if they can.

Attendees may register at bit.ly/3dL3wvw. A Zoom link will be provided via email ahead of the training.

Sunday, March 27, 1-3pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

What are Rights of Nature? How will they protect Ohioans’ air, water, and soil? How can Ohioans enact Rights of Nature legislation?

About this event

Protecting the ecosystems that sustain us will take a new paradigm of thinking.

Ohioans must move away from our current exhausting and discouraging destruction agenda. We need a positive plan that relates to and preserves the natural world.

We need to recognize the Rights of Nature.

• Where did this concept come from?

Sunday, March 27, 11:30-2:30pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Three Cranes Grove, ADF invites you to join us for a celebration of the Spring Equinox!

We will be honoring Nature itself in this rite, specifically those spirits in and around our home. As the lengthening days usher in new life, may we find ourselves living in reciprocity with the natural world. We will also be blessing tools during this rite to aid us in our varied work.

Sunday, March 27, 9am, Scioto Audubon Metro Park, 400 W. Whittier St.

Please join us on Sunday, March 27 at Scioto Audubon Metro Park to participate in The Hunger Run 5K and help chase hunger out of Central Ohio! We are hosting the fifth annual Hunger Run 5K — in person this year — in support of Neighborhood Services Inc. (NSI), a local food pantry and resource center that is located right here in Columbus, Ohio. Our goal is to spread awareness about hunger and food insecurity in central Ohio, bring the community together, and raise money for Neighborhood Services Inc.

Saturday, March 26, 10:30am-3:30pm, Stonewall Columbus, 1160 N. High St.

The Equitas Health Institute is excited to partner with Lesbians Benefitting the Arts and Stonewall Columbus to provide a day of nurturing, healing, and self-care through workshops, helpful resources, special entertainment, lunch, and more.

Workshops and Presentations

• Menopause

• Queer Family Planning

• Aging

• Breast and Chest Health

Resources and Demonstrations

• Qigong

• Restorative Healing

• Shiatsu

• Sexual Health

• Nutrition/Fitness

Thursday, March 24, 6pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Please join us for Sierra Club National Day of Action, Thursday, March 24, 6pm

Ohioans, let’s support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States!

It is long overdue that a Black woman serve on the Supreme Court, and Judge Jackson’s confirmation will bring us closer to the promise of justice for all.

Sierra Club Ohio calls on Senator Portman to confirm Judge Jackson without delay.

Thursday, March 22, 2pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions [BDS] movement at age seventeen has proved to be so successful that the Israel lobby and other anti-BDS forces have pushed state legislatures and the federal government to enact anti-boycott laws. Ohio is one of those states that has limited constitutionally protected free speech.